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Papers by Mokerrom Hossain

Research paper thumbnail of Challenge of Poverty Reduction Programmes: A Study on Women and Poverty in

Bangladesh Sociological Society Committed to the advancement of sociological research and publica... more Bangladesh Sociological Society Committed to the advancement of sociological research and publication.

Research paper thumbnail of The Birth of Modern Academic Criminology in Bangladesh: Directions for Future Research and the Growth of the Science of Criminology

Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia, 2017

Academic criminology in Bangladesh was formally established with the opening of Master of Social ... more Academic criminology in Bangladesh was formally established with the opening of Master of Social Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Dhaka University in 2010. This chapter explores the contexts and the catalysts for this birth of modern academic criminology in Bangladesh and examines its future growth and evolution. The impetus for the growth of academic criminology in Bangladesh came in the contexts of both global and local imperatives. Globally, the science of criminology became firmly established within the academic settings of the West by the end of the twentieth century. At the same time, there also began a global movement for reforms in criminal justice as an integral part of an international development aimed to foster human security, democracy, the rule of law, judicial accountability, and equal access to justice. Locally, Bangladesh was facing many challenges of expanding global crimes in the South Asian region, and the country embarked on a huge plan to modernize its criminal justice system with the aid of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the European Union (EU), the Asian Development Bank, and many other international assistance organizations. The time of the first decade of the twenty-first century was, therefore, ripe for the growth of academic criminology in Bangladesh. For future growth and productivity, Bangladesh criminology should focus on such areas as theory development, modernization of crime measurement, development of victimization and self-reporting crime surveys, integration of modern science and technology into policing and crime analysis, development of new laws for combating global crimes of different kinds, and innovative methods and strategies for crime prevention.

Research paper thumbnail of In the Drug Use Forecasting Program

This research and report was primarily supported by T. Head and Company under a contract from Nat... more This research and report was primarily supported by T. Head and Company under a contract from National Institute on Drug Abuse. Additional support was provided by the National Institute of Justice (89QIJ~R-033; 1-'502-NY-IJ; 87-IJ-CX-(064), National Institute on Drug Abuse (1 ROl DAOOS126-03; 5 TI2 DA07233-09~ 1 ROl DA0661S-02), and by National ~ent and Research Institutes. Points ofvie'W and opinions do DOt MCeSS8rDy retlect the position oldie U.S. Government nor National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (fmmerly Nan.:otic and nnlD Research, Inc.

Research paper thumbnail of A Serious Drug Abuser Scale Based on Manhattan Arrestees ( 1987-1991 )

Research paper thumbnail of Non-state acts of terrorism and counterterrorism in Bangladesh

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Labor Immigration: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II

International Migration Review, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Bangladesh War of Independence: A Moral Issue

Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 31, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of A Comparative Study of British Colonial and American Correctional Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Reducing juvenile delinquency through intervention: a program evaluation

Research paper thumbnail of U.S. Federal Data Mining Programs in the Context of the War on Terror

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

This chapter examines the issues and concerns raised in the context of the recent growth of feder... more This chapter examines the issues and concerns raised in the context of the recent growth of federal mining programs. The chapter argues that in the context of the war on terror, intelligence gathering on terrorist activities both within and outside the United States has emerged as one of the core strategies for homeland security. The major national security related federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense have developed a number of data mining programs to improve terrorism intelligence gathering and analysis in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. Some data mining programs have, however, raised a number of issues related to privacy protections and civil liberties. These issues have given birth to a wider debate in the nation and raised new tensions about how to search for a balance between the needs for the protection of privacy and civil liberties, and the needs for national security. The authors bel...

