Interpersonal Criminology: Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization

ISBN-13: 9780367596262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

K. Jaishankar

Opis

Based on peer-reviewed articles from the Second International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, Interpersonal Criminology investigates the roots of crime and victimization, rather than dissecting criminal behavior after the fact.

Spis treści

Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Editor xxiii

Contributors xxv

　

Section I

INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

1. Gender-Based Street Harassment: An International Perspective 3







JANICE JOSEPH












2. Marital Rape: A Socially and Legally Warranted Crime in







India 17








AKANSHA SINGH












3. Homelessness: A Consequence of Abuse of Women in







Brisbane, Australia 29








HELENA MENIH AND CATRIN SMITH












4. Market Women and Their Crime Reporting Practices in







Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria 41








JOHNSON OLUWOLE AYODELE












5. Discrimination and Victimization of Women at the







Workplace in Serbia: Prevalence and Characteristics 55








VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ, SANJA ĆOPIĆ, AND BEJAN ŠAĆIRI












6. Fear of Crime among Women in Tiruchirappalli, India: A







Spatial Examination of Transit Spaces 73








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








　





　





　





　





　





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Section II








INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND YOUTH












7. Restorative Practices for Juveniles in Hawai’i, United States 87







LORENN WALKER












8. Prevention of Interpersonal Crimes and Violence among Children and Youth through Virtue Education: A Roadmap 97










JOHN CHRISTOPHER AND JOHAN DE TAVERNIER









9. Underage Commercial Sex and Criminal Prosecutions in Singapore: Who Are the Real Victims? 111










S. CHANDRA MOHAN








　





　





Section III








CULTURE CONFLICT AND VICTIMIZATION OF GROUPS












10. Policing Domestic Violence in South Africa 125







DORAVAL GOVENDER












11. Domestic Violence Legislation and Its Application in Serbia: The Impact of Gender of the Offender and Other Factors 141










VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ AND LJILJANA STEVKOVIĆ












12. Labeling of Denotified Tribes: Revisiting the Ramoshis in Maharashtra, India 163










DATTATREYA BHANDALKAR












13. Sex Trafficking in Gujarat, India: Case Studies of Women Victims Turned Offenders 177










PAVITHRAN NAMBIAR AND SUHAS P. NAMBIAR












14. How Can Victimology Become Positive? 191

NATTI RONEL

Contents ix

Section IV

O autorze

K. Jaishankar is Professor of Criminology and Head of the Department of Criminology at the Raksha Shakti University (Police and Internal Security University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Prior to this present position, he served as a faculty member at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 101 publications, including articles, books, book chapters, and editorials. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences and ISC – S.S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in Criminology. He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK, and has completed a research project on victims of cyber crimes. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences He is the founding President of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and founding Executive Director (Honorary) of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC). He was a member of the UNODC (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime) Core Group of Experts on Identity-related Crime (2007-08). He is a member of the Membership and Advancement Committee, World Society of Victimology (WSV); International Advisory Board for the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar Illan University, Israel; Advisory Board for the Center for Cybercrime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA; the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada; and the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC); as well as Fellow of the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention. He was a discussant in the “Opening Discussion: Focusing on Victims of Crime – Comparing Crime Patterns and Improving Practice, Researchers’ Advice to Policy” of the 2012 Stockholm Criminology Symposium, and responded to questions of Beatrice Ask, Swedish Minister for Justice, and Paula Teixeria da Cruz, the Portuguese Minister for Justice. He was a Keynote Speaker at the 15th World Society of Victimology Symposium held July 2015, at Perth, Australia, and at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held in May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands. He was recently appointed as an International Ambassador of the British Society of Criminology (BSC).