ON CONTROLLING CRIMES IN HUMAN SOCIETIES

Interestingly, in modern society, such behaviors are encountered frequently in people with power and enviable status capable of exercising excessive dominance over the fellow beings.

- S. K. SAIDAPUR

Unlike in the animal world, crimes of various kinds (misdeeds, misdemeanors, transgressions, violations, infringements, rapes and murders etc.) are widespread in human societies. Unlike animals, humans require teaching the importance of ethics, morals, honesty and integrity. In today's context there are no more model or charismatic teachers (and education managers) to impress upon the students, that 'values' are more important than the 'valuables'. So is the case with people involved in the governance of the States. Unfortunately, in modern times, parents also do not find time to inculcate values in their children. Besides, they can teach values provided they themselves practice them. Sometimes, one wonders whether moral education has lost its roots, relevance and utility in the present-day circumstances. If values have no value, why practice them? Even judicial system has lost its shine: decadal delays in awarding judgments are more usual than exceptions. With money, muscle power and ability to hire topnotch lawyers often help in shielding the culprits from sentences. So, the rich can escape and the poor suffer. The common man is now accustomed to living with various kinds of crimes and barbarisms (e.g. corruption, intimidations, rapes, killings etc.) - the new norms.