N Prabha Unnithan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 100308 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Prabha Unnithan |
| NOMBRES | N Prabha |
| APELLIDO | Unnithan |
| FIRMA | UNNITHAN N P |
| AFILIACIONES | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6444-8248 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Continuing Non-Criminalization of Marital Rape in India
India remains one of 36 countries that have not criminalized marital rape. Following an outline of the issue, we examine reasons that allow for the continuing non-recognition of the offense through an exception to the statute on rape in the Indian Penal Code. We do so through an intersecting analysis of the status of women in economic, socio-cultural and political domains. As India is a patriarchal society, women lack power and voice in the famil…
Untangling Captured Law and the Justice Gap
The extant literature has frequently described the legal system's approach to prosecuting sexual violence as shaped by 'captured law' and marked by a persistent justice gap. A qualitative analysis of the prosecution of rape cases allows us to show empirically how these two concepts operate. Employing a thematic analysis of 22 in-depth interviews with rape victims and public prosecutors in Kolkata, India, the study explores how rape cases are mana…
Post-Legalization Drug Communication
Colorado legalized marijuana use for recreational purposes by adults over 21 in 2012. Our goal is to examine the first major communication campaign (called Good-To-Know) mounted by the state government with the objective of informing the public regarding regulatory and safety precautions surrounding newly legal use. Methods: We assess the content of campaign’s central messaging qualitatively by comparing its major themes in terms of criteria deve…
Unresolved Cases of Homicide
We review the literature on the general solvability of homicides to learn if characteristics pertaining to the victim, the event and the investigating agency may help predict which unresolved or ‘cold’ cases are likely to be ultimately resolved. We utilize two definitions of when a case becomes ‘cold,’ the conventional or Traditional (unresolved after a year) and the Alternate (unresolved after 30 days). We use binomial logistic regression (BLR) …
ACJS 2020 Presidential Address
A plea for scaling up (i.e., examining the global dimensions) and expanding out (i.e., considering indirect, alternative and complementary measures) of local crime and criminal justice phenomena is made in this paper. The implications and benefits of doing so are illustrated by utilizing the study of unresolved (or cold case) homicides, which are usually conceived as events responsive to localized co-victim, police, and prosecutorial actions. Cro…
TSQ Editor's Farewell
Here at the end of our editorial tour at The Sociological Quarterly, we’d like to start by remembering our colleague Peter Hall, who sadly died a few years ago. We hatched our editorship applicatio
Interviewing Criminal Justice Populations without Electronic Recording Devices
We outline a guide for facilitating face-to-face in-depth interviews without the use of electronic recording devices in criminal justice research. It is designed to provide researchers with step-by-step directions they can follow to conduct interviews when recording equipment is not available, not allowed, or not used due to other reasons. In-depth interviews are common in qualitative criminal justice research but require researchers to be highly…
Reckless’ passage to India
The contributions of American criminologist, Walter C. Reckless, to the development of the field of criminology and criminal justice in India are described. These are assessed in the light of recent debates about criminological knowledge transfer from developed to developing countries and regarding the influence of American criminology on its Asian counterparts
Reacting to Invasive Species
A variety of animals occupy the bad side of the Arluke-Sanders (1996) socio-zoological scale, including 'invasives.' We contribute to the literature on animals and social problems by examining the societal reaction toward invasive Burmese pythons, focusing on the claims-making process that culminated in the construction of a moral panic about these snakes. We seek to enhance sociological and public knowledge about social problems involving invasi…
In the Trenches
It is irresponsible for us, as educators, to assume we can teach a topic just because we happen to be scholars in the field. Teaching proficiency does not come naturally or necessarily through prac
Editors' Page
Surviving Parole Reentry
Do reentry programs including those that are boundary-spanning (operating before and after release from incarceration) help lengthen the time parolees go without being revoked and sent back to prison? In this retrospective study, we examine the impact of three related programs on participants by calculating the length of time they survived without revocation. We considered how long those who participated in only a prerelease program, only a postr…
Extreme cases and the criminal justice system
This paper addresses criminal justice responses that came on the heels of a traumatic sexual assault in public space in India. The incident referred to as “Nirbhaya,” drew attention to the nation as well as the world the violence against women who on the one hand find themselves in public spaces designed for all denizens in this globalised world, yet, subject to sexploitation and devoid of safeguards and equal protection. In this paper we catalog…
