Dr. K. Jaishankar is currently a Commonwealth Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK on a duty leave from the position of Assistant Professor (Senior) in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology www.cybercrimejournal.co.nr 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.edu.tf and founder Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) www.cybervictims.edu.tf .
He is awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, 2009-10 tenable at UK, University of Leeds from November 2009 – April 2010. He is a Co-Investigator of an International grant funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada to develop a profile of cyber-bullying, inform the current policy vacuum, and develop guidelines to help schools address cyber-bullying. He is a member of the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crime) Core group of Experts (15 member group) on Identity related crime and member of Working group on cyber crime, International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), Italy. Among the recent books he has written / (co) edited are: Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines (DOCCJ, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, 2009), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009), Trends and Issues of Victimology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008) and Crime Victims and Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Principles (Serial Publications: New Delhi, 2008). He is the proponent of the “Space Transition Theory of cyber crimes” and it has appeared as a Chapter in Schmallager, F., & Pittaro, M. (Eds.), Crimes of the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. He is a pioneer in developing the new field, Cyber Criminology and invited by various universities in US to deliver lectures on his 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.
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