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The book is concerned with various manifestations of crime against women and their victimisation. It showcases their experiences and their interface with law and practices, taking up issues that arise regarding enforcement of laws that exist. The papers discuss domestic violence including dowry attacks, trafficking of women and sexual crimes. Witchcraft is also examined as a tool of victimising women. They probe the role of the media, the police and the judiciary ...
Cyber crime and related laws have been in active debated in the recent past. Yet, the level of understanding and scientific knowledge on these issues remains far form being satisfactory. The main hindrance in approaching cyber crime, deviance of laws is that of diverse perspectives that this subject tends to attract. This renders any work deficient. The first and foremost requirement is to located the issue of cyber crime and deviance in correct disciplinary ...
Crime are Committed when they are easy to commit. The research suggests as many as forty percent crime in any society are the product of easy opportunity. The present research is a pioneering contribution to a lesser known area in criminology in India. Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) as technique has received tremendous success in curtailing the crime rate by reducing the opportunities for committing crime by making it difficult for a criminal to commit crime. ...
This book brings together some of the major events between the mid-nineteenth century when the British started making inroads into Sikkim, and the merger of Sikkim with India in 1975. During this period of about 100 years, Sikkim changed its status from an independent feudal state to a protectorate of the British Empire, then as a protectorate of independent India and finally as the 22nd state of the Union of India. When all the factors and events of that period ...