Introduction The life in contemporary society has a number of strong points that are granted by the latest inventions of civilization but nowadays people cannot say that their life is absolutely serene. Modern society is characterized by uneven division of power and wealth. Some people live beyond the limit of poverty while others enjoy all luxuries of life. Though almost all modern countries have developed branches of state power, like legislative, executive, and judiciary among them, there often arise issues of justice under the law. The very notion of justice is a disputable question, people cannot get the unanimous decision on what is just and what is unjust in our society. In order to get the clue to the nature and possible solution of the problem of crime and justice, it may be useful to resort to the wisdom of the past. Justice and law were the problems that claimed attention of the ancient Greeks, the people who denoted justice as “a kind of metaphysical cosmological principle regulating the operation of the forces of nature on the elements of the universe, securing balance and harmony among all” (Stone 11). The Greeks did a lot to shape the notion of justice, the Pythagoreans formulated the notion “of justice as equality” and it has remained “woven into all philosophy about justice” up to the present (Stone 12). Plato has been always been one of the respected Greek wise men who gave answers to numerous philosophic questions. His theory of justice and his interpretation of the function of laws in society can be beneficial for humanity to solve the problem of crime and justice that is so urgent nowadays. Plato on justice The whole voluminous book under the title The Republic is aimed at the formulation of the definition of justice. It is important even in the light of the present situation, though the definition of justice driven by Plato “hardly corresponds to what a modern would naturally call justice” (Russell 116). However, Plato’s concept of justice also deserves attention. The philosopher defines it as the state when “everybody [is] doing his own work … the city is just when a trader, auxiliary, and guardian, each does his own job without interfering with that of other classes” (Russell 115). We remember that Plato was in the search of an ideal State in his Republic and in the Book IV, the philosopher enumerates the four “’cardinal virtues’ of wisdom, courage, discipline, and justice” (Plato 130). He states that the sources of wisdom in the state are the Rulers, the philosophers, the only people who are capable of ruling the state on the basis of justice and wisdom. The sources of courage are the Auxiliaries, the warriors, and self-discipline will be acquired due to the harmonious interrelation between three classes of citizens and their unanimous agreement “about who ought to rule” (Plato 130). As for justice, its principle is defined by Plato as “one man one job”, “minding one’s own business” that means doing the job a person is cut out for and “not interfering with other people” (Plato 130). Bhandari states that Plato thinks that justice is “the quality of soul”, a virtue, in which a man abandons a selfish desire to taste every pleasure and be satisfied (para. 1). Throwing light on the nature of justice, the philosophe