A NOTE ON CRIME
Crime is a violation of rules, regulations, laws, codes,
ordinances, legal instructions, administrative customs and traditions
sanctioned by the legislative powers of a society or country.
To
commit crime is human tendency. There is no crimeless society or state in the world.
That is why there are police stations, courts, jails and prisons.
What shocks the members of a society and the citizens of a state
is the excess of crimes, so they protest and demand for more preventive measures,
speedy trials and deterrent punishments.
The best way to reduce or prevent
crimes is the provision of moral
education at every possible level and the exhibition of perfect ethical behaviour by
political, social, religious, administrative and commercial leaders.
Prisons should be used as
reformative institutions. Mere punishments do not decriminalize wrong doers,
offenders, and law breakers.
The causes of rising crimes can be
many like poverty, unemployment, starvation, social discriminations and
communal hatreds. Their eradication should be given top priority in reformative
measures.
Somebody has rightly said that crime
is not punished as an offence against God, but as prejudicial to society.
Finally, a well-kown important
quote: “History provides us with numerous examples of people who were convinced
that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of
it.”
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G.R.Kanwal
24 August 2024
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