Research paper thumbnail of A Natural Response to Drug Misuse Problems: A Review of Drug-User Treatment Services of Bangladesh

Substance Use & Misuse, 1999

This paper reviews and describes the natural processes through which the people of a Third World ... more This paper reviews and describes the natural processes through which the people of a Third World country, Bangladesh, have been trying to provide treatment to drug misusers. As the demand for medical help increases, different organizations develop to cater to the needs. Bangladesh has followed the age-old ashram model and the contemporary medical hospital model to provide services to its addicts. In reality the drug misuse treatment providers are still evolving through different learning stages about the biopsychosocial manifestations of addiction. According to the authors, the stages of learning can be divided into three phases: 1) the early period of confusion and enthusiasm, 2) the period of truism, and 3) the period of pragmatism. The people who have gained experience in running treatment centers in the last decade need to form alliances to share their experiences in order to develop rational models for drug treatment programs in Bangladesh. It is also important that they develop methods to monitor providers' activities and to protect clients' safety and interests.

Research paper thumbnail of Dynamic Recovery

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1998

The Dynamic Recovery Project examined relationships between homelessness, substance abuse, and re... more The Dynamic Recovery Project examined relationships between homelessness, substance abuse, and recovery, and investigated the effectiveness of the therapeutic community (TC) treatment model in helping homeless drug users move toward stable, drug-free living. This project compared two short-term TCs that were situated within pre-existing homeless shelters with a clean and sober dormitory. In a separate condition, peer counselors and staff

Research paper thumbnail of Labor Immigration: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II

International Migration Review, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Ambaras, D. R. (2006). Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 297

International Criminal Justice Review, 2007

specifics of Holger Mey's work, it seems clear that studies of this kind could be enormously usef... more specifics of Holger Mey's work, it seems clear that studies of this kind could be enormously useful to planning the criminal justice of the future. If criminal justice is to be successful in dealing with the threats of tomorrow, it needs to do much more to describe the specific character and assess the extent of the potential harms on the horizon. Some future criminal justice threats are, as the book argues, related to national security. Others, however, are of a more conventional nature. Who should be responsible for prioritizing these quite different threats? And what priority should each receive? Do current organizational structures and concepts provide the optimum framework for dealing with both kinds of threat? How can a criminal justice structure that has long had difficulty meshing itself with social services and other agencies involved in coping with ordinary crime be successful in taking on new and important relationships in the national security sphere? Measured by the kind of analysis that the book indicates is possible, neither criminal justice bureaucracies nor criminal justice academic circles appear to be thinking sufficiently about the challenges of the future or the changes necessary for success in the world ahead.

Research paper thumbnail of South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1982

Page 1. South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakis... more Page 1. South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Mokerrom Hossain The following study of South Asian immigrants demonstrates some important facets cf ...

Research paper thumbnail of Global-Local Nexus and the Emerging Field of Criminology and Criminal Justice in South Asia: Bangladesh Case

Bangladesh e-Journal …, 2008

This paper examines the socio-historical context of the rise and significance of criminology and ... more This paper examines the socio-historical context of the rise and significance of criminology and criminal justice in the societies of South Asia. The growth of a scientific specialty in a society is closely linked to its socio-historical evolutions. Applying the concept of C. Wright Mills' "sociological imagination," the paper argues that the historical process of globalization has created two competing demands in the realm of governance in the nations of South Asia. The first is the demand for the growth of the values of democracy, justice, and human rights. This has raised the need for redefining the traditional meaning and boundaries of crime, punishment, and justice. The second is the spread of new global crimes. A new set of trans-boarder and transnational crimes such as illegal human trafficking, illegal drug trades, illegal trading and trafficking of human organs, illegal trading of conventional weapons and nuclear materials, and cyber crimes are rapidly spreading in South Asia. The rise of new global organized criminal groups and new groups of global terrorists are major threats to governance and national security. These two competing demandsthe need for redefining the traditional institutions of crime and justice and the need to contain and control the global crimes-are contributing to the rise of criminology and criminal justice in South Asia.

Research paper thumbnail of Governor's State of the State Address and Setting Public's Agenda on Crime and Criminal Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Injecting drug users, HIV risk behaviour and shooting galleries in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2000

... Afzal Hossain of SHEASS for providing access to the subjects and Mr Fazle Rabbi for providing... more ... Afzal Hossain of SHEASS for providing access to the subjects and Mr Fazle Rabbi for providing support in the construction of the instruments and compiling data from the completed questionnaire. References ... [2] Lange WR, Snyder FR, Lozovxky D, et al. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Challenge of Poverty Reduction Programmes: A Study on Women and Poverty in

Bangladesh Sociological Society Committed to the advancement of sociological research and publica... more Bangladesh Sociological Society Committed to the advancement of sociological research and publication.

