ACT OF INNOCENSE

ACT OF INNOCENSE

 

-SANGHAMITRA GOGOI

MACJ

Last night when I was going through the news headlines, I came across news which displayed the murder of a child by another. When I strolled down further for the details I notice the intensity of the crime and out of shock I was informed that it was due to the later not allowing the former into indulging sexual intercourse. They both belonged to the same gender and age. They were 9 years old. This example directly or indirectly give us a clear signal as to how violence doesn’t come in a particular shape or form, neither it gives you clear indication as to what could be next.

There is no one particular reason as to why a crime is committed. For example, when you see someone holding a knife in their hand, you immediately respond to it as grownups. Now consider a child who doesn’t know the psyche of a criminal, how will they perceive of someone who plans to harm them? There is no formal structure of a criminal and everybody seems to look alike, just that their intensity of crime is different. Child as we say are true idol of innocence. And according to us we start believing that a child can never commit or think of hurting another child. But by observing the present scenario the crime rate amongst children has taken a toll.

Now the question arises as to-how these crime rates could be stopped and what could be the possible reason for these crimes? There could be multiple reason behind a crime scene rating from family pressure, mental disturbance, unhappy life and countless. When we hear about a crime we immediately picture their condition of the victimizers and not the victim. This is a matter of thought as to why do we portray a child criminal in a grim atmosphere which is ill tempered, spoiled or dangerous. We the audience give our opinion without even trying to understand a child’s psyche ignoring the process of searching the reason and the history through which these crimes evolves. We live in a democratized nation and we are given the power in our hand to think before raising or pointing finger at someone. Now when i say these words I do not necessarily mean that the victim is not responsible for his intensity of the crime rather, i am talking this in the context of psychological term. In psychology they say that when a person is in a disturbed state of mind or is anxious regarding something or the other then the risk factor of getting oneself caught in a crime scene is higher than the average who are stalwarts. Along with being firm and strong there are other networks which triggers the crime such as crime based movies or action scenes where they receive a platform to introduce themselves with the scene. The 2014 Malayalam movie Drishyam throws an edgy evident as to how the skills can be acquired. It’s always in our visual perceptory system which dominates our sensory perception to which a child reacts and  carefully gets a detail idea regarding the ingrediants and the procedure of doing it. Therefore, in this context the environment in which a child is raised takes the form of one kind of violence.