Mohammad Ashraful Alam, MSS

Affiliation: Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Bangladesh

Mohammad Ashraful Alam is working in the Department of Criminology and Police Science at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. Currently, Alam is doing his PhD on Fear of Violent Crime at the Doctoral School of Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary with Hungarian government scholarship. Besides his teaching, Alam is engaged with various research activities in different fields related to criminology, criminal justice, police, organized crime and terrorism, human trafficking, violence, victimology, human rights, gender discrimination, etc. In addition, he is involved with several national and international research organizations.  

Alam has done several funded research projects on youth radicalization, media and crime, community policing, voluntary policing etc. Also, he has completed some other research projects on rescued victims of human trafficking, political crime and victimization, fear of crime victimization, public confidence on police, reintegration challenges of released prisoners, and situation of labor and sex trafficking with significant research outcomes useful for developing national policy. Several of his research results have been published in different national and international journals. Alam has presented some of his study findings in different national and international conferences.

Research Interests:

• Violent crime and the fear of violent crime 

  Role of criminal justice in preventing crime 

  Human trafficking, sex trafficking, and victimization 

  Gender discrimination and social injustice, crime against gender and ethnicity 

  Transnational organized crime and terrorism 

  Youth gang formation and radicalization