How should Crime be handled by the system
Crime is never anticipated before it happens
Crime is one of the intriguing things that disturbs human beings deeply, yet at the same time fascinates someone who studies it. As said in a popular movie, in a moment a man might be cooking spaghetti in his kitchen and the next moment, a murder would’ve happened with a revolver in his hand.
Crime and death are similar in nature
The possibility for both exists all the time. It’s just that most people don’t see it. Just like death, crime doesn’t need anyone’s help to be carried out. It needs consciousness and common sense to avoid it possibly.
Crime has a paradox with the law
It seems common sense to think that strict law avoids crime. In a few scenarios, what happens is that the law is modified to look strict when it can’t stop a crime that’s repeatedly happening. When there are more and more offenders for a section of the law, that law becomes obsolete and will be repealed.
Punishment is a part of justice. But it’s not the only agenda
A society where just the transactional system is followed for crime and punishment, the civilization never moves forward and in fact, it increases the crime rate ironically. Taking away the offender from society is because he/she is declared harmful by the system. The fact that he is brought to justice gives confidence to the victim and feels closure for what they went through. Yet punishment is not the only objective. A higher level of judiciary always envisions the transformation of offenders.
A person who went through the sentence is almost a teacher to potential criminals in the next generation.
After the closure or after many years of the incident, the offender and victim are to be just like parted friends
A crime is like an accident where both who dashed and who was dashed go into trauma. After the procedure took effect and the period of the sentence is over, or even if there was no intervention of law and years passed by with the guilt of the offender eating him/her away, they should let go of their grudges and move on. Holding on to it spoils both of their lives further. Mistakes happen, and that’s human. Forgiveness is a vital trait of humanity. It should be offered to the person who felt guilty for years for doing the mistake he committed.
Police may or may not interfere, courts may or may not intervene, the law may or may not take its course, and the actual physical, mental, and emotional transaction happen between the offender and the victim. If the victim finally senses that he/she got justice, the offender repented after going through the punishment, and both of them walk on their roads as parted friends, that’s an ideal society to handle crime and keep increasing peace and harmony.
In third-world countries, the number of undertrials and mis-convicts is bigger than the actual criminals
In third-world countries, the way a case is booked, handled, and closed is ambiguous and at the mercy of the system. When Law is a lucrative profession, bigger and wiser brains work for money and truth is the last thing anyone cares about. Law is like art. If it’s commercialized, it’s corrupted, maligned, and distasteful
Humans make mistakes and civilization’s best method to combat it is through evolving and educating with a vision in mind of a harmonious society. Punishing an offender is like amputating a cancerous part from someone’s body. It’s done as a duty and not as a pleasure or anger.
I’ll end this with one of my favourite jokes.
If the police longs for a crime to happen, a lawyer seeks a bigger dispute, it’s only a thief that seeks the prosperity of the house he’s going to break in.
