Mokerrom Hossain
The purpose of this study was to investigate HIV risk behaviours of IDUs and the drug scene in Bangladesh. The setting for the study was the city of Rajshahi, in the northwestern area of Bangladesh, which shares a border with India. Sixty-four clients of a drug treatment agency were surveyed about t...
Naznin Shultana Moushumi, Rafid Hassan, Mokerrom Hossain, Ahadul Hassan Bhuiyan Konok et al.
Background/Objective: Women of reproductive age (WRA) in developing countries experience a double burden of malnutrition, which adversely impacts their health and the well-being of future generations. Addressing this issue requires updated data to guide effective interventions. Therefore, this study...
Mokerrom Hossain, Syed Kamaluddin Ahmed
This paper reviews and describes the natural processes through which the people of a Third World country, Bangladesh, have been trying to provide treatment to drug misusers. As the demand for medical help increases, different organizations develop to cater to the needs. Bangladesh has followed the a...
Janet Seeley, Sara Ryan, Mokerrom Hossain, Irstraj Khan
Mokerrom Hossain, Shahid M. Shahidullah
Abstract: This paper examines the socio-historical context of the rise and significance of criminology and criminal justice in the societies of South Asia. The growth of a scientific specialty in a society is closely linked to its socio-historical evolutions. Applying the concept of C. Wright Mills ...
Mokerrom Hossain, Farida Khan, Tanweer Akram
Mokerrom Hossain
Research Article| May 01 1982 South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Mokerrom Hossain Mokerrom Hossain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) ...
M. Raymond Izarali, Dalbir Ahlawat
Introduction -- Contextualizing terrorism, security, and development in South Asia / M. Raymond Izarali and Dalbir Ahlawat -- Country cases of terrorism, insurgencies, and development -- Non-state acts of terrorism and counterterrorism in Bangladesh: a critical review / Mokerrom Hossain and Rawshan ...
Mokerrom Hossain, Rawshan Sadia Afroze
Terrorism, a non-state act of violence or radicalization into violent extremism, has taken hold across the world after the 9/11 attacks on US soil and is a highly vexed contemporary global security issue requiring extraordinary measures to counter it. Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country with a pop...
Mokerrom Hossain
Bangladesh’s place on the globe as a sovereign nation-state came at the expense of millions of victims who perished during the war of 1971. For the greater part of four decades an endemic culture of impunity deprived the surviving victims of justice. As the crimes of 1971 remained beyond the ratione...
Mokerrom Hossain
Mokerrom Hossain, Lewis Turner
Abstract This chapter brings together, and compares, the research findings of two case studies: Jordan and Bangladesh. In exploring refugee status, vulnerability and (working) rights, we examine how refugee protection is allocated in these two states, both of which, as hosts to large numbers of prot...
Mokerrom Hossain
Abstract This article advocates for the adoption of legal history in the study of refugee law and associated legal scholarship. It begins by illustrating the meaning and value of legal history by sifting through the texts introducing the inaugural issues of some of the world’s most reputed legal his...
Mokerrom Hossain
Bangladesh established the first International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in 2010 under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 to challenge the culture of impunity by detaining, prosecuting, and punishing “persons for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under internation...
Shahid M. Shahidullah, Mokerrom Hossain
Academic criminology in Bangladesh was formally established with the opening of Master of Social Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Dhaka University in 2010. This chapter explores the contexts and the catalysts for this birth of modern academic criminology in Bangladesh and examines its ...
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