David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild Engelsen Ruud, ClarindaVE Still et al.
Offering ethnographic depth that will be invaluable to students and scholars of politics and anthropology in South Asia, Mafia Raj examines the everyday workings of bosses across seven towns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The authors craft a cogent, but uniquely multifaceted, view of the persona...
David Jackman
ABSTRACT Contrary to the Weberian ideal of a central state monopolizing the means of violence, political order in many societies requires a balance of interests between diverse ‘violence specialists’. In urban Bangladesh, gangsters have been identified as powerful actors, closely linked to politicia...
Subrata Banarjee, Mohammed Jahirul Islam, Nurjahan Khatun
Female criminality is one of the important phenomena in popular media and also in academic discourse of contemporary scholastic arena like sociology, criminology, psychology and anthropology. The changing nature of female’s roles in capitalist system instigate female more to involve in violent and p...
Adam Calverley
In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary by ethnicity has received less attention. This is despite known ethnic di...
James F. Short, John Moland
AbstractScholarly interest in the political relationships of youth gangs recently has revived, following mass media reports of the politicization of some gangs and federal and private funding in support of economic and socially constructive programs in which a few large gangs participated. Unlike ea...
Habib Zafarullah, H.M. Nazmul Haque
Purpose Money laundering (ML) has become a global threat in recent years, impacting both developed and poor countries. Developing an efficient anti-money laundering (AML) regime is a difficult and time-consuming process owing to the ever-changing spectrum of methods used, weaknesses in control mecha...
Jahirul Islam, Habibur Rahman, Takdir Hossan
Today forensic accounting is a highly talked about topic all over the world and is the fastest growing area of accounting. This paper examines the present status of application of forensic accounting in Bangladesh and recommends steps that should be taken for the enhancement of the utilization of fo...
Mehedi Hasan, Shahjahan Ali Sarker
Background: New psychoactive substances (NPS) have become a global phenomenon, with over 134 countries and territories from all world regions reporting them. Since December 2021, governments, laboratories, and partner agencies have confirmed to the UNODC Early Warning Advisory (EWA) on NPS over 1124...
Nafiz Mahmud, Khalid Ibn Zinnah, Yeasin Ar Rahman, Nasim Ahmed
Various researches on criminology provides us with a key piece of information about criminal psychology that, a criminal doesn't hover around unknown territory rather they commit crimes when opportunity provides in a concentrated or familiar area i.e. hotspots. So, a crime predicting model can be si...
Nahid Joveda, Md. Tarek Khan, Abhijit Pathak
Cyberspace is a great media for exchanging information and data in the arena of E-banking. Banks are under pressure for the establishment of digitalization in its day by day operations to satisfy the clients' need. But the abuse of information technology has become a menace in the banking sector of ...
Attiya Waris, Lyla Latif
Purpose – The article aims to rely on the global wealth chains theory to study the effect of tax amnesty on anti-money laundering (AML) in Bangladesh. This theory is an analytical framework intended to identify how wealth is repackaged and disguised to move it out of spheres of state oversight, regu...
List of Tables, Figures and Maps Preface Glossary Abbreviations Prelude Colonial Drug Trade Anti-Opium Pressures British Narco-Diplomacy 1909-46 Indian Resurgence 1947-97 Pakistani Dilemmas 1947-97 Bangladeshi Panorama 1972-97 Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index
Stephen W. Baron
Utilizing a sample of 300 homeless street youths, the research examines the individual‐level sub‐model of Baumer’s interpretation of Merton’s anomie theory. The paper explores the role the interaction between monetary goals and weak commitment to legitimate means plays in the generation of instrumen...
Mahafuja Khatun, Ridwan Arefin Islam, Salekul Islam
In recent years, blockchain technology has been successfully used in many distributed environments where different stakeholders, who do not have any trust between them, interact with each other through a secured and transparent platform. The use of blockchain in healthcare insurance industry has not...
Md. Abul Hasam, Md. Mushahid