How to Publish and Develop a Research Agenda in Academic Criminal Justice
I focus on answering practical “how to” questions on scholarly publishing for aspiring and newly hired faculty members in criminal justice and criminology in this article. I begin by establishing the importance of developing a research agenda and publications that flow from it in a faculty member’s distribution of effort. After describing several possible forms that publications take, I discuss the process of taking an idea for a paper from conce…
Crime as an identity
Beginning with a question about the motivation to study crime and based on the work of Edwin Sutherland and Howard Becker, I examine the implications of incorporating conceptions pertaining to personal identity and the self into the sociology of deviance and criminology. I illustrate the insights gained by reviewing findings from empirical research conducted on prison inmates in two countries, domestic violence perpetrators undergoing therapy and…
Contributions to the Social Sciences from South East Asia
Parole Reentry and Social Capital
Why are some parolees more successful in reentering society compared to others? Using a social capital theoretical perspective, we explore the central role housing plays in reentry. Seventy-three semistructured personal interviews were conducted with parolees reentering the community. The authors compared and contrasted the experiences of individuals who were released to secure housing with those who were homeless. Having access to housing facili…
Crime and Justice in India
Sense-making and secondary victimization among unsolved homicide co-victims
Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior
Criminological and Criminal Justice Education in India
In an effort to understand criminal justice education comparatively, we trace the development of the field in India considering both general education and specific job training. We find that there are several key similarities and differences in comparison to the US. After discussing these findings, we raise four questions which emerge from the comparison: the national government's influence over criminal justice education; the gap between academi…
Prisonization and accounts of gun carrying
Political Rap
Music is a medium of popular culture wherein group identities are explored and linked to larger social forces. Previous research portrays political rap music as an oppositional African-American cultural form that critiques and encourages resistance to cultural and socio-economic domination. Political rap lyrics haue expressed themes associated with a re-conceptualized Black family as a racial community, lost economic opportunities, educational bi…
Retrospective Accounts of Violent Events by Gun Offenders
Mills (1940 Mills , C. Wright . 1940 . " Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. " American Sociological Review 5 ( 6 ): 904 – 913 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) argues that there is a sharp distinction between "causes" and "explanations" or "accounts." In this study we employ Scott and Lyman's (1968 Scott , Marvin B. and Stanford M. , Lyman 1968 . " Accounts. " American Sociological Review 33 ( 1 ): 46 – 61 . [INFOTRIEVE]…
Wayward Icelanders
Is Iceland, universally perceived as a peaceful, idyllic nation, being threatened by an inevitable flood of crime as it enters the global community? In recent decades the Icelandic state has taken serious steps to curb mounting crime, establishing a specialized drug court and an undercover drug police agency. Public opinion polls clearly demonstrate Icelanders growing concern that crime and drug use are on the rise. In their provocative new book,…
Retrospective Accounts of Violent Events by Gun Offenders
Mills (1940 Mills , C. Wright . 1940 . " Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. " American Sociological Review 5 ( 6 ): 904 – 913 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) argues that there is a sharp distinction between "causes" and "explanations" or "accounts." In this study we employ Scott and Lyman's (1968 Scott , Marvin B. and Stanford M. , Lyman 1968 . " Accounts. " American Sociological Review 33 ( 1 ): 46 – 61 . [INFOTRIEVE]…
Inequality, Economic Development and Lethal Violence
Parole Reentry and Social Capital
Why are some parolees more successful in reentering society compared to others? Using a social capital theoretical perspective, we explore the central role housing plays in reentry. Seventy-three semistructured personal interviews were conducted with parolees reentering the community. The authors compared and contrasted the experiences of individuals who were released to secure housing with those who were homeless. Having access to housing facili…
Sense-making and secondary victimization among unsolved homicide co-victims
Free to Write
The major objective of this paper is to outline the goals and the use of speculative (or free) writing and to demonstrate its usefulness in sociology classrooms. This form of writing is compared to other conventional written sociology assignments; the relative benefits are enumerated, particularly in the context of a lecture-discussion course format. On the basis of experiences with free writing in two different universities, some illustrations a…
Wife Burning
Violence against women in the Asian Indian community in the United States, specifically lethal violence, is a neglected topic. Following a brief profile of Asian Indians in the United States, we note the continued importance of several religio-cultural norms surrounding marriage, family, and gender relations in this group. We discuss the practices of sati and dowry burnings as a backdrop to two case studies of wife burning in the Dallas-Fort Wort…
