Arpita Mitra
Associate Professor
Arpita Mitra has fifteen years of experience in teaching and research. Mitra graduated from Presidency College , Kolkata with Sociology major and stood 2nd from the University of Calcutta. She earned M.A in Sociology with specialization in Sociology of Crime and Deviance in 2000 from University of Calcutta. She worked as a Ph.D research fellow in the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University and was conferred doctorate in Sociology in 2012. Mitra has more than fifteen articles to her credit and has presented papers in several national and international conferences and world congresses. Recently her first book titled "ICTs, Police and Metropolitan Cities : Towards 21st Century Policing in India" has been published. She is at present the Vice President of Research Committee: Deviance and Social Control of the International Sociological Association for a term of four years.She is a member of ISA, ISS, WSV and ISV. S
PHD
Research Interests
Criminology, Police Science, Research Methodology
Projects
ICSSR Impress Research Project on Policing an Smart City: Challenges and Priorities towards Urban Transformation of Kolkata and Bhubaneswar
Memberships
1. International Sociological Association 2. International Society of Criminology, Indian Sociological Society, 3. Indian Society of Victimology 4. World Society of Victimology
1.Mitra, A. (2011). Police and ICTs: Amelioration or Affliction? Calcutta Law Times, Vol 4, October-November Part I and II, pp.15-16 and 17-22. ISSN 0971-748X.
2.Mitra, A. (2012). ICTs and Kolkata Police: Explorations of Ramifications on Police and Policing.The Indian Journal of Criminology and Criminalistics, January to June Issue, 2012.ISSN 09704345. v33n1 pp63-77.
3.Mitra, A. (2012). Traditional vs Modern Police: Are they Congruent?”Indian Journal of Criminology, V39n(1& 2), pp.1-11.ISSN 0974-7249.
4.Mitra, A. (2012). Cyber Crime and the Police: Insinuations to the Police Commissionerate of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.Odisha Review, October, 2012, published by Government of Odisha pp. 52-57. ISSN 0970-8669. v69n3
5.Mitra, A. & Chakrabarti, N.K. (2015). Community Policing in Question: A Mesmeric Philosophy or Derisory Programmes?Indian Bar Review2015, Volume 42(3) pp.85-97. ISBN 978-81-931981-0-0
6.Mitra, A. & Chakrabarti, N.K. (2016). Police-Public Liaison in Community Policing Endeavours: An Evaluation By the People of Guwahati, Nirma University Law Journal, v 5n2, pp. 41-67, ISSN 2249-1430.
7.Mitra, A. (2019). Victims of Abuse or Feeling Secure : An Exploration of Fear of Victimization among Elderly in Cities of Eastern India, International Journal of Current Advanced Research , V8n4B April 2019, pp.18148-18152,ISSN 2319-6475(online)
8.Mitra, A. (2019). Policing Violence Against Women: The Indian Scenario, Monatsschrift fur Kriminoloie and Strafrechtsreform,Journal of Criminology and Penal Reform published by Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany V102n3, September 2019 pp. 217-221, ISSN No. 0026-9301/ e ISSN 2366-1968.
9.Mitra, A. & Chakrabarti, N.K. (2019). Violence Against Women: A Comparative Study of Crime Trends and Policing Strategies in Germany and India, International Journal of Current Advanced Research, August, 2019, ISSN 2319-6475(online), Vol8n8A, pp.19632-19637, August, 2019.,
10.Mitra, A. & Chakrabarti, N.K. (2019). Building Peoples Trust: A Comparative Study of Police Community Relationship in Two Cities of Eastern India, Scholars International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, V2n4 ISSN (online) 2617-3484 Scholars Middle East publisher UAE.