Sociology of Law: How It Can Be Implemented to Control the Violence and Crime among Youth in Pakistan

Abstract

Sociology of law controls the behavior, attitudes, and the actions of the individuals to balance their social situation. Each society is controlled by the agents of social control like family, neighborhood, religion, education, law, administration, force, and public opinion.In Pakistan, money, land, sexual assault, illiteracy, honor killing, old enmity, and drug are the main factors causing juvenile delinquency. Pakistan has more potential to control crime and violence by the implementation of informal and formal social control.In this modern world media which is considered as the fourth pillar of the state, the big tool of controlling the agents of informal social control like family, religion, public opinion etc.Formal social control agents is carried out by state, such as police officers, judges, school administrative law, control of deviance through civil commitment and criminal law, employers, military officers, and non-political control agencies, like NGOs.Pakistani families are mostly illiterate, they don’t know what should do and what we should not do. They don’t know what socialization is? Mostly criminals are the product of poverty, wrong socialization of family and the negative environmental circumstances.To control poverty, Human resource management should make effective and fair and the distribution of wealth should be equal, if we want equality we will have to follow the Islamic principles of economics.