Criminal Record: A Lifetime Scar
by
Robert Thatcher
“To err is human”. What a very easy quotation to say! A person who is
continuously committing wrong doings against anybody is just human, so it
can be chuckled.
In the morals of a civilized world, consequences are
bound by codes and decrees. Each individual has an imaginary private
bubble that once intruded would mean trespassing. When a person violates a
moral law of an individual or group, then he has done a CRIME. If only the
offended one can smile and let it pass, but any mark of it always become
history in archives of criminal records that are publicly available as
reference. It could mean the destruction of lifetime opportunities and
worst---future.
No matter how philosophical the word MORAL means, in all domains of
nations, people are ruled by strictest sense of what is right or wrong.
There is a common understanding and literal punishment for crimes,
depending on severity, and that is being held under custody of the
authorities in prisons---to be robbed off freedom and to cease the
continuation of wrong doing. Although as generations pass by, so many
faces of punishment has been practiced, currently, the due process
undergone by criminals under the hands of the judges and prosecutors
remain the fairest decision.
Any case could be terminated as long the plaintiff’s justice has been
met, either by informal arbitration to the point of undergoing court
hearing. Upon withdrawal of case, the crime offender could walk away like
a freeman, with the exception of some emotional impact, that is if the
case has been settled amicably. A serious offense, on the other hand,
means worst jeopardy of a person’s reputation not only to his closest
friends, loved ones, and to the database of agencies in compiled
collections of criminal records.
Having the mark of criminal record is the something that holds a person
from committing a crime out of awkward actions. The idea of being marooned
away from the society with all optimistic goals taken away is enough to
plague a normal life.
Usually, there is a controversy in the handling of criminal records
that even innocent convicts have a hard time recovering and getting back
their true “real lives” as untarnished one. With the existence of records
in major government offices to help employers secure better workers, no
individual will ever want a bad record that will be known of him. In the
U.S., FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) with its National Crime
Information Center (NCIS) has the widest access to this database of felony
lists all over the state, including not so serious misdemeanors.
They also have the capacity to get fast background check of firearms
owners and would be buyers. The Integrated Automated Fingerprint
Identification System (IAFIS) has also aided the crime agency to track
down lists of civil submissions with a record of 47 million
references.
In England, sensitive job positions like working in institutions
dealing with children and care giving of patients, health care, usually
employers ask their workers for Disclosure Service. This gives access to
institutions so that they can obtain the following needed information of
their employees’ background and criminal records.
Basically, these are lists of conviction data and details from local
police records and from other institutions, including non-conviction acts.
Although obtaining this is within the consent of the employee, still it is
mandatory in other workplace that by not complying would mean not getting
the job.
Criminal records are nothing but archives, but in its whole intent,
they are indelible marks of lifetime.
Robert Thatcher is a freelance publisher based in Cupertino,
California. He publishes articles and reports in various ezines and
provides criminal record resources on http://www.justcriminalrecords.info/.
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