Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV 2016)

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV), held on 28 to 29 January 2016 at Goa, India, on the theme Violence and Victimization: New Challenges for Traditional and Modern Societies. The conference was organised by SASCV in collaboration with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. The volume is edited by K. Jaishankar and Natti Ronel. It presents 81 peer reviewed papers in five panels:

1. Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence
2. Collective and Targeted Violence
3. Workplace Violence
4. State Sponsored Violence and Abuse of Power
5. Online Violence

The papers address domestic violence, child abuse, terrorism and communal violence, violence at work, custodial and state violence, and cyber violence, from criminological, victimological, legal and psychological perspectives. The volume is made freely available to support open access to criminological and victimological knowledge.

• Editors: K. Jaishankar; Natti Ronel
• Publication date: 2016-01-28
• Publisher: South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India
• ISBN: 978-81-906687-9-8
• Pages: 272