دانلود کتاب R.V. Kelkar's Lectures On CRIMINAL PROCEDURE including Probation and Juvenile Justice
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the substantive criminal law which defines offences and provides punishments for them, would be almost worthless. Because, in the absence of an enforcement machinery, the threat of punishment held out to the law-breakers by the substantive criminal law would remain empty in practice. Empty threats do not deter, and without deterrent effect, the law of crimes would have hardly any meaning or justification. If "thieves" and "murderers" are not detected, prosecuted, and punished, what is the use of meticulously defining the offences of "theft" and "murder" and prescribing "deterrent" punishments for them?