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CRIMINOLOGY, POLICE CORRUPTION AND POLICE REFORMS

November 24, 2022 No Comments

Professor Tim Newburn states that ‘criminology is a strange beast’. He cited with approval David Garland’s understanding of criminology as a product of two streams of governmental project (that studies administration of justice, police, prisons and measurement of crime) and Lombrosian project (that studies characteristics of criminals and non-criminals). However, he noted that now a new stream of ‘scientific’ criminology is emerging. This scientific stream of criminology puts lot of premium in empirical study of social activities. In line with this scientific paradigm, academia have started contributing knowledge on the subject by carrying out research. The tradition of academic and

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Treaty of Rawalpindi of 1919 – Hundred Years On

October 14, 2020 No Comments

Treaty of Rawalpindi of 1919 – Hundred Years OnOctober 2020 On 19 August 2019, Afghan people and government celebrated hundred years of their “independence”. This was in reference to a short war between Afghanistan and British India followed by the Treaty of Rawalpindi (also known as Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919), signed on 8 August 1919. The Treaty of Rawalpindi was the culmination of century-old fighting, intrigues, wars and treaties between British India and Afghanistan. The Treaty formally brought an end to the Third Anglo-Afghan War – a brief war that started on 4 May 1919 when Afghanistan invaded British India.

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