Extension Activities

WORK FOR GOVERNMENTS, STATUTORY AGENCIES, NGOS, AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES

 

International

• UNITED NATIONS EXPERT on matters related to Victims of Terrorism - UN Counter Terrorism Center, UN Office of Counter Terrorism.

• INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR - British Society of Criminology (BSC).

• FOUNDER PRESIDENT – South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV)

• FELLOW - African Centre for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention.

• MEMBER - European Society of Criminology (ESC) Working Group on Cybercrime

• MEMBER – Advisory Board, Center for Cybercrime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA.

• MEMBER - Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC).

• Research Partner - International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime (IIRCC), School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA.

• Member of Board – Center for Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, Boston, USA.

• Member of Board - CYBERCRIME INVESTIGATION & CYBERSECURITY LAB (CIC LAB), Boston University, 808 Commonwealth Ave. RM 215. Boston, MA 02215, USA.

• Member - International Advisory Board of the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar Illan University, Israel.

• Distinguished Member- International Council of Jurists (2017-2022).

• Founding Member - Victim Support Asia

• International Peer Review Expert - Slovak Research and Development Agency, Slovak Republic.

• Peer Reviewer - National Research Foundation, South Africa.

• Peer Review Expert - European Research Council, Brussels

• Reviewer - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK

• External Expert (Referee) - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

• Member - Membership and Advancement Committee, World Society of Victimology (WSV), Germany.

• Honorary Lecturer - Online Training Program of the Virtual Forum against Cybercrime established by the Korean Institute of Criminology and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

• Former Member - International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada. (2013-2018)

• Former Member - Core group of Experts on Identity related crime, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna) (2007-2008).

 National

• Former Vice-Chairman - Indian Society of Criminology (ISC)

• FOUNDER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Honorary) – Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC).

• Member - Advisory Board, Gujarat National Law University Centre for Law and Society (GCLS).

• Subject Expert - Criminology. UGC-MHRD, NET Bureau.

• Paper Coordinator - Cyber Criminology and Cyber Forensics, UGC-MHRD, Epathsala

• Member of Advisory Committee  - Indian Criminology and Forensics Science Association.

• Evaluator for Research Proposals/Research Reports of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), New Delhi

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UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE, EXAMINATIONS, POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

• External Reviewer - Faculty Promotions (Criminology), University of Portsmouth, UK.

• External Reviewer - Faculty Promotions (Criminology), Simon Frazer University, Canada.

• External Reviewer - Faculty Promotions (Criminology), Ariel University, Israel.

• Foreign Examiner for PhD Thesis in Criminology/Law at Fort Hare University, South Africa.

• Foreign Examiner for PhD Thesis in Criminology/Law at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

• Foreign Examiner for MPhil Thesis in University of Mauritius.

• PhD Adjudicator/Examiner for Criminal Justice Thesis of National Law University, Delhi.

• PhD Adjudicator/Examiner for Criminology Thesis of University of Madras, Chennai.

• PhD Adjudicator/Examiner for Police Administration Thesis of Punjab University, Chandigarh.

• Member - Board of Studies in Criminology University of Calicut, Kerala.

• Former Chairperson - Adhoc Board of Studies in Criminology - Raksha Shakti University, May 2016

• Former Member – Internal Quality Assurance Celll, Raksha Shakti University.

• Member – Finance Committee, Raksha Shakti University, May 2019

• Former Member – Academic Council, Raksha Shakti University, April 2016

• Question paper Setter/Examiner for Criminology Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

• Question paper Setter/Examiner for Criminology Dr. Hari Singh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Former Member – Syndicate (Board of Governors), Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, August 2012 – July 2015.

• Former Ex-officio Member – Senate, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, August 2012 – July 2015.

• Former Member – Standing Committee of Academic Affairs, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, April 2012 – April 2015.

• Former Chairperson – Board of Studies of Undergraduate Programmes in BA Criminology and Police administration, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, April 2012 – April 2015.

• Former Member, PG Board of Studies in Criminology & Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, July 2003 – March 2016.

• Former Member, PG & UG Board of Examinations in Criminology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, July 2003 – March 2016.

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I have founded the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) in 2009 which works with the motto "promoting criminology and victimology in the South Asian region".

 

As General Chair and President - SASCV, I organized the:

• Fifth International Conference of SASCV, held during January 27-28, 2023 at Bangalore, India.

• Fourth International Conference of SASCV, held during January 30-31, 2020 at Ahmedabad, India

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• Second International Conference of SASCV, held during January 11-13, 2013 at Kanyakumari, India,

• Third International Conference of SASCV, held during January 28-29, 2016 at Goa, India,

 

• First International Conference of SASCV, held during January 15 -17, 2011 at Jaipur, India,

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I founded and launched the first ever Cyber Victim Counselling Centre of India, "Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling" in 2009.