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Cyber Criminology as an Academic Discipline: History, Contribution and Impact
No full textThere are many positive uses of the Internet. However, it has become an area of Wild West. Many unscrupulous persons started using it for criminal purposes. Notably, the founding fathers of the Internet did not envisage that it will become a medium of criminality or it will create new forms of crime. Though, Internet is an international space, it is only governed by American laws (Jaishankar, 2011a). This legal lacuna further created problems, as many of the countries did not know how to manage cyber crimes in their jurisdictions. Initially, academics also could not understand cyber crime as it is a new form of crime (Jaishankar, 2007a). Especially, criminologists were very slow in researching cyber crimes (Jaishankar, 2007a), though; their counterparts in the field of computer and internet science surpassed them and created new fields such as information security and cyber forensics. This gap in the field of criminology was well addressed by me and I founded the academic discipline “Cyber Criminology” in the year, 2007. Recently, Ndubueze (2017, p, 17) and Meško (2018, p. 190) formally credited me as the Founding Father of Cyber Criminology. This editorial deals with the History, Evolution, Contribution and Impact of Cyber Criminology as an academic Discipline
Sexting: Current Research Gaps and Legislative Issues
No full text'Sexting, the portmanteau of Sex and Texting, has become a hot topic of debate between the legislators, researchers, educators, parents and teens' (Jaishankar, 2009, para 1). In spite of the considerable and growing body of literature on sexting, there are significant gaps in the current research. A review of research to date also reveals a dearth of cross-national and cross-cultural research on the topic of sexting. Notably, legal and ethical issues abound with the current method for punishing and deterring adolescents who engage in sexting as some countries view sexting as a form of child pornography. Hence, the imperative need to scientifically assess the issue of sexting is envisaged and this special issue was proposed. This special issue includes five original articles that attempt to address the gaps in the extant body of research on sexting and issues with the current legislation and prosecution of adolescents and adults who engage in sexting.This article forms a part of Special Issue on Sexting, International Journal of Cyber Criminology, Vol 11 issue 2, July - December 2017. Guest Editors: Fawn Ngo, K. Jaishankar, Jose R. Agustina
SPECIAL ARTICLE: Commemorating a Decade in Existence of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology: A Research Agenda to Advance the Scholarship on Cyber Crime
No full textThe International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) is an interdisciplinary journal published biannually and devoted to the study of cyber crime, cyber criminal behavior, cyber victims, cyber laws and cyber policy. Ten years back in 2007, IJCC was launched by its founder Publisher and Editor-in-Chief K. Jaishankar with its website www.cybercrimejournal.com and with its launch a new sub-academic discipline of Criminology, Cyber Criminology is born. IJCC is an unique Diamond open access international journal, where the authors or the readers need not pay and open to all and it is freely accessible. IJCC is indexed in prestigious databases such as Scopus & Directory of Open Acces Journals (DOAJ) and IJCC’s Hirsch’s h-index Journal impact is 23. The International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) is commemorating its decade of existence in 2017 and we felt it would be pertinent to bring out a special article with a Research Agenda. In this article, we outline five areas that need to be addressed for the advancement of Cyber Criminology and scholarship on cyber crime and we hope this will be positively addressed by the contemporary and future cyber criminologists
Interpretivism and the Analysis of India’s Foreign Policy: Interpreting the Jaishankar Doctrine
No full textScholars of India’s foreign policy generally prefer interpretive approaches and qualitative methods that explain actions in terms of the beliefs and theories of actors. Yet often, neither are well explained or justified. This article argues that more systematic engagement with recent work on interpretivism would generate better grounded analyses of India’s foreign policy. Using the case of the Jaishankar doctrine—the theory and practice of foreign policy advanced by External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar—it shows how an approach derived from Mark Bevir’s use of traditions and dilemmas offers one way forward. It examines how Jaishankar has crafted a philosophy, language and set of foreign policy practices premised on various intellectual inheritances in response to the international circumstances that India must navigate concerning China in the aftermath of the 2020–2021 Galwan crisis.Full Tex
Book Review: Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, Cyber Crimes against Women in India
No full text Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, Cyber Crimes against Women in India. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2017, xviii + 252 pp., ₹795 (hardback). ISBN 978-93-859-8577-5. </jats:p
Why Indian Criminology struggles to Influence Public Policy?
Full text linkCriminologists seek to answer directly or indirectly to the questions of public policy such as: why some people commit crime? how to prevent (or reduce) the incidence of crime/victimization? and how to rehabilitate offenders?. Despite this seemingly natural connection, Indian Criminology has had little to no measurable effect on matters of public policy than some might expect. There is an imperative need for Indian Criminologists to engage directly in the policy arena, and advance the relationship between criminology, public policy and practice
US-India relations : can India step up to the plate?
Full text linkFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Despite several recent setbacks and a sense of stagnation in the US-India relationship, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to India for the second annual US-India Strategic Dialogue exposed the breadth of the bilateral agenda and the United States' unambiguous desire for India to assume greater leadership in the Asia-Pacific. Dhruva Jaishankar, Program Officer with the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States,explains that while for a variety of reasons New Delhi may be constrained from taking on an exalted leadership role in the short-term, it is in both countries' interests that Washington continue to deepen its investment in India
Public Perceptions on Organised Crime, Mafia, and Terrorism: A Big Data Analysis based on Twitter and Google Trends
Full text linkPublic perceptions enable crime and motivate government policy on law and order; however, there has been limited empirical research on serious crime perceptions in social media. Recently, open source data—and ‘big data’—have enabled researchers from different fields to develop cost-effective methods for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Against this backdrop, the aim of this paper is to apply state-of-the-art tools and techniques for assembly and analysis of open source data. We set out to explore how non-discursive behavioural data can be used as a proxy for studying public perceptions of serious crime. The data collection focused on the following three conversational topics: organised crime, the mafia, and terrorism. Specifically, time series data of users’ online search habits (over a ten-year period) were gathered from Google Trends, and cross-sectional network data (N=178,513) were collected from Twitter. The collected data contained a significant amount of structure. Marked similarities and differences in people’s habits and perceptions were observable, and these were recorded. The results indicated that ‘big data’ is a cost-effective method for exploring theoretical and empirical issues vis-à-vis public perceptions of serious crime
Why Bharat Matters: Dr. S. Jaishankar
No full textIn the 75+ years of its glorious existence, India has stood tall like David against the doubts and criticisms of millions of Goliaths. Even in the testing times of questionable stability in the first quarter of the 21st century, the nation has drawn lessons from its civilizational history and proven its capability. The nation, known for its diversity, has, however, one avenue—its foreign policy—where India embodies the popular idiom "united we stand strong."
Describing the making of India’s foreign policy, Dr. Jaishankar presents the book Why Bharat Matters? as an elucidative explanation of India’s positioning in the complicated global order, marked by tensions in various regions and the volatility in US-China relations
Love as Patriotism: Inner Conflict in Jaishankar Prasad’s Puraskar
Full text linkLove can be termed as the state of affairs when mind and heart are engrossed with the thought of a person; the feelings reach the pinnacles of imagination. Patriotism is a feeling that centers the consciousness of a person to the well being of nation at whatsoevercost. Jaishankar Prasad, a towering personality of Hindi literature, mingles both the emotions in his sagaPuraskar in such a manner that the readership stand awestruck. Madhulika, the female protagonist, who cheated upon her beloved Arun by disclosing his secret plans to the king of Koshal, ultimately demands death punishment for herself along with Arun; therefore fulfilling the duties of a patriotic daughter of soil as well as that of a girl who loved someone to the very core of her heart
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