crime is a social construct????

im going to write an essay with this topic.. but im kinda confuse now
BECAUSE I DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT DOES IT MEAN

1) it is talking abt crime is a social construction since crime is defined by the society...
or
2) crime is a result of social construction (or a kind of idea), e.g. idea of black inclines to commit crime


what is the true meaning of the sentence??1 or 2??? or both???

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

I would say both but primarily the former

I.... didn't really understand much of what you wrote. I hope you write more coherently in essays...

Crime is a social construct because it is not any specific act that you can define - it is a crime by virtue of the fact that you can be prosecuted and punished for it. IE without this legal definition, there is no such thing as crime.
This can be evidenced by the fact there is no unifying feature of crime (harm and deviance come close, but not exactly). Or the fact some acts are criminal here, but not in other countries; or even changing crime acts here (marital rape for instance is only recently illegal)

And in addition, this leads to many coming to the conclusion that such definitions come from powerful groups - the government create crime (and this can be influenced by powerful groups; see Marxist theory; or alternatively, it's simply a reflection of social opinion itself; see contrast with Durkheim).
And in this instance, particularly Marxist writers, see those groups as perpetuating certain stereotypes - protecting the rich at the expense of the 'working class criminals' etc.
What opinion you side with is up to you.

thanks..
unfair in resources distribution -> disparity between rich and poor -> poor out of money -> poor commits crime

does it makes sense??

Oh I see, you mean that inequality in society causes some to cause crime.
That's not social construction per se, though some do argue that perpetuating certain crime stereotypes (eg the hard line punishment attitude) covers up the societal causes of crime you're thinking of...
Social construction is more to do with the definition than the procurement.

A social construct is something that is created or defined by society, rather than occurring naturally. To say that crime is a social construct means that nothing is inherently criminal or deviant, rather we label things as criminal or deviant because we say so. An example tf this would be the idea that in the U.K. stigmatising gay people is seen as criminal and against the law. However in Russia the consensus seems to be that gay people should be hated on, and this is not something that is criminal. Because our idea of 'crime' is different from country to country, arguably it is a social construct.