Dr. Beulah Shekhar

Dr. Beulah Shekhar is the Chair Professor of Criminology at Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan (LNJN) & National Institute of Criminology & Forensic Science (NISFS). She is the Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, Coimbatore, India. Her responsibilities include teaching research & extension activities with special focus on collaborative research. She was formerly the Professor and Head of the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Sciences. She holds degrees in Womens’ Studies, Psychology, Education Management, Human rights, Victimology, Counseling and Law. She is involved in the training of the police & and the Judiciary in the concepts of Victimology fill the gaps in services to victims of crime in the CJS in India. She has published her research work widely in national and international journals and has been invited to present her research findings in Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Japan, UK, Portugal, Switzerland, Indonesia, Taiwan, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, to mention a few. She has served as a member of National Consultations in various reforms and evaluations of the legislation and the working of the Criminal Justice Systems. She was invited as an individual expert at the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Brazil and part of the Delegation of the World Society of Victimology in the Crime Commission at Vienna in May 2011. She was awarded the Indo-Hungarian fellowship in 2010, a visiting researcher at the University of Montreal in 2011. She is the recipient of the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship 2013-2014 and many other prestigious awards.