N Ganapathy
Biographic Data
| ID | 43367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Ganapathy |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganapathy |
| SIGNATURE | GANAPATHY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6047-2059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resilience Behind Barriers
During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant workers in Singapore endured one of the longest and most stringent periods of confinement globally. Segregationist policies were intensified as the state imposed strict disciplinary regimes over workers’ mobility and everyday lives, framed as public health interventions but functioning also as labor discipline and social control. This study asks: how did migrant workers experience, narrate, and endure life un…
Masculinity in the Margins
This study examines the intersection of race, class, and gang violence in Singapore, with a particular focus on the structural dynamics linking racial minorities, street gangs, and institutionalized Chinese secret societies—the archetype of organized crime in the city-state. By integrating race as both an ideology and a system of social relations into the study of gang formation, this research sheds light on why and how racial minorities become d…
Gendered dynamics and emotional well-being in the “aftermath” of the pandemic
A Profile Study of Elderly Offenders in the Community Criminal Courts of Singapore
This research, using data from the Community Criminal Courts where a majority of elderly offenders are tried and sentenced, investigates the socio-economic profile of elderly offenders and the factors influencing their criminal motivation in Singapore. It revisits conceptualizations of offending in older age which until now has received scant attention even in Asian societies where ties to conventional institutions are thought to be “protective.”…
Gangs and Minorities in Singapore
The Dark Side of Social Capital
In investigating the problem of racial disparity in the recidivism statistics where the two minority groups—the Malays and Indians—had been historically disproportionately represented relative to the Chinese majority, the findings of the study led to a deconstruction of the conventional inference that the under-representation of the Chinese in the recidivism statistics implied successful mainstream reintegration and criminal desistance. Extending…
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person
In 2019, the Misuse of Dugs Act, the main legislative instrument in combatting drug offences in Singapore, underwent a landmark amendment where it strove to strike a balance between subjecting persistent drug offenders to long‐term imprisonment and enhancing the reintegration potential of those offenders whom the state considered as ‘pure abusers’ without a penal charge. While this risk‐differentiated approach could be seen as progressive and mov…
A qualitative analysis of disclosure of parental incarceration to children in Singapore – Implications for best practice
Children are often the unintended victims of incarceration, and are frequently subjected to extreme hardship following the arrest of a parent, but their right to information is always compromised in the name of protection. Disclosure of incarceration can be equally challenging for both the family caregivers and the children. This paper presents the data from interviews about disclosure of incarceration, looking at how 10 caregiver–child dyadic pa…
Tamil migrants in colonial Malaya 1930s–1950s
Tamil migration to colonial Malaya has been the subject of well-documented research based on colonial archives, observations of colonialists, newspapers, and community records; and sometimes focused on landmark developments that showcase the fortunes of the migrant community. However, these accounts do not reveal the personal, mundane, and lived experiences of the thousands of migrants who landed in Malaya. Drawing from the recollections of selec…
Rehabilitation, reintegration and recidivism
The reintegration of ex-offenders into the community has emerged as a key concern of the criminal justice system as prison populations have increased globally. High recidivism rates indicate that prisons have not adequately prepared many prisoners for life after prisons. There are three issues this article explores: first, to unpack the theoretical and methodological issues in understanding the nebulous concept of ‘recidivism’; second, to provide…
Race, reintegration, and social capital in Singapore
Social capital, or the lack of, has variously been acknowledged as contributing to criminal and delinquent behavior among certain groups in society. It has rarely been employed to explain why ex-offenders are unable to break free from recalcitrant behavior and reintegrate into society. We argue that Indians and Malays, as racial minorities in Singapore and disproportionately represented in the prison and re-offending population, are significantly…
The “thinning” blueline
The notion of a recalcitrant “police subculture” is pervasive in the literature on policing, often invoked to explain many of the ills linked to police misconduct and corruption. This article argues that the failure of reform efforts is the result of interventionist strategies which had sought to change police subculture “head-on” without a corresponding change in the structural conditions in which the policing role is so located, and that these …
Policing Marital Violence in Singapore
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational concepts of the ‘field’ and ‘habitus’, the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.
