Essay on Self-image of Political Criminals
What is the image that political offenders have of themselves? How do they react to being labelled as ‘political offenders?’ By and large, pursuit of illegal (political) behaviour is not regarded by political offenders as a serious matter.
After all, they obey most of the laws of the country. The violation of some criminal laws only represents their political ideology and a desire for establishing a new type of political system.
Political offenders do not consider themselves as persons who are ‘disloyal’ to their country; they consider themselves loyal to a social order or a political system which they regard as more worthy of allegiance. In fact, they believe that their political crime has ‘group support’.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
The participants in the Nagaland movement, the Bodo movement (Assam), the Gorkhaland movement, the Jharkhand movement, and the Uttarakhand movement were persons all of whom were committed to a certain political ideology but who never regarded themselves as ‘traitors’.