We are today the beneficiaries of the industrial revolution which paved the way to capitalist development, technological breakthroughs and its climax, the present phase of globalization and information super highway. Higher level of income, mass production and revolution in transport and communication, have made life easier and much more comfortable. The process of globalization is irreversible. But that does not negate the downsides of globalization that also need to be addressed to reap maximum out of globalization. One such collateral cost of globalization has been the decline of ethical and moral values in the social scenario. A natural consequence of degradation of moral values is rise of crimes. Human’s selfish tendency is also responsible for crime. The modern invention of secular ideology breaks down the responsibility and accountability of man within society. Whether religious values and practices can stem the tide of crimes is the moot point of this article.
In today’s world we are highly affected by crimes of various types – organized as well as unorganized. Their incidences and intensity are also increasing day by day. Most crimes relate to two spheres of life: one is economy and other is sexuality. The reasons for these crimes are respectively poverty and lack of morality. Here proper parenting may go a long way in ameliorating the social malaise. But parenting in the absence of the compass of religion will not be of much help.
The relevance of religion in prevention of crimes comes from the fact that religions put high value on prevention of misdeeds and encouraging good deeds. To prevent crime, religion works mainly at three levels: individual, family and community levels. At the individual level, religion works as a watching friend who always prevents one from all type of evil deeds. Religious belief in an invisible God always increases the level of human responsibility and accountability. It develops a belief that every activity of ours is seen by an All-Pervasive and All-Seeing God and everyone of us has to be accountable for his/her every deed on the final day of judgement. Again, religious teachings of morality and respects towards others also prevent individuals from crime.
At the family level, religion creates a deep bond between child and parent, siblings, husband and wife. This deep relationship makes them intimate and always reveals one’s faults to others. This openness and transparency helps them to shake off their mind from evil thinking and encourages them to do good deeds. In family, the good characters of parents also work as a motivator for children.
In community life, religion works as a great social force. Religion basically comprises of beliefs and practices. Here belief is an individual matter but practice mostly is a public and community event. In religious practices every member of community comes together to know each other, and under religious instructions they respect each other. Religious teachings of service to others create a relationship of brotherhood which prevents one from crime. Here society also responsible to train children religious teachings and to value them.
Besides above, religion have social values. It increases the values of life and solidarity and unity in society. In society, religion is seen as an effective force of social control. Its ritualistic practices tie all into an unseen family bond and all are live here as its valuable member. In my paper I will try to look how religion prevents crime and established peace through parenting without any fundamental social changes. It is a credit of religion that it prevents crime from society within its existing framework.
One of the important functions of religion is to create a stable society. Most religions have moral and social rules to guide their people in leading a correct life. The rules extend as far as how the people should dress, cut their hair, as well as providing rules on what is permissible to eat. Following the rules or religious laws is important in maintaining respect in the community. In some religions, it is a way to gain peace of mind or a prosperous life. Obeying the religious commandments is also considered the route to salvation in the life-after-death and perhaps, a higher status in the eye of the Creator of the universe.
In the social life religion reveals in many ways. It keeps influence upon human’s family, social, economic, and political life. We have to remember that, religion comes to us, firstly, individually through its concept of belief in the Almighty God or in Truth. Though this sense of belief acquires individually but it also reflects a sense of collectivity. Belief in Almighty God or Truth creates some qualities within a believer which helps one to lead a social life and also influences the society.
Religion is said to help to satisfy the human need for spiritual fulfilment. This, at once, raises the question of what spiritual fulfilment is. One description of spiritual fulfilment is the need to feel comfortable with things that are beyond human understanding. Thus, the need to believe in a God or gods arises from the inability to understand the origin and purpose of life.
