Dehradun, Feb. 25 -- The study of the human mind has advanced greatly since the days of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, pioneers as they were. Philosophers over the ages have also contemplated deeply the processes that create a person's inner being, prescribing many ways to raise the consciousness to higher, more 'selfless' levels, in which there is no conflict between the ego and the outside world. It might even be said that with the exponential manner in which knowledge is expanding, the day is not far when 'criminals' will be 'set right' not through punishment or incarceration, but by medical and psychiatric treatment.
A general belief has been that much of criminal activity has been due to the perpetrators' physical circumstances - povert...