Many offenders commit more crimes after their first punishment. Why is this happening, and what measures can be taken to tackle this problem?

A lot of criminals

subsequently

engage in criminal acts, even though they were

initially

punished for their wrong doings.

This

is so because there is no adequate

punishment

in the laws regulating crime

commission

to deter them from going back to crime and

this

can be controlled by providing sufficient

punishment

commensurate with the

offence

committed and the awareness of the

punishment

for offences to the general public.

Firstly

, one of the reasons

first

time offenders go back to crime after being punished is because there is no adequate

punishment

for offences in the laws regulating

commission

of crimes.

Furthermore

, these laws are obsolete and do not sufficiently provide appropriate penalties for offences.

In addition

, the laws are not being reviewed to meet up with the ever increasing rate of crimes in the society.

For example

, there are laws prescribing an option of fine for an an

offence

as grave as robbery.

This

, is incomparable with the infraction committed. In order to forestall

commission

of

further

crimes , one of the steps that can be taken is to review the laws governing misdeed

commission

and the consequences of criminal acts and creation of awareness of penalties for crimes to the society.

For example

, there has been a review of the laws governing the

offence

of rape and the awareness of the retribution for the act to be a life jail term in the media in Nigeria in recent time.

This

will definitely deter, to some extent, the

commission

of the

offence

of rape in Nigeria. To conclude, inadequate retributions for offences in the laws regulating

commission

of crimes contribute to repeated criminal acts and

this

can be resolved by adequate provision of commensurate penalty for every lawlessness.