‘Crime and punishment’ is rooted in the very fabric of our history and society. The rules that drive the society are meant to be obeyed and breaking them is considered as crimes and hence the society has made an arrangement to punish the offenders to maintain the peace among us. The modern concept of country is based on the primitive society people used to live in and every country has its own sets of laws for people to abide by. Many people consider prison, which was invented as part of our journey towards modernizations, as a proper place for the criminals while others opine that more severe punishment is a better alternative to maintaining the peace in a country. I believe that prison is the most effective way of punishing wrong-doers.
First of all, putting criminals in prisons for their violation of laws was not invented in a day. That came to our society with the pace of time and from the need of a way to punish the wrong-doers. Hence this is an already proven way to punish the criminals and introducing a more efficient way would not be that easy.
Secondly, not all crimes and background of criminals are same and thus imprisonment for different time length is very much justified. For instance, someone who broke a law for the first time and a recurring offender should not be punished in the same way even though their nature or crimes is same. Here the imprisonment for various sentences could be an ideal punishment.
Thirdly, capital punishment like death sentence is too inhuman and the goal of our judicial system and law is to reform the society not to kill the criminals. The prison as a punishment offers plenty of opportunities to the offenders to remorse and become good citizens. Thus considering the true purpose of our law and order, imprisonment is the best possible punishing arrangement. Some might argue that we should hang a killer instead of letting him live in the prison. But my point of view contradicts with them as I believe that killing a murderer would make us no less than a murderer. We would be guilty of the same crime he has committed. What punishment could be crueller that letting the criminal rot in a jail alone and remorse every single moment of his life thinking about the heinous act he has done?
Finally, severe and cruel punishment systems were mostly invented by criminals themselves, especially during the wars. Following those methods to punish a wrongdoer is not justified at all. Our aim is to make the world a better place to live in while not showing mercy to the people who harm others or break the law and hence imprisonment is the best possible form of punishment in my view.
To draw the conclusion, the imprisonment is the best way to punish the criminals while maintaining the peace in the society and letting the wrong-doers remorse and become a better person in the future.
‘Crime
and
punishment’
is rooted
in the
very
fabric of our history and
society
. The
rules
that drive the
society
are meant
to
be obeyed
and breaking them
is considered
as
crimes
and
hence
the
society
has made an arrangement to
punish
the offenders to maintain the peace among us. The modern concept of country
is based
on the primitive
society
people
used
to
live
in and every country has its
own
sets of
laws
for
people
to abide by.
Many
people
consider
prison
, which
was invented
as part of our journey towards
modernizations
, as a proper place for the
criminals
while others opine that more severe
punishment
is a better alternative to maintaining the peace in a country.
I believe that
prison
is the most effective way of punishing
wrong
-doers.
First of all
, putting
criminals
in
prisons
for their violation of
laws
was not invented in a day. That came to our
society
with the pace of time and from the need of a way to
punish
the
wrong
-doers.
Hence
this is an already proven way to
punish
the
criminals
and introducing a more efficient way would not be that easy.
Secondly
, not all
crimes
and background of
criminals
are same and
thus
imprisonment
for
different
time length is
very
much justified.
For instance
, someone who broke a
law
for the
first
time and a recurring offender should not
be punished
in the same way
even though
their nature or
crimes
is same. Here the
imprisonment
for various sentences could be an ideal punishment.
Thirdly
, capital
punishment
like death sentence is too inhuman and the goal of our judicial system and
law
is to reform the
society
not to kill the
criminals
. The
prison
as a
punishment
offers
plenty
of opportunities to the offenders to remorse and become
good
citizens.
Thus
considering the true purpose of our
law
and order,
imprisonment
is the best possible punishing arrangement.
Some
might argue that we should hang a killer
instead
of letting him
live
in the
prison
.
But
my point of view contradicts with them as I believe that killing a murderer would
make
us no less than a murderer. We would be guilty of the same
crime
he has committed. What
punishment
could be
crueller
that letting the
criminal
rot in a jail alone and remorse every single moment of his life thinking about the heinous act he has done?
Finally
, severe and cruel
punishment
systems were
mostly
invented by
criminals
themselves,
especially
during the wars. Following those methods to
punish
a wrongdoer is not justified at all. Our aim is to
make
the world a better place to
live
in while not showing mercy to the
people
who harm others or break the
law
and
hence
imprisonment
is the best possible form of
punishment
in my view.
To draw the conclusion, the
imprisonment
is the best way to
punish
the
criminals
while maintaining the peace in the
society
and letting the
wrong
-doers remorse and become a better person in the future.