K. Jaishankar

Editor -in-Chief

Dr. K. Jaishankar is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India.  He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology www.cybercrimejournal.com and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences www.ijcjs.co.nr  He is the founder President of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) www.sascv.org and founder Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) www.cybervictims.org He was a member of the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crime) Core group of Experts (15 member group) on Identity related crime (2007-08). He is recently appointed as a Fellow of the African Centre for Cyber law and Cyber Crime Prevention and advisory board member of the Centre for Cybercrime studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Among the recent books he has written / (co) edited are: Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations (IGI Global, May 2011), Cyber Criminology: Exploring internet Crimes and Criminal behavior (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis group, February, 2011), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009), Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines (DOCCJ, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, 2009), Crime Victims and Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Principles (Serial Publications: New Delhi, 2008) and Trends and Issues of Victimology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008). He pioneered the development of the new field, Cyber Criminology and is the proponent of the “Space Transition Theory of cyber crimes” and it has appeared as a Chapter in Schmallager, F., & Pittaro, M. (Eds.), (2008). Crimes of the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime mapping, GIS, Communal violence, Policing, and Crime prevention.  Email: drjaishankar@gmail.com URL: http://www.drjaishankar.co.nr

Susan W. Brenner

Chief Editorial Advisor

Prof. Brenner is the NCR Distinguished Professor of Law & Technology at the School of law, University of Dayton. Professor Brenner has spoken at numerous events, including the Montreux Secure IT Conference in Switzerland, Interpol’s Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on Cyber crimes, the Middle East IT Security Conference, the American Bar Association’s National Cyber crime Conference, the Yale Law School Conference on Cybercrime and the Symposium on Internet and Privacy held at Stanford University Law School. She spoke on terrorists’ use of the Internet at the 2005 American Society of International Law conference, and on cyber crime legislation at the Ministry of the Interior of the United Arab Emirates. She has conducted cyber crime training for the National District Attorneys Association and for the National Association of Attorneys General and was a member of the European Union’s CTOSE project on digital evidence; she has also served on two Department of Justice digital evidence working groups. Professor Brenner chaired the International Efforts Working Group for the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee, serves on the National District Attorneys Association’s Cyber crimes Committee, and chairs the National Institute of Justice - Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative’s Working Group on Law & Policy. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has published various articles dealing with cyber crime, including State-Sponsored Crime: The Futility of the Economic Espionage Act, 26 Houston Journal of International Law 1 (2006), Cyber crime Metrics, University of Virginia Journal of Law & Technology (2004) and Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2004).

Shaheen Shariff

Book Review Editor

Dr. Shariff is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her appointment is in leadership, policy studies and education law, informed by human rights, constitutional, international and tort law. She is the Principal Investigator of an 150,000 $CDN International research grant (in 8 countries) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, to develop International Policy on Cyber Bullying. She is also the Principal Investigator on a collaborative research grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada with colleagues at the McGill Law Faculty, Centre of Education, Law and Society and the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, to investigate cyber-bullying and the legal obligations of schools. She was keynote speaker at the Canadian Educational Standards Institute National Technology conference and contributed to a UN Roundtable Consultation on violence against children organized by United Nations Secretary General. She has published a number of scholarly journal articles and book chapters providing guidelines for educators on emerging legal challenges, liability and student safety issues involving new technologies. Dr. Shariff’s research on cyber-bullying, education-law and policy has garnered significant media attention. Her scholarship is internationally recognized, as evidenced by journal publications, conference presentations; and two international book contracts on cyber-bullying from prestigious publishers (Cambridge University Press & Routledge).