Political Rap
Music is a medium of popular culture wherein group identities are explored and linked to larger social forces. Previous research portrays political rap music as an oppositional African-American cultural form that critiques and encourages resistance to cultural and socio-economic domination. Political rap lyrics haue expressed themes associated with a re-conceptualized Black family as a racial community, lost economic opportunities, educational bi…
Gang homicides in California
Children as victims of homicide
The construction of a social problem involves two interrelated processes: making claims about a particular condition and typifying the problematic behavior in terms of related people or conditions. This paper examines the operation of these two processes in relation to homicide where the victims are children (child homicide). Both claims‐making and typification have been unfocused. Popular and academic research as well as organizational attention…
Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism
Journal Article Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics Get access Timothy P. Rouse, Timothy P. Rouse Correspondence to: Rouse, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar N. Prabha Unntthan N. Prabha Unntthan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Mall walking and urban sociability
In this article we examine a relatively new social activity: mall walking: This is a low‐impact, aerobic workout in which participants walk for exercise in the climate‐controlled, safe environment of the shopping mall before it is officially open to the public. Participants mall walk for various reasons and display differing levels of commitment. However, through their sociability and interaction, a shared environment of mall walking has been con…
Evaluating an Attempt at Relevance
N. Prabha Unnithan, Laurie K. Scheuble, Evaluating an Attempt at Relevance: The Use of News Item Analysis in Introductory Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 3, The Use of Mass Media in Sociology Curricula (Apr., 1983), pp. 399-405
Correctional prediction and the Level of Supervision Inventory
Research in a correctional setting
Reacting to Invasive Species
A variety of animals occupy the bad side of the Arluke-Sanders (1996) socio-zoological scale, including 'invasives.' We contribute to the literature on animals and social problems by examining the societal reaction toward invasive Burmese pythons, focusing on the claims-making process that culminated in the construction of a moral panic about these snakes. We seek to enhance sociological and public knowledge about social problems involving invasi…
Editors' Page
Crime as an identity
Beginning with a question about the motivation to study crime and based on the work of Edwin Sutherland and Howard Becker, I examine the implications of incorporating conceptions pertaining to personal identity and the self into the sociology of deviance and criminology. I illustrate the insights gained by reviewing findings from empirical research conducted on prison inmates in two countries, domestic violence perpetrators undergoing therapy and…
Child Homicide in Developed Countries
Previous research has found that the United States has had atypically high rates of child homicide. This paper re-evaluates this and other findings using late 1980s data for 24 developed countries under current cause of death categories (and also includes the 5–14 years age group). The United States continues to have high homicide rates for the entire span of childhood. New Zealand also ranks high. Comparatively, in both countries male infants an…
Explaining collective violence in India
Although the ideal of nonviolence is often identified with the culture of India, it has, in comparison to other countries, high rates of collective violence. This is usually related to the presence of a variety of social cleavages in India. Utilizing a catalog of verified instances of collective violence in India, three issues concerning the linkage between social divisions and collective violence are explored. First, which among the six cleavage…
Using Students' Familiarity and Knowledge to Enliven Large Sociology Classes
N. Prabha Unnithan, Using Students' Familiarity and Knowledge to Enliven Large Sociology Classes, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 4, Interpersonal and Interactional Aspects of Teaching (Oct., 1994), pp. 333-336
The processing of homicide cases with child victims
Free will, determinism, and criminality
Criminal Justice Research and Its Utilization for Policy Making in India
This paper examines the criminal justice system (CJS), policy research, and its utilization in India. The reader can see that different CJ-sectors compile and publish statistics. Official committees and commissions collate such information, while a host of funding agencies encourage research. Also, during the last fifty years, a fair amount of research has been conducted. However, it is uneven and has questionable relevance to policy. Besides, th…
Subcultural Aspects of Drug Use in an Indian University
Evaluating an Attempt at Relevance
N. Prabha Unnithan, Laurie K. Scheuble, Evaluating an Attempt at Relevance: The Use of News Item Analysis in Introductory Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 3, The Use of Mass Media in Sociology Curricula (Apr., 1983), pp. 399-405
