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Author: K. Jaishankar (Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India)
Publisher: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Weight: 0.855kg
ISBN: 9781482260458
ISBN 10: 148226045
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 08 August 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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K. Jaishankar is presently the Professor of Criminology and Head of the Department of Criminology at the Raksha Shakti University (Police and Internal Security University), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Prior to this present position, he served as 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. He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009–2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. 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.com). He is the founding president of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) (www.sascv.org) and founding executive director (honorary) of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) (www.cybervictims.org). He was a discussant in the ""Opening discussion: Focusing on victims of crime—comparing crime patterns and improving practice. Researchers’ advice to policy"" of the Stockholm Criminology Symposium held during June 11–13, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden, and responded to the questions of Beatrice Ask, the Swedish minister for justice, and Paula Teixeria da Cruz, the Portuguese minister for justice. He was a Keynote Speaker at the 15th World Society of Victimology Symposium held in July 2015 at Perth, Australia, and at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held in May 2012 at The Hague, the Netherlands. He was appointed as an International Ambassador of the British Society of Criminology (BSC). He is the founding father of the academic discipline cyber criminology (2007) and is the proponent of the space transition theory of cybercrimes (2008). His areas of academic competence are cyber criminology, victimology, crime mapping, GIS, communal violence, policing, and crime prevention. Visit www.jaishankar.org for more information.
