Tuning justice through chords of criminal science
Book Info
Handbook of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Victimology & Restorative Justice. Sheikh Hafizur Rahman Karzon. Dhaka: Hira Publication, 2016. 524 pp.
Like all other branches of knowledge, criminal science is an ongoing development through ages. This book written by Sheikh Hafizur Rahman Karzon outlines the fundamental variables of criminal science along with all possible methodological avenues. He provides an affluent engaging and thought‐provoking account in taking the reader on a journey encompassing the historical, socio-legal, psychological dimensions that examines the context, synergies and disjunctions among past, present and future criminology. The climax of the book is that, it captures four dimensions of crime analysis- criminology, criminal justice, victimology and restorative justice and all contents are uninterruptedly inter-windowed within a space of seven parts and three annexures.
In criminology part, the fundamental concepts and reasons of crimes causation from pre-classical notion to contemporary development prove author’s acumen temperament on a framework incorporating the criminological visions of Cesare Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, Cesare Lombrosso, Enrico Ferri, Raffaele Garofalo, Gabriel Tarde, Sigmund Freud and E. H. Sutherland. The theories of criminology are critically synthesised and the synthesis, in this parameter, conjoins author’s enigmatic streaming of analytical skill. His heuristic approach in describing the historical evolution of criminology attributes a novel height to modern criminology.
In criminal justice part, the author critically investigates law enforcement mechanism of Bangladesh with special reference to model law enforcing agencies of the world. Author’s critical remarks, in this part, involve the role of judiciary, prison authority, and juvenile justice system in Bangladesh and Europe. In victimology part, author places prominence on ‘explaining why certain people (or groups) experience victimization at certain times and in certain places’ through relevant theories with reference to modern development of victim justice policies. As a sequel to justice policy, author connects restorative justice with its essence, pillars, objectives, principles and model of restorative systems.
The author is already known as a critical analyst with much repute in the field of criminal science in Bangladesh. The book is no doubt a signature of his experienced authorship. With his endeavour to keep the book an updated one, he has nicely overcome the challenge of fitting uncalculated contents with huge literature reviews within a book of 524 pages. The author makes a compelling cause for understanding the exhilarating unknowingness of contemporary criminal science as an essence of criminal justice. Therefore, the book tunes the true sense of justice through chords of the essence of criminal science.
The reviewer is a faculty member of law, Bangladesh Open University.
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