Vijay Raghavan, PhD

Affiliation: Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

Dr. Vijay Raghavan works with the Centre for Criminology and Justice (CCJ), School of Social Work, TISS, and is currently a Professor with the Centre. He also co-leads Prayas, a field action project of the CCJ, engaging with issues of protection of legal rights and social re-entry of prisoners and women rescued from commercial sexual exploitation. He has been involved in training of criminal justice functionaries both at the state and national level on issues such as gender, human rights, prisoners’ rights, correctional laws, anti-trafficking, and re-entry of crime affected persons. He was a member of the Justice Dharmadhikari Committee on Prevention of Atrocities against Women and the Justice Radhakrishnan Prison Reforms Committee in Maharashtra. He was the principal researcher in the National Research Study on Human Trafficking in India conducted by TISS and which is in the process of being completed now.

Research Interests:

Primary research interests include access to justice and prison reforms, social work practice in criminal justice, human trafficking, youth offender studies, rehabilitation of custodial populations, homelessness and penalisation of poverty, and implementation of correctional laws.