PESHAWAR, Dec 15: Researchers, scholars, officials of law enforcement agencies and people associated with criminal justice system have launched Pakistan Society of Criminology for understanding, analysing and dissemination of criminological knowledge and field experiences.

A statement issued here on Monday said that the objectives would be achieved through scholarly and scientific crime data compilation and indigenous research in the deviant behaviours, crime patterns and criminal tendencies in Pakistani society.

It stated that criminology societies existed everywhere in the world but it was for the first time that it came into existence here. The outcome of all such scholarly research and criminological knowledge will be used by all government and non-government policymakers and legislators for reference in their plans of action and in their proposed corrective and preventive measurers to curb crime and delinquency.

The society will provide an academic forum for practice and difference between reality and expectations vis-à-vis the criminal justice policies, police work, information-sharing, law enforcement and crime prevention.

The statement said that PSC was formed with a senior police officer and writer Fasihuddin as its first president and Barrister Moammar Jalal as its general secretary.