Author: Soumyaditya Dasgupta
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Crime and Gender: Arguments for Gender Neutral Laws regarding Sexual Offences
By Soumyaditya Dasgupta, WBNUJS. Crime is considered to be a ‘gendered’ phenomenon. Criminal offenders tend to be mostly men. The number of female offenders are far fewer than that of male offenders[1]. So does it mean that females do not commit crimes? Or the number of crimes committed by women are less reported? Or are…
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Globalization and McDonaldization of Society
By Soumyaditya Dasgupta, WBNUJS. Globalization is a very recently coined term in human history. It is characterized by the advent of global corporations & institutions which operate in multiple nations as if there are no real boundaries between them and the intermixing of different cultures, leading to a common global identity & Consciousness. In 2000,…