Jaishankar Karuppannan, PhD is currently the Founder and Principal Director and Professor of Criminology and Justice Sciences of the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences (IIJPS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, and the Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Criminology at Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 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 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 was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow during 2009–2010 at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He is the founding father of Cyber Criminology, Therapeutic Criminology and Theological Criminology (academic sub-disciplines) of Criminology and the founding father of Cyber Victimology and Political Victimology. He is the proponent of the Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes. 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 was recently Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020 by Academic Influence an Academic Rankings Site Texas, USA. He is ranked Number 3 among 218 (Top 3%) law and legal studies scholars in India. 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 PhD in Criminology from the University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His areas of Academic Competence are Cyber Criminology, Victimology, Crime Mapping, GIS, Communal violence, Policing, and Crime Prevention.