G. S. Bajpai

Career

Dr. Bajpai is presently serving as Professor, Registrar and also as the Chairperson at the Centre for Criminology & Victimology at National Law University, Delhi. Prof. G.S. Bajpai is credited for making the National Law University, Delhi a world class institution in a very short period of time. He is also the President of Indian Society of Victimology Before joining National Law University, Delhi, he was serving (2007–2011) as Professor & Chairperson at the Centre for Criminal Justice Administration, National Law Institute University, Bhopal (MP). He also had positions at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, (1989) Bureau of Police Research & Development, (1989–1995) Punjab Police Academy, Punjab and Department of Criminology & Forensic Science, University of Saugar, MP.

Dr. Bajpai specializes in Criminology, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Administration, Victimology & Legal Research Methodology. He has a teaching experience of more than 25 years at the Post-Graduation Level. He has organized and participated in more than fifty Conferences/ Seminars at National and International Level and has presented papers in various sessions of these seminars. Some of the signicant seminars/workshops include: (i) Participated and delivered Presidential Address in 6th International & 10th Biennial Conference of Indian Society of Victimology held at Institute of Law, Nirma University from 23-25 February 2017 (ii) Addressed the audience on ‘Victim Justice in a cross-cultural perspective’ in Trinational Winter University Conference (Interactions between Culture and Law in Europe and India) at NLU Delhi on 22nd February 2017 (iii) Chaired a session on ‘Victimization of Vulnerable Populations’ in 18th World Congress of Criminology organized by O.P. Jindal Global University on 16th December 2016 (iv) Participated as a ‘Guest Speaker’ in ‘National Consultation on the Challenges of Access to Justice and Social Medical Support Services for Rape and Sexual Abuse survivors held on 09th December 2016, organized by Jan Sahas and Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan. (v) Participated as an expert in Workshop on ‘Death and Sex in Criminal Law’ organized by the Indian Law Institute New Delhi on 01 October 2016.(vi) Organized Third Vertical Interaction Course on the theme ‘Victimological Application to Police and Criminal Justice Administration’ for IPS/Senior Police Officers under the aegis of Centre for Criminology and Victimology, NLU Delhi from 06-10 March 2017. (vii) Organized Training Programme for Trainers (Police officers) in Association with Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. from 7-11 November 2016 (vii) Organized a three Day Workshop for Police Officers & Lawyers on ‘Handling Women & Girl Victims of Violence’ in association with Sheffield Hallam University, U.K, September 19th – 21st , 2016 (viii) Organized Second Vertical Interaction Course on the theme ‘Police Leadership and Accountability in Democratic Society’ for IPS/Senior Police Officers under the aegis of Centre for Criminology and Victimology, NLU Delhi from 05-09 September 2016 (ix) Organized National Workshop on Doctrinal Legal Research under the auspices of Centre for Criminology & Victimology and Professor Theodore Eisenberg Centre for Empirical Legal Research at National Law University, Delhi from 08-10 August 2016 (xi) Organized Vertical Interaction Course on the theme ‘Law and Justice’ for IPS/Senior Police Officers under the aegis of Centre for Criminology and Victimology, NLU Delhi from 25-29 July 2016 (x) Organized a Course on Gender Sensitization Training for Investigation Officers of Delhi Police from 29-31 March, 2016 (xi) Organized a Short Course on Contradiction, Critique & Criminal Justice by Prof. Alan Norrie, Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick under MHRD Scheme of Global Initiative of Academic Network from 14-18 March 2016 at NLU Delhi (xii) Organized ‘Third International Workshop on Empirical Legal Research’ under the auspices of National Academy for Law Teachers (NALT) & ‘Professor Theodore Eisenberg Centre for Empirical Legal Research’ from 16-22 November 2015 (xiii) Organized ‘Advanced Course on Current Developments in Substantive And Procedural Criminal Laws’ under the auspices of National Academy for Law Teachers (NALT) at NLU Delhi from 01-05 June 2015 (xiv) Organized a Workshop on ‘Regulation and Management of Groundwater in the Age of Climate Change: Need for Legal Reforms in India’ in association with School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and U.K. India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), New Delhi at NLU Delhi on 10 April 2015 (xv) Organized Capacity Development Course for Teachers in Criminology from 16-20 June 2014.

