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Vijay Raghavan

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7677-8001
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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, children in conflict with law and women in shelter homes. 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 has been a member of various government appointed committees like the Justice Dharmadhikari Committee on Prevention of Atrocities against Women; Justice Radhakrishnan Prison Reforms Committee in Maharashtra; Committee on Prison Training Manuals constituted by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D); and the Advisory Committee for Implementation of Recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Women in Detention constituted by BPR&D. Currently, he is a member of the Monitoring Committee on Developing Prison Training Manuals constituted by BPR&D, and Prison Reforms Committee Appointed by the High Court of Uttarakhand.

His primary areas of work include custodial justice and prison reforms, criminal justice social work, probation, anti-trafficking, denotified tribes, homelessness and rehabilitation of custodial populations.

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  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences

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