Thursday, November 21, 2013

274. Why is Crime Rate on a rise? Have we failed to Control it?

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/self-improvement/why-is-crime-rate-on-a-rise-have-we-failed-to-control-it


A middle aged woman was brutally attacked inside an ATM in Bangalore. Crime rate in our country is increasing day by day. Our judiciary and administrative system have failed to control them. In recent years, crime rates have gone up dramatically in big cities. The reports by experts point towards poverty and lack of education for the rise in crime in metros. But in general if it may sound well when one thinks it is not poverty and lack of education. As we all know all poor are not criminals and all educated are not well behaved. Then what make one get those criminal thoughts?


In the first place we need to understand what a crime is. Crime performing action with a weak thought. That weak thought can emerge when there is inferiority complex or when there is no fear. Initially what started as the inferior complex while doing the first crime will gain momentum and land up in no fear zone while committing the later crimes. This weakness of mind not only affects the individual and his victim but the whole society. It shatters the trust between people in the society and bring in insure feel. Crime does not restricts itself to brutal attack, assault and intrusion of privacy but cheating the spouse, betraying siblings, severing bondage with parents and backstabbing a friend is also committed with weak thoughts. These weak thoughts encourage an individual to go against his conscience. 


Earlier there was either fear of God or fear of morality which would stop a person going against his conscience. Knowing and putting those moral values in practice will ease the fear of morality. Moral fear has been the only psychological barrier that could check the crime rate. Cruel punishments and death sentences can never be believed to have controlled crime. In many cases we have see outside our country where even with such punishments the crime rate has not reduced but is in check, the reason being those who do crime become thick skinned. The best way to prevent crime is by instilling moral and ethical values in the young. They have to be praised when they do good and reprimanded when they do something bad. It is at that tender age the young have to learn valuable lessons that carry them as perfect citizens in their lifetimes.


Who has to install moral values in the minds of our young? It is the parents who need to introduce moral values to their children by practicing them. But for a working couple their kids spend more time in the school than at home with their parents. It is here that schools have to fill that spot of installing moral values to kids. Prevailing education system aims at developing a kid to make a handsome earning and a good citizen but not a better human being. What is the point in having a son/daughter or a son-in-law/daughter-in-law who earn in lakhs but do not respond to other hearts???? Isn’t it also a weak thought???

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