Weakness of the execution of the penal servitude

Crimes are committed and always harm society. A physical or moral person can be harmed by an infraction committed in his environment, against him or his property. This is why the legislator has established a certain number of behaviors as offences because they are detrimental to the social balance. It is up to the legislator to determine, at a given moment, in our society, what is sufficiently dangerous to legitimize a penal sanction. The fact that an action or omission is made a crime has two consequences: it gives the forbidden act a particular gravity and, in certain cases, it even leads the penal law to formulate the content of the rule with a sanction. The presence of the delinquent in society threatens public security and when the social order is disturbed by an offence, the guilty party must be punished because the safeguarding of social peace requires it. It is up to the State to punish criminal offences committed by members of the community either within or outside the national territory.