Youth crime in India with special reference to terrorism
- Man and Development
- 42(1), Mar, 2020: p.119-144
Every other day when one reads the newspaper or vetches TV news, the growing incidence of terrorist attacks violence leaves a very sad impact on us and the ever increasing involvement of youth in such anti-national activities and heinous crime makes one wonder as to what could be the underlying causes of the bludgeoning effect of youth arrest and violence. The paper tries to trace the trajectories of terrorist activities since its inception in Punjab, its subsequent spread to Jammu and Kashmir and the genesis of ISIS pan-global terrorism. A sociological analysis of this conspiracies phenomenon is being attempted in this paper. – Reproduced