Attorney General Eva Wanasundera PC receives a memento from the newly elected ACPF President D.P. Kumarasinghe PC. Supreme Court Judge P.A. Ratnayake also in the picture.
Pic: Chaminda Niroshana
The media plays a very important role in shaping the lives of people in this country. Of late, the media has enticed the women and children to completely alter their lifestyles.
By using women as commodities, the media creates and aligns the community with a new set of false values, said the Attorney General, Eva Wanasundera PC delivering the keynote address at the Annual General Meeting of the Asia Crime Prevention Foundation (ACPF) held at Galle Face Hotel recently.
Former Chief Justice Parinda Ranasinghe was elected first Patron of the Foundation. D.P. Kumarasinghe PC was elected President uncontested.
The Attorney General emphasised that crimes could be prevented if the root causes are understood and the entry points of the person to the criminal world.
It is the impact of a child’s domestic environment that makes a criminal.
It may be true that the literacy rate of prisoners is over 90%. But, according to the research carried out in the prisons, majority of criminals have not even passed their Grade 8. Children from broken families are prone to crimes.
In addition to the lack of education and social skills they are faced with the problem of social integration. Sometimes they are faced with mental and psychological problems. In most occasions they are subject to sexual or physical harassment, the Attorney General said.
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