Dr. Bajpai has delivered a large number of lectures / talks at various institutions like LNJN National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science; Indian Law Institute New Delhi; NALSAR Hyderabad; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Judicial Academy, Jharkhand; Madhya Pradesh Police and at other reputed institutions on various contemporary topics of social and legal relevance. Dr. Bajpai acted as Jury Member in the ‘First Innocence Network Peoples’ Tribunal on Acquitted Innocents ‘held on 02nd October 2016 at the Constitution Club, New Delhi

Dr Bajpai has authored ten books and more than eighty papers, ten project reports and several monographs. His books (2011) 'Witness & Criminal Justice Systems' published from Lambert, Germany, 'Cyber Crime & Cyber Law', 'Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction' and ‘Victimological Narratives on Gender Violence’(2014) have been well received. His recent publications namely (i) Victim Justice: A Paradigm Shift in Criminal Justice System in India, Thomson Reuters and (ii) Judgements that Shaped Indian Jurisprudence - Supreme Court Rulings in Perspective, Thomson Reuters have been acknowledged and well received by the legal community. He is also a regular contributor in various national newspapers and recently three of his articles were published in The Deccan Herald (Time to revisit IPC, Dilemma in rushing road accident victims to hospital’ and ‘A Legal System in Crisis without empirical data). He has also contributed an article on ‘Developing Protocols for Women Victims of Sexual Crimes’ in ‘Congress of the International Society of Criminology’ by Lexis-Nexis.

Dr. Bajpai is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the E-PG Pathshala Project for the subject Criminology. This project involves developing e-content for Post Graduate Courses in sixteen (16) subjects in Criminology under E- PG-Pathshala Project. Dr. Bajpai is also working on a Major Research Project awarded by UGC on 'Impact and Implementation of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000'. He is also working on a project titled, 'Status of Crime Against Women & Gender Justice in Northern Regions of India' awarded by Indian Council for Social Science Research. Working as the Co Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Dr. Bajpai has successfully completed the e-PG Pathshala Project for the subject 'Law' involving development of econtent under a four quadrant approach for sixteen papers.

Dr. Bajpai has also undertaken consultancy assignments for various reputed national and international institutions. He is a member of a Advisory Group for Restorative Justice Study in Child Sexual Abuse Cases at Counsel to Secure Justice, New Delhi. He also functions as an advisor to School of Law, Galgotias University, Greater Noida. He has also served as expert member in Board for Curriculum Development in Criminology at National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, New Delhi.

Dr. Bajpai has also served in the Editorial Board of a number of reputed national and international journals such as 'International Journal of Contemporary Laws, RGNUL, Patiala, United World School of Law Journal, International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, International Perspectives in Victimology. etc

Dr. Bajpai has also been appointed as 'Amicus Curaie' by various courts in various occasions.

The Publications of Dr. Bajpai are listed below and could also be viewed at the link: http://nludelhi.ac.in/pep-fac-new-pro.aspx?Id=18

Publications

I. Books / Monographs : 1.Victims in the Criminal Justice process- Perspective on Police and Judiciary, Uppal Publications, New Delhi(1997); 2 Police and Human Rights (Hindi) Under G. B. Pant Award Scheme, BPR&D, New Delhi( 1997); 3. Custodial Crimes: Some Observations, Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur (1997); 4. On Human Rights and Police: Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur. (1997); 5. Development and Disorder,Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan,Sagar (2002); 6 Cyber Crime & Cyber Law, Serial Publications, New Delhi ( 2011); 7. Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction, Serial Publications, New Delhi ( 2011); 8. Witness & the Criminal Justice System, Lambert, Germany (2011); 9. Criminal Justice System Reconsidered , Serial Publications, New Delhi ( 2011); 10.Socio-economic Offences, Central Law Publication Allahabad;11. Course Hand Book on ‘Research Methodology edited for distance education LL M course of MP, Bhoj (open) University, Bhopal; 12.Co-Author - Victim Justice: A Paradigm Shift in Criminal Justice System in India, Thomson Reuters (2016); 13.Co-Author - ‘Judgements that Shaped the Indian Jurisprudence - Supreme Court Rulings in Perspective (1950-2016), Thomson Reuters (2016)

II. Recent Articles: 1. Published three different articles in The Deccan Herald (Time to revisit IPC, Dilemma in rushing road accident victims to hospital, 2. Article on ‘Developing Protocols for Women Victims of Sexual Crimes’ in ‘Congress of the International Society of Criminology’ by Lexis-Nexis

III. Conference Papers: 1. Life-style of Woman and the Nature of their Criminal Victimization paper submitted to XIV And. Conference of Indian Society of Criminology (ISC) Madras (1998); 2.Violence-Justifying Value among Youth, Paper presented in the XV Ann. Conference of I.S.C., Dharwad (1986); 3. Conception of Deviant Victim & Evaluating some major Research Areas in Railway Crime, Paper presented in XVI Ann. Conference of I.S.C. Jammu. (1987); 4. Genesis of Social Awareness: A contextual Analysis, paper presented in the National Seminar on Development and Social Awareness Bhopal University, (1987); 5. A demographic perspective in the study of Victim-Risk and Victim-Area; A geo-demographic structure of population in Sagar town. Papers presented in the National conference on Modern Trends in Anthropology, Sagar (M.P.); 6. question Mark on the Existence of Criminology, paper presented in XVIII Annual Conference of Indian Society of Criminology (ISC) Mathura (1989); 7. Youth Crime: Some Research Priorities, paper presented at in XIX Congress of ISC at Bangalore (Feb. 1990); 8. Woman Victimization-paper presented at XX Conference of ISC at Pondicherry (July 1991); 9. Police and Development: A case study of West Bengal 1951-71, Indian Journal of Criminology & Criminalistics, Vol. XIII, 3-4, 1992; 10. Youth Unrest-paper presented at XXI Conference of ISC at Madras (July 1992); 11. "Violence and the state", a paper presented at the XXIII Annual Conference of Indian Society of Criminology (Nov. 11-13, 1994 at the NICFS, New Delhi); 12. "Child Sexual Abuse: Criminal Justice Response", the paper presented at the First Biennial Conference of Indian Society of Victimology, Madras; 13. Formulating a Model scheme for victim Assistance in India, paper presented in the XXVIII Indian Police Science Congress at PPA, Phillaur; 14. Victimological Implications for Policing, paper presented during the National Seminar on Victimology at PPA, Phillaur (May 12-14, 1998); 15. Victimological Aspects of Child Abuse paper presented in the second Biennial conference of Indian Society of Victimology held at New Delhi (Nov. 1999); 16. Crime- the price of progress?, paper presented at the National Seminar on Development, crime and Criminal Justice Admn. at Dept of Crim. & Fsc, Dr H S G Univ. Sagar ( Feb 2-3, 2001); 17. On Social Research, paper presented in the National Seminar on ‘ State of Social Research in India’ at IIM, Lucknow (Mar. 17-18, 2001); 18.Violence: The Role of State, paper presented in a ‘Dialogue on Dimensions on Violence’ held at Dept. of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh ( April 11-12, 2001); 19. Enforcement of Human Rights Standards, paper presented at the World Conference on Human Rights and Poverty held at Barkatullah University, Bhopal ( Oct. 2-5, 2002); 20. Conflict Management Through Restorative Justice, Paper presented at the All India Conference of Indian Society of Criminlogy at NICFS, New Delhi ( Nov-1-3, 2002); 21. Criminology: An Appraisal of Present Status and Future Directions, paper presented at a National Seminar organized by the ISSA, Agra, Oct. 26-29, 2004; 22. Domestic Violence – An Overview, a key Note address delivered at St Thomas College, Bhilai Nov. 2004; 23. Security Management through Situational Interventions, paper presented at XXVIIIAll India Conference of Indian society of Criminology, University of Jammu (Feb.16-19,2005) ; 24. ‘India : Policing a Post – Colonial Inheritance?, Lecture delivered at Department of Criminology, University of Leicester as Visiting Commonwealth Fellow on March4, 2004; 25.Participated at the ‘Launching Crime Science Conference’ organized by Jill Dando Institute,London; 26. Participated at the ‘Violent Crime Seminar’ organized by the Home Office, London at Manchester, December 2003; 27. Delivered Special address on ‘Domestic Violence –An Overview’ in National Seminar on Domestic Violence organized by the Department of Sociology, Dr Dr H S G Univ. Sagar ( Feb 27-28, 2006); 28. ‘Juvenile Justice- Making it Work’ paper presented at the National Seminar on Care & Protection of Disadvantaged Children in Urban India at RCUS,( 17-18 Nov.2006) Lucknow; 29.Key Presentation at National Seminar on ‘Women Insecurity and Role of Televison and News Channels’ at Govt. Arts & commerce college, Sagar; 30. Presented a paper ‘Relishing Victimization- A Case of Victim of Bribery ’ at Second International & Sixth Biennial Conference of Indian Society of Victimology, Organized by the Indian Society of Victimology, held at Chennai during Feb. 8-10, 2007; 31. Presented a theme paper a ‘Exploring critical Perspectives in Criminology‘ at the Second International and 30th All India Conference of the Indian Society of Criminology held at University of Calcutta, Kolkata during Feb. 23-25, 2007; 32. Presented an invited talk on ‘ Applying Dr H S Gour in the rebuilding of the University’ on Feb 27, at the Dept Of Physics, Dr HS Gour University Sagar; 33. Delivered an open Lecture on ‘Victim and criminal Procedure Models’ at International Victimology Institute, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands on June 7, 2010; 34.Delivered lectures to law students on ‘criminal procedure in comparative perspective’ to law students at faculty of law University of Tilburg, the Netherlands on June 2-3, 2010; 35. Delivered a lecture on ‘Criminology in India’ at Vrij University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 6, 2010; 36. Delivered lecture on “Criminal law and procedure: emerging trends in India’ for law students at Vrij University, Amsterdam on June 6, 2010; 37. Completed a case study research on ‘ Bhopal Industrial Disaster’ in collaboration with John Jey Jey College of Criminal Justice, University of New York; 38. Discussant in a session on ‘Dimensions of Exploring Criminal Justice issues from Empirical Research Point of View’ in the workshop on ‘When Criminal Justice Goes Wrong’ organized by NLU Delhi in collaboration with Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford from 06-08 October 2014; 39. 39. Presented a paper on “When Criminal Justice Goes Wrong: Study of Vulnerability and Miscarriage” at Asian Criminological Society Conference themed, ‘Criminology and Criminal Justice in a Changing World: Contributions from Asia” held at City University of Hong Kong from 24-27 June 2015; 40. Addressed the participants in National Seminar ‘Methods of Legal Research in the ‘Globalizing Era: Some Reflections’ on the topic ‘Why Empirical Legal Research is indispensable in the Globalizing Era’ organized by Savitribai Phule Phune University, Department of Law on 26th September 2015; 41. Addressed the participants in ‘International Conference on Human Rights’, on the topic, ‘Rights of Victims of Crime in India’ organized by Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal on 02nd October 2015; 42. 42. Participated and presented a paper on ‘Developing Protocol for Women Victims of Power Crimes’ in 38th All India Criminology Conference of Indian Society of Criminology organized by Manormanium Sundaranar University (MSU), Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu on 15-16 October 2015; 43. Addressed the audience on ‘Crime Victim in Criminal Procedure: Some Recent Developments’ in ‘Quality Law Improvement Programme’ organized by School of Law Christ University, Bangalore on 02nd November 2015; 44. Panelist in the session titled, ‘Investigation, Prosecution and Trial in Cases of Sexual Offences’ in ‘Consultation on Crimes Against Women and Children’ organized by Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance, NLU Delhi on 05th November 2015; 45. Addressed the audience on the subject,’ ‘Imparting Victimological Orientations To Sex Crimes’ at University of Oxford, U.K. and The Social and Contextual Narratives of Victimization of Women In India’ at Sheffield Hallam University U.K. respectively in December 2015; 46. Addressed the participants on ‘Access to Justice in relation to Victims’ in India Legal Conclave, held at Ranchi on 23rd July 2016; 47. Addressed the participants on ‘Contemporary Theories of Crime Control and their Applicability in India’ in special lecture series on Police Professionalism and Contemporary Challenges, organized by DG's Research and Policy Analysis Cell, Madhya Pradesh Police on 17th January 2017; 48. Delivered a Presentation on the Research Project – ‘Community Policing –Concept and Application in the meeting of Micro Mission (02) (National Police Mission Project) at Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi on 27th January 2017

