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him to commit evil deeds'. Circumstances and injustices, which a man is unable to tolerate or cope with, make him as such. That's why reformists are of the opinion that do not hate criminals, hate crimes. It means that by simply punishing or killing criminals, we cannot eradicate crime in society. And, the various legal system have failed to eradicate crime in society since the ages because it has confined itself to crime and criminals only.
Man has failed to introduce into its criminal or penal law the truly humanising elements of mercy, compassion and understanding for those who are inclined to commit acts which are anti-social and harmful to the common interest of society as a whole. The objects of punishment are to bring about reformation of the offender, to prevent him from committing crime again. Punishment cannot work through repressive method as it does not off the criminal desires. The tendency of modern punishment should be to use old-re-educative methods, which in result will be more meaningful and more capable in reformation and treatment of criminals. None of the criminal is so hardened that he will not respond to the sympathetic, reformative and non-violent approach. After-all the history is full of the examples of change in heart. But to adopt this type of trend we have to study thoroughly the causes of crime, then only, we will be able to remove those causes which give origin to it. Crime
Crime has always been present in the human society. Its universality and inevitability is recognised by all the major sociologists and philosophers. Emile Durkheim says “There is no society that is not confronted with the problem of criminality. Its form changes the act, thus, characterised are not the same everywhere, but, everywhere and always, there have been man who have behaved in such a way as to draw upon themselves penal repression. To classify crime among the phenomenon of normal sociology is not to say merely that it is inevitable, although regrettable phenomenon, due to incorrigible wickedness of men, it is to affirm that it is a factor in public health, an integral part of all health societies:"3 Crime means any act or omission, which under the law for the time being in force in the country concerned, is made punishable. What may be a sin-a wrongful act morally, is not a crime if not so regarded by the law of the state) for the time being in force. And on the other hand, what may be regarded by the law as a crime may not be
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| SR No. | 524605 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2000 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2000 |
| Total Pages | 128 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |