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.
The origin discipline, and where his institutional authority was built throught Criminology.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Established in London as Crimeophobia Limited, thereafter shifted to Mumbai — built as a commercial, multidisciplinary enterprise years before “criminology entrepreneurship” existed as a concept anywhere globally.
Nearly a decade ahead of Indian universities, which only introduced formal criminology degrees and crime-discipline studies around 2018–2019.
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.
Bringing clinical, behavioral and rehabilitative criminology to for Anti-Criminal and Anti-Terrorism Rehabilitation including Victimology support to individuals long before it became institutional practice. The same has been in affiliation with Government of India and State of Maharashtra government for special focus groups as well.
A registered Trust under State of Maharashtra, Government of India to built on the idea that happiness itself is a measurable instrument of crime prevention and the thought of “Being Happy can Reduce Crime”.
Filed petitions with the Supreme Court of India and Bombay High Court, documenting the 18th-century formation of the Bombay Cave Temple Commission — supported by directives from the President of India, the Supreme Court and the United Nations.
Documenting centuries of suppression in a report accepted by the United Nations, now seeking Member State endorsement.
Formerly Crimeophobia Limited. Grown from a single idea into a multidisciplinary criminology enterprise spanning legal services, security advisory, financial analysis, research, medical criminology, crime psychology, media, publications, education, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and public policy — backed by an international board of advisors.
A charitable trust 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.
"Law, Economics, Lifestyle — three arenas, one mind, never divided between them. Trust is the only entrance here, and every matter has arrived the same way: through someone who already gave it. What follows is absolute — communication kept strong at every step, punctuality in every commitment, loyalty that endures well beyond. Every matter is considered across all its dimensions together, by one team, for those whose decisions already carry weight — earned always through introduction."