Umme Wara is an Associate Professor, the Department of Criminology, University of Dhaka. She is a PhD candidate in the University of Warwick, UK. She stood in the merit list both in her SSC and HSC examinations from Viqarunnisa Noon school and college. After completing LLB and LLM from University of Dhaka with First class, she got AusAID’s scholarship to pursue her second Masters on Transnational Crime Prevention from University of Wollongong, Australia. Later she completed her third Masters from University of Torino, Italy on International Crime and Justice with scholarship. Her research interests concenrate on refugee and migration studies, human rights and youth crime.