Mail Edwards has said that the question of the truth of religious world views is largely the question of the objectivity of our highest values. As a matter of belief, religion is an individual affair but as a matter of practice, it is a social affair. It has been revealed in many ways of social life. Religious institutions or sacred places help us to be united. Sociologist Blackmar has said that religion is more social than individual. As a figure of social control, religious influence is clear in our daily life. No one can be exempt from it. There are instances in this country of reputed personalities who were not only non-practicing in religion, in faith also, they were not known for their religiosity. But at the end of the day, people turn to religion because as time closes in, deeper realization dawns on human beings.
Religion, as a promoter of peace, is one of the great sources of morality. It preaches justice and talks against evil. It influences the person’s character and helps him to lead a social life. Religious teachings of loyalty, humility, and love help one to be respectful toward others. Proper practice of religion reduces communal conflict. Though today’s religion is misused and abused but the appeal of religious teachings of universal brotherhood strongly exists in our society.
Religion has two important roles in human society. Firstly, in the limited human life, it creates aspiration to be united with the limitless almighty and through which he finds his perfection. Secondly, it unites the human beings in the same belief of God. This belief makes a sense of relationship within them which tends to lead a harmonized life. Religious propagation of peace is not individual but collective effort as Durkheim has said that religion is the expression of collective consciousness.
Another importance of religion is to reunite the members of the society. Religious festivals (e.g. Eid, Puja, Christmas day) spread a flavour of social unity. Daily rituals of religion create solidarity among its followers. Another feature of religion is that its concept of belief in the unity of God brings together its fellow beings under one leadership.
A religion is more or less coherent system of beliefs and practices concerning a supernatural order of beings, forces, places or other entities. It is a system that, for its adherents, has implications for their behaviour and welfare. Its adherence, in varying degrees and ways, take those implications seriously in their private and collective life.
Ritual is particularly important form of religious action. We can identify at least six general characters of ritual:
• Ritual often involves the manipulation of tangible sacred objects, and the action is meaningful within the frame of reference of the supernatural order.
• The performance is part of the religious system for attaining salvation in some forms.
Sometimes its effectiveness is presumed to depend upon the will of a supernatural being. Thus, when people speak of prayer or supplication, they imply that the supernatural being who is addressed may or may not fulfill the wishes of the petitioner.
• The ritual may be happy, even joyous, but it is not regarded by the faithful as primarily a form of entertainment. Rather it is a part of serious life itself according to Durkheim.
• Being directed toward goodness, ritual is a kind of instrumental action; but it is also expressional. It is charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitude of the participants and possibly of onlookers who may regard as co-beneficiaries.
• Any ritual tends to be bound to a practical period over long periods of time.
• Ritual must be interlinked with moral action, that is, with action in conformity with social norms and values for their own shake.
It is true that the rapid developments in the field of science have affected the religion to a great extent. Some of the age old religious beliefs have been explored by the scientific investigations. Science has often shaken the religious faith. The growing secular and the rationalist attitude have posed a challenge for religion. Still, it is understandable that the institution of religion is so deep-rooted and long-lasting that it will continue in the future withstanding the dangers of changes and the ravages of time.
In today’s scenario of religion and society, we find that religion is only an individual affair and our society is much more affected by crime. In great part of religious education, morality is absent from society. Causes of crime today are outlined below:
Secularization of the society: Secularism, as a theory, was first used by George Holyoke in 1846. In his definition, he defined “Secularism is that which seeks the development of the physical, moral, and intellectual nature of man to the highest possible point, as the immediate duty of life — which inculcates the practical sufficiency of natural morality apart from atheism, Theism or the Bible— which selects as its methods of procedure the promotion of human improvement by material means, and proposes these positive agreements as the common bond of union, to all who would regulate life by reason and ennoble it by service."
Men once lived in fear of an all-seeing God, and felt themselves subjected to His rule and to His providences. In a purely naturalistic world man chooses his own way, works out his own destiny, and takes the consequences of his behaviour. Once religious attitudes were major factors in social control; they tended to make men self-regulated in the light of their religious ideals and scruples. As great numbers have questioned the authority of religion, challenged the divine inspiration of the religious texts, and rejected it as a guide, they have questioned the precepts of the church and its doctrine and creeds.
