Prevention is the foundation of a society's security

Unfortunately, our society is replete with individuals who are ready to take extreme measures to achieve their goals. And although the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for certain penalties for atrocities, the main task of law enforcement bodies is not the disclosure of a crime, but its suppression. The legal language is called prevention.

What it is?

Prevention is a set of measures aimed at curbing a possible offense. Thus, its main goal is to prevent the commission of a crime. Informing the society, regulating the system of punishments are the main tasks that prevention sets itself. This is, first of all, in conveying to the public the idea that any wrongful act will be punished, and seriously enough. Then the information can be confirmed by real examples of punishment. The prevention is divided into 2 main types.

General prevention

In accordance with general prevention, the main purpose of the state in the suppression of crimes is to inform the public and timely punishment. In part, therefore, most criminal cases are public. The system works as follows: an example of a crime that has been solved is taken, and for which the person was punished. Then this example is made public by the state, so that people who are prone to commit a crime have a fear of legal punishment. Such a system of levers is quite effective, but in this case it is necessary to minimize the level of latent crime as much as raise the reputation of law enforcement bodies. Society must understand that any criminal act will not remain a secret and will be disclosed. At the same time, the punishment should not be too strict to avoid the emergence of a conflict of interest, nor too mild.

Private prevention

Private prevention is a set of measures that is aimed at preventing a crime from being reintroduced by a person previously convicted. That is, private prevention is aimed at suppressing the recurrence of crimes. The measures of influence in this case apply to a certain person, and not to an unlimited number of persons, as in the general. As a rule, these are measures of an educational nature, which are actively used in places of deprivation of liberty. It is also a complex of social measures aimed at socializing the criminal, introducing him into a profession, arranging for later life.

Double Prevention

Double prevention is, rather, the unofficial name of a special set of measures. According to the double prevention, certain articles are singled out in the Criminal Code, which are likely to lead to the commission of a crime under more serious articles. For example, the threat of murder, left without punishment, may entail the commission of this act. In this case, prevention is a way to prevent a more serious crime from being punished for a less serious one. In many ways, the theory of "broken windows" is operating, according to which the increase in the number of petty crimes directly affects the number of grave crimes. In fact, thanks to this type of prevention, those who commit such offenses are punished, who either do not do much harm to society, or can only inflict it potentially. For example, the same threat of murder in itself does not cause harm to society, because this is only a potential possibility of committing a more serious crime. Meanwhile, it is through the punishment for such crimes that the main goal of prevention is achieved - the suppression of the commission of a real, dangerous act for society.