Can criminal “values” be considered values?

By David Fonseca

Criminal acts are considered as a bad action from all over the world. Crime is the breach of a rule or law for which a punishment may ultimately be prescribed by some governing authority or force. For many years, the law has punished people who have perpetrated acts like murder, violation, robbery and narco-trafficking. Jaime Giménez Arbe, called "the lonely", has been the bank robber most known in Spain. This kind of crime have values inside this, because Gimenez Arbe needed to be strong, courage and audacious, and bold to commit these actions.

Some people think that criminal values can be considered values because criminals take a decision to make bad things even they know the consequence: the jail. That is because although they know that they are doing activities against normal society and human rights, they understand his responsibility. "The lonely", as goberment know him for working alone in all of his robberies, have courage and audacity at the moment of the robbery: that means not to commit a crime is a value; that means that the result is justify the actions. That is a Machiavelian thought. Although he is maladjusted, for him the Fact to commit it is braver than any other heroic act.

Also, he had to steal in order to hold and feed his family; he needed to find money in order to give his boys education; he didn´t care how to find much money; He did it because of his family. That means that he did those bad acts for a good reason: the love for his family.

However, enough people think that kind of criminal “values” can’t be considered as a value because this action damages people. Criminals violate human rights, so they are psychologically maladjusted and they need help because they don’t distinguish between goodwill and evil. "The lonely" was captured on 2007; currently, he is in the jail and he is taking psychological help.

In conclusion, criminal values are values even the crime is a human violation because they have to confront disagree people and the voice of the authority. They are trayed in a strong manner and they have to live all their life with that they did.