Research paper thumbnail of The Birth of Modern Academic Criminology in Bangladesh: Directions for Future Research and the Growth of the Science of Criminology

Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia, 2017

Academic criminology in Bangladesh was formally established with the opening of Master of Social ... more Academic criminology in Bangladesh was formally established with the opening of Master of Social Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Dhaka University in 2010. This chapter explores the contexts and the catalysts for this birth of modern academic criminology in Bangladesh and examines its future growth and evolution. The impetus for the growth of academic criminology in Bangladesh came in the contexts of both global and local imperatives. Globally, the science of criminology became firmly established within the academic settings of the West by the end of the twentieth century. At the same time, there also began a global movement for reforms in criminal justice as an integral part of an international development aimed to foster human security, democracy, the rule of law, judicial accountability, and equal access to justice. Locally, Bangladesh was facing many challenges of expanding global crimes in the South Asian region, and the country embarked on a huge plan to modernize its criminal justice system with the aid of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the European Union (EU), the Asian Development Bank, and many other international assistance organizations. The time of the first decade of the twenty-first century was, therefore, ripe for the growth of academic criminology in Bangladesh. For future growth and productivity, Bangladesh criminology should focus on such areas as theory development, modernization of crime measurement, development of victimization and self-reporting crime surveys, integration of modern science and technology into policing and crime analysis, development of new laws for combating global crimes of different kinds, and innovative methods and strategies for crime prevention.

Research paper thumbnail of In the Drug Use Forecasting Program

This research and report was primarily supported by T. Head and Company under a contract from Nat... more This research and report was primarily supported by T. Head and Company under a contract from National Institute on Drug Abuse. Additional support was provided by the National Institute of Justice (89QIJ~R-033; 1-'502-NY-IJ; 87-IJ-CX-(064), National Institute on Drug Abuse (1 ROl DAOOS126-03; 5 TI2 DA07233-09~ 1 ROl DA0661S-02), and by National ~ent and Research Institutes. Points ofvie'W and opinions do DOt MCeSS8rDy retlect the position oldie U.S. Government nor National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (fmmerly Nan.:otic and nnlD Research, Inc.

Research paper thumbnail of A Serious Drug Abuser Scale Based on Manhattan Arrestees ( 1987-1991 )

Research paper thumbnail of Non-state acts of terrorism and counterterrorism in Bangladesh

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Labor Immigration: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II

International Migration Review, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Bangladesh War of Independence: A Moral Issue

Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 31, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of A Comparative Study of British Colonial and American Correctional Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Reducing juvenile delinquency through intervention: a program evaluation

Research paper thumbnail of U.S. Federal Data Mining Programs in the Context of the War on Terror

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

This chapter examines the issues and concerns raised in the context of the recent growth of feder... more This chapter examines the issues and concerns raised in the context of the recent growth of federal mining programs. The chapter argues that in the context of the war on terror, intelligence gathering on terrorist activities both within and outside the United States has emerged as one of the core strategies for homeland security. The major national security related federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense have developed a number of data mining programs to improve terrorism intelligence gathering and analysis in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. Some data mining programs have, however, raised a number of issues related to privacy protections and civil liberties. These issues have given birth to a wider debate in the nation and raised new tensions about how to search for a balance between the needs for the protection of privacy and civil liberties, and the needs for national security. The authors bel...

Research paper thumbnail of A Natural Response to Drug Misuse Problems: A Review of Drug-User Treatment Services of Bangladesh

Substance Use & Misuse, 1999

This paper reviews and describes the natural processes through which the people of a Third World ... more This paper reviews and describes the natural processes through which the people of a Third World country, Bangladesh, have been trying to provide treatment to drug misusers. As the demand for medical help increases, different organizations develop to cater to the needs. Bangladesh has followed the age-old ashram model and the contemporary medical hospital model to provide services to its addicts. In reality the drug misuse treatment providers are still evolving through different learning stages about the biopsychosocial manifestations of addiction. According to the authors, the stages of learning can be divided into three phases: 1) the early period of confusion and enthusiasm, 2) the period of truism, and 3) the period of pragmatism. The people who have gained experience in running treatment centers in the last decade need to form alliances to share their experiences in order to develop rational models for drug treatment programs in Bangladesh. It is also important that they develop methods to monitor providers' activities and to protect clients' safety and interests.

