Karuppannan Jaishankar
Karuppannan Jaishankar is the founder and principal director and Professor of Justice Sciences at the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences (A Non-Profit Academic Institution and Independent Policy Think Tank) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.     

He is the founding Father of Cyber Criminology, an academic sub-discipline of Criminology and the proponent of the "Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes".    

He is ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020 by AcademicInfluence an  academic rankings site Texas, USA. The rankings of the 25 most influential criminologists were of academics working in criminology whose ideas significantly impacted the academic discipline of criminology and criminal justice during 2010-2020.   

He is ranked Number 1 among 41 Law and Legal Studies Scholars in India by the AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index)

Career and education 
Before founding the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences in 2022, Jaishankar held several positions like Dean, Head of the Department, Syndicate Member, Professor of Criminology and Senior Assistant Professor of Criminology at two major public universities in India.

He was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow during 2009–2010 at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds.

He is the Founder and President of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) (founded 2009) which works "to develop Criminology and Victimology in the South Asian region" and has organized five international conferences of SASCV as the General Chair (Bangalore 2023, Ahmedabad, 2020, Goa, 2016, Kanyakumari, 2013, and Jaipur, 2011).

He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) (founded 2009) which works with the motto to prevent cyber victimization and protect cyber victims.

He is the proponent of the "Space Transition Theory", which holds that people behave differently online than they do in real life.

He earned a Ph.D. in Criminology, an M.A. in Criminology, a PG Diploma in Geographic Information Systems Management from the University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the PSG College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Publications

Awards and honors 

He is ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020.
He is ranked Number 1 among 41 Law and Legal Studies Scholars in India.

He is a United Nations Expert on matters related to Victims of Terrorism (2019).
He is a TEDx Speaker (What can human behavior online suggest about cyber crime) at TEDxNITTrichy, an independently organized TED event on 11th August 2018.

He is appointed by the British Society of Criminology (BSC) as an International Ambassador (2015).
He is an invited Keynote Speaker at the 15th World Society of Victimology (WSV) Symposium held during 5 – 9, July 2015, at Perth, Australia.

Jaishankar is the First Winner of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in the category "Social sciences" (2012).

References 

Living people
Criminology educators
Academic journal editors
Scholars from Gujarat
University of Madras alumni
Academics of the University of Leeds
Indian social sciences writers
21st-century Indian educators
Year of birth missing (living people)