Overview
- Provides a compilation of research from some of the most highly-regarded criminologists specialising in South Asia
- Addresses a wide range of timely topics such as gender, policing, and justice
- Covers a range of countries to compare and contrast criminal justice systems
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (PACCJA)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This is a very important book that takes a historical and comparative perspective and an in-depth examination of crime and justice in South Asia. The book analyzes the impacts and the imperatives of modernization and globalization as well as the local contexts of social and political histories, culture, and creeds. The book explores how external and internal forces are linked to produce peculiarities and general patterns in the region’s crime and justice processes. It is a book that importantly contributes to the study and understanding of crime and justice in South Asia.” (Jianhong Liu, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Macau, China; President, Scientific Commission of International Society for Criminology; Chairman, General Assembly of the Asian Society of Criminology)
“Scholarship focusing on gender-based exploitation of women through violence and trafficking rarely transcends national borders. This edited volume skillfully surpasses that trend with its location of the South Asian context within a transnational framework. This book is indeed highly informative on extant legislative instruments and the history of criminal justice and criminology. An excellent compilation on South Asian criminology, this book is an exceptional resource for scholars in the areas of human trafficking, child labor abuse, violence against women, and comparative criminal justice.” (C. Nana Derby, Ph.D., Professor of Criminal Justice; Managing Editor, Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, Virginia State University, USA)
“As issues surrounding criminality and its roots continue to ascend, scholars are extending their studies to apply comparative perspectives given their importance to the current field of research in criminology and criminal justice. No one knows this better than author Shahid Shahidullah, who provides a detailed exploration of crime and justice issues in South Asia in his new book Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia. Drawing on his own expertise and the expertise of the book’s contributors, Dr. Shahidullah provides thought-provoking and critical analyses of the connectivity between modernization, globalization and crime and criminal justice in South Asia. Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia is a powerful instructional tool for academicians and practitioners. I highly recommend Dr. Shahidullah’s book as it compels us to think beyond our basic assumptions of crime and justice from an international framework.” (Zina T. McGee, Ph.D., Endowed Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Hampton University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Shahid Shahidullah is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Hampton University, Virginia, USA. He received his MPIA, MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Previous publications include: Crime Policy in America (2008) and Comparative Criminal Justice (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia
Book Subtitle: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Editors: Shahid M. Shahidullah
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50750-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50749-5Published: 10 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50750-1Published: 30 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2878
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 484
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Trafficking, Human Rights and Crime , International Criminal Law , Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime