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It was the 29th senior Officers Seminar on crime prevention at UNAFEI,
Japan in 2005. Dr. Fasihuddin had no clue that this night was going to
change his entire outlook, and that he was about to embark on a journey of
great value. As Robert Frost writes, “Two roads diverged in the woods, and
I travelled the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Indeed Dr. Fasihuddin traced a path that would decide the course of the
coming decade.
It was soon followed by his participation in the 14th World Congress
of Criminology of ISC, at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Sitting in
his chair in the magnificent hall, Dr. Fasihuddin was in awe as national
societies were being represented with their flags hoisted at this grand stage,
but like an arrow to the heart, he was disappointed that the green and white
colours of his country’s flag were not insight. During this conference, Dr.
Fasihuddin interacted with many criminologists (mostly former
practitioners) and developed a taste for institutional criminology. Being an
academic himself, Dr. Fasihuddin realized the need and importance of this
discipline; but to his dismay, there was no national level representation. He
decided to bring academics and practitioners together on a forum for
connectivity and collaboration; a forum of sharing knowledge and
experiences with one another, so that crime management was better
planned out and more effectively performed with the aid of evidence based
policies. Like Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Fasihuddin dreamt of an
idealistic dream; a society free of crime, where crime management will be
so successful so that crime would be forced to crawl into the darkest
dungeons. Even though Dr. Fasihuddin knew that this could realistically
never happen, he deemed it important for some necessary steps to be taken
to try to reduce crime, and he saw this potential in criminology as a
discipline and as a mission.
Muhammad Dawood Khan. (2019) The Decade of Criminology, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-11, Issue-2.
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