Emerging Youth Crime in India

The present book entitled Emerging Youth Crime in India is based on selected papers presented in RC-23 Sociology of Law, Crime & Deviance under Indian Sociological Society. The papers included in the book debate and discuss various aspects of youth crime related issues in Indian society viz juvenile delinquency, criminalization of student politics, youth offenders of chain snatching, cyber crime, rape and molestation of Girls, young criminals, drugs and alcohol abuse, beggar crime, organized crime, etc. The present book covers extensive detail, comprehensive trend and pattern about each aspect of existing youth crime and crime related problems. The book gives certain effective and remedial solutions with which a step towards better society may be taken through the formation of more relevant policies related to the prevention of crime. The book is useful to researchers who are interested in an area of criminology and law, scholars of sociology of crime as well as social sciences, policy-makers and planners in the law and justice sector such as judicial officers, prosecutors, NGOs and a much wider readers. …