The role of religion in preventing crime in risk society specific to globalization

• Author: Ramona Gabriela Paraschiv
• Position: Faculty of Law, University, Bucharest - Romania
• Pages: 157-160

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 3 (2013), pp. 157-160

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THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PREVENTING CRIME IN RISK

SOCIETY SPECIFIC TO GLOBALIZATION

R. G. Paraschiv

Ramona-Gabriela

Paraschiv

Faculty of Law,

“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, Romania

*Correspondence: Ramona-Gabriela Paraschiv, 30 General Magheru St., Râmnicu Vâlcea,

Vâlcea, Romania

E-mail: ramonaparaschiv@rocketmail.com

Abstract

In the current context of increasing transnational organized crime, in a risk society

favored by certain phenomena of individualism and globalization, it is necessary to

investigate what role the Church may have in preventing deeds dangerous to human values.

In this respect, the Romanian Orthodox Church, which has a well-defined place in the

new European construction, aims to substantially contribute to educating people in the spirit

of Christian morality, so that they cannot commit antisocial acts injurious to others and for

other values of humanity.

Keywords: rules of conduct, religion, crime, prevention, morality

Introduction

Based on the research of statistics and facts of reality, we conclude that, once

Romania entered the European Union, globalization in general, cross-border crime numbers

increased, but also the seriousness of the offenses committed, which requires enhancing

legislative measures and organization of judicial institutions of the state and finding the most

effective action methods of preventing crime.

Along with the guarantees provided by state laws, which are intended to establish the

rule of law, spiritual warranty is felt more strongly, arising from faith, with hope that the

future of humanity will be enlightened by a new Christian humanism

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The Church’s role in educating people to prevent anti-social acts in the context

of European integration

At the beginning of the third millennium, the development of social phenomena is

constantly accelerating, causing great changes in science and material progress, but also in the

sphere of philosophical concepts, morality and faith, which generates new patterns of

behavior and other scales of values in a human society dominated by individualism risks, with

all its negative consequences, but also globalization risks, which facilitates the unprecedented

development of various forms of transnational crime, with particularly high risks for human

safety, which is likely to lead to the establishment of feelings of fear, hopelessness and

mistrust in the future - all leading to human alienation.

Scientific progress, in the context of cross-border freedom of movement, allows not

only to improve quality of life physically and spiritually, but also involves the risk of using

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Mitropolia O lteniei” Publishing House, Craiova, 2006, p. 134, showing that the future will remain a period of

people who are beginning to rediscover the depth of the spiritual life and the gre atness of the universe, but must

continue pleading for an ideal and a constituti ve reference for a moral guidance, because, if that did not exist, the

world would turn to chaos of desires and a worrying manifestation of lac k of love.