Essays

Crime for what, and punishment for whom? Crime may happen in a park and may be in a room! May be at night or afternoon, here or there or close to the moon. A man who commits a crime may be a tycoon or maybe just a vagrant without a small home.

Committing crimes comes as a result of various things in life. The first and the greatest one is called money as the old expression that says, 'Money is the root of all evil'. As many people who are in need of money commit different |

types of crimes just to gain that money, however it's coming. The second one and the most popular is revenge. People neglect the police and try to fix their problems themselves, Poor people commit small crimes because of money. They may steal people or may do hacking on the Internet to gain what they want. Some of them used to be beggars, others were workers but none of them was born as a criminal. Well, poor people who have aim in life could be rich without a small crime, but hard work is needed. Not only poor people commit crimes, but rich people also do so. Although they are already rich, they gather money through many ways against law. They steal, murder and many other crimes against humanity. They prefer to gather lots of money through some faster ways such as drugs trade and smuggling etc. Rich people want to increase their wealth by committing crimes instead of performing useful projects.

People in the middle ages were seeking for food and shelter. So, they did every type of crimes to get food and shelter which are the most essential requirements for human being. People in the middle ages were really forced to make crimes in their hard era, as there was no actual existence of law. Crimes existed too during the age of the industrial revolution as people contended for many different reasons like getting pieces of land to build huge factories or acquire agricultural pieces of land. During this age, countries were internally corrupted because they were busy externally as a result of the first and the second world wars. So, during industrial revolution, corruption led to the appearance of many types of modern crimes.

None of the humans is born as a criminal. A criminal is the end product of bad conditions that turn a heart of a baby or a child full of happiness into a dark heart full of sadness. A calm person could turn in to aggressive one because of those conditions that affect each and every person living on this earth. Some countries try nowadays to change those conditions surrounding especially poor and homeless people. So, conditions are mainly responsible for making such a criminal.

Justice is a small word, but it has a great meaning as it play an important rule in crime and punishment. A judge has to take the balance as a standard before deciding the punishment of each criminal to be perfectly matched with his crime. Justice also makes criminals afraid of the punishment since there are some hard punishments as the penalty death. Such punishment makes criminals think hundreds of times before doing any crime. Well, justice is the only way to balance things as a set of crime and punishment.

Small crimes have small punishments as justice works to do so. People who commit small crimes are not like others who commit great and dangerous crimes. The punishments of small crimes are small like the crimes themselves. A criminal of a small crime has to be sentenced to prison for months or just to pay money as a compensation or any other punishment according to the standpoint of the judge and the crime itself as justice takes place. On the other hand, huge crimes require a strong punishment such as sentence to death. People who commotion destructive crimes have to be punished without caring about them. Huge crimes are torture and murdering crimes. The punishment of such crimes is sentence to prison or sentence to death to make criminals afraid of making those crimes against human rights. Those persons with their dreadful crimes don't have the right to live side by side with others peaceful people.

Global crimes are considered the most destructive crimes. One of the most global crimes that all people do is increasing the ozone hole as a result of the huge amounts of toxic gases evolving from cars and factories. Second, the coming disaster that humanity would face which is human cloning that is considered a monster trying to destroy the human species. Some great countries are trying to put an end to the first problem, but the second is still getting wider and wider without a considerable action done by the governments of those civilized countries. So, we need great punishments to put an end to those global crimes that would destroy the universe.

Generally, crimes are considered the biggest problems in our daily life. All classes of people commit crimes but none of them has the right to do this. Crime is a bad phenomenon that appeared in all ages and is prevalent till now.