'Terrorism' is a nebulous term. The definitions vary depending upon which side of the ideological divide the problem is viewed from. Terrorism is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by sub- national groups or clandestine state agents. Internal terrorism is relatively a new phenomenon in world politics, though the use of terror in one form or the other has been there from the dawn of history. Terrorist crimes fell into two classes: those designed as acts of vengeance on officials and the many dacoities whose object may be to collect funds with which guns and pistols could be bought or bombs manufactured. Terrorism: Tenets and Tactics encompasses encyclopaedic information on diverse aspects of terrorism and analyses different issues with pros and cons. Organised in thirty six chapters many crucial issues like terrorism and terrorists, counter-terrorism; extremism and insurgency; history of insurgency and terrorism in India; terrorism in India and the world; An overview of worldwide terrorist phenomenon; fighting ISI terror; Security arrangements at airport; strategy of terrorism and counter-tactics etc. are vividly described in this volume.

No uniform scheme of disciplinary control existed until the police force was reorganized in the sixties of the last century, after the Sepoy Mutiny, on the basis of the recommendations of the Indian Police Commission of 1860. In a large force like the police, discipline is necessary and this must be enforced by law. There is, therefore, a legislation for the regulation of police, which is known as the Police Act of 1861. The Act lays down disciplinary powers of superior police officers and magistrates, and specifies the punishments that can be inflicted on a police officer found guilty of any violation of duty or willful breach of neglect of any rule of regulation or lawful order made by a competent authority or who shall withdraw from duties of his office. Discipline, Principles of police conduct; Powers and duties of police; Police accountability; Corruption in police; Torture in police custody; Violence by police; Political interference and misuse of police; Winds of trade unionism in police; Judicial response to police independence and lawlessness; Welfare measures for police families; Reformative role of police; Concept of policing in a welfare state; Police and students; Police-public relations; and Policing in 2100 A.D. etc. like topics are elaborately discussed in this book.

Over the years, corruption has struck deep roots in all conceivable places-health, hygiene, education, civic administration, police, ports, railways, airlines, banks, corporations, electricity boards, passport offices, building construction, breweries, distilleries, red light districts, lottery, satta, ration offices, banks, finance companies, forests, irrigation and every other thing which involves human activity. This book elaborately focuses on some pertinent issues like-Corruption; Many facets of corruption; Corruption-corroding country; Political corruption; Gift of the grab; The phantom-fight against corruption; Courts corruption; Corruption and police; Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI); Strategy for combating corruption; Police and procedure of laying of traps; Planning the fight against corruption; Anti-corruption laws and public servants; Serious trouble in 50th year of Independence, text of various Anti-Corruption statutes etc. Besides academic worth, this work will be immensely useful for the professionals in the field.

In the annals of literature on crime, 'White Collar Criminality' is the coinage of renowned American Sociologist Edwin Sutherland who defined it as 'a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status, in the course of his occupation. White Collar Crime is an illegal act or series of illegal acts or doing of legal act for achieving an illegal objective committed by any person by non-physical and/or non-violent means and by guile, to gain money or property wrongfully or to avoid payment of legal dues or retain money. White collar crimes which are mostly economic offences are broadly categorized in certain classes like-banking and allied fields, tax and duty evasion and smuggling, foreign exchange and export-import violation, violation of industrial labour and environmental regulations, hoarding and black marketing, adulteration of foods and drugs, Hawala and other benami transactions, bribery and other corrupt practices, coordinated drug trafficking and money laundering etc. Recent crimes of sort are cyber crimes, i.e. crimes related to internet, website etc. In most of developing countries, where corruption in public life is at zenith-the degree of white collar crime has also reached the menacing dimensions. Government officials from bottom to top, are frequently reported to be engaged in many such crimes. This work, in two volumes, provides encyclopaedic information on white collar crimes.