| As rational being every body must accept that values | | | | is necessary for eradicating or burning crimes but the |
| are important for leading a good peaceful life. They | | | | law must fall with a heavy hand. |
| dictate how people ought to behave. Violating of | | | | The most common punishments for various offenses |
| laws or exceeding the limits is punishable act, | | | | that are prevalent in the world are imprisonment, |
| otherwise all laws become a farce. As a member of | | | | banishments, capital punishment, hanging, |
| society, our rights are limited by our duties, and our | | | | electrocution and execution, public whipping is also |
| foremost duty is to respect and obey these laws. | | | | practiced in a few Muslim countries. |
| Again according to the theory of 'Catharsis' evil must | | | | Whether these punishments are good or bad, |
| be punished. If evil is not punished or a crime goes | | | | justified or mischievous or propitious, they are being |
| unpunished, others are also encouraged to commit or | | | | awarded and executed or practiced in present day |
| imitate the evil or the crime. Moreover, if the evil | | | | world. Why is punishment necessary or how can it be |
| door is not punished or left scot-free, those who are | | | | justified. |
| good and law-abiding, will start hating the right and | | | | Laws are made for men not men for laws. Law is a |
| prompted to follow the bad example. Thus respect | | | | bridle to excess and not spur to it. This definition is |
| for laws ad justice demand that some kind of | | | | also a test of law. The object of law making is to |
| punishment must be meted out to the wrong doer, | | | | remedy grievance and not to cause one. Modern |
| the criminal or the transgressor. Physically, morally and | | | | psychologists and jurists have come out with new |
| socially punishment has been justified. Therefore, | | | | theories about punishment. Some even go to the |
| punishment is not a mischief, on the other had it | | | | extent that all punishment is mischief and must be |
| wards off and checks all kinds of mischief. | | | | abolished. Others wish to do away with death |
| All social and political crimes like theft, robbery, | | | | penalty. No body denies the necessity of law, there |
| bribery, adultery, seduction, cheating, drug trafficking, | | | | is no need for legislature, execution, police force and |
| forgery, smuggling, fraud, deformation, murder, | | | | courts. But men are not angels. They need guidance, |
| treachery, sabotage, quisling activities are all | | | | checks and controls. The purpose of law is not |
| punishable crimes. The present high graph of all these | | | | merely to judge what is right and what is wrong, |
| evils are due to the fearlessness about laws or | | | | what is fair and what is foul, what is good and what |
| slackness of law imposing authorities. Fear can be a | | | | is evil, but they must also reward the virtue and |
| best teacher if it is a strict deterrent. The | | | | punish the evil. It I the way of God and it be |
| psychological basis of punishment is 'fear'. Punishment | | | | enforced in all seriousness. |