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Out of the total arrests made in the country, 44.6% belonged to the 18-30 year age group. Many of them are novices and are not hardcore criminals. Most of them engage in crime for easy money, money they use to fulfill the aspirations raised in them by the “glamour” they see around.

The police and experts feel that these should be given “a second chance“, and they are sure that most of them will reform. Well, might be.

Many youngsters are increasingly being attracted to the word ‘hack’. They sleep during the day, chat with the world at night and make money too! Using ‘keywords’ and ‘codes’ and help from others across the world, they hack into servers of multinationals and payment gateways and make money through online fraud. It has changed their social life, made them happening and cool and also equipped them with the right gadgets! Another chance?

A bunch of youngsters who were arrested recently in Gurgaon for killing commuters on NH-8 say that they started it for fun and then it became a habit! They looted these unsuspecting people and then killed them for cash as less as Rs.2/-!! Most of the times, the loot money was only enough to buy some beer and butter chicken! Another chance?

A couple arrested in another place got into the habit of stealing diamonds from exhibitions. They made it a habit when they got away after doing the crime. It only made them want to do it more often. Another chance?

For every crime that is solved, there are twenty others that remain unsolved! For every criminal that is caught, there are scores of others who go scot free! How many chances do they need?

Chances they do need, but just that?!

Counseling might help a few but look into their childhood and youth and you will find families that lacked values or forgot to instil them when they were still growing. Even if they did, they missed out on showing it in their own lives. These young people neither saw nor see anyone worth emulating, none inspiring, and end up being self seeking as everyone else around them is. “Why not?” they ask.

Its not just they who need a second chance, I think the society on the whole needs to take a second look at its entire content. People, especially as families, need to make a second attempt to make the young people value the life, worth and possessions of others.

“Love your neighbour as yourself“, though many times used out of context, is the simplest “mantra” to solves many of these anti-social incidences. A complete and absolute thrust on this “golden” phrase, from the input to the application to the exposition, can shake off many an evil that plagues our times.

But I am afraid, its only the second mantra. It only follows a more important one. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and with all your strength” and that I am sure is going to put most people “off”.

A second chance without this first “mantra”…..no no. It spells disaster.

Tags: criminals, hackers

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