Karuppannan Jaishankar


Karuppannan Jaishankar is an Indian criminologist. He is the Founder and Principal Director and Professor of Criminology and Justice Sciences at the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences, a non-profit academic institution and independent policy think tank in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India and an Adjunct Faculty Member of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Italy & University of Peace, Italy, and he teaches modules of the Master of Laws in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law.
He is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Criminology at Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
He is the founding father of cyber criminology, an academic sub-discipline of criminology and the proponent of the "Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes" which holds that people behave differently online than they do in real life.
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Early life and education

He earned a Ph.D. in criminology, an M.A. in criminology, a PG Diploma in geographic information systems management from the University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the PSG College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Career

Before founding the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences in 2022, Jaishankar held several positions like dean, head of department, syndicate member, professor of criminology and senior assistant professor of criminology at two major public universities Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and Raksha Shakti University - Now Rashtriya Raksha University in India.
He was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow during 2009–2010 at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds.
He is the founder and president of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology which works "to develop criminology and victimology in the South Asian region" and has organized five international conferences of SASCV as the general chair.
He is the founder and executive director of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling which works to prevent cyber victimization and protect cyber victims.

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Awards and honors