Criminal activities during COVID-19 : evidence from India
Shabnam Parween, Mazhar Shamsi Ansary, and Santosh Kumar Behera
The CVOID-19 Pandemic increased the hardships of millions of people all over the world and also increased the disparity between the rich and the poor with rising unemployment, loss of educational days, institutional failure, infrastructural collapse, malnourishment and malnutrition due to the stringent lockdown measures which forced numerous sections of society into the brink of poverty and destitute. The pandemic has led to multifarious problems require multi-stakeholder approach. The problem of rising criminal behaviour and the increasing crime rates coupled with the failure of the law enforcement institutions to tackle the challenges due to overload, shortage of manpower and the uniqueness of the problem has posed a serious problem to the law-and-order situation of the country. The problem becomes chronic due to the rising technical nature of crimes requiring adequately trained manpower to deal with such issues as well as the necessary dedicated infrastructural support to complement such efforts. The aspect of policy development as a base to cater and legally recognize such nature of crimes also becomes a challenge due to the pandemic induced lockdown and protocols which is crippling the law-making power of the legislatures severely. Based on qualitative approach, this paper tries to study the rising nature of crime and criminal activities in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, reasons and various probable actions and measures to be taken to solve these criminal activities.
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2022
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Authors: | Parween, Shabnam ; Ansary, Mazhar Shamsi ; Behera, Santosh Kumar |
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Finance, law, and the crisis of COVID-19 : an interdisciplinary perspective. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-89415-3. - 2022, p. 173-191
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Subject: | Coronavirus | Epidemie | Epidemic | Kriminalität | Crime | Menschenhandel | Human trafficking | IT-Kriminalität | IT crime | Lockdown | Lock-down | Indien | India |
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