
Sanjeev P. SahniO. P. Jindal Global University | JGLS · Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences
Sanjeev P. Sahni
PhD in Psychology
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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) have suffered multiple disadvantages and experienced social exclusion due to involuntary movement to new communities where they struggle to find opportunities for social inclusion. This study examined the political dimensions of social inclusion which focus on engaging IDPs in decision-making on issues that conce...
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Herdsmen-farmers conflict has displaced 1.5 million residents of Benue State, Nigeria, according to government officials. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) have lost livelihoods, farms, personal property and community infrastructure. The paper highlights the social challenges they have experienced and the response by government...
The current research examined autonomy and achievement motivations in a sample of 1496 participants registered to a U.K.-based Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on social entrepreneurship. A series of linear regression analyses revealed a significant effect of age and country on individual motivations across three separate sub-studies, which streng...
Social media has become an integral part of our lives, providing a platform for communication, sharing, and networking. However, with the increasing use of social media, we have also witnessed a rise in religion-based hate crimes and church vandalism in cyberspace. This paper aims to explore these issues from a behavioral science perspective. The p...
This book discusses the importance of integrating spirituality from diverse knowledge backgrounds to be effective in its everyday use. Bringing together global experts in the field, this book provides an extensive overview of the various spirituality and management themes, models, approaches, and complexities. The chapters in the book include delib...
Background: To explore the dimensions used to perceive the risk of internet addiction among Generation Z students. Methods: A purposive sample (N=25) from undergraduate college in India, age 17-20 years (M = 18.52±0.75) participated in three focus groups. Transcripts were analyzed using Thematic Analysis. Results: Five super-ordinated themes compri...
Background: To explore the dimensions used to perceive the risk of internet addiction among Generation Z students. Methods: A purposive sample (N=25) from undergraduate college in India, age 17-20 years (M = 18.52±0.75) participated in three focus groups. Transcripts were analyzed using Thematic Analysis. Results: Five super-ordinated themes compri...
Societies have always strived to understand various facets of crime to prevent victimization and enable victim assistance measures. The suffering of the victim at the time of the commission of a crime and later during the criminal justice process requires the attention of society at large. The role of victim assistance is highlighted through crime...
Psychological contract is a construct to understand the employer–employee relationship. Workplace spirituality is a concept undergoing systematic research which contributes to the personal as well as organizational success. The current pandemic since last one and a half years has led to a “new normal” in the organizational perspective. The current...
Though a few provisions for the victim of crimes were indirectly recognized since the nineteenth century, from 2000 onwards, legal entitlements for crime victims are realized in Bangladesh with a specific focus on women and children. So far, few analyses are found to be performed mainly by the legal experts, emphasizing legal rights and remedies wi...
This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts. It informs readers on the role of psychology in the various aspects of the criminal justice process, starting from the investigation of a crime to the rehabilitation or reintegration of the offender. Current r...
This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts. It informs readers on the role of psychology in the various aspects of the criminal justice process, starting from the investigation of a crime to the rehabilitation or reintegration of the offender. Current r...
Sports Medicine: What Medicine is, that, magic drug, tonic or injection, which could boost the performance of sportspersons? The Government and the private sector should come forward and start mass production and distribution of this Medicine to help our sports persons overcome the drought of medals in international sports especially in the Olympic...
Mental disorders are identified by a set of signs and symptoms causing significant clinical distress or impairment in an individual’s functioning. The relationship between mental disorders and crime has been a topic of research and heated controversy since many decades. There is a consensus advocating a link between the two. However, the exact natu...
In this supposedly ‘scientific age’, deception detection tests have been offered as a solution to the inadequacies of the Indian criminal justice system. However, could it be possible that many of these approaches actually lack the scientific support necessary to validate their usage in any criminal justice system? The backgrounds, analysis procedu...
Why do some people commit crimes? Since the early period, scholars have tried to answer this question by attributing criminal behaviour to various factors such as physical characteristics, heredity, socialization, and even supernatural elements. This chapter will look at theories that have evolved over time that seeks to understand criminal behavio...
Criminal psychology is a field involving an amalgamation of psychology, criminology, and the law. This discipline was conceived in the mid-twentieth century, when psychologists began offering expert perspectives on criminal behaviour and speculate about the possible causes that push one to commit such acts. This chapter will expound upon the purvie...
Criminal profiling has been in existence since the 1960s. It is a global practice followed to lead to accurate cognizance of the crime. The first section of the chapter will examine the concepts and approaches towards criminal profiling. Familiarity with the why and how of the offender will strengthen the accuracy rate of the apprehension of offend...
