Crime in Pakistan
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Crime in Pakistan is present in various forms. Organised crime include drug trafficking, money laundering, forged Indian currency printing, [1]extortion, murder for hire and fraud. Other criminal operations engage in human trafficking, corruption, black marketeering, political violence, terrorism, abduction etc.
Pakistan falls under the Golden Crescent[2] which is one of the two major illicit opium producing centres in Asia.[3] Opium poppy cultivation in Pakistan is estimated to be 800 hectares in 2005 yielding a potential production of 4 metric tons of heroin.[4] Opium is cultivated primarily in the North-West Frontier Province and Pakistan-Afghanistan border.[2] Until the late 1970s, opium production levels were relatively static; it increased after 1979.[2] Since the beginning of the 1980s, drug trafficking is flourishing in Pakistan.[2] Pakistan is a key transit point for Afghan drugs, including heroin, opium, morphine, and hashish, bound for Western countries, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, and Africa.[4]
Petty crime like theft is common.[5]
In an article based on the official record/statistics of the office of the Inspector General of Police, Punjab, [1] a murder is taking place after one hour and 33 minutes while one gang rape occures after every 42 hours and 51 minutes, this does not included the crimes that are not reported. The article is posted on the official web site of Pakistan Society of Criminology[6] also provides a number of other startling facts on the crime scene in the province of Punjab.
Pakistan Society of Criminology
The above situation can only be addressed through genuine criminological research in Pakistan and to undertake this research a few police officers, academics and researchers have now joined hands to establish Pakistan society of criminology [7] (PSC) with a vision of promoting criminology, the scientific study of crimes and criminal processes and responses to crimes, and with a commitment to produce indigenous criminological literature which is culturally-acceptable and which is used by all practitioners, decision-makers, academics and researchers. Without good research, it is near to impossible to have good policy options, and the choices for peace and tranquility need proper understanding, realization and research into the problems, crimes and deviant behaviour of our society and our region.
Major Aims and Objectives of Pakistan Society of Criminology
The aims and objectives of the Society are to create a multi-disciplinary forum to serve the nation through earnest efforts of dissemination of criminological knowledge and field experiences and on the basis of such scholarly and scientific discourses and exchange of knowledge, suggest to the relevant Government organization and legislators the corrective and preventive measures to curb crime and delinquency. The knowledge workers of the Society will honestly assess the criminal tendency in different socio-economic groups of the community and determine value-free, nonpartisan and workable intervention tools, methods and techniques. The Society has a high expectation of support from all law enforcement people and academics, thus bringing practitioners and researchers to a consensus and mutual understanding on certain vital issues. The gap between theory and practice has to be addressed in particular.
The importance criminological research in Pakistan can be juged from the list of the board of advisors of Pakistan society of Criminology which includes world famous criminologists from across the globe
Board
Prof. Peter Grabosky PhD Distinguished Professor The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dr. Maria (Maki) Haberfeld PhD Dept. of Law, Police Science and CJA John Jay College New York, USA
Prof. Gary Cordner PhD Professor of Criminal Justice/Police Studies Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Petter Gottschalk PhD Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway
Prof. Rod Broadhurst PhD Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt Campus, Qld. Australia
Prof. David Weisburd PhD George Mason University, USA
Prof. Jonathan R. White PhD College of Interdisciplinary Studies Grand Valley State University Allendale, USA
Prof. Chris W. Eskridge PhD Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, USA
Mr. Robert Green OBE, M.A, MSc, DMS, Home Office, UK
Prof. Curtis Clarke PhD Director Police and Peace Officer Training and Curriculum Design Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security President of the Canadian Association of Police Educators Alberta, Canada
Prof. Jianhong Liu, PhD Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSH) University of Macau, China
Prof. James F. Albrecht St. John's University (NYC) Police Chief of Criminal Investigations, EULEX – Kosovo NYPD Captain (ret.), USA
Prof. Tore Bjørgo PhD Professor of Police Science Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway
Prof. Nicholas Fyfe PhD Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research School of Sciences. University of Dundee, UK
Dr. Riffat Sardar, PhD Child & Adolescent Protection Specialist UNICEF Pakistan Country Office, Pakistan
Mr. John A. Peach Chief of Police Kent State University & Director, International Center for Applied Policing and Training Ohio, USA
Mr. Jianming Mei PhD Associate Professor, Department of Criminology Chinese People's Public Security University, Beijing, China
Dr. K. Jaishankar PhD Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. Erum Irshad PhD Clinical Psychologist Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Mrs. Mary E. Whisenhunt The Rendon Group Joint Information Operations Warfare Command Texas, USA
Mrs. Adepeju O. Solarin Institute on Crime and Public Policy UMNTC - Law School
Dr. Tufail Muhammad Chairman, Child Rights and Abuse Committee Pakistan Paediatric Association, Pakistan
Dr. Marc Coester PhD The State Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony, Germany
Mr. Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman, PSP LLB(Gold Medalist), LLM(Criminal Justice and Human Rights) NWFP Police Pakistan
Dr. Johar Ali Shah PhD Sociology Department, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Dr.K. Jaishankar Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu India
Nabi Buksh Narejo Chairman Department of Criminology University of Sindh
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[edit] References
- ^ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLR_enIN209IN216&q=pakistan+fake+Indian+currency evidence
- ^ a b c d Veena Kukreja (2003). Contemporary Pakistan: Political Processes, Conflicts, and Crises. SAGE. pp. p193. ISBN 0761996834.
- ^ P. J. Alexander (2002). Policing India in the New Millennium. Allied Publishers. pp. p658. ISBN 8177642073.
- ^ a b "CIA World Factbook - Pakistan". CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pk.html.
- ^ Consular Information Sheet: Pakistan Bureau of Consular Affairs
- ^ pakistansocietyofcriminology.com
- ^ Pakistan Society of Criminology
