When criminology still meant a subject you studied — never a business you started — he founded Crimeophobia: what is understood to be the world's first dedicated criminology firm. More than a decade later, the model he pioneered remains one no university anywhere formally prepares its graduates to pursue.Not one business, but a portfolio — legal strategy, security advisory, behavioural science, education, publishing and humanitarian development — each a market he had to create before he could lead it.
Engagements are limited and by introduction.
The origin discipline, and where his institutional authority was built.
Finance, trade and infrastructure, where risk and fraud expertise translate directly into capital decisions.
Culture, film and public engagement, shaped by the same behavioural and investigative lens.
When criminology still meant a subject you studied — never a business you started — he founded Crimeophobia: what is understood to be the world’s first dedicated criminology firm. More than a decade later, the model he pioneered remains one no university anywhere formally prepares its graduates to pursue. A quick search still confirms it: criminology is taught as a path into academia, policing or government — Snehil Dhall built the exception.
That’s the pattern that runs through everything he has built since. Not one business, but a portfolio — legal strategy, security advisory, behavioural science, education, publishing and humanitarian development — each a market he had to create before he could lead it. Two decades in, one conviction hasn’t moved: crime is a systems problem, and criminology is the only discipline built to solve it.
THE FOUNDER
Founder, Crimeophobia – A Criminology Firm | Founding Trustee, Ministry of Happiness | Criminologist | Neurocriminology Expert | Legal & Transnational Security Expert | Author | Crime & Law Historian
Snehil Dhall is a global portfolio entrepreneur, first-generation businessman, criminologist, author and crime & law historian. With over 21 years of legal practice and 24+ years of entrepreneurship, he has built an international reputation on complex criminal, civil, constitutional, corporate, financial fraud, organised crime, anti-terrorism and transnational matters — educated in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom, with a footprint spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, the Middle East and India.
| 21+ YEARS, LEGAL PRACTICE | 24+ YEARS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 18+ YEARS, CRIMEOPHOBIA FOUNDED | 3+ Years MINISTRY OF HAPPINESS |
His legal experience covers organised crime, terrorism, money laundering, property and real estate law, company law, constitutional law, cooperative law, cyber crime, child protection, women’s rights, domestic violence, human trafficking, financial fraud and security audits, argued as subject expert, legal advisor, authorised representative, intervenor, researcher, committee member and policy contributor.
FORUMS OF APPEARANCE
Supreme Court of India · Bombay High Court · Karnataka High Court · Sessions & Magistrate Courts (Metropolitan & Tribal Zone) · Consumer Commissions · Income Tax Authorities · Cooperative Courts ·Company Law Tribunal · Housing Tribunal & Authorities · Government Ministries · International Forums & the United Nations
INSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
He has been associated with institutions including the UN General Assembly, UNODC (UNTOC), BPR&D, NITI Aayog, C-DAC (MeitY), the Children’s Aid Society, NYKS, FICCI, the US Consulate, the Government of Maharashtra, the Government of the Netherlands, the World Trade Centre Mumbai, the European Business Group and the British High Commission Business Group, serving as expert, advisor, trainer, researcher, panelist and committee member.
ORIGINAL INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
His original intellectual contributions include the copyrighted Theory of Modern Chakravyuh, the Polymath Theory of Organised Crime, and the concepts of Post Crime Trauma and Criminal Behaviour Syndrome — alongside continuing research in neurocriminology, predictive policing and institutional resilience. He is also an educator, keynote speaker and author, having trained police forces, defence personnel, government officers, universities, law colleges, schools and corporates, and has featured in mainstream media, television crime productions and academic conferences.
A Legacy of Firsts
World’s First Criminology Firm
Established in London as Crimeophobia Limited, the firm was thereafter shifted to Mumbai as Crimeophobia — built as a commercial, multidisciplinary enterprise years before “criminology entrepreneurship” existed as a concept anywhere globally.
First to Deliver Crime Education in India (since 2010)
Nearly a decade ahead of Indian universities, which only introduced formal criminology degrees and crime-discipline studies around 2018–2019.
First to Initiate India’s UNTOC Movement (since 2013)
The first independent Indian criminologist to launch sustained constitutional implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime — a movement he still leads as Party-in-Person before the Supreme Court of India, with repeated recognition at UN conferences in Vienna.
Founder of One of India’s First Crime Psychology Clinics
Bringing clinical, behavioural and rehabilitative criminology to prisoners, juveniles and at-risk individuals long before it became institutional practice.
Founder of the Ministry of Happiness
A registered charitable trust built on the idea that happiness itself is a measurable instrument of crime prevention.
First to Demand Transnational Sanatan Commission
Filed petitions with Hon. Supreme Court of India and Bombay High Court with documentation of the 18th Century official formation of Bombay Cave Temple Commission. The same has been supported with orders/directives from Hon’ble President of India, Supreme Court of India and the United Nations.
First to Demand International Day for Solidarity of Hindu People
With centuries of suppression, the documented report has been accepted by the United Nations and seeks Member State endorsement.
First to Build a Criminology Ecosystem — One Discipline, Seven Dimensions
Born from a simple constraint: lawyers cannot counsel, and therapists cannot litigate. Crimeophobia was conceived to bridge that gap. What began as a single defence practice, confronted with needs no one else would meet, chose to build rather than outsource — production, therapy, research, policy, community. Seven divisions, one origin. Not a conglomerate chasing scale — a firm that kept answering the next unmet need, until defence became a system, and being first became a legacy.
Taken together: the ability to spot a discipline the world hadn’t commercialised, build the first enterprise inside it, and still be its most cited pioneer a decade on.
Two Institutions, One Philosophy
Justice alone doesn’t build a safer society — it has to be paired with prevention. That’s the divide Snehil Dhall built his career around closing, through two institutions that work as one system rather than two separate ventures.
Crimeophobia – A Criminology Firm
Formerly Crimeophobia Limited Founded in 2010 in London, Crimeophobia has grown from a single idea into a multidisciplinary criminology enterprise spanning legal services, security advisory, research, medical criminology, crime psychology, media, publications, education, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and public policy — backed by an international board of advisors and built to respond to crime through scientific, evidence-led intelligence.
Ministry of Happiness
Established in 2023 as a charitable trust registered with the Government of Maharashtra, and built on one line of philosophy — “Being Happy Can Reduce Crime.” It works upstream of the courtroom: anti-crime rehabilitation, criminology education, youth development, public welfare, CSR and pro-bono initiatives that treat community wellbeing as crime prevention, not charity. Together, they cover the full arc — from investigation and litigation through to the social conditions that stop crime before it starts. Nearly every matter in the case studies that follow sits somewhere on that arc. “This space is called The Store, not a shop front. To Snehil Dhall, a store is where civilisation keeps what it considers valuable — the way a library keeps knowledge or a treasury keeps wealth. This one keeps decades of research, casework and institutional thinking, and the books and courses built from it.”
The Philosophy Behind the Portfolio
Every venture here traces back to a personal path — early exposure to legal proceedings, formal criminology education across India, Singapore and the UK, and one guiding rule: build institutions, not just a career. Crimeophobia turned that into an applied-science firm serving governments, corporations and communities. The Ministry of Happiness turned it into humanitarian infrastructure — anti-trafficking, child protection, rehabilitation, heritage conservation and youth empowerment, on the conviction that prevention starts long before a courtroom does.
Criminology, as one of the defining disciplines of the century — and a discipline he built into a business first — is the thread running through all of it: the conviction that knowledge exists not simply to inform, but to build enterprises, strengthen institutions, protect communities, and give criminology a future beyond the classroom.
ONE DISCIPLINE, THREE ARENAS
Its principles — risk, deception, behaviour, systems — extend into every arena Snehil Dhall operates in.