Criminalization

Chirag Balyan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. He was instrumental in setting up the Centre for Research in Criminal Justice at MNLU Mumbai. He has published in leading journals and co-edited a book titled: Revisiting Reforms in the Criminal Justice System in India (Thomson Reuters, 2020).Garima Pal is an Assistant Professor at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. She is Managing Editor of the Journal Victimology and Victim Justice published by Sage. She is also an Executive Director of Care Village Foundation, Delhi (Non-Profit Organization). She has published numerous papers and book chapters in leading journals. She has co-authored book Hate Crime in India (Springer, 2023).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1  Criminalization: An IntroductionChirag Balyan and Garima Pal2 Politics of CriminalizationSidharth Luthra and Shubhangni Jain3 Spaces of Assessment and IncarcerationDavid McCallum4 Evaluating Overcriminalization on the Basis of International Human Rights Law: The Example of Counterterrorism LegislationEkkehard Strauss5 Criminalization: Reflection on TheoriesChirag Balyan6 Criminalization and the Presumption of InnocenceSébastien Lafrance7 Democratic Erosion by Parochial Measures: A Study of Rising Criminalization of Free Speech in IndiaYogesh Pratap Singh8 The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Morality and the Pathologies of CriminalisationShruti Bedi9 Drug Laws – The Reality and Politics of OvercriminalizationAlok Prasanna Kumar and Naveed Mehmood10 The Concept of Overcriminalization in Russian LawDaria V. Ponomareva11 Overcriminalization by Containment without covid: Inside Kenya’s Refugee CampsCharles A. KhamalaIndex