Debarati Halder

Debarati Halder is an advocate and legal scholar. She is the managing director of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (http://www.cybervictims.org). She is also the Vice President of WHOA, USA (Working for Halting Online Abuse) Kids-Teen Division and Internet Safety Advocate. She is the current Secretary of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV). She received her LLB from the University of Calcutta and LLM in international and constitutional law from the University of Madras. She is currently working toward her PhD at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. She has published many articles in peer- reviewed journals and chapters in peer-reviewed books. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Law and Religion, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, ERCES Online Quarterly Review, TMC Academic Journal (Singapore), and Indian Journal of Criminology & Criminalistics and edited volumes, Crimes of the Internet (Prentice Hall, 2008, Trends and Issues of Victimology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008), International Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009), et cetera. Her research interests include constitutional law, international law, victim rights, and cyber crimes and laws.

Publications

Minding the Gap Between Restorative Justice, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Global Indigenous Wisdom
Minding the Gap Between Restorative Justice, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Global Indigenous Wisdom
Marta Vides Saade, Debarati Halder. © 2023. 260 pages.
Foundational principles of the contemporary practices of both restorative justice and the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence often import organic and indigenous practices of...
Extra Marital Affairs, Breach of Trust in Marriage, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Critical Analysis From the Perspectives of Ancient Hindu Codes, Customs, and Contemporary Laws
Extra Marital Affairs, Breach of Trust in Marriage, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Critical Analysis From the Perspectives of Ancient Hindu Codes, Customs, and Contemporary Laws
Debarati Halder. © 2023. 22 pages.
Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) emphasizes the law's healing touch to cure the socio-legal evils that may hamper the wellbeing of people at large. The chapter deals with...
Culture, Ethnicity, and Hate Crimes: A Comparative Analysis of Preventive Laws Between India and the USA
Culture, Ethnicity, and Hate Crimes: A Comparative Analysis of Preventive Laws Between India and the USA
Debarati Halder, Dhananjay Bhati. © 2021. 10 pages.
Traditionally, India is a multilingual, multi-religious, and multicultural country. Ingression of different races in India has brought in different personal laws. Similar to...
Charge Sheet to Charging: A Comparative Analysis of Case Management by Police and Prosecution Between India and the UK With Special Reference to Cybercrime
Charge Sheet to Charging: A Comparative Analysis of Case Management by Police and Prosecution Between India and the UK With Special Reference to Cybercrime
Debarati Halder. © 2021. 12 pages.
Police and prosecution are the two essential elements in criminal justice systems, especially for justice delivery to the victims as well as for the accused. Cybercrimes...
Pregnancy Vlogs and Online Victimisation of Women: A Critical Legal-Victimological Analysis From Global Perspectives
Pregnancy Vlogs and Online Victimisation of Women: A Critical Legal-Victimological Analysis From Global Perspectives
Debarati Halder. © 2020. 14 pages.
Often it is told that womanhood comes to full circle when a woman becomes a mother. Being a mother either biologically or by way of adoption is indeed a unique experience because...
Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations
Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 264 pages.
While women benefit from using new digital and Internet technologies for self-expression, networking, and professional activities, cyber victimization remains an underexplored...
Cyber Victimization of Women and Cyber Laws in India
Cyber Victimization of Women and Cyber Laws in India
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 15 pages.
This chapter provides a situational analysis of cyber crimes against women in India and laws that prevent cyber victimization in general and women in particular. The Chapter is...
Cyber Crime Against Women and Regulations in Australia
Cyber Crime Against Women and Regulations in Australia
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 8 pages.
This chapter deals with the legal regulations that protect Australian women in cyber space. Various issues that are discussed in this chapter are: Cyber harassments including...
Cyber Laws for Preventing Cyber Crimes Against Women in Canada
Cyber Laws for Preventing Cyber Crimes Against Women in Canada
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 12 pages.
This chapter gives an overview of laws related to cyber crimes against in general and women in particular. Though there are no specific laws that were developed to mitigate...
Legal Treatment of Cyber Crimes Against Women in USA
Legal Treatment of Cyber Crimes Against Women in USA
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 13 pages.
US, is one country, which started the evolution of the Internet and also the first to be affected and the first to retaliate to the ugly side of the Internet, the cyber crimes....
Definition, Typology and Patterns of Victimization
Definition, Typology and Patterns of Victimization
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 27 pages.
In this chapter, an attempt is made to operationally define cyber crimes against women, as we have found that the definitions of cyber crimes have changed in the past decade and...
Etiology, Motives, and Crime Hubs
Etiology, Motives, and Crime Hubs
Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar. © 2012. 14 pages.
This chapter describes on the various aspects that surround victimization of women in the cyberspace and goes in depth to analyze the reasons for such victimization. The etiology...