Behavioural sciences was a part of the social sciences discipline in the mid 1950's after which subjects like psychology, anthropology and sociology drifted away and were brought in proximity to the sciences as they too studied the effects of diverse factors including physiology on human behaviour. The study of behavioural sciences is a relatively...
Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation constitutes more than 59% of the entire trafficking industry. An efficient rehabilitation model reflects the utilization of the victim's coping mechanism to overcome the stress and trauma of past victimization. The main aim of the study is to explore various coping mechanisms utilized by both victims o...
Sex trafficking constitute as the primary form of human trafficking involving predominantly young girls and women. Rehabilitation of rescued victims of commercial sexual exploitation is critical in efficient reintegration into society.
Purpose
This study aims to understand the relationship between servant leadership (SL) and followers’ organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) along with the mediational role of generalized self-efficacy (GSE) and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) on the relationship.
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A review of literature on leadership has been...
Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation constitutes more than 59% of the entire trafficking industry globally. Young girls and women are sexually exploited and involved in prostitution, sex tourism, pornography, and other abuses. An efficient rehabilitation model reflects the utilization of the victim's coping mechanism to overcome the stres...
The field of sports psychology aims at assisting athletes to flourish in their sport-specific domain where the idea is to focus upon building resilience in athletes. Whereas the concept of well-being in sports further aims at developing life skills and promoting positive sporting experiences among athletes through sports participation and physical...
Background: Sex trafficking constitute as the primary form of human trafficking involving predominantly young girls and women. Rehabilitation of rescued victims of commercial sexual exploitation is critical in efficient reintegration into society.
Aims: The main aim of the study is to explore the narratives of the victims of commercial sexual expl...
Our quest for understanding the universe and laws associated with it has driven civilization to a realization that laws of nature, the supreme, and growing from the inside out is the real education that one can have. Growing from inside out is the path of spirituality that each one pursues. This research paper made a humble attempt towards examinin...
Compensation is an important aspect not only to attract and motivate the employees but also to retain them. This book helps in understanding the various concepts of compensation management, facilitates the creation of suitable salary structure and introduction of technology in the payroll processing. The book is aimed to cohesively represent the pa...
An individual's gender may influence their behavioral preferences as males exhibited a significantly higher risk taking, openness to change, autonomy, and achievement tendencies. Interestingly, older females seemed to possess lower risk taking, creativity , and autonomy than the younger cohort of women entrepreneurs, while age had no influence on p...
An individual's gender may influence their behavioral preferences as males exhibited a significantly higher risk taking, openness to change, autonomy, and achievement tendencies. Interestingly, older females seemed to possess lower risk taking, creativity, and autonomy than the younger cohort of women entrepreneurs, while age had no influence on pe...
“White collar crimes” are categorized as crimes that are non-violent and fall directly or indirectly under the domain of financial gain or avoiding gain to any individuals. National Crime Records Bureau’s Crime in India report notifies that the reporting of the Economic of has fluctuated over the year from 142560 cases (2014), 150170 (2015), 143524...
“White collar crimes” are categorized as crimes that are non-violent and fall directly or indirectly under the domain of financial gain or avoiding gain to any individuals. National Crime Records Bureau’s Crime in India report notifies that the reporting of the Economic of has fluctuated over the year from 142560 cases (2014), 150170 (2015), 143524...
Collection of essays in the festschrift dedicated to Prof. Dr. K. Chockalingam.
Through this book, the authors have attempted to bridge the gap between knowledge and intervention to reinstate the prevalence of depression. With the advent of new technology and generation, there lies a great challenge for mental health professionals in modern society. The importance of understanding the complexities of the human mind and behavio...
The chapter discusses the role of resilience and well-being in sports. It further discusses the importance of well-being and various well-being models associated with the context of sports psychology.
This study explores how the victims of crime are treated in the criminal justice system of Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aims to learn victims’ access to justice, victims’ participation in criminal proceedings, victims’ rights and needs of protection and support services and to identify the ongoing victimization process and capacity gaps existi...
The current research study aimed to explore the utility of selected problem-solving tools and techniques in root-cause analysis to demonstrate their practical application. An experimental research design adopting a positivist empirical approach with a deductive strategy was followed to assess the effectiveness of a combined (8D & Six Sigma) problem...
The death penalty is like no other punishment. Its continued existence in the world creates political and civil tensions in many countries. The citizens of this world are divided in their stance on the capital punishment.
Non-state actor has the most volatile definition. Studies tend to define non-state actors depending on the substrata these want to focus. Since it is not a homogeneous category, domestic and international laws use the term befitting their own set of standards.
Michael Foucault, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, talked about the disappearance of punishment as a public spectacle in Chap. 1 of his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975).
