Areas of expertise
- Cyber Criminology
- Cyber Victimology
- AI and Crime
- Theoretical Criminology
- Therapeutic Criminology
- Theological Criminology
- Political Victimology
- Victimology
- Crime Mapping and GIS
- Communal Violence and Terrorism
- Workplace Violence
- Crime Prevention and Policing
- Theory and Model Building
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
- Attitude Studies
Research grants
Consultancy Project on Trained Criminologists: Academia-Police Partnership
Programme Director. Funded by the Ahmedabad City Police, Gujarat. Sub-themes: patterns of body offences (Dr. Amit Thakre); offending behaviour among young offenders (Mr. Anshul Shah); victimization patterns of women (Ms. Rashmi Choudhury) in Ahmedabad City.
Interpersonal Cyber Crime Victimization: A Survey in Eight Indian Cities
Principal Investigator. UGC Major Research Project funded by the University Grants Commission, India.
Victims of Cyber Crimes: Developing Profiles, Legal Reviews and Policy Guidelines
Commonwealth Academic Fellowship funded by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the British Council and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; held at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds.
International project on cyber bullying (SSHRC International Opportunities Fund)
Co-investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Shaheen Shariff, McGill University. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; total grant CAD 143,471 (CAD 15,080 for India). The proposal ranked 4th of 114 applications.
Doctoral supervision
- Dr. R. Anilkumar. Victimology of Terrorism: An Analysis of Compensation to the Victims of Mumbai Bomb Blasts in the Post Babri Masjid Demolition Period. Full-time BPR&D Fellow. Awarded 3 June 2013.
- Dr. R. Sivakumar. Computer Mediated Interpersonal Crimes: A Study of Cyber Bullying among College Students in Cosmopolitan Cities. Full-time BPR&D Fellow. Awarded 19 March 2014.
- Dr. G. Shunmugasundaram. Cost of Crime: A Study of Measuring Crime Victimization in Tamil Nadu. BPR&D Project Fellow. Awarded 27 January 2017.
- Dr. Amit Gopal Thakre. Impact of Community Policing on Crime Prevention: An Evaluation Model. UGC Junior Research Fellow. Awarded 17 July 2017.
- Dr. E. Enanalap Periyar. Victim-Offender Relationship: An Analysis of Revenge Murders in Tirunelveli District. Full-time ICSSR Fellow. Awarded 7 November 2018.
- Dr. Neethu Susan Cherian. Interpersonal Cyber Crimes: A Victimological Study among Youth in Metropolitan Cities. Awarded February 2021.
All six doctorates were awarded by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. The story of the MPhil programme I supervised appears on the British Society of Criminology blog.
International collaboration
- Research on cyber victimization and identity-related cyber crimes with Professor David S. Wall, Durham University, United Kingdom.
- Collaborative research and co-authored papers with Professor Eric Lambert, Wayne State University, United States.
- Research on cyber bullying with Dr. Shaheen Shariff, McGill University, Canada.
- David S. Wall (United Kingdom)
- Eric Lambert (United States)
- Michael Pittaro (United States)
- Natti Ronel (Israel)
- Mally Shechory (Israel)
- Stanley Yeldell (United States)
- Shaheen Shariff (Canada)
Overseas meeting and conference grants
| Date | Funder | Event |
|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism | Closed Expert Group Meeting, Singapore |
| March 2019 | United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism | Closed Expert Group Meeting, Seoul |
| February 2019 | United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism | Closed Expert Group Meeting, Bangkok |
| November 2017 | Nanyang Technological University | International Workshop on Cybercrime, RSIS, Singapore |
| July 2015 | World Society of Victimology | 15th WSV Symposium, Perth |
| October 2013 | Miguel Hernández University | International Seminar on Cybercrime, Elche |
| June 2013 | Korean Institute of Criminology | World Crime Forum, Seoul |
| June 2012 | Stockholm Criminology Symposium | Stockholm |
| May 2012 | World Society of Victimology | 14th WSV Symposium, The Hague |
| December 2011 | United Nations (ISPAC) | International Conference on Cyber Crime, Courmayeur |
| May 2010 | Amabhubesi Conferencing | Africa's 3rd Annual GIS Summit, Johannesburg |
| December 2009 | United Nations (ISPAC) | Protecting Children from Sexual Offenders in the IT Era, Courmayeur |
| November 2007 | United Nations (UNODC / ISPAC) | Expert group on identity-related crime, Courmayeur |
| November 2007 | Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, Vancouver | 7th Policing Cyberspace International Summit, Bangkok |
| February 2007 | SSHRC, Canada | Collaborators' meeting, International Project on Cyber Bullying, McGill University |
| December 2002 | US Department of Justice | 6th International Crime Mapping Conference, Denver |
| December 2001 | US Department of Justice | 5th International Crime Mapping Conference, Dallas |