core areas of research & research team Quantitative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
Historical Research
Legal Research
Translational Criminology
Crime Science
GIS & Crime Data Analytics

director of research K. Jaishankar Jaishankar is the Director of Research of the International Institute of Justice & Police  Sciences (IIJPS). 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 Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. He is the founder President of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and founder Executive Director of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC). He is the founding father of Cyber Criminology, an academic sub-discipline of Criminology and the proponent of the Space Transition Theory. He is the recipient of the prestigious “National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences”. He is an International Ambassador of the British Society of Criminology (BSC) and a United Nations Expert on Issues of Victims of Terrorism. He is recently Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020 by AcademicInfluence an Academic Rankings Site Texas, USA.He earned a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the PSG College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, an M.A. in Criminology and a PG Diploma in Geographic Information Systems Management and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Madras, Chennai, India. His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime Mapping, GIS, Communal Violence, Policing, and Crime Prevention.

principal research analyst (criminology and crime sciences) Amit Thakre, PhD Amit Thakre is the Honorary Principal Research Analyst and Coordinator of the Centre for Theoretical, Experimental and Translational Criminology (CTETC) of the International Institute of Justice & Police  Sciences (IIJPS). He has worked in various capacities of research, teaching and training in Criminology and related institutions. He has worked as Assistant Professor and assistant training coordinator for conducting trainings of senior officers of Indian criminal justice system functionaries in the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. He has worked as Trained Criminologist with the Raksha Shakti University, Ahmedabad and Commissionerate of Ahmedabad Police. He has involved in national level research work on various human rights issues in the National Human Rights Commission as Research Consultant. He worked as lecturer in the state forensic science institute of Nagpur University. He has been invited to deliver guest lectures by various reputed Criminology institutions, namely, National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, MHA, Delhi; Bihar Judicial Academy; Maonmaniam Sundarnar University, Tamil Nadu; Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Rajasthan; Raksha Shakti University, Gujarat. He did his Ph.D. in Criminology under the guidance of Prof. K. Jaishankar from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundarnar University and completed his Masters in Criminology from the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, MHA, Delhi. His areas of research and teaching interests in the field of Criminology are crime prevention, crime analysis, action research and Translational Criminology, evidence based policing, crime against women and children. senior research Associate (cyber criminology) Hai Thanh Luong Hai Thanh Luong is the Honorary Research Associate and Coordinator of the Centre for Cyber Criminology, Law, Security, and Forensics (CCLSF) of the international Institute of Justice & Police  Sciences (IIJPS). He is currently a Lecturer in Criminology at the Griffith University Australia. Additionally, he is a member of the Global Initiative Network's Expert against Transnational Organized Crime (GI TOC) and also a senior researcher and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS), while holding a position of Associate Research Fellow at the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University. Hai has a Bachelor of Law (Criminal Investigation) and has spent twenty years researching and teaching in police institutions across the mainland Southeast Asian region, particularly in Vietnam. In 2010, as one of the new emergent scholars for the Australian Development Scholarship in non-traditional security threat fields, he was awarded a full scholarship to gain a Master in Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. In 2017 he earned a PhD (Criminology) at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. His latest book 'Transnational Drug Trafficking across the Vietnam and Laos Border' was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019). He has also published several papers in various academic journals (Asian Survey; Journal of Crime and Justice; International Journal of Cyber Criminology; International Journal of Drug Policy; Policing and Society; International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy; and Trends in Organized Crime, among others). In 2020, he was awarded the Young Asian Criminologists Award by the Asian Criminological Society (ASC). His research interests include Cyber Crime, Policing in Cyber Crime / Cybersecurity, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, police training, environmental crimes and biological threats.