This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arrest discretion behaviour of police with analysis of available literature internationally, testing the validity in the context of police in India and explaining the gap that exists between the legislative intent and field law enforcement. It establishes how extralegal determinants like subculture, environment, and situations influence arrest discretion as much as legal determinants such as statutes, rules, manuals, and court rulings. It also provides vital explanations on the workings of the police system in India.
The volume will be of great interest to policy makes, police leaders, officers of judiciary, scholars and researchers of criminology and criminal justice, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
About the Author: Satyajit Mohanty belongs to 1988 batch of Indian Police Service. In a career spanning over more than three decades, Mohanty has been posted at senior leadership positions in a number of police Districts and Ranges, Police Commissionerate, Police Headquarters, Prisons and Correctional Services and Fire and Civil Defence Organisation in Odisha, India. He has also served as the Chairman of the Odisha Public Service Commission.
He holds M.Sc. and LL.B. degree from Utkal University, Master Degree in Human Rights from Pondicherry University and PGPPM from IIM, Bangalore & Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University, USA. He has been awarded Ph.D. degree in Law by the National Law University Odisha, India.
He is a recipient of Police (Antrik Suraksha Seva) Medal, Police Medal for Meritorious Service and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service.
