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Professor Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD

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Prof. K. Jaishankar the Founder / Principal Director and Professor of Criminology & Justice Sciences of the International Institute of Justice and Police Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Before founding the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences (IIJPS) in 2022, Prof Jaishankar held several positions like Full Professor of Criminology, Dean, HOD, Syndicate Member, Professor of Criminology and Senior Assistant Professor of Criminology at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and Raksha Shakti University (Now Rashtriya Raksha University) in India. He was awarded the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award, 2012 - Social Sciences. He is the founder of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC). He was awarded the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, 2009-10 tenable at UK, University of Leeds from October 2009 - March 2010. He is an United Nations Expert on matters related to Victims of Terrorism and member of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC) and 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) and Fellow of the African Centre for Cyber law and Cyber Crime Prevention. He was an International Ambassador of British Society of Criminology (BSC) (2015-2025). He is Ranked Number 4 among 282 (Top 3%) Law and Legal Studies Scholars in India. He is Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020. He is the founding father of the Cyber Criminology (2007), Cyber Victimology (2015), Theological Criminology (2024), Political Victimology (2023) and Therapeutic Criminology (2023), academic sub-disciplines of Criminology and the proponent of Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes. His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime mapping, GIS, Communal violence, Theoretical Criminology, Policing, and Crime prevention. More details about him are at https://www.jaishankar.org

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Group Processes
  • Internet and Virtual Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Law and Public Policy
  • Person Perception
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Research Methods, Assessment

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Books:

  • Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar (June, 2011) Cyber crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights, and Regulations. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. ISBN: 978-1-60960-830-9
  • Jaishankar, K. (2009). (Ed.). International perspectives on crime and justice. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0198-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0198-0.
  • K. Jaishankar (2009). Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines. Tirunelveli: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. ISBN 978-81-906687-1-2
  • K. Jaishankar (Ed.) (2011). Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal behavior. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN (10): 1439829497 ISBN (13): 9781439829493.
  • Madhava Soma Sundaram, P., Jaishankar, K., & Ramdoss, S. (Eds.) (2008). Crime victims and justice: An introduction to restorative principles. New Delhi: Serials Publications. ISBN (13): 978-81-8387-163-1.
  • Ronel, N., Jaishankar, K., & Bensimon, M. (Eds.). (2008). Trends and issues in victimology. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0069-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0069-3.

Journal Articles:

  • Desai M., and Jaishankar, K. (2008). Impact of media violence on Children. Occasional series in Criminal Justice and International Studies, 2008, 90-105, RMIT publishing, Australia.
  • Eric Lambert, K. Jaishankar, Shanhe Jiang, Sudershan Pasupuleti, and Jagadish Bhimarasetty. (2011). Correlates of Formal and Informal Social Control on Crime Prevention: An Exploratory Study among University Students, Andhra Pradesh, India. Asian Journal of Criminology, 6(2), December 2011.
  • Halder, D., & Jaishankar, K. (2009). Cyber socializing and victimization of women. Temida: The Journal on Victimization, Human Rights and Gender, 12(3), 5-26.
  • Jaishankar, K., Pang, B., & Hyde, S. (2008). Special paper: Bangkok international summit declaration on policing cyberspace. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 2(1), 256-270.
  • Lambert, E., Pasupuleti, S., Jiang, S., Jaishankar, K., & Bhimarasetty, J. V. (2008). Death penalty views among college students in India. Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology, 10(2), 207-218. (2006 Ranking:12/27 in Criminology & Penology; 2006 Impact Factor: 1.059)
  • Sudershan Pasupuleti, Eric G. Lambert, Shanhe Jiang, Jagadish V. Bhimarasetty, and K. Jaishankar (2009). Crime, Criminals, Treatment, and Punishment: An Exploratory Study of Views Among College Students in India and the United States. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 25(2), 131-147, May 2009.
  • Umarhathab, S., Deepak Raj Rao, G., & Jaishankar, K. (2009). Cyber crimes in India: A study of emerging patterns of perpetration and victimization in Chennai City. Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 1(1), 51-66.

Other Publications:

  • Jaishankar, K. (2010). Patterns of Communal Violence Victimization in South India: A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis. In S.G. Shoham., P. Knepper., & M. Kett. (Eds.) International Handbook of Victimology (pp. 181- 216). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Courses Taught:

  • Crime Mapping and GIS
  • Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence
  • Cyber Crimes
  • Police Administration and Investigation
  • Private Detective and Investigation
  • Research Methods and Statistics in Criminal Justice
  • Security Management

Professor Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD
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Bengaluru 560100
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