Sudipto Roy, Ph.D.

Education:

Dr. Sudipto Roy is a Professor at the Department of Criminology. He obtained his B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. Degrees in Anthropology from the University of Calcutta, in his native country of India. He obtained an M.A. in Social Anthropology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1980. Upon graduation, he worked as a Research assistant at the Sociological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. Afterwards, he completed his M.A. in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the Criminal Justice Program, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University. 

Dr. Roy has published his research on the impact of Victim Restitution Programs (both court-based and Victim Offender Reconciliation Projects) and Electronically Monitored Home Detention Programs on adult as well as juvenile offenders in Criminology and Social Integration, Federal Probation, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Crime and Justice, Journal of Offender Monitoring, The Justice Professional, and in Intermediate Sanctions: Sentencing in the 1990s (ed. By Smykla, J.O. and Selke, W.) and in Innovative Trends and Specialized Strategies in Community-Based Corrections (ed. By Fields, Charles). Also, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board as well as a reviewer for the Criminology and Social Integration (published by the University of