Question Paper from: RBI Assistant Mains 2017

Studies in criminology have established that certainty of punishment curbs the rate of crime and not the type or the quantum of punishment. We already have a reputation of having good laws but bad implementation. In legal parlance, it is known as ‘over-criminalisation’ — more laws but less ‘rule of law’. Therefore, _______________. Enacting special laws for each set of crimes is no solution and makes the problem worse.

Until 1965, only 12 countries had expunged capital punishment and 11 effaced it for ordinary crimes during peacetime.

the enforcement machinery needs a major overhaul to make criminal justice more accessible

It will be in the fitness of the things to have a bare idea

Firstly, that the reliability of statistics remains unverified.

General deterrence is designed to prevent crime in the general population

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