International Assignments

Dr Bajpai held several prestigious international assignments for advanced research in criminology, criminal law and criminal justice. He has been to the University of Paris (France) under Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme ( 1999) to work on ‘Victim’s position in French criminal justice system’. He was also the recipient of prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK for an advanced research and teaching ( in Crime reduction ) for the year 2003-04. Dr Bajpai also visited International Victimology Institute, Tokiwa University, Japan for delivering invited lectures in July 2007. Besides, he was also selected under the Indo-Russia Cultural Exchange programme to visit St. Petesburg ( 2007)and Indo-Hungarian Cultural Exchange Programme to visit educational institutions in Budapest (2009). Recently ( 2010), Prof. Bajpai was conferred a visiting fellowship under the Indo-NWO Exchange of scholars and under this visit he carried out significant research at the International Victimology Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Apart from visiting the International Criminal Court at Hague, Prof Bajpai delivered key lectures in several universities like VU University, Amsterdam. He has also been identified by the Department of Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, to author a case study on ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy in the ‘International Crime & Justice Book ’ being published from the Cambridge press.

Recently, in the month of February 2016, Dr. Bajpai was invited by the Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. to be a part of a study tour on 'Police tackling violence against women and girl'. The delegation to Sheffield Hallam University consisted of five senior Police Officers and was led by Dr. Bajpai. This study trip gave an opportunity to the Indian police officers to learn about how the UK responds to women and girl victims of violence. Dr. Bajpai went to University of Wurzburg, Germany for a short term senior guest professorship under the ‘A New Passage to India Programme’ funded by the DAAD, (German Academic Exchange Service)in January 2015. Prof. Bajpai visited Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. in December 2015 for participating in the Seminar and Workshop titled, Criminological Perspectives on Sex Crimes in India at Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, U.K. and ‘The Search for Victim Perspectives in Criminology in Post Delhi Gang Rape Period’ at Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. for addressing the audience on the subject,’ ‘Imparting Victimological Orientations To Sex Crimes’ at University of Oxford and ‘The Social and Contextual Narratives of Victimization of Women In India’ at Sheffield Hallam University, respectively. Dr. Bajpai Participated in Workshop on ‘Climate Change and Groundwater – Law and Policy Perspectives’ held at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London U.K. on 29-30 May 2015. He has presented a paper on “When Criminal Justice Goes Wrong: Study of Vulnerability and Miscarriage” at Asian Criminological Society Conference themed, ‘Criminology and Criminal Justice in a Changing World: Contributions from Asia” held at City University of Hong Kong from 24-27 June 2015. Dr. Bajpai attended the International Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law from 06-08 November 2014.

Dr. Bajpai has been instrumental in bringing international collaboration with many reputed international institutions such as VU University, Amsterdam, Law faculty Tilburg University in Netherlands, University of Bergen, Norway, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Awards

Pt. G B pant National Award for the Best Book on Human Rights and Police.

Prof S Srivastava Award for excellence in criminology research.

Prof. B S Haikarwal and Prof Sushil Chandra Award for Senior Social Scientist, 2011.

Title of Fellow of Indian Society of Criminology(FISC) by the Indian Society of criminology (ISC).

Commonwealth Research Award for research in England.

Prof. K. Chockalingam Award 2014 in the Fourth International & Eight Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Victimology.

'Distinguished Services Award' from Govt. of Punjab for outstanding contribution in Criminological training for police in Punjab