Policing marital violence in Singapore
Theorizing police response to domestic violence in the Singaporean context
Rethinking the Problem of Policing Marital Violence
This paper explores the police response to marital violence in Singapore. This investigation into police response is specifically located in a particular culture and historical context. It owes its origins to the reframing of questions about the problem of intimate violence and concomitantly, the purpose and function of the criminal justice system over issues of safety and protection to victims of such violence. Central to the research concern of…
Policing Minority Street Corner Gangs in Singapore
This article examines the evolution and manifestation of the Social Disciplinary model of policing in Singapore, a model which eschews concern for both legal and factual guilt, concentrating instead on the task of subjugating sections of society who are viewed as 'anti-police'. We argue that understanding the experiences of minority gang members as recipients of such policing has to be set in the context of the symbiotic relationship that exists …
Policing Minority Street Corner Gangs in Singapore
This article examines the evolution and manifestation of the Social Disciplinary model of policing in Singapore, a model which eschews concern for both legal and factual guilt, concentrating instead on the task of subjugating sections of society who are viewed as 'anti-police'. We argue that understanding the experiences of minority gang members as recipients of such policing has to be set in the context of the symbiotic relationship that exists …
Race, reintegration, and social capital in Singapore
Social capital, or the lack of, has variously been acknowledged as contributing to criminal and delinquent behavior among certain groups in society. It has rarely been employed to explain why ex-offenders are unable to break free from recalcitrant behavior and reintegrate into society. We argue that Indians and Malays, as racial minorities in Singapore and disproportionately represented in the prison and re-offending population, are significantly…
Gendered dynamics and emotional well-being in the “aftermath” of the pandemic
The “thinning” blueline
The notion of a recalcitrant “police subculture” is pervasive in the literature on policing, often invoked to explain many of the ills linked to police misconduct and corruption. This article argues that the failure of reform efforts is the result of interventionist strategies which had sought to change police subculture “head-on” without a corresponding change in the structural conditions in which the policing role is so located, and that these …
Theorizing police response to domestic violence in the Singaporean context
Rethinking the Problem of Policing Marital Violence
This paper explores the police response to marital violence in Singapore. This investigation into police response is specifically located in a particular culture and historical context. It owes its origins to the reframing of questions about the problem of intimate violence and concomitantly, the purpose and function of the criminal justice system over issues of safety and protection to victims of such violence. Central to the research concern of…
Rethinking the Problem of Policing Marital Violence
This paper explores the police response to marital violence in Singapore. This investigation into police response is specifically located in a particular culture and historical context. It owes its origins to the reframing of questions about the problem of intimate violence and concomitantly, the purpose and function of the criminal justice system over issues of safety and protection to victims of such violence. Central to the research concern of…
Policing Minority Street Corner Gangs in Singapore
This article examines the evolution and manifestation of the Social Disciplinary model of policing in Singapore, a model which eschews concern for both legal and factual guilt, concentrating instead on the task of subjugating sections of society who are viewed as 'anti-police'. We argue that understanding the experiences of minority gang members as recipients of such policing has to be set in the context of the symbiotic relationship that exists …
Theorizing police response to domestic violence in the Singaporean context
Policing Marital Violence in Singapore
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational concepts of the ‘field’ and ‘habitus’, the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.
Policing marital violence in Singapore
Race, reintegration, and social capital in Singapore
Social capital, or the lack of, has variously been acknowledged as contributing to criminal and delinquent behavior among certain groups in society. It has rarely been employed to explain why ex-offenders are unable to break free from recalcitrant behavior and reintegrate into society. We argue that Indians and Malays, as racial minorities in Singapore and disproportionately represented in the prison and re-offending population, are significantly…
The “thinning” blueline
The notion of a recalcitrant “police subculture” is pervasive in the literature on policing, often invoked to explain many of the ills linked to police misconduct and corruption. This article argues that the failure of reform efforts is the result of interventionist strategies which had sought to change police subculture “head-on” without a corresponding change in the structural conditions in which the policing role is so located, and that these …
Tamil migrants in colonial Malaya 1930s–1950s
Tamil migration to colonial Malaya has been the subject of well-documented research based on colonial archives, observations of colonialists, newspapers, and community records; and sometimes focused on landmark developments that showcase the fortunes of the migrant community. However, these accounts do not reveal the personal, mundane, and lived experiences of the thousands of migrants who landed in Malaya. Drawing from the recollections of selec…
Rehabilitation, reintegration and recidivism
The reintegration of ex-offenders into the community has emerged as a key concern of the criminal justice system as prison populations have increased globally. High recidivism rates indicate that prisons have not adequately prepared many prisoners for life after prisons. There are three issues this article explores: first, to unpack the theoretical and methodological issues in understanding the nebulous concept of ‘recidivism’; second, to provide…
A qualitative analysis of disclosure of parental incarceration to children in Singapore – Implications for best practice
Children are often the unintended victims of incarceration, and are frequently subjected to extreme hardship following the arrest of a parent, but their right to information is always compromised in the name of protection. Disclosure of incarceration can be equally challenging for both the family caregivers and the children. This paper presents the data from interviews about disclosure of incarceration, looking at how 10 caregiver–child dyadic pa…
Gangs and Minorities in Singapore
The Dark Side of Social Capital
In investigating the problem of racial disparity in the recidivism statistics where the two minority groups—the Malays and Indians—had been historically disproportionately represented relative to the Chinese majority, the findings of the study led to a deconstruction of the conventional inference that the under-representation of the Chinese in the recidivism statistics implied successful mainstream reintegration and criminal desistance. Extending…
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person
In 2019, the Misuse of Dugs Act, the main legislative instrument in combatting drug offences in Singapore, underwent a landmark amendment where it strove to strike a balance between subjecting persistent drug offenders to long‐term imprisonment and enhancing the reintegration potential of those offenders whom the state considered as ‘pure abusers’ without a penal charge. While this risk‐differentiated approach could be seen as progressive and mov…
A Profile Study of Elderly Offenders in the Community Criminal Courts of Singapore
This research, using data from the Community Criminal Courts where a majority of elderly offenders are tried and sentenced, investigates the socio-economic profile of elderly offenders and the factors influencing their criminal motivation in Singapore. It revisits conceptualizations of offending in older age which until now has received scant attention even in Asian societies where ties to conventional institutions are thought to be “protective.”…
Resilience Behind Barriers
During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant workers in Singapore endured one of the longest and most stringent periods of confinement globally. Segregationist policies were intensified as the state imposed strict disciplinary regimes over workers’ mobility and everyday lives, framed as public health interventions but functioning also as labor discipline and social control. This study asks: how did migrant workers experience, narrate, and endure life un…
Masculinity in the Margins
This study examines the intersection of race, class, and gang violence in Singapore, with a particular focus on the structural dynamics linking racial minorities, street gangs, and institutionalized Chinese secret societies—the archetype of organized crime in the city-state. By integrating race as both an ideology and a system of social relations into the study of gang formation, this research sheds light on why and how racial minorities become d…
Gendered dynamics and emotional well-being in the “aftermath” of the pandemic
Criminology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works)