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Probation and Parole as Methods of Mainstraiming Criminals: A Socio-Legal Analysis from Indian Perspective

INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------- 1 By Sabyasachi Ghosh,4 th year BA/BSc LLB (Hons.), West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India, sabya89@yahoo.co.in 2 Criminal Justice India Series, West Bengal, 2001, Vol 1, Allied Publishers Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi, p-46 3 Chakrabarti, Nirmal Kanti,1999, Probation Services in the Administration of Criminal Justice, 1 st edn., Deep & Deep Publication Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, p-6-7 4 Ibid Modern Criminal Jurisprudence recognizes that criminals are not born but made, since when a crime occurs it takes place due to culmination of variety of factors and that a good many crimes are the result of socio-economic milieu. These factors may be social and economic, may be due to erosion of moral values by parental neglect, stress of circumstances or doing a criminal activity in spur of heat of a moment 2 . So, whenever a criminal activity takes place it ‟ s not always that the person so involved had prior inte...

White Collar Crimes in India

Necessity is not always the motive behind the commission of a crime. This idea evolved with the Criminologist and Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland , in the year 1939, who popularised the term ‘white collar crimes’ by defining such a crime as one “ committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.” Sutherland also included crimes committed by corporations and other legal entities within his definition . Sutherland’s study of white collar crime was prompted by the view that criminology had incorrectly focused on social and economic determinants of crime, such as family background and level of wealth. Sutherland was of a view that, crime is committed at every level of society and by persons of widely divergent socio-economic backgrounds. In particular, according to Sutherland, crime is often committed by persons operating through large and powerful organizations. White collar crime, as Sutherland concluded, has a greatly undere...

How to stop misuse of Domestic Violence Act

The Domestic Violence Act was formed to stop the Domestic Violence against women but now it is being misused to such an extent that women suffering from its misuse have far outnumbered the women suffering from Domestic Violence. It is necessary to take steps to stop the misuse of this Act to prevent the family system of India from breaking down and at the same time ensure justice to genuinely abused women. It is important to protect women from Domestic Violence. And hence for the same, a law was formulated through which a woman can not only seek protection but also financial support in terms of maintenance. There used to be a time when a lot of women were dependent on their husbands and due to lack of self-dependency and being less educated, these women had no options but to endure the torture done on them, but today a lot of examples of qualified women misusing the law provisions and torturing their in-laws are coming to front. Many women misuse this law and put false allegations on h...

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