Vandalism is the behavior attributed to the vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture. Vandalism is the conspicuous defacement or destruction of a structure or symbol against the will of the owner or the governing body. Vandalism is also categorized to be wrong in law. Unfortunately, social problems among students of the deepening concern to all parties. Vandalism is a problem that gets to everyone in some form or another. It can affect your family, friends, properties and communities around us. Vandalism or destruction of public properties is not only detrimental to the various parties, but also tarnish the image of our countries. 
What are the disadvantages due this act of vandalism? Firstly, all of the communities in these countries will face many problems in everyday affairs. For example, if public toilets destroyed, surely people can't use it properly and they will feel uncomfortable. It would be inconvenient to users who want to use public toilets. If public telephones were damaged, it will bring inconvenience to the public to contact authorities in the event of bad things such as fires, accidents, crime, sick family members and so on. People will surely suffer problems if public telephones have been destroyed.
In addition, the disadvantages vandalism is that it would annoy us. Individual who commits an act of damaging public property would be arrested. This is because when they were caught, these individuals will be prosecuted and sentenced to prison. Government responds to users who abuse public property will be fined. who are the offenders? Those who vandalize are typically young, male and acting in small groups. They are roughly 12-15 years old and become less frequent as the students reach upper secondary school.
Vandalism committed by children will burden their parents. Parents will also feel embarrassed when their children are arrested for committing a crime of vandalism. It would dishonor the family. Parents also have to spend a lot of money to secure their children in court. It is very detrimental to the parents who had to bail out their children. Parents who have children in prison will feel depress and certainly will inconvenient and embarrassing them. So children should not commit vandalism that family honor is not contaminated.
Furthermore, vandalism will also give a bad image to our countries. If tourists are find damage of public facilities, then they would have a negative view on the attitude of Malaysian people. This is very alarming to the government who had struggled to attract tourists to come to Malaysia. Foreign tourists are also likely to tell about the culture of Malaysia to the family, neighbors and friends when they return to their homeland. And worse, they will not come here anymore. It will affect tourism of our countries.
Now, what is the type of vandalism? Examples of vandalism in schools include graffiti art in the toilets, lab tables, classroom furniture and walls. Sometimes, we can see on the table in our classes full of graffiti art like "Abu loves Siti". Nevertheless another example of vandalism is destruction of public properties such as public telephones, vending machines, fences and even signboard on the road.
What are the effects of vandalism? In the case of vandalism to private property, the owner who is the victim may feel afraid. The victims are fearful that the destruction will occur again. In consequence, they are restless and feel insecure. Moreover, the destruction of private property causes a lot of financial loss to the victims. If the property is not covered by insurance, the victims have to dig their own money.
Not only that, vandalism also affects the environment. For instance, the harm on the environment occurs when the vandals engrave on trees and throw the cigarette mindlessly. It causes damage on the affect areas. A playground which is supposed to be beautiful has turned into a crime infested place.
In conclusion, vandalism damage not only the property, but ruins are greater. Vandalism is costly financially affect the environment and causes sociological damages. Hence, we as individual must be responsible in carrying our role in our communities. We must have determinate in whatever we do. This is because we have religious beliefs that prohibit vandalism.
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