Executive Board

Professor R. Jayachandran is the Director of the School of Indian Languages and Professor in the Department of Hindi, University of Kerala, India. His special interests are media and crime, and literature on crime and victimization. He completed his master's degree, MPhil and PhD at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi, securing university ranks for his master's and postgraduate diploma programmes. He has more than two and a half decades of teaching experience and more than twenty years of research experience. His awards include the First Hindi Ratnakar Award (2016) from the Indo-Russian Cultural Society (Disha), Moscow; the highest research grant award (2014) of the University of Kerala; the P. K. Das Memorial Best Faculty Award (2013) from the Nehru Group of Institutions, Coimbatore; and the Hindi Award (2012) from the Rashtriya Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Thiruvananthapuram.

Professor Ali Wardak is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, United Kingdom. His research focuses on comparative crime and justice, criminological theory, and the relationship between state and non-state justice systems. From 2006 to 2008 he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kabul and co-authored the 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report, which proposed a hybrid model for the post-Taliban justice system. He collaborated with Professor John Braithwaite on the Peacebuilding Compared project, which studies what works in peacebuilding across 48 countries. A law graduate of Kabul University, he obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, in 1995. His books include Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland (2000), Transnational and Comparative Criminology (2005) and Race and Probation (2006). He speaks, reads and writes Pashto, Dari / Persian, Arabic and English.

Dr. Fasihuddin is the founder of the Pakistan Society of Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of the Pakistan Journal of Criminology. He holds an MBBS, an LLB and an MA in Political Science with a gold medal. A senior officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, he is the author of Expanding Criminology to Pakistan. He has presented his field experience at international conferences in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Thailand, Nepal, China and Japan, and is regarded as a pioneer of criminological studies in Pakistan. His special interests are police reform, the rights of women and children, and policing in Pakistan.

Dr. H. P. K. N. Hewawasam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, where she completed her honours degree, MPhil (on criminal suspects) and PhD (on financial crimes in the corporate sector). She has authored four books on crime victims, crimes and social problems, suspects and their rights, and the evolution of money and financial crime. She is a visiting lecturer at national institutions including the Sri Lanka Police, the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, the University of Kelaniya and Kotelawala Defence University, serves on national committees of the Sri Lanka Police, and is a resource person for television, radio and newspapers.

Professor Mahfuzul I. Khondaker is Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught in Bangladesh, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and at Fayetteville State University. He is an editorial board member of The Prison Journal (SAGE) and teaches criminological theory, research methods, juvenile justice, crime prevention and comparative justice systems. His research covers crime and justice in Bangladesh, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention, perceptions of crime among South Asian immigrants, and women and victimization.

Professor Yubaraj Sangroula is the Executive Director of Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal, where he teaches jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. He convened the Government of Nepal's Security Agencies Modernization High Level Taskforce and has researched criminal justice, victimology and human rights. He was Senior Advisor to the Center for Legal Research and Resource Development (CeLRRd), founder secretary of the SALS Forum, a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, and a consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the National Police Academy of Nepal. He studied law at Tribhuvan University, completed his LLM at Patna University and his PhD at the University of Delhi, with research at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Ibrahim Huzam works in the Education and Media Department of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, organising awareness programmes and workshops for senior officials across the islands and contributing to human rights education materials and media campaigns. He also writes for newspapers on social and political issues. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology from Lancaster University.

Professor Sony Kunjappan is Professor and Head of the Department of Studies in Social Management, Central University of Gujarat, Vadodara, India, and Director (Training, Honorary) of IIJPS. He received his PhD and MPhil from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University; his doctoral thesis examined police accountability in Wayanad district, Kerala. He holds a Master of Social Work in Criminology and Correctional Administration from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His research interests include police studies, governance, criminology, criminal justice social work, and criminal justice governance and human rights.

Dr. E. Enanalap Periyar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. His doctoral research examined the victim-offender relationship in revenge murders.