Jaishankar - Interpersonal criminology: revisiting interpersonal crimes and victimization

Interpersonal Criminology

Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization

Interpersonal Criminology

Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization

Edited by

K. Jaishankar

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

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Contents

JANICE JOSEPH

AKANSHA SINGH

HELENA MENIH AND CATRIN SMITH

JOHNSON OLUWOLE AYODELE

VESNA NIKOLI-RISTANOVI, SANJA OPI, AND BEJAN AIRI

C. HANNAH, G. SUBBAIYAN, AND T. SRINIVAS

LORENN WALKER

JOHN CHRISTOPHER AND JOHAN DE TAVERNIER

S. CHANDRA MOHAN

DORAVAL GOVENDER

VESNA NIKOLIC-RISTANOVIC AND LJILJANA STEVKOVIC

DATTATREYA BHANDALKAR

PAVITHRAN NAMBIAR AND SUHAS P. NAMBIAR

NATTI RONEL

PHILIP NDUBUEZE

DEBARATI HALDER AND K. JAISHANKAR

THOMAS J. HOLT, GRACE CHEE, AND ESTHER NG

BRIE DIAMOND AND MICHAEL BACHMANN

NATTI RONEL

During January 1113, 2013, the second international conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) took place in Kanyakumari, India, and I had the privilege to participate in it as the chief rapporteur. The first conference, in Jaipur (2011), was very successful and has been instrumental in promoting research and exchange of knowledge in the fields of criminology and victimology. The editor of this book, Professor K. Jaishankar, is the driving force behind the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV). As founding president of the SASCV, he has demonstrated a remarkable ability to energize researchers in the relevant areas and to build bridges between the established names in criminology and victimologyin both South Asia and other parts of the worldon the one hand and young fresh talent on the other. That in itself is commendable, looking at the vast potential of scholarly talent available in South Asia.

The current volume contains some pivotal and rigorously peer-reviewed papers that were presented during the second international conference of the SASCV. The overarching theme was carefully chosen, that is, revisiting interpersonal crimes and victimization. All contributions are written by international scholars and chapters are chosen to represent all parts of the world, making it global. The focus of the book covers a number of issues that are highly topical in the state of the art in criminology and victimology.

There are solid reasons for opening the book with a section on interpersonal crimes against women. The various contributions in this section confirm the great urgency of academically dealing with this problem. Women are particularly vulnerable in various ways and means. They are being attacked, harassed, and assaulted on the streets as well as in the places they are employed and in their own homeswhere they are supposed to be well protected and cared for. The record shows that in most regions of the world, women face many obstacles in accessing the criminal justice system. This is, inter alia, evidenced by the low reporting rates. All of these aspects are covered in the various papers collected in .

is devoted to crimes against children and youth. Again, we are talking about a particularly vulnerable group of victims. The number of chapters under this heading is relatively small, but they suffice to give us a clear picture of what is at stake here. They demonstrate how we can find our way to other victimological findings leading to a better understanding of how we can reduce the prevalence of this phenomenon (prevention) and how to deal with it when it does occur (restorative justice).

In the following , attention is focused on group victimization. Tribes and other kinds of minorities quite often deserve our special attention in criminology and in victimology. Collectivities play a special role when viewed from the perspectives that we are so used to. All the key concepts that are central to the main theories in our field acquire a special dimension when applied to groups of people instead of individuals.

The final of this volume is about cyber crimes. Cyber criminology and cyber victimology (both terms coined by Professor K. Jaishankar) are rapidly gaining academic attention. The social media nowadays are abused on a massive scale. Sexting and revenge porn are good examples of a kind of behavior that can have a lasting impact on the lives of the persons involved. Other kinds of cyber crime redefine parts of our social life because of the uniquely huge scale of their impact. It is obvious that this relatively new branch of research is definitely here to stay.

It is my solemn conviction that the chapters collected in this volume will enrich the knowledge of the reader. I would hope that one day there will be more regional societies of criminology and victimology organizing (peer-reviewed) international conferences and publishing their main results. In this respect, the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) stand out as an example to be emulated by other peer groups. I commend the organizers, and the editor of this volume, for their efforts.