Culture and Traditions: Contemporary Criminological Factors

• Main Author: Mariana Mitra-Nita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ovidius University Press 2016-01-01
• Series: Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
• Subjects: culture; traditions; human rights; criminological factors; religion
• Online Access: http://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/2016/2016-I-full/Section-I/4.Mitra-Nita_Mariana.pdf

Culture is the most valuable asset of human society and an advanced and civilized society has avast and varied culture. Culture includes various and different values and abstract and/or materialentities, preserved with great care and transmitted from generation to generation. Nevertheless,whatever the historical period and the geographical area, culture should be in complete harmonyand consistency with human rights and freedoms. It is outrageous to promote culture-basedmanifestations, inconsistent with human rights. It is inhumane to allow the practice under the socalledprotection of traditions and rituals of barbaric, cruel, ruthless practices, devoid of anyhuman foundation. Religion, as a part of culture, should not allow the practice of infamous habits,which humiliate and degrade the human being, causing intentional pain and physical suffering,extremely difficult to bear by the human being. From this perspective, culture, tradition or customare undoubtedly a real criminogenic factor.