dynasty: Crime and The Law

dynasty: Crime and The Law: Punishment is a necessary element in our growth . As children parents used to punish us for our mistakes. Teachers punished us for disrupti...

Crime and The Law

Punishment is a necessary element in our growth . As children parents used to punish us for our mistakes. Teachers punished us for disrupting the institutional discpline, for negligence of duties and for character deficiencies. The aim of all such punishments was correction and reformation.As we grew up our mistakes became crimes., crimes against society, nation and crimes against human welfare and development. Ministers and bureaucrats, businessmen and technocrats, judges and professors, all are involved in some kind of corrupt practice or the other that undermine the progress of the state. Punishment should be proportionate to the crime and should be quick and effective. No one can have a second opinion regarding this.What is under question is the aim of punishment. Generally we feel that people should be punished in order to teach others in the society a lesson: that the suffering meted out to the criminal would make others aware of the retribution  and repurcussion of anti-social activities. One man therefore is made to suffer so that others remain good. For the goodness of the majority one man is made an example of . This has a demeaning effect on the person who is punished and shames him to an extent that makes him nurse feelings of revenge and anger . Far from being reformed, the criminal falls more and more into a regressive state where he plans to act in full vengeance. The aim of punishment should be to reform than to pay back a criminal in his own coin.