Political Crimes in Bangladesh

Synonyms

Political Conflicts; Political Crimes; Political Violence

Introduction

In Bangladesh, political crime has achieved a great attention of sociologists and criminologists. Political crimes are marked by the intra- and interpolitical parties’ violent conflicts, brutal clashes in educational institutions between and among student political organizations over establishing supremacy and capturing seats and hostels, sporadic violence over holding political rally, conflict between political groups in terms of elections, using state instrument to suppress the opposition political parties, political involvement and interferences in recruitment of government jobs, attacks and killing of opposition groups activists, corruption and illegal demanding of fees from government development projects, demanding illegal political quotas by ruling student political organization in educational institutions, tender related political crime, attack on law enforcing agencies by political parties,...