Karuppannan Jaishankar

K. Jaishankar
Other namesJaishankar Karuppannan
EducationMA PhD (Criminology); PG Diploma in GIS Management
Alma materUniversity of Madras and PSG College of Arts and Science (Bharathiar University)
Occupation(s)Teaching, Research, Consultancy
Known forCyber Criminology, Space Transition Theory
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences, India -SCOPUS Young Scientist Award -2012
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology, Crime Science, Cyber Criminology, Victimology and Police Sciences
InstitutionsInternational Institute of Justice & Police Sciences, University of Leeds
Websitewww.jaishankar.org

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,[1] 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 (LL.M.) in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law.[2]

He is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Criminology at Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.[3]

He is the founding father of cyber criminology,[4][5] an academic sub-discipline of criminology and the proponent of the "Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes"[6] which holds that people behave differently online than they do in real life.[7][8]

  1. ^ "International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences". www.icssinstitute.org. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ^ United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. "Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law". UNICRI. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  3. ^ Saveetha School of Law. "Saveetha School of Law - Faculty". Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  4. ^ Meško, Gorazd (1 August 2018). "On Some Aspects of Cybercrime and Cybervictimization". European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 26 (3): 189–199. doi:10.1163/15718174-02603006.
  5. ^ Ndubueze, P. N (2017). Cyber Criminology and Technology-Assisted Crime Control: A Reader (I ed.). Zaria, Nigeria: Ahmadu Bello University Press. p. xiv. ISBN 978-978-54894-7-7. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  6. ^ Jaishankar, Karuppannan (2007). "Establishing a theory of cyber crimes" (PDF). International Journal of Cyber Criminology. 1 (2): 7–9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.18792.
  7. ^ Jaishankar K., (2008). Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes. In Schmallager, F., & Pittaro, M. (Eds.), Crimes of the Internet. (pp.283-301) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  8. ^ Holt, T.J.; Bossler, A.; Spellar, K.C.S. (2016). Cybercrime and Digital Forensics. New York: Routledge. p. 308. ISBN 978-1317694786. Retrieved 5 July 2017.