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 (LL.M.) in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law.
K. Jaishankar | |
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| Other names | Jaishankar Karuppannan |
| Education | MA PhD (Criminology); PG Diploma in GIS Management |
| Alma mater | University of Madras and PSG College of Arts and Science (Bharathiar University) |
| Occupation(s) | Teaching, Research, Consultancy |
| Known for | Cyber Criminology, Space Transition Theory |
| Awards | National Academy of Sciences, India -SCOPUS Young Scientist Award -2012 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology, Crime Science, Cyber Criminology, Victimology and Police Sciences |
| Institutions | International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences, University of Leeds |
| Website | www |
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.