Economic discrimination: Economic discrimination as a term was first used in British law, especially the British Railway clauses consolidation act of 1845, which prohibited a common carrier from charging one person more for carrying freight than was charged to another customer for the same service, but its meaning has changed significantly since it was coined.
The concept of any society is to bring together the individuals under a common bond, whether it be religious, economical, or local tradition the bond creates a social structure that benefits all the members who contribute to the Society. As the common bond of any society grows to encompass the other benefits, not initially involved in the creation of social unity, outside influences become a necessity to encourage further social growth. Economic discrimination and its affect on society become apparent as social classes become distinct and the minority is subjective to the majority of the society.
Morality-less education: During the late 19th and 20th century period, there was also a growing reaction against organized religion and the belief in a spiritual dimension of human existence. Intellectual leaders and writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, the German political philosopher Karl Marx, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche, and by a growing strict interpretation of the separation of church and state doctrine. This trend increased after World War II and was further intensified.
In the importance of moral education David Hume explicitly professes a preference for ancient ethics, claiming that morals are the one science in which the ancients are not surpassed by the moderns. Like some of the Greek moralists, Hume thought morality must be rooted in our passion nature. For morality moves us to action whereas reason alone, Hume thought, does not. His preference for ancient ethics is most obviously seen in his focus on the nature of the virtues and in his efforts to explain how virtues arise from our feelings and desires. Being worried about the morality less education Susan Wolf argues that almost any morally problematic upbringing could be coercive and could render a person unable to see what he ought morally to do or render him unable to act on that recognition.
Less importance on religious teachings: Religion is an indispensable part of human life. Implicitly and explicitly we are linked with religion. In today’s world we see many concepts, philosophical concepts - agnosticism, scepticism, and atheism and materialistic concepts- secularism, materialism which directly and indirectly denies the necessity of religion and the existence of God but they cannot overcome the moral teachings of religion. For example, robbery is a crime and illegal in modern law but the ancient religion of the world, Hinduism, marked this act as sinful act. Like Hinduism all other religions of the world teaches morality. In other words, morality is the core of every religion through which they tended to establish peace. Any atheist or secularist individual, who wished to deny religion but consciously or unconsciously practice religion which they called consciousness or morality. As for example, in the case of abortion, some individuals with moral strong values consider it as a killing of an infant, but the religions consider this act as the degradation of morality and strongly oppose this abhorred act many years before.
Capitalism: Capitalism as a way of thinking is fundamentally individualistic, that is, that the individual is the centre of capitalist endeavour. This idea draws on all the Enlightenment concepts of individuality: that all individuals are different, that society is composed of individuals who pursue their own interests, that individuals should be free to pursue their own interests (this, in capitalism, is called "economic freedom"). In literature, capitalism is describing as an economical system in which the means of production are privately owned. Sometimes it is used to describe an ideal society of this kind, in which perfect competition prevails universally. The maintenance of capitalism depends on successful entrepreneurial foundation of a family dynasty. In capitalism, the motive for producing goods and services is to sell them for a profit, not to satisfy people's needs. The products of capitalist production have to find a buyer. Production is started not by what consumers are prepared to pay for to satisfy their needs but by what the capitalists calculate can be sold at a profit. Those goods may satisfy human needs but those needs will not be met if people do not have sufficient money.
Materialism: The impact of materialism in society is a complex subject. Materialism can be defined as a dominating sense of desire to pursue wealth and other tangible things that can provide physical comforts that ignores the importance of spiritual values. The characteristics of such materialistic people are greed for money, tendency to become rich quickly even if it involves a lot of risk. It also involves the desire to live in plush houses, wearing highly expensive clothes and jewellery and driving flashy cars. In short, they urge to lead an extravagant life.
