Vagh Pratap Singh aka the Captain is a conman extraordinaire. From transporting illegal merchandise and stealing cars to breaking safes he’s done it all. But now in his fortieth year he’s ready to retire.So when Udham Kumar a crooked politician from Uttar Pradesh commissions the Captain to track down and steal Poppy Flowers a Vincent van Gogh’s painting that has been smuggled into India after it went missing in a museum in Egypt in 2010 the Captain knows that he’s found his last and biggest case.But the painting is now in possession of a dangerous gangster and the Captain is being followed by Udham Kumar’s ruthless associates greedy for both money and power. As the odds against him begin to stack up the Captain realizes that his last heist might not be as easy as he’d imagined.
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Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over 10 million Euros. Hours later he is found dead in his hotel room in Brussels – murdered.The tech-savvy killers have managed to elude the CCTV cameras in the hotel, except one – the concealed camera in the elevator that has captured one of them.When one of the stolen diamonds is sold in Mumbai, the Belgian Police reach out to their Indian counterparts, and the case is assigned to DCP Rita Ferreira.But when Rita and her team track down the man in the CCTV photograph provided by the Belgians, they realize there has to be some mix-up: the target does not even have a passport – he could not have travelled to Brussels. The inimitable Rita Ferreira returns to unravel a web of lies and deceit as she races against time in this thrilling page-turner.
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DCP Rita Ferreira is called into the investigation after a third corpse is discovered in Mumbai which confirms it is the work of the same killer who paints his victims’ lips with dark red lipstick. The Lipstick Killer like all serial killers is fast decompensating – the time interval between the murders shortening the victims shifting from street-side hookers to high-heeled wives … And he watches everything and everyone – the news of his exploits Rita the investigation – and talks. However he only talks to you: ‘When I’m gone some people may tell you that I was evil perhaps even call me a psychopath. Don’t believe them. I am not. I am anything but irrational and impractical; perhaps only slightly more detached than your average guy on the street.’
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A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution violence or war. They have well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race religion nationality political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. Ethnic tribal and religious violence or war are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries.
Worldwide most refugees are in low or middle-income countries; with one in every three being hosted by the least developed countries. This huge imbalance reflects several things including the continuing lack of consensus internationally when it comes to refugee hosting and the proximity of many poor countries to regions of conflict. It also illustrates the need for countries and communities supporting refugees and other displaced people to be robustly resourced and supported the absence of which can create instability have consequences for life-saving humanitarian work or lead to secondary displacement.
Topical comprehensive and bringing together some of the most salient writings on the subject from around the globe this invaluable book will attract a wide range of readers particularly those involved in international and refugee law refugee studies human rights migration and social anthropology as well as students policy makers non-governmental organisations judges and legal activists.
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A crime against women is direct or indirect physical or mental cruelty to women. Various kinds of violence against women include eve-teasing molestation bigamy fraudulent marriage adultery and enticement of married women abduction and kidnapping rape harassment to women at the workplace wife beating dowry death female child abuse and abuse of elderly female etc. Post- modernity notion of equity is at the top of the feminist agenda. Crime against women hinders equality development and peace. It both violates or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. An exception to this rule is prostitution. A prostitute is someone who sells sex and this is seen as a female offence. The criminal law consists of those legal norms that have been established by the state as a public responsibility. Someone who infringes the criminal law can be arrested charged and tried at public expense. If found guilty will be subject to penalties such as a fine or imprisonment. This book will provide an in depth study and analysis of different types of crimes committed against women. It will help teachers and researchers of criminology forensic scientists and social scientists in their academic pursuits. This will also help the policing system to control crime against women.
