Jaishankar Interpersonal Criminology

Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4860-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

This book revisit the roots of crimes and victimization,instread of focusing on the criminal behavior after the fact. Internpersonal crimes are discussed from several viewpoints and seperated by types of crimes. The chapters are based upon stringently peerreviewed articles presented at the Second International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaishankar, K.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.Editor's Introduction.Part One.Interpersonal Crimes Against Women.Marital Rape: a Socially and Legally Justifiable Crime in India.Gender-Based Street Harassment.From a Victim of Abuse to Homelessness.Crime Against Market Women and Reporting Practices in Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria.Organization of Human Trafficking: Tea Hours at Sri Maha Po District, Prachinburi Province.Discrimination and Victimization of Women in the Workplace: Prevalence and Characteristics.Part Two-Interpersonal Crimes Against Children and Youth.The Reasons Why Children and Youth Commit Crimes.Representing Child Victims of Crime (in Criminal Court) - Giving the victim a voice.How restorative and solution-focused interventions can be used to address crime and offenses against and by youth.What children say about violence, victimization and punishment?Educating virtues in order to prevent crimes?: Strategies to minimize interpersonal crimes among children and youth.Part Three: Culture Conflict and Victimization of Groups.Gender neutral or gender specific predictors of recidivism: Should risk assessment incorporate separate scales for boys and girls?Under-aged commercial sex: Who really are the victims? A Singapore perspective.Policing domestic violence in South Africa.Criminal situations in Bangkok and the social control theories.How can victimology become positive?Application of domestic violence legislation and gender. Labeling of De-notified Tribes: Revisiting the Ramoshis in Maharashtra, India.PART Four. INTERPERSONAL CYBER CRIMES: PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING.Social NOT working: examining the ‘personal’ in interpersonal dating cyber crimes.Targeting teachers in the social networking sites: An analysis from legal and criminological perspectives.Assessing the present status of cyber criminology: Obstacles, challenges, and promising paths.Generation Y and online victimization in Nigeria: How vulnerable are younger internet users.xploring the Correlates of Cyber Bullying Victimization among Youth in Singapore.Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

K. Jaishankar, PhD is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology an dto C pruimbliincaalt iJouns (tbicaec,k M cSovUe &r sMtaegme)b. eCr aonf be Syndicate (Board of Management), Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU), Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 101 publications, including articles, editorials, book chapters and books. He is the recipient of the prestigious “National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences”. 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 a Member of the Membership and Advancement Committee, World Society of Victimology (WSV), International Advisory Board member of the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar Illan University, Israel, Advisory Board Member of the Center for Cybercrime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA and Member of the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada. 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 at Stockholm, Sweden and responded to questions of Beatrice Ask, Swedish Minister for Justice, and Paula Teixeria da Cruz, the Portugese Minister for Justice. He was a Keynote Speaker at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held during 20 – 24, May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands and Stockholm Criminology Symposium held during June 11-13, 2012 at Stockholm, Sweden. He is recently appointed as a Member of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC). He is a Fellow of the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime prevention. Among the books he has written/(co) edited are: Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in the Globalized Era (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, March, 2013), Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations (IGI Global, July 2011), Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal Behavior (CRC Press, Taylor & 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). His areas of Academic Competence are Victimology, Cyber Criminology, Crime mapping, GIS, Communal violence, Policing, and Crime prevention. Email: [e-mail] URL: http://www.drjaishankar.co.nr