Pakistan Journal of Criminology published

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Society of Criminology has published the latest edition of Pakistan Journal of Criminology with special focus on enhancement of effectiveness and leadership with law enforcement agencies and criminal justice.

The journal contains ten different research articles on current issues of police and policing, terrorism and peacemaking, restorative justice, ethnicity and police deviance, written by scholars and practitioners from the United States, Turkey, Sough Africa, Pakistan, Canada, UK, Norway and Iran.

The issue is edited by Prof James F. Albrecht (USA), a retired NYPD police officer and a graduste professor of Homeland Security at Pace University New Yrok USA.

The editor-in-Chief Fasinuddin (PFP) has underlined in his note the causes of failure of Pakistani law enforcement agencies to effectively counter the threats of terror and in his article on Identification of Potential Terrorism he has criticized the police leadership and policy-makers in failing to establish a homeland security mechanism and intelligence-led policing model for countering terrorism operationally and reducing the genesis of radicalism strategically.

The guest editor Prof. James Albrecht has critically evaluated all the articles and has praised the role of the Pakistan Journal of Criminology for producing such authentic criminological literature which addresses the issues of enhancing effective policing, police professionalism, interaction between academics and practitioners and a joint working of all the wings of criminal justice system.

The next issue of the journal will be focused on "Drugs and anti-Narcotic policies" which will be edited by another great US Scholar Prof. Gary Cordner.

There will be another special issue on Human Rights, Death penalty and Minorities which will be guest edited by a Canadian scholar Prof. Jhon Winterdyk.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011