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Mangai Natarajan, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. She has been conducting comparative research on women policing for more than a decade and has published widely on the topic. She has been trained as a drug researcher under a National Institute of Drug Abuse post-doctoral fellowship and a Scientist Development Award, and has published a number of papers in the areas of drug abuse, drug treatment and drug supply (including drug trafficking and street selling). She has experience of undertaking qualitative and quantitative analysis using both primary and secondary data sources, and has used a number of software programs such as SPSS and FolioViews (a Hypertext program). In addition to her work on women police and drug abuse, she has expertise in the theories and methods of environmental criminology. She has been frequently invited to present her research in this field at a variety of national and international conferences.
Dr. Natarajan has a B.S. degree in Natural Science, an M.A. in Criminology (Psychology) and a Master’s diploma in Indo-Japanese Studies from the University of Madras, India. She was also trained in India as a counselor for juvenile delinquents and women in distress. Subsequently, she took courses in the Ph.D. program in Sociology at Michigan State University and obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice for Rutgers University. Apart from teaching Criminology, she is presently coordinating a major on International Criminal Justice and is teaching a new course on crime mapping for graduate students, which involves ArcView (a GIS program). Her current research interests include cross-cultural research, crime prevention, drug trafficking, and drug abuse and health issues.
Advisor: Professor Mangai Natarajan,
Department of Sociology
Tel. 212-237-8673 |
e-mail: mnataraj@jjay.cuny.edu
EDUCATION
| Ph.D. |
1986 - 1991 |
Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey |
| Ph.D. Program |
Sep 85 - Jun 86 |
Department of Sociology, Michigan State University-East Lansing, MI |
| Ph.D. Candidate |
Sep 84 - Aug -85 |
Department of Criminology, University of Madras, Madras, India |
| Post-Graduate |
Sep 82 - May 84 |
Post Graduate Diploma in Indo-Japanese Studies in Social Sciences and Japanese Language |
| M.A. |
Sep 80 - Jun 82 |
Department of Psychology, University of Madras, Madras, India |
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
| Assistant/Associate/Full Professor | 1994 - Present | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| Adjunct Faculty | Spring/Fall 89 | Department of Sociology, Rutgers University |
| Teaching Assistant | Sep 86 - May 87 | School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University |
| Teaching Assistant | Sep 85- Jun 86 | Department of Sociology, Michigan State University |
| Please download CV at bottom of the page for more info |
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SCHOLASTIC HONORS AND AWARDS
| Scholarship, Wharton School and Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science | Aug 2001 |
| Who's Who among America's Teachers. Selected for inclusion in the 5th edition | 1998 |
| Research Scientist Development Award. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse. | Sep 94 - Feb 00 |
| Post-doctoral Research Fellow. National Institute on Drug Abuse (5 T32 A07233-10), Behavioral Sciences Training program sponsored by Medical Health Research Association, New York City Inc., and National Development and Research institutes, Inc., New York. |
| Please download CV at bottom of the page to see additional info |
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PUBLICATIONS
| Authored books |
| (In Press) | Natarajan, M. (Ed). (In Press). Domestic Violence: The Five Big Questions. International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. |
| 2005 | Natarajan, M. (Ed.). (2005). Women Police. International Library of Ciminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. |
| 2005 | Natarajan, M. (Ed). (2005). Introduction to International Criminal Justice. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing. |
| 2000 | Natarajan, M. and Hough, M. (Ed.) (2000). Illegal Drug Markets: From Research to Policy, Crime Prevention Studies Volume 11, Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press. |
| Please download CV for complete list of articles and publications |
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