Research paper thumbnail of Dynamic Recovery

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1998

The Dynamic Recovery Project examined relationships between homelessness, substance abuse, and re... more The Dynamic Recovery Project examined relationships between homelessness, substance abuse, and recovery, and investigated the effectiveness of the therapeutic community (TC) treatment model in helping homeless drug users move toward stable, drug-free living. This project compared two short-term TCs that were situated within pre-existing homeless shelters with a clean and sober dormitory. In a separate condition, peer counselors and staff

Research paper thumbnail of Labor Immigration: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II

International Migration Review, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Ambaras, D. R. (2006). Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 297

International Criminal Justice Review, 2007

specifics of Holger Mey's work, it seems clear that studies of this kind could be enormously usef... more specifics of Holger Mey's work, it seems clear that studies of this kind could be enormously useful to planning the criminal justice of the future. If criminal justice is to be successful in dealing with the threats of tomorrow, it needs to do much more to describe the specific character and assess the extent of the potential harms on the horizon. Some future criminal justice threats are, as the book argues, related to national security. Others, however, are of a more conventional nature. Who should be responsible for prioritizing these quite different threats? And what priority should each receive? Do current organizational structures and concepts provide the optimum framework for dealing with both kinds of threat? How can a criminal justice structure that has long had difficulty meshing itself with social services and other agencies involved in coping with ordinary crime be successful in taking on new and important relationships in the national security sphere? Measured by the kind of analysis that the book indicates is possible, neither criminal justice bureaucracies nor criminal justice academic circles appear to be thinking sufficiently about the challenges of the future or the changes necessary for success in the world ahead.

Research paper thumbnail of South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1982

Page 1. South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakis... more Page 1. South Asians in Southern California: A Sociological Study of Immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Mokerrom Hossain The following study of South Asian immigrants demonstrates some important facets cf ...

Research paper thumbnail of Global-Local Nexus and the Emerging Field of Criminology and Criminal Justice in South Asia: Bangladesh Case

Bangladesh e-Journal …, 2008

This paper examines the socio-historical context of the rise and significance of criminology and ... more This paper examines the socio-historical context of the rise and significance of criminology and criminal justice in the societies of South Asia. The growth of a scientific specialty in a society is closely linked to its socio-historical evolutions. Applying the concept of C. Wright Mills' "sociological imagination," the paper argues that the historical process of globalization has created two competing demands in the realm of governance in the nations of South Asia. The first is the demand for the growth of the values of democracy, justice, and human rights. This has raised the need for redefining the traditional meaning and boundaries of crime, punishment, and justice. The second is the spread of new global crimes. A new set of trans-boarder and transnational crimes such as illegal human trafficking, illegal drug trades, illegal trading and trafficking of human organs, illegal trading of conventional weapons and nuclear materials, and cyber crimes are rapidly spreading in South Asia. The rise of new global organized criminal groups and new groups of global terrorists are major threats to governance and national security. These two competing demandsthe need for redefining the traditional institutions of crime and justice and the need to contain and control the global crimes-are contributing to the rise of criminology and criminal justice in South Asia.

Research paper thumbnail of Governor's State of the State Address and Setting Public's Agenda on Crime and Criminal Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Injecting drug users, HIV risk behaviour and shooting galleries in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2000

... Afzal Hossain of SHEASS for providing access to the subjects and Mr Fazle Rabbi for providing... more ... Afzal Hossain of SHEASS for providing access to the subjects and Mr Fazle Rabbi for providing support in the construction of the instruments and compiling data from the completed questionnaire. References ... [2] Lange WR, Snyder FR, Lozovxky D, et al. ...