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GUST Spreads Awareness on Crime Prevention

The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) held a seminar entitled Crime Prevention and Criminal Behavior that is led by Dr. Muhammad Hanif, a renowned scholar of Criminology and Law. Dr. Hanif is the Principal of the National Law College in Lahore and Advocate High Court and Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan. He attained his Ph.D. from London University and is a Member of the English Bar.

Law and Order Debate

In the seminar, Dr. Hanif discussed the law and order debate in recent times; which is an important area of debate. According to Dr. Noreen Abdullah-Khan, Criminologist and Sociologist and Chair of the RAC, “there has been a recent surge of interest in the law and order debate, with particular focus on evocative topics of violence and its cause, as well as crime more generally. Global perceptions have been varied, leading to strong, intellectual cross-cultural dialogue on the most effective means of justice in the current societies.  In light of this debate, Research Advisory Committee within the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences invited Dr. Mohammed Hanif.”

The seminar was well received; it has provided the faculty with “meaningful, intellectual debate on vital law and order issues in the contemporary world,” said Dr. Abdullah-Khan.