CRIME, DETERRENCE  PERFORMANCE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN 28 INDIAN STATES  A DEA BASED STUDY

O.S. Sampson; C. Subbarami Reddy

Volume : VI, Issue : X, October - 2016

CRIME, DETERRENCE PERFORMANCE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN 28 INDIAN STATES A DEA BASED STUDY

O. S. Sampson, C. Subbarami Reddy

Abstract :

Crime is an undesirable output of human behavior. The level of crime reflects public ethics, state’s economic strength, people’s pleasure and communal harmony. Crime is governed by economic, deterrent and psychic factors. Crime can be controlled by sufficiently stimulating deterrence. The Criminal Justice System (CJS) is founded on deterrence whose components are certainity, severity and celerity. The activity of police, judiciary and correction homes deter crime. We have postulated a macro production function with one input (crime rate) and two outputs, conviction rate (police output) and criminal courts’ case clearance rate (judiciary output). For 28 Indian states fraction of the crime rates compatible with current CJS outputs; the CJS outputs required to meet the current crime; CJS activity expansion to contract crime rate through enhancement of deterrence effect are estimated by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) under Free disposable Hull (FDH) frame work. Evaluating Super efficiency for extremely efficient states, the criminal justice system of various states are ranked.