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All countries around the world take various crime prevention initiatives to control crime to safeguard the peaceful living of their citizens and ensure socio-economic development of the countries. This study aims at studying the nature and trend of crime in Bangladesh and examines the history, structure, operational management, functional process, and success of community policing. It also attempts to investigate the feasibility of practicing community policing in the Bangladeshi context. This study employs a descriptive qualitative research design to collect relevant data using secondary sources. The results show that Bangladesh has been practicing both formal and informal crime prevention mechanisms. Formal crime control uses the law and government agencies, such as police, courts, and prisons to deter crime; while informal crime control employs moral and social institutions such as the family, religion, peers, and neighborhood groups to prevent deviant behaviors. The study also finds that the rapid modernization and substantial urbanization subsided the informal social justice system and strengthen the formal legal institutions. Overall, community policing was found to be a feasible strategy to control crime in Bangladesh with some modification and by improving the existing structure.

This article investigates the long-run relationship between openness in financial services trade (OPTIFS) and financial development in five BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) economies, for the period of 1990–2012. It is found that the variables under consideration possess a long-run relationship in the mentioned economies. Fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) have been performed to find the long-run coefficient of the variables. Results from FMOLS and DOLS have confirmed that OPTIFS has a positive and significant impact on financial development. The study reveals that 1 per cent increase in trade in financial services causes 0.109 increase in total credit to private sector, which is used as a proxy for financial development, indicating that the government should try to remove barriers from trade in financial services in order to develop better financial structure, thereby promoting further growth. It is also found that some of the control variables like gross savings and gross domestic product have positive and significant impact on financial development at 5 per cent level of significance

From 1860 to the 1920s, Muslim merchants and workers from across British India and Afghanistan travelled to Australian shores to work in the extensive camel transportation network that underpinned the growth of capitalism in the Australian interior. Through marriage, South Asian women in addition to white women and Aboriginal women became part of families spanning the Indian Ocean. Yet, the life‐worlds of these women are absent from Australian historiography and the field of Indian Ocean studies alike. When women do appear in Australian histories of Muslim communities, the orientalist accounts work to condemn Muslim men rather than shed light on women's lives. Leading scholars of Indian Ocean mobilities on the other hand, have tended to equate masculinity with motion and femininity with stasis, omitting analyses of women's life‐trajectories across the Indian Ocean arena. In this article, I rethink the definitions of 'motion' that underpin Indian Ocean histories by reading marriage records as an archive of women's motion. Using family archives spanning from Australia to South Asia, this article examines five women's marriages to South Asian men in Australia. Challenging the racist accounts of gender relations that currently structure histories of Muslims in Australia, I turn to the intellectual traditions of colonised peoples in search of alternatives to orientalist narratives. Redeploying the Muslim narrative tradition of Kitab al‐Nikah (Book of Marriage) to write feminist history, this article proposes a new framework to house histories of Muslim women.

In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has an ambivalent legacy, in that agricultural production is distorted in favor of the EU economy which has had a direct impact on a broader scale on landuse,land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) outside of the EU. The absence of tariffs for animal feed has evolved to a situation where the EU cheaply imports animal feed from Latin America, including soybeans that are among the main causes of deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado region. On the other hand, there is a huge potential for mitigating climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). This article focuses on one aspect—soy and REDD+ and attempts to make a modest contribution to policy debates by showing that REDD+ and agriculture are closely linked. The 2013 reforms (or lack thereof) of CAP may well have far-reaching impacts on the multifaceted and already complex landscape under which REDD+ will operate, to the extent that it may be in danger of derailing the mechanism in its infancy.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Cognitive Identity and the Institutionalization of Resettlement Knowledge in Bangladesh -- A Serendipitous Discovery -- "A First" in the Bangladesh Literature on Resettlement -- A Picture at the National Scale: Resettlement in Bangladesh -- Improving Resettlement Management -- The Issue of Inadequate and Rudimentary "Country Systems" -- Treating Reconstruction as a "Distinct Project-Within-a-Project" and Relying More on People's Agency -- Obsolete Legislation on Land Acquisition -- is Causing Injustice and Impoverishment -- New Legislation that Repeats the Same Old Flaws -- Eliminating the "Double Standards" -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Thirty Years of Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Bangladesh: An Overview -- Introduction -- Scale and Impacts of Development -- Projects: A Brief Overview -- The 1982 Ordinance -- and the Doctrine of Eminent Domain -- Bridging Gaps in Projects Funded by DFIs -- The Book and Its Contributions -- References -- Part I. Displacement and Resettlement -- Reflections on Early Experiences -- Chapter 1 -- Resettlement in the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project: Innovations and Good Practices -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Planning History and Impact Assessments -- RRAP: Compensation Policy and Resettlement -- Innovations and "Good Practices" in Resettlement Management -- Project Impact Assessments by NGO -- Comprehensive Entitlement Matrix -- Resettlement as a Separate Project -- Maximum Allowable Replacement Value (MARV) -- Resettlement Sites with Civic Amenities -- Host Area Benefits -- Mitigation of Unanticipated Project Impacts -- NGO Services for Resettlement and Social Programs -- Evaluations and Impacts of the Jamuna Experience -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Beyond Resettlement