Terrorism and Abduction among others. According to the police report 2013 about 20 crime occurred in every minutes where 2011 was more than 25. District wise the highest crime rate (436.09 per lakh) was in Jhalakati followed by Borguna (338.60 per lakh), Brahmanbaria (321.42), Barisal (318.68 per lakh), and Dhaka (316.54), which ranked second, third, fourth and fifth respectively. The maximum number of incidents (56,945 or 34.44%), crimes were committed for monetary gain where maximum offenders are male. Bangladesh is also used as a transit route for narcotics produced in neighboring countries. Bangladesh is now the main transit point for the movement and trafficking of heroin from Southeast Asia into the European market.
The word “crime” juggles
up many images, of mugging and murder, of cheating on taxes and illicit trading
on drugs. The penal codes define thousands of crimes, differing from each other
but with certain common elements. They all are human acts in the ground of
violation of law, committed by an actor who acted with a criminal intent to
cause a specified harm. Nevertheless, crime is an act defined by the law.
Unless the elements specified by criminal law are present and proved beyond a
reasonable doubt, a person should not be convicted of a crime. The following
definition could serve as a legal definition:
‘Crime is an intentional
act or omission in violation of criminal law (statutory and case law),
committed without defense or justification and sanctioned by the state as a
felony or misdemeanor’ (Tappan, 1960,Amearican Sociological Review , vol-12,Num-1)
.Although there are some customs of every society but not treated as law except
the customary laws and the violation of those customs which are not sanctioned
by the law are usually not treated as ‘crime’ rather treated as ‘deviance’
which refers to the individual who refuse to live by the rules that the
majority of a society follows.
So, from the above words
we can decipher that an act could be mentioned as a crime legally when it would
carry the ingredients of crime i.e. the violation of statutory laws, intention
(horrific) to commit/omit the act which refers to the ‘Guilty Mind’ and that
ends up into a harmful causation which has the prescribed reward by the law if
apprehended by the legal agencies.
There are numerous crimes committed which are not
even prosecuted either formally or informally but not counted within the
government statistics. In villages and also other areas some informal legal
system to dispose the problem of crime exists. But these crimes though resolved
are not counted. For example, at the
grass-root level, the judicial system begins with village courts under the
Village Court Ordinance, 1976. An aggrieved party may make an official
petition, which requires a fee for submission to the chairman of the union
council. The chairman may call a session of the village court with himself as
chairman and two other judges nominated by each of the parties to the dispute.
The majority of cases end at the village court level, which is inexpensive and
which hands down judgments that reflect local opinion and power alignments. In
recent years, government has introduced and is trying to establish the system
of community policing. There are about 2,56,682 community polices around all
over the country. Through the help of community policing thousands of cases
have been disposed off from the commencement of the system. Moreover, many
crimes are disposed and the wrongdoers are inflicted penalty by local informal
system, such as Salish. It may be
estimated that about 35-40% crimes are lost beyond the dark figure through the
above stated ways.
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