FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GANAPATHY, NARAYANAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE DEAN GRADUATE STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS1 04-22
Email:
socng@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65163826
Fax:
67779579
Homepage:
http://www.nus.edu.sg
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Brief Introduction

Narayanan Ganapathy is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is concurrently an Associate Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.  A/P Narayanan received his PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore in 2001. 


Teaching Areas

A/P Narayanan teaches Sociology of Deviance, Law and Society, Methods of Social Research, Qualitative Inquiry, and Selected Topics in Law and Justice across different levels of study at the Department of Sociology. He also offers specialised courses under the Continuing Education Training (CET) Framework to practitioners and professionals in the social service and criminal justice sector. 


Graduate Supervision

PhD

  • Lavanya Balachandran, Labouring to Learn: Reframing ‘Resistance’ amongst Tamil Youths in Singapore Schools, 2017.
  • Omer Saifudeen, Extremist Ideologues and Indoctrination among the Malay-Muslim Community in Singapore, 2012.
  • Nguyen Thi Nhu Trang, School Violence in Vietnam: A Case Study, 2012.

Masters 

  • Goh Jia Min Charmian, Migration Infrastructure, 2016 – 2018.
  • Anil Singh, Stop and Search Practices of the Singapore Police: Rethinking Racialization, 2009.
  • Suen Johan Bin Mohd Zain, Gambling among the Malay-Muslim Community in Singapore, 2009.
  • Yeo Peck Tiang, Alternatives to Custody: The Case of Juvenile Delinquents, 2008.
  • Nafis Muhamad Hanif, Prison in Society, Society in Prison: An Analysis of OMEGA’s Racially Structured Realities Within and Beyond, 2008.
  • Ong Choo Cheng, Heather, Working Together to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse in Singapore, Master of Social Science (Applied Sociology), 2004.

Current Research

A/P Narayanan is currently working on several research projects which include (a) role of religion in offender reintegration; (b) the challenge of deistance among recovering drug supervisees; (c) alcohol-fuelled violence among young offenders (project is conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Singapore State Courts); (d) 'Triadisation' of youth gang members (supported by an FASS grant) and (e) Singapore families living with/through the Covid pandemic (the PI of this project is Professor Vineeta Sinha and I'm one of the 2 Co-PIs. This research is supported by a university grant. )   


Research Interests

Transformations in policing and police culture; race and policing; prisoner culture and prisonisation; criminal and prison gangs; prisoner reintegration; juvenile justice; domestic violence


Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • A Profile Study of Elderly Offenders in the Community Courts of Singapore: Theorising Geriatric Criminality" (2021), International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, DOI: 10.1177/0306624X211058953 (2021)

     

    The Dark Side of Social Capital: Race, Recidivism, and “Reintegration”, Race and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368720974742 (2020)

    Minority gangs in Singapore prisons: Prisonisation revisited, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 53, (1), 44-64, (2019)

    Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Recidivism: A Theoretical and Methodological Reflection, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, Vol 28, (3), 154-167, (2018)

    “Racialized Masculinities”: A Gendered Response to Marginalization amongst Malay Boys in Singapore", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 33, (2), 112-125, (2018)  

    Crime and Punishment in Asia. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol 32, (3), 196-204, (2016)

     “Us” and “Them”: Ethnic Minority Gangs in Singapore Prisons. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol 32, (3), 264-284, (2016)

    The “Thinning” Blue-line: a Bourdieuian appreciation of police subculture. International Journal of Comparative Criminal Justice, Vol 40, (4), 277-294 (2016)

    Race, Reintegration and Social Capital in Singapore. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 40, (1), 1-24 (2016)

    Organised Crime in Asia: A Review of Problems and Prospects. Asian Journal of Criminology, 3 (1): 1-12. (2008)

    Between the Devil and the Deep-blue Sea: Conceptualizing Victims Experiences of Policing in Domestic Violence in the Singaporean Context. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39 (1): 90-108, (2008)

    The Operational Policing of Domestic Violence in Singapore: An Exploratory Study. International Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 16 (3), 179-198, (2006)

    Theorizing Police Response to Domestic Violence in Singapore: Police Subculture Revisited. Journal of Criminal Justice: An International Journal, 33, 429-439, (2005)

    Policing Minority Street Corner Gangs: A View from the Street, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 12 (2), 139-152, (2002)

    Rethinking the Problem of Policing Marital Violence: A Singapore Perspective, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 12(3), 173-190, (2002)

    Conceptualising Community Policing, Crime Prevention and Criminology: A Singapore Perspective, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 33 (3), 266-286, (2000)

     

     

     

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