Father of Cyber Criminology & Victimology · Proponent of Space Transition Theory ORCID 0000-0002-6380-727XGoogle ScholarEmail
K. JaishankarProfessor of Criminology & Justice Sciences
International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences, India
Recognition

Honours, rankings and recognition

Rankings, awards, expert appointments and invitations from international bodies, including the United Nations, the World Society of Victimology and the British Society of Criminology.

16thTop 25 Influential Criminologists in the World, 2010 to 2020AcademicInfluence, USA#116Top 1000 Scholars in Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (top 2.5% globally)Scholarly Index, 2026#8Among 766 Law and Legal Studies scholars in IndiaAD Scientific Index2007Coined the term and founded the discipline of cyber criminologyInternational Journal of Cyber Criminology

Rankings

  1. Ranked World #116 among the Top 1000 Scholars in Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies by Scholarly Index (2026), placing me in the top 2.5% globally for lifetime impact.
  2. Ranked Number 8 (top 3%) among 766 Law and Legal Studies Scholars in India. This ranking is done by The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index). Link
  3. Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020. Link

Honours and awards

  1. Awarded Life Time Achievement Award for my contributions in Criminology by the International College of Criminology, Abuja, Nigeria in December 2024.
  2. Award of Honour - Top 50 Aspiring Authors and Researchers of India in 2022 by Fox Story India. (Fox Story India is a Google verified news platform of India. It is synonymous with the genuinity and junk-free news. Link
  3. Awarded the Best Paper Award with Anjali Mehta at the International Conference held at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat on 19th-20th December 2019.
  4. Recipient of the ISC - Prof. S.S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in Criminology Received the Award at the 38th ISC Conference organized by the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India held during 15-16, October, 2015.
  5. Winner / Recipient of the “National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences.” Link
  6. Awarded Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship – 2009-10, tenable at University of Leeds, UK.
  7. Co-winner of International Opportunities Fund competition of SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-06 of a research grant worth $CAD143,471 with the applicant Dr. Shaheen Shariff, McGill University. (Ranked 4th out of 114 applicants, only 7 grants were awarded and only 2 projects got 2 year funding).
  8. Outstanding Contribution to Criminal Justice Education Plaque, Lehigh Valley College, Pennsylvania, USA, February 2007.
  9. Secured 2nd Rank in the GIS evaluation of Training and Experience Examination and placed in the eligible list (Now expired), Police Services, conducted by the Civil Service Board of City of New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.