Materialism promotes many other negative feelings as well like lust, selfishness, jealousy, sense of hopelessness, etc. People forget their moral values and often fail to understand the distinction between right choices and the wrong ones. The only thing that matters is good quality life and false comforts. They think that everything around them is dictated by need of humans and is being provided by the environment. All their beliefs are based on scientific inference only. The worst of all they have lost faith in God as they refuse to believe in anything that we cannot see or hear or touch. As a result, they remain unrepentant after committing sin. Thus materialism has adversely affected the entire framework of our society.
Personal satisfaction and greed are the most important aspects of life of the society driven by materialism. Many people echo the sentiment that the real cause of the economic problems that has hit the world is the greed caused by materialism. The real problem may not be so simple but it could be one of the reasons. Here the greed is not only confined to acquisition of money but also power. Where there is power, corruption is bound to happen.
Poor parenting: It is generally accepted that the needs of children are at their most intense in the first five years of life when they are at their most dependent on parent figures for physical and emotional nurture and protection. Children can suffer deficiencies in any or all of the above aspects of parenting, and considerable overlap is common. However, if one postulates pure deficiencies of each modality in isolation the following patterns would be expected.
There are some familial causes of crime. Firstly, lack of loving care and commitment throughout early and middle childhood is a barrier to normal attachment. This will be expected to produce an insecure personality with low self-esteem, and problem with peer relationships, marriage and parenting. One or more types of personality disorder may be the consequences, with the most extreme result being affection less psychopathic. Secondly, children brought up without controls or with totally confusing control are at risk of future conduct of disorder, delinquency, and criminal behaviour. Thirdly, children whose early development is blighted by neglect and under stimulation are at risk of subsequent educational failure and social handicap.
Religion itself a system of life and to prevent crime it offers a code of behavior what we called scriptures. Due to limitation of space it not possible to discuss here but I offer an idea of crime prevention by practicing religions.
• Everyone should follow his/her own religion properly in the line of scriptures.
• Before following religion everyone should to understand the injunctions of religion with time-space variations.
• Parents should at the same time control and free their children’s surroundings.
• Parents must control and prevent their children from evil deeds and thoughts and free them in
the competition of knowledge. They also must be careful in order that children may use their knowledge and thoughts in good prospects.
• Parents must not discriminate between/among children.
• Parents should train their children about discipline and introduce him with the Ultimate invisible One.
• This awareness of an invisible All-seeing God will create a sense of accountability within one.
• This sense of accountability and the awareness of All-seeing invisible God must refrain one from all types of law breaking deeds.
In today’s world we are highly affected by crimes of various types – organized as well as unorganized. Their incidences and intensity are also increasing day by day. Most crimes relate to two spheres of life: one is economy and other is sexuality. The reasons for these crimes are respectively poverty and lack of morality. Here proper parenting may go a long way in ameliorating the social malaise. But parenting in the absence of the compass of religion will not be of much help.
The relevance of religion in prevention of crimes comes from the fact that religions put high value on prevention of misdeeds and encouraging good deeds. To prevent crime, religion works mainly at three levels: individual, family and community levels. At the individual level, religion works as a watching friend who always prevents one from all type of evil deeds. Religious belief in an invisible God always increases the level of human responsibility and accountability. It develops a belief that every activity of ours is seen by an All-Pervasive and All-Seeing God and everyone of us has to be accountable for his/her every deed on the final day of judgement. Again, religious teachings of morality and respects towards others also prevent individuals from crime.
At the family level, religion creates a deep bond between child and parent, siblings, husband and wife. This deep relationship makes them intimate and always reveals one’s faults to others. This openness and transparency helps them to shake off their mind from evil thinking and encourages them to do good deeds. In family, the good characters of parents also work as a motivator for children.
In community life, religion works as a great social force. Religion basically comprises of beliefs and practices. Here belief is an individual matter but practice mostly is a public and community event. In religious practices every member of community comes together to know each other, and under religious instructions they respect each other. Religious teachings of service to others create a relationship of brotherhood which prevents one from crime. Here society also responsible to train children religious teachings and to value them.
Besides above, religion have social values. It increases the values of life and solidarity and unity in society. In society, religion is seen as an effective force of social control. Its ritualistic practices tie all into an unseen family bond and all are live here as its valuable member. In my paper I will try to look how religion prevents crime and established peace through parenting without any fundamental social changes. It is a credit of religion that it prevents crime from society within its existing framework.
One of the important functions of religion is to create a stable society. Most religions have moral and social rules to guide their people in leading a correct life. The rules extend as far as how the people should dress, cut their hair, as well as providing rules on what is permissible to eat. Following the rules or religious laws is important in maintaining respect in the community. In some religions, it is a way to gain peace of mind or a prosperous life. Obeying the religious commandments is also considered the route to salvation in the life-after-death and perhaps, a higher status in the eye of the Creator of the universe.
In the social life religion reveals in many ways. It keeps influence upon human’s family, social, economic, and political life. We have to remember that, religion comes to us, firstly, individually through its concept of belief in the Almighty God or in Truth. Though this sense of belief acquires individually but it also reflects a sense of collectivity. Belief in Almighty God or Truth creates some qualities within a believer which helps one to lead a social life and also influences the society.
Religion is said to help to satisfy the human need for spiritual fulfilment. This, at once, raises the question of what spiritual fulfilment is. One description of spiritual fulfilment is the need to feel comfortable with things that are beyond human understanding. Thus, the need to believe in a God or gods arises from the inability to understand the origin and purpose of life.
Mail Edwards has said that the question of the truth of religious world views is largely the question of the objectivity of our highest values. As a matter of belief, religion is an individual affair but as a matter of practice, it is a social affair. It has been revealed in many ways of social life. Religious institutions or sacred places help us to be united. Sociologist Blackmar has said that religion is more social than individual. As a figure of social control, religious influence is clear in our daily life. No one can be exempt from it. There are instances in this country of reputed personalities who were not only non-practicing in religion, in faith also, they were not known for their religiosity. But at the end of the day, people turn to religion because as time closes in, deeper realization dawns on human beings.
Religion, as a promoter of peace, is one of the great sources of morality. It preaches justice and talks against evil. It influences the person’s character and helps him to lead a social life. Religious teachings of loyalty, humility, and love help one to be respectful toward others. Proper practice of religion reduces communal conflict. Though today’s religion is misused and abused but the appeal of religious teachings of universal brotherhood strongly exists in our society.
Religion has two important roles in human society. Firstly, in the limited human life, it creates aspiration to be united with the limitless almighty and through which he finds his perfection. Secondly, it unites the human beings in the same belief of God. This belief makes a sense of relationship within them which tends to lead a harmonized life. Religious propagation of peace is not individual but collective effort as Durkheim has said that religion is the expression of collective consciousness.
Another importance of religion is to reunite the members of the society. Religious festivals (e.g. Eid, Puja, Christmas day) spread a flavour of social unity. Daily rituals of religion create solidarity among its followers. Another feature of religion is that its concept of belief in the unity of God brings together its fellow beings under one leadership.
A religion is more or less coherent system of beliefs and practices concerning a supernatural order of beings, forces, places or other entities. It is a system that, for its adherents, has implications for their behaviour and welfare. Its adherence, in varying degrees and ways, take those implications seriously in their private and collective life.
Ritual is particularly important form of religious action. We can identify at least six general characters of ritual:
• Ritual often involves the manipulation of tangible sacred objects, and the action is meaningful within the frame of reference of the supernatural order.
• The performance is part of the religious system for attaining salvation in some forms.
Sometimes its effectiveness is presumed to depend upon the will of a supernatural being. Thus, when people speak of prayer or supplication, they imply that the supernatural being who is addressed may or may not fulfill the wishes of the petitioner.
• The ritual may be happy, even joyous, but it is not regarded by the faithful as primarily a form of entertainment. Rather it is a part of serious life itself according to Durkheim.
• Being directed toward goodness, ritual is a kind of instrumental action; but it is also expressional. It is charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitude of the participants and possibly of onlookers who may regard as co-beneficiaries.
