Police offer internship to criminology department students

The Hyderabad Range Police signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sindh University's Department of Criminology on Friday.

Under the MoU, the signatories will share qualified human resources, facilitate research and provide internship opportunities to the varsity's students who will research various areas of crimes and policing. Department of Criminology Chairman Prof Dr Nabi Bux Narejo and Hyderabad DIG Peer Muhammad Shah signed the MoU. They also express their views on the occasion.

Dr Narejo said that criminology is the scientific study of crimes, criminals, criminal behavior and corrections. Criminology also studies societies' response to crime and to prevention. This includes examination of evidence, hereditary and psychological causes of crime, different modes of investigation and conviction and efficiency of punishment and corrections.

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He said that recently terrorism (a manifestation of crime) has emerged a global menace posing continuous threat affecting societies at large. Criminology is an approach to counter such challenges arising in global setting.

A criminologist studies crimes by analysing patterns of criminal behavior and types of criminals. Criminologists working with and for law enforcement agencies, develop profiles of particular types of crimes as well as gather statistics on crime rates and analyze them and propose measures to counter the same in any given society, suggesting changes, if need be, in the criminal justice system and its processes.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 28^th, 2022.