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Modernization, Globalization, and the Emerging Challenges to Criminal Justice in South Asia: Editor’s Introduction

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The study of crime, criminal justice, and criminology in any developing region or a country needs to be approached in terms of the impacts of both external and internal forces and predicaments. Externally, the imperatives are to examine the impacts of modernization and globalization. Internally, the imperatives are to explore the impacts of local history, politics, economy, culture, creeds, and ideology. This chapter has extended this perspective in exploring the nature of crime, criminal justice, and criminology in South Asia. Modernization and globalization, the chapter argues, have brought two competing challenges for South Asia. The first is the challenge of the rise and the spread of global crimes such as illegal human trafficking, illegal drug trafficking, organ trafficking, illegal trafficking of conventional weapons, money laundering, sex tourism, cyber crimes, and the rise of Islamic militancy. The second is the challenge of reforming criminal justice in terms of international norms and standards related to such issues as human rights, the rule of law, due process of law, judicial accountability, police accountability, and equal justice. Internally, crime and justice in South Asia are impacted by religion, population, and poverty. The historical conflict between Hinduism and Islam, started in the eighth century with the advent of Islam in South Asia, is still the reason for many crimes and violence in this region. The nature of crime and criminal justice in South Asia is also deeply affected by South Asia’s pressure of population, messy urbanization, and more than 500 million people living below the level of poverty.

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Shahidullah, S.M. (2017). Modernization, Globalization, and the Emerging Challenges to Criminal Justice in South Asia: Editor’s Introduction. In: Shahidullah, S.M. (eds) Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia. Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50750-1_1

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