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Crimes and criminals have always been a problem in the world. There has never been any country in which nobody would commit crime. Thefts, burglaries, murders, rapes and other kinds of crimes have never stopped to scare society. This situation made frightened people make up more and more severe punishments. Penalties are inflicted on the basis of the crime, to make the society feel safer, forgetting about the criminal. That is why I think that punishment should fit the criminal rather that the crime. I will try to explain my point of view in this essay.