Surender Pratap Singh
The paper is intended to revalidate the authenticity of the novel method which uses demographic attributes and conviction details available in the 10-digit Indian fingerprint record slips, for criminal research, by analyzing the outcomes of two similar studies conducted with a gap of 14 years. The innovative tool was first used by the author in 2004, to study the involvement of women in violent crimes, then again in 2018, to explore the participation of the youths in Violent and NDPS Act of 1985 related crimes. In 2004, fingerprint slips of 200 women convicts were randomly selected for investigation, concluding that a total of 9.50% partook in violent crimes. Whereas, in 2018, fingerprint slips of 1001 young offenders were analyzed, and it was inferred that out of 822 youths who participated in violent crimes, 20 or 2.43% were women. There were many similarities in the outcomes of the two studies, in 2004, from the total of 200 women convicts researched, 67.00% belonged to the rural areas & 33.00% to the urban, while the investigation of 2018, involving 1001 young subjects also reflected marked resemblance, 64.54% of the youths were found to be from rural areas, and 36.46% had urban roots. Interestingly, our figures of rural-urban participation ratio, were almost in consonance with the Indian Census Report of 2011, which found Indian rural population to be at 68.84%, and the urban at 31.16%. The results of the two studies were also compared with the available most relevant national crime statistics of the corresponding years (i.e., 2004, and 2018). The study of 2018, concluded that 1.67% young women participated in NDPS Act of 1985 related offences, it was strikingly similar to the ‘Crime in India’ figures, which stood at 1.77%.
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