Mangai Natarajan is a professor in the Dept. of Sociology. Her educational background includes an MA in Criminology and MA diploma in Indo-Japanese Studies from the University of Madras, India, and a PhD in Criminal Justice from Rutgers. She is an active policy-oriented researcher who has published widely in three areas: 1. Drug Trafficking, 2. Women Police and 3. Domestic Violence. Her wider academic interests revolve around crime theories that promote crime reduction policy thinking and her related areas of expertise include both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, Social Network Analysis, Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis, Problem Oriented Policing and Situational Crime Prevention. She teaches in the undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. programs and is the founding coordinator of the International Criminal Justice Major, one of the fast growing majors at John Jay.
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