Sexual harassment Types of harassment Intimates Level of fear consequences Preventive action. Attitude towards women and girls in many cases is liable for making them vulnerable to sexual harassment. Bangladesh as a south Asian country in many cases could not keep it away from such unexpected criminal outbreaks. Patriarchal attitude, disorganized social system, unplanned settlement and lack of social control provoke probable offenders to be involved in such repugnant activities. In this context, this study was an effort to understand the nature of sexual harassment through which the female students of different institutions of Tangail municipality generally undergo. This research included four educational institutions from this municipality and selected those institutions purposively. Primary data for this study then were collected with a pre-set questionnaire within the month of February to April 2017. A number of 120 female students of the selected institutions were, therefore, interviewed to understand the nature of sexual harassment experienced by them and their intimates. The study finds that most of the students were the victims of such incidents at least for once in their lives and most of them were victimized in the locations that are outside of their educational institutions. The study also reveals that these incidents or experiences of their own and that of others have generated a considerable fear among them. Therefore, such incidents of harassment put an impact on their academic and social life with dreadful psychological consequences. For preventing such offensive actions, most of the female students insisted on strict law enforcement process so that it can have a deterrent impact on the society. Contribution/ Originality: This paper"s primary contribution is finding the nature of sexual harassment that the female students of the study area experienced. In this way, it can help the stakeholders in adopting effective measures to prevent such unexpected events.

This study contributes in the existing literature with an analysis regarding the internal security challenges of Bangladesh and its seriousness. This study is one of the very few studies, which have investigated the overall crime situation of Bangladesh on the basis of police statistics.

Contribution/Originality: This study contributes to the existing literature by minimizing the gap of scientific investigation regarding the effectiveness of prison system in Bangladesh in dealing with the inmates. 1. INTRODUCTION Crimes are antisocial behavior mandated by the legal system. These are considered as committed when someone intentionally breaks the statutory law by crossing the limit of their legal boundaries (Brown et al., 2010). The concept of crime is a complex one, which is viewed as a norm-breaking natural phenomenon of a given human society at all times and has encountered changes in accordance with the development of society (Schwartz and Vega, 2017). The number of crime-commission seems to be soared up in the contemporary world. The rate of females" involvement in crimes is also gradually rising around the world (