Biographical note

Arvind Verma is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Associate Director of India Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests are policing, criminal justice policy issues, Indian police, research methods, mathematical modeling, and geographical information systems. He is the Managing Editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, and consultant to the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Government of India. His recent publications [some jointly] include Police Mission: Challenges and Responses (2003); 'Technological Applications for the Police' in Indian Police Journal; 'Consolidation of the Raj: Notes from a Police Station in British India: 1865–1928' in Criminal Justice History; 'Teaching Police Officers Human Rights: Some Observations' in International Journal of Human Rights and 'A Topological Representation of the Criminal Event' in Western Criminology Review. Ramesh Sharma is Executive Director at Legasis Services Pvt. Ltd, a pioneer in providing IT-enabled compliance management solutions across the Indian and international corporate world. As a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer with a career spanning thirty-five years, he retired as Director General of Police, Madhya Pradesh, in 2013. He held senior positions in multiple challenging environments relating to law enforcement, investigation of fraud and corruption cases, internal security, counter terrorism and insurgency at international, national, state and grassroots levels.