• Any ritual tends to be bound to a practical period over long periods of time.
• Ritual must be interlinked with moral action, that is, with action in conformity with social norms and values for their own shake.
It is true that the rapid developments in the field of science have affected the religion to a great extent. Some of the age old religious beliefs have been explored by the scientific investigations. Science has often shaken the religious faith. The growing secular and the rationalist attitude have posed a challenge for religion. Still, it is understandable that the institution of religion is so deep-rooted and long-lasting that it will continue in the future withstanding the dangers of changes and the ravages of time.
In today’s scenario of religion and society, we find that religion is only an individual affair and our society is much more affected by crime. In great part of religious education, morality is absent from society. Causes of crime today are outlined below:
Secularization of the society: Secularism, as a theory, was first used by George Holyoke in 1846. In his definition, he defined “Secularism is that which seeks the development of the physical, moral, and intellectual nature of man to the highest possible point, as the immediate duty of life — which inculcates the practical sufficiency of natural morality apart from atheism, Theism or the Bible— which selects as its methods of procedure the promotion of human improvement by material means, and proposes these positive agreements as the common bond of union, to all who would regulate life by reason and ennoble it by service."
Men once lived in fear of an all-seeing God, and felt themselves subjected to His rule and to His providences. In a purely naturalistic world man chooses his own way, works out his own destiny, and takes the consequences of his behaviour. Once religious attitudes were major factors in social control; they tended to make men self-regulated in the light of their religious ideals and scruples. As great numbers have questioned the authority of religion, challenged the divine inspiration of the religious texts, and rejected it as a guide, they have questioned the precepts of the church and its doctrine and creeds.
Economic discrimination: Economic discrimination as a term was first used in British law, especially the British Railway clauses consolidation act of 1845, which prohibited a common carrier from charging one person more for carrying freight than was charged to another customer for the same service, but its meaning has changed significantly since it was coined.
The concept of any society is to bring together the individuals under a common bond, whether it be religious, economical, or local tradition the bond creates a social structure that benefits all the members who contribute to the Society. As the common bond of any society grows to encompass the other benefits, not initially involved in the creation of social unity, outside influences become a necessity to encourage further social growth. Economic discrimination and its affect on society become apparent as social classes become distinct and the minority is subjective to the majority of the society.
Morality-less education: During the late 19th and 20th century period, there was also a growing reaction against organized religion and the belief in a spiritual dimension of human existence. Intellectual leaders and writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, the German political philosopher Karl Marx, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche, and by a growing strict interpretation of the separation of church and state doctrine. This trend increased after World War II and was further intensified.
In the importance of moral education David Hume explicitly professes a preference for ancient ethics, claiming that morals are the one science in which the ancients are not surpassed by the moderns. Like some of the Greek moralists, Hume thought morality must be rooted in our passion nature. For morality moves us to action whereas reason alone, Hume thought, does not. His preference for ancient ethics is most obviously seen in his focus on the nature of the virtues and in his efforts to explain how virtues arise from our feelings and desires. Being worried about the morality less education Susan Wolf argues that almost any morally problematic upbringing could be coercive and could render a person unable to see what he ought morally to do or render him unable to act on that recognition.
Less importance on religious teachings: Religion is an indispensable part of human life. Implicitly and explicitly we are linked with religion. In today’s world we see many concepts, philosophical concepts - agnosticism, scepticism, and atheism and materialistic concepts- secularism, materialism which directly and indirectly denies the necessity of religion and the existence of God but they cannot overcome the moral teachings of religion. For example, robbery is a crime and illegal in modern law but the ancient religion of the world, Hinduism, marked this act as sinful act. Like Hinduism all other religions of the world teaches morality. In other words, morality is the core of every religion through which they tended to establish peace. Any atheist or secularist individual, who wished to deny religion but consciously or unconsciously practice religion which they called consciousness or morality. As for example, in the case of abortion, some individuals with moral strong values consider it as a killing of an infant, but the religions consider this act as the degradation of morality and strongly oppose this abhorred act many years before.