The extant literature on death penalty is mostly focused upon arguments in favor or in opposition to death penalty as a punishment for heinous crimes such as murder.
Societies are dynamic and laws undergo modification with global reforms. In India too, laws have been modified and a few have been formulated keeping in view the crime rate and the as an influence of global reforms. Even societal views have undergone alterations and transformations with changes in technology, information, and global reforms.
In India, death penalty is given in the rarest of rare cases by the court. Death penalty can be imposed only in the gravest cases taking into account the aggravating and mitigating circumstances of the case and paying due regard to the circumstances of the offence. In addition to the judicial system, views of general citizens of the country also co...
This chapter represents the summary of the book and the way forward for India. In the modern era, the death penalty is a violation of the right to life. The evidence in a vast and diverse country like India points to a strong support for corporeal punishment.
This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. It examines in detail the progress made by international organizations worldwide in their efforts to abolish the death penalty and provides statistics from various countries that have already abolished it. The book focuses on four main aspects: the excessive cost a...
Current study aimed at exploring a number of contextual, demographic and other funding related human capital factors that may impact a social entrepreneur’s personality preferences. Data for the current study was collected through a massive open online course on social entrepreneurship, consisting of participants from over 89 different countries wh...
There is a growing concern about student incivility in classrooms among academicians and institutional leaders. This study humbly tried to identify various enablers for reducing student incivility in classrooms through an exploratory investigation. This study uses empirical qualitative methods of investigation in a higher educational institution ba...
According to the world health organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental disorder, or as is more commonly termed in popular parla...
Of the many facets of entrepreneurship under investigation, ethical fibre of entrepreneurs is hugely under-investigated (Florin et al., 2003; Zhang et al., 2003). It is evident that even today, well known organisations rely on gut feeling for assessing the ethical orientation of entrepreneurs. The difficulty in assessing ethical orientation is due...
The book Refugee jurisprudence and Criminal justice aims to assimilate the research and literature presented at the 9th International Forum on Crime and Criminal Law in the Global Era (O.P. Jindal Global University, India, l 0-11th December, 2017) in order to probe the criminal nature and causes of forced migration, the measures taken locally and g...
Scholars from across the globe have consistently looked at the problem of migration and criminal phenomenon via different lenses. This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the criminal issues associated with the migration phenomenon and how the countries have, individually and globally, instituted combative and preventative legisla...
The research study aims to evaluate the precision of the measurement system using Gauge R&R. An experimental research design adopting a positivist empirical approach with deductive strategy was followed to assess the effectiveness of Crossed Gauge R&R technique for validating a measurement system using destructive testing. Crossed Gauge R&R techniq...
Scholars from across the globe have consistently looked at the problem of migration and criminal phenomenon via different lenses. This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the criminal issues associated with the migration phenomenon and how the countries have, individually and globally, instituted combative and preventative legisla...
The book Crime and Criminal Law: Perspectives on Global Migration aims to assimilate the research and literature presented at the 9th International Forum on Crime and Criminal Law in the Global Era (O.P. Jindal Global University, India, l0-ll th December, 2017) in order to probe the criminal nature and causes of forced migration, the measures taken...
Purpose. The research study aims to evaluate the precision of the measurement system using Gauge R&R. Methodology. An experimental research design adopting a positivist empirical approach with deductive strategy was followed to assess the effectiveness of Crossed Gauge R&R technique for validating a measurement system using destructive testing. Res...
Purpose. The research study aims to evaluate the precision of the measurement system using Gauge R&R. Methodology. An experimental research design adopting a positivist empirical approach with deductive strategy was followed to assess the effectiveness of Crossed Gauge R&R technique for validating a measurement system using destructive testing. Res...
The book chapters reflect the status of Migrants and Refugees in India. It reflects the various outlook towards migrants and refugees in light of social, economic and legal parlance.
The book chapters reflect the status of Migrants and Refugees in India. It reflects the various outlook towards migrants and refugees in light of social, economic and legal parlance.
Throughout history, people have travelled from neighbouring countries toto seek better lives or religious freedom in India. Despite being home to many communities of refugees, India has no legislative provisions made specific to the rights and responsibilities of refugee and migrant communities in India. Most of the policies and treatments are ther...
This chapter outlines the concept of well-being followed by the different models of well-being such as Mental Health Continuum, PERMA, Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and Quality of life. The chapter then leads to the issues and challenges faced by domestic workers such as unregulated and underpayment of wages, caste and religion, non-recognition of...
The book comes across as a critical connect for HR professionals at a time when the Future of HR is increasingly getting aligned to business. Higher focus & accountability of HR Processes, measurement and impact on business will depend greatly on the right definition of Talent Strategy and that's where the concept, definition & understanding of Com...