Criminal Justice Research and Its Utilization for Policy Making in India
This paper examines the criminal justice system (CJS), policy research, and its utilization in India. The reader can see that different CJ-sectors compile and publish statistics. Official committees and commissions collate such information, while a host of funding agencies encourage research. Also, during the last fifty years, a fair amount of research has been conducted. However, it is uneven and has questionable relevance to policy. Besides, th…
Research in a correctional setting
Behavioral Impacts of the Fear of Aids
The paper demonstrates the conceptual meaning and utility of a sociological model for identifying correlates of the fear of AIDS and its consequent changes on peoples' behaviors. A sociological notion of levels of analysis is employed for classifying correlates of AIDS' fears under structural and individual categories. A tentative list of these correlates and their projected relationship with peoples' fears is suggested to illustrate the model
Marginality, credibility and impression management
Free to Write
The major objective of this paper is to outline the goals and the use of speculative (or free) writing and to demonstrate its usefulness in sociology classrooms. This form of writing is compared to other conventional written sociology assignments; the relative benefits are enumerated, particularly in the context of a lecture-discussion course format. On the basis of experiences with free writing in two different universities, some illustrations a…
Free will, determinism, and criminality
Mall walking and urban sociability
In this article we examine a relatively new social activity: mall walking: This is a low‐impact, aerobic workout in which participants walk for exercise in the climate‐controlled, safe environment of the shopping mall before it is officially open to the public. Participants mall walk for various reasons and display differing levels of commitment. However, through their sociability and interaction, a shared environment of mall walking has been con…
Inequality, Economic Development and Lethal Violence
Tobin, Joseph J, David y.h. Wu, and Dana H. Davidson, Preschool in Three Cultures
Social Threat and Social Control
Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism
Journal Article Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics Get access Timothy P. Rouse, Timothy P. Rouse Correspondence to: Rouse, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar N. Prabha Unntthan N. Prabha Unntthan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Using Students' Familiarity and Knowledge to Enliven Large Sociology Classes
N. Prabha Unnithan, Using Students' Familiarity and Knowledge to Enliven Large Sociology Classes, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 4, Interpersonal and Interactional Aspects of Teaching (Oct., 1994), pp. 333-336
The processing of homicide cases with child victims
Gang homicides in California
Children as victims of homicide
The construction of a social problem involves two interrelated processes: making claims about a particular condition and typifying the problematic behavior in terms of related people or conditions. This paper examines the operation of these two processes in relation to homicide where the victims are children (child homicide). Both claims‐making and typification have been unfocused. Popular and academic research as well as organizational attention…
Explaining collective violence in India
Although the ideal of nonviolence is often identified with the culture of India, it has, in comparison to other countries, high rates of collective violence. This is usually related to the presence of a variety of social cleavages in India. Utilizing a catalog of verified instances of collective violence in India, three issues concerning the linkage between social divisions and collective violence are explored. First, which among the six cleavage…
The Currents of Lethal Violence
Child Homicide in Developed Countries
Previous research has found that the United States has had atypically high rates of child homicide. This paper re-evaluates this and other findings using late 1980s data for 24 developed countries under current cause of death categories (and also includes the 5–14 years age group). The United States continues to have high homicide rates for the entire span of childhood. New Zealand also ranks high. Comparatively, in both countries male infants an…
Alcohol and Homicide
American academia and the survival of Marxist ideas
Criminological theory and criminal justice policy
In most criminal justice curricula, criminology is the major course that deals with abstract issues. A reciprocal relationship exists between criminology and other criminal justice courses. When dealing with crime causation theory, criminology has implications for policy formulation. In the author's experience, students seem unaware of these connections or are unable to articulate them. Recommendations for illustrating this connection include inc…
Wife Burning
Violence against women in the Asian Indian community in the United States, specifically lethal violence, is a neglected topic. Following a brief profile of Asian Indians in the United States, we note the continued importance of several religio-cultural norms surrounding marriage, family, and gender relations in this group. We discuss the practices of sati and dowry burnings as a backdrop to two case studies of wife burning in the Dallas-Fort Wort…
When Push Comes to Shove
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