Capitalism: Capitalism as a way of thinking is fundamentally individualistic, that is, that the individual is the centre of capitalist endeavour. This idea draws on all the Enlightenment concepts of individuality: that all individuals are different, that society is composed of individuals who pursue their own interests, that individuals should be free to pursue their own interests (this, in capitalism, is called "economic freedom"). In literature, capitalism is describing as an economical system in which the means of production are privately owned. Sometimes it is used to describe an ideal society of this kind, in which perfect competition prevails universally. The maintenance of capitalism depends on successful entrepreneurial foundation of a family dynasty. In capitalism, the motive for producing goods and services is to sell them for a profit, not to satisfy people's needs. The products of capitalist production have to find a buyer. Production is started not by what consumers are prepared to pay for to satisfy their needs but by what the capitalists calculate can be sold at a profit. Those goods may satisfy human needs but those needs will not be met if people do not have sufficient money.
Materialism: The impact of materialism in society is a complex subject. Materialism can be defined as a dominating sense of desire to pursue wealth and other tangible things that can provide physical comforts that ignores the importance of spiritual values. The characteristics of such materialistic people are greed for money, tendency to become rich quickly even if it involves a lot of risk. It also involves the desire to live in plush houses, wearing highly expensive clothes and jewellery and driving flashy cars. In short, they urge to lead an extravagant life.
Materialism promotes many other negative feelings as well like lust, selfishness, jealousy, sense of hopelessness, etc. People forget their moral values and often fail to understand the distinction between right choices and the wrong ones. The only thing that matters is good quality life and false comforts. They think that everything around them is dictated by need of humans and is being provided by the environment. All their beliefs are based on scientific inference only. The worst of all they have lost faith in God as they refuse to believe in anything that we cannot see or hear or touch. As a result, they remain unrepentant after committing sin. Thus materialism has adversely affected the entire framework of our society.
Personal satisfaction and greed are the most important aspects of life of the society driven by materialism. Many people echo the sentiment that the real cause of the economic problems that has hit the world is the greed caused by materialism. The real problem may not be so simple but it could be one of the reasons. Here the greed is not only confined to acquisition of money but also power. Where there is power, corruption is bound to happen.
Poor parenting: It is generally accepted that the needs of children are at their most intense in the first five years of life when they are at their most dependent on parent figures for physical and emotional nurture and protection. Children can suffer deficiencies in any or all of the above aspects of parenting, and considerable overlap is common. However, if one postulates pure deficiencies of each modality in isolation the following patterns would be expected.
There are some familial causes of crime. Firstly, lack of loving care and commitment throughout early and middle childhood is a barrier to normal attachment. This will be expected to produce an insecure personality with low self-esteem, and problem with peer relationships, marriage and parenting. One or more types of personality disorder may be the consequences, with the most extreme result being affection less psychopathic. Secondly, children brought up without controls or with totally confusing control are at risk of future conduct of disorder, delinquency, and criminal behaviour. Thirdly, children whose early development is blighted by neglect and under stimulation are at risk of subsequent educational failure and social handicap.
Religion itself a system of life and to prevent crime it offers a code of behavior what we called scriptures. Due to limitation of space it not possible to discuss here but I offer an idea of crime prevention by practicing religions.
• Everyone should follow his/her own religion properly in the line of scriptures.
• Before following religion everyone should to understand the injunctions of religion with time-space variations.
• Parents should at the same time control and free their children’s surroundings.
• Parents must control and prevent their children from evil deeds and thoughts and free them in
the competition of knowledge. They also must be careful in order that children may use their knowledge and thoughts in good prospects.
• Parents must not discriminate between/among children.
• Parents should train their children about discipline and introduce him with the Ultimate invisible One.
• This awareness of an invisible All-seeing God will create a sense of accountability within one.
• This sense of accountability and the awareness of All-seeing invisible God must refrain one from all types of law breaking deeds.
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