K. Jaishankar
Professor
Criminalogy
Raksha Shakti University
India
Biography
He is presently the Head of the Department of Criminology, Raksha Shakti University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Prior to the present position, he was a faculty member at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He is the recipient of the prestigious “National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award (2012) – Social Sciences†and “ISC – S. S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in Criminology (2013)â€. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is the founder President of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and founder (Honorary) Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC). He holds Masters and PhD Degrees in Criminology from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. He has more than thirteen years of teaching experience and nineteen years of research experience.
Research Interest
Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime Mapping, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Communal Violence and Terrorism, Policing, and Crime Prevention.
Publications
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Jaishankar, K. (Ed.) (Forthcoming: October 2016). Interpersonal Criminology: Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-2987-4859-9. Halder D., & Jaishankar K. (Forthcoming: September, 2016). Cyber Crime against Women in India. New Delhi: SAGE. K. Jaishankar, Tumpa Mukherjee, Priti Bharadwaj, and Megha Desai (Eds.), (2014). Indian Prisons: Towards Reformation, rehabilitation and resocialization. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers. ISBN: 978-81-269-1950-5.