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This book covers the current issues related to crime and criminal justice administration in developing countries. A crime is an offence that merits community condemnation and punishment; often through a fine or imprisonment. This is different from a civil wrong or a tort which is an action against an individual that requires restitution or compensation. Crime and punishment have evolved over the centuries. The criminal justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions. Their goal is to identify and catch the law-breakers and to inflict a form of punishment on them. Other goals are the rehabilitation of offenders preventing other crimes and moral support for victims. The primary institutions of the criminal justice system are the police prosecution and defence lawyers the courts and prisons. The court system consists of attorneys judges and juries as well as ancillary staff who determine the guilt or innocence of a suspect. This book is immensely helpful to readers researchers students lawyers judges jurists or teachers interested in the study of correctional services in the administration of criminal justice.
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Criminology is the study (or scientific study) of criminal behaviour on the individual and social levels. It includes theoretical and practical investigations into the nature consequences prevention control management of criminal behaviour including penal and corrective measures for such behaviour.
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It proscribes conduct perceived as threatening harmful or otherwise endangering to the property health safety and moral welfare of people. Most criminal law is established by statute which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature. It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws. These laws vary according to jurisdiction and differs from civil law where emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation than on punishment. Criminal procedure is formalised official activity that authenticates the fact of commission of a crime and authorises punitive treatment of the offender.
This book on Criminal Law and Criminology is a masterly exercise to project the latest innovations through judicial and administrative techniques of creativity. The important issues challenging the very concept of criminal jurisprudence that has become obsolete in a number of areas has been thoroughly discussed in this classic book.
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Criminal justice systems use the help of criminal psychologists. Criminal psychologists talk to potential suspects or proven criminals so as to investigate and assess their mental state. Some testify at trials as to the health of patients. They have a background in criminology as well psychology making these specialized psychologists experts in mental states and behaviour of criminals. A criminal psychologist may study why people commit crimes. They can also be asked to assess criminals in order to evaluate how likely the person is to reoffend in the future. At times they are asked to make educated guesses about the actions that a criminal may have taken after committing a crime.
Crime rates its’ seriousness and the frequency of different types of it all vary considerably from one country to another. That could be a reflection of varying definitions and recording methods rather than underlying differences. The subjectively experienced fear of crime also shows sizeable variations but they are only indirectly related to the patterns of crime recorded in official statistics. No matter what the fact is that directly or indirectly crime touches the lives of nearly everyone and is covered extensively by the media on most occasions. This book has been prepared mostly on the basis of author’s own empirical studies on different aspects of crime and is one of the few books on this topic available.
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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding the social problem of crime. It includes information regarding the nature and extent of crime and the policies used in dealing with crime and criminals. Criminology is sometimes defined more narrowly to include only the information regarding the characteristics of criminals; the policies are then called penology.
Crime is an important area of research and study because it raises the fundamental questions about civil liberties and the power of the state. The idea of punishment although originally designed to protect the members of a civil society from harm was also meant to help reform the wrongdoer to abide by the laws which safeguard the interests of society.
Criminology is primarily sociological – it is concerned with crime as a personal and group phenomenon. However the factors that can contribute to crime could be economic psychological physiological chemical educational etc. Hence criminological studies reveal several facts which help understand the human behaviour in general.
The book is written in a very lucid and simple language so that it can be useful not only for academicians students and research scholars but equally important for social thinkers and the common man.
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Crime is an important area of research and study because it raises the fundamental questions about civil liberties and the power of the state. With institutional and legal machinery at their disposal agents of the State can compel populations to conform to codes and can opt to punish or to attempt to reform those who do not conform.
Criminologists are interested in answering questions about how crime should be defined why crime occurs and how societies seek to control crime. However to arrive at definitive answers can often be challenging and the resulting ambiguity is the source of continuing interesting debate.
Criminal behaviour has always been a focus for psychologists due to the age old debate between nature and nurture. Is it the responsibility of an individual’s genetic makeup that makes them a criminal or is it the environment in which they are raised that determines their outcome? Research has been conducted regarding this debate which has resulted in a conclusion that both genes and environment do play a role in the criminality of an individual.
The book will be of immense use to students and researchers in the subject as well as to social scientist law enforcement personnel psychologists and members of the justice system.
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