ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the reader with international comparative perspectives on the issues of home-grown versus alien systems and processes of law, justice, and social control. It uses some similarities to put countries together. However, countries within a category do not necessarily share the same selection criteria. The book decides that four countries per chapter would be reasonable. It decides to place a country based on a combination of three factors: regional location, economic developmental classification, and population dynamics. The book tries to place countries located in the same world region together. It considers the economic development of countries in grouping them, with a view to considering similarly developed countries together. The book considers each country's population characteristics and tried to categorize similar countries together. It assigns India because, like the other countries, it has substantial Islamic population.
