Combatting Medical Criminals Safeguarding Health with Vigilance

Crime may be defined as an act of commission that can definitely be proved, prohibited, and made punishable by the country’s legislation or an act of omission that a nation is bound to do as per law. Criminal are those who perform a crime.

TYPES OF CRIMINAL

Hereditary Criminals– Criminals born due to some chromosomal or genetic defects.

Developmental Criminals– gradually uprising the criminality 

Repetitive Criminals- doing the same crime or different crime repetitively 

Occasional Criminal– Situational- economic crisis, cries of life, deprivation etc. Physical- head injury, venereal disease, alcoholic bouts etc. Mental- kleptomania, sexual perversions etc. 

Forced Criminal- engaged or forced by leader or gang

Where criminal laws are not applicable:

1. Sovereign king, queen or administrator

2. Ambassadors and secretariats, including their family members

3. Foreign Army

4. Government of the province

5. President of the state

6. Chief justice

7. Justice of the supreme court & high court.

DIFFICULTIES IN THE DETECTION OF CRIMES 

By Police-

• Places are far from reach of police & police station
• Less number of police than required
• Less logistic supplies for the police force
• The immorality of law and order force
• Political involvement

By Court- 

• Insufficient information supplied by the police
• Concealment of information by relatives
• False and fabricated evidence and reports
• Hostility of the witnesses
• Due to the delay in the submission of evidence

By Doctors:

• Insufficient information supplied by the police
• Concealing or destroying a dead body
• Due to the delay in submission of the victim and a dead body
• Lack of modern facilities in the morgue
• Due to no scope for visiting the scene of crime