A Criminologist's Diary-35

A Criminologist’s Diary-35

Account Criminology and Criminal Ju...

The BIRTH of ‘CONVICTION’ Criminals

‘CONVICTION’-one of the meanings given in the Random House Webster’s Dictionary is a fixed or firm belief Therefore ‘ CONVICTION’ crimes means a crime as a result of conviction- like the Naxalites, fundamentalists, fanatics, terrorists, insurgents and so on. There are laws and international understandings about how to deal with such criminals who are put under the above categories. Of course, they are law violators of firm convictions- i.e., salvation only through terrorism, insurgency or Naxalitism etc. Insurgency, for example, means “insurrection against an existing Government, usually one’s own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent”. News coming from Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and Nagaland etc., show that insurgents are at work. We have in India terrorists and many terrorists’ attacks are reported time and again .In USA and other countries too, terrorists are seen, but my concern at present is not about such conviction criminals who commit offences out of their belief in a philosophy.

The news coming from India shows that we are badly affected by ‘CONVICTION’ criminals of a different type, most of them are ‘honourable’ men. The Mafia Criminals, Crime Syndicates, Hawala Criminals, Nexus Criminals are at work and they are convinced that their success in life depends upon the ruining of the nation’s economy. The bureaucratic crimes intended to amass wealth are crimes calculated to destroy the country. The Hawalas are for it. Political leaders who misuse their career to sell the country’s wealth for their personal or party advantages are ‘conviction’ criminals who are in a way more dangerous than the Naxalites, terrorists, and fundamentalists and so on. The Naxalites, terrorists, fundamentalists and so on consciously resort to violent acts to destabilize and destroy the country whereas the Hawalas, Mafias, Nexus partners, the unscrupulous Bureaucrats, Political or Religious Conviction Criminals make use of economic terrorism, political fundamentalism, religious fanaticism etc. to destabilize the nation or destroy the country.

When we listen to theT.V.news or read the newspapers, we are shocked to know that such ‘conviction’ criminals’ are involving in nefarious transactions resulting in the loss of several crores of rupees to the Government. If anyone supports the terrorists, insurgents, fundamentalists who try to destabilize the Government, then action will be taken against them. On the other hand, these new ‘Conviction’ criminals are honoured sometimes as leaders and they are mistakenly supported by the political leadership at the national level, Chief Ministers, Ministers and so on. The law becomes sterile and law enforcement becomes barren. They become heroes and are knowingly or unknowingly adored by many. Where are we going to?