International expert roles and invitations

  1. TEDx Speaker: Invited by TEDx IIIT Sri City, an independently organized TED event and delivered a TEDx talk on "Deepfakes, Crime & Dark side of AI" on 19th January 2025.
  2. My Interview to the British Society of Criminology (BSC), June 2024. Link
  3. Invited Expert by the United Nations Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Cooperation between Civil Society Organizations and International Authorities for Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Singapore City, Singapore during 18-20, June 2019.
  4. Invited Expert by the United Nations Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Rights of Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Seoul, South Korea during 27-29, March 2019 (Moderator).
  5. Invited Expert by the United Nations Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Assistance and Support for Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Bangkok, Thailand during 26-28, February 2019 (Key Presenter).
  6. TEDx Speaker: Invited by TEDxNITTrichy, an independently organized TED event and delivered a TEDx talk on my Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes on 11th August 2018.
  7. Invited Expert Speaker by the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore for a Cybercrime Workshop held during 13 to 14 November 2017. Link
  8. Expert Delegate of the High level Delegation of the Raksha Shakti University for forging international collaborations with Southampton Solent University, University of Southampton, University of Portsmouth, and University College, London, UK during 4-10 September 2017.
  9. Prominent Speaker, 18th World Congress of Criminology (International Society of Criminology), 15-19, December, 2016, at O.P. Jindal Global University, organized by the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences, O.P. Jindal Global University, NCR Delhi, India.
  10. Invited Keynote Speaker at the 15th World Society of Victimology (WSV) Symposium held during 5 – 9, July 2015, at Perth, Australia. Link
  11. Presenter: Paper selected in a competition; out of 206 submitted papers only 24 were selected for presentation. “Role of Social Media in the Awareness Creation by NGOs' Working on the Prevention of Online Victimization” (with Debarati Halder) in the The International Conference on Social Media for Good (organized by Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) an international non-governmental organization), 14-16 May 2015 at Istanbul, Turkey.
  12. Invited Distinguished Guest Lecturer at Elsevier Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, during 27th to 29th January 2015 at Amity University, Noida, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi on the Topic: “Protection of Youth from Internet Crimes”.
  13. Invited Speaker at the International Cyber Security Summit, December 1-2, 2014, at Doha, Qatar, organized by Tangent Link, UK and supported by Ministry of Defence & Ministry of ICT, Qatar (Invited Speaker). Link
  14. Invited Speaker at the International Seminar on Cybercrime “Rethinking Cybercrime”, held during October 17-18, 2013, at Elche, Spain, organized by CRIMINA, Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain. Link
  15. Invited Forum Panelist at the World Crime Forum: First Asian Regional Conference, Information Society and Cybercrime: Challenges for Criminology and Criminal Justice, organized by Korean Institute of Criminology, held on 20th June 2013 at Seoul, Korea. Link
  16. Invited Discussant - Opening Discussion: Focusing on victims of crime – Comparing crime patterns and improving practice. Researchers’ advice to policy” (11th June 2012, along with Victor Jammers, Policy Director, Victim Support Netherlands, Beatrice Ask, Swedish Minister for Justice, Paula Teixeira da Cruz, the Portuguese Minister for Justice, Professor Jan van Dijk, the Netherlands, Professor Vesna Nicolic-Ristanovic, Serbia, and Professor Sandra Walklate, UK) at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium, held during June 11-13, 2012 at Stockholm, Sweden. Link
  17. Invited Keynote Speaker and Chair of a Workshop “Victimology in the Academy”, at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held during 20 – 24, May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands.
  18. Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “Cybercrime: Global Phenomenon and its Challenges”, organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) & Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC) during December 2 – 4, 2011 at Courmayeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.
  19. Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “Protecting Children from Sexual Offenders in the Information Technology Era” organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) during December 11- 13, 2009 at Courmayeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.
  20. Appointed as Member of UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) core group of experts on Identity-related crime (2007-2008) and participated in the deliberations of the group in the first meeting held at Courmayeur, Mont Blanc Italy during 29-30 November 2007.
  21. Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “The Evolving Challenge of Identity-Related Crime: Addressing Fraud and the Criminal Misuse and Falsification of Identity”, organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) during November 30 – December 2, 2007 at Courmayeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.

Academic appointments and memberships

  1. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 16th International Symposium of the World Society of Victimology (WSV) held at Hong Kong, China during June 10-14, 2018. Link
  2. External Expert (Referee) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
  3. Peer Reviewer by the National Research Foundation, South Africa.
  4. Former International Ambassador of the British Society of Criminology (BSC), 2015 to 2025, an honour given to scholars of high standing to enhance the visibility of the BSC internationally. Link
  5. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th International conference of the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) held at Brussels, Belgium, during December 3-4, 2014. Link
  6. Member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Third (22nd and 23rd November 2012), Fourth (28th and 29th November 2013), Fifth (27th and 28th November 2014), Sixth (November 26 and 27th, 2015) and Seventh (24th and 25th November 2016) Annual Conferences of the Victimology Society of Serbia held at Belgrade, Serbia.
  7. Member of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC). Link
  8. Former (Honorary) Member of the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (2013-2018).
  9. Member of Syndicate (Board of Management) of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University for a period of 3 years.
  10. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
  11. Member of the Membership and Advancement Committee, World Society of Victimology (WSV), Germany.
  12. Member of the Advisory Board of Center for Cyber Crime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA. Link
  13. Fellow of African Center for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention. Link
  14. Honorary Lecturer in the Online Training Program of the Virtual Forum against Cybercrime established by the Korean Institute of Criminology and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria.