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> Article 26
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3. Crime and
social objectives
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| Article 26-Justice and crime | ||
| 26.1 | Justice and crime | |
| When a crime is committed, an offence has occurred. Where a crime involves a serious offence, the impact may include the trauma of family, friends and a whole community. | ||
| For the functioning of society, fair justice must be done. For fair justice to be done, a wise balance must be established. | ||
| Excepting those crimes considered so abhorrent and dangerous by society that no rehabilitation is considered possible, all punishment must by definition be based on rehabilitation- that is at least in the reduction of the likelihood of re-offence. | ||
| Any system that surrenders and/or removes rehabilitation from its code of penalties risks a Justice system that will be both manifestly inadequate in curbing crime and unjust. | ||
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