Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Faculty Member, Criminology

Senior Assistant Professor

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India

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Dr. K. Jaishankar is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India.  He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK and has completed a research project on Victims of Cyber Crimes. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology www.cybercrimejournal.com and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences www.ijcjs.co.nr He is the founder President of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) www.sascv.org and founder Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) www.cybervictims.org He was a member of the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crime) Core group of Experts (15 member group) on Identity related crime (2007-08). He is recently appointed as a Fellow of the African Centre for Cyber law and Cyber Crime Prevention and advisory board member of the Centre for Cybercrime studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA. He was the General Chair of the First International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV), held January 15-17, 2011 at the Hotel Jaipur Greens in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Among the recent books he has written / (co) edited are: Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations (IGI Global, May 2011), Cyber Criminology: Exploring internet Crimes and Criminal behavior (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis group, February, 2011), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009), Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines (DOCCJ, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, 2009), Crime Victims and Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Principles (Serial Publications: New Delhi, 2008) and Trends and Issues of Victimology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008). He pioneered the development of the new field, Cyber Criminology and is the proponent of the “Space Transition Theory of cyber crimes” and it has appeared as a Chapter in Schmallager, F., & Pittaro, M. (Eds.), (2008). Crimes of the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime mapping, GIS, Communal violence, Policing, and Crime prevention.  Email: drjaishankar@gmail.com URL: http://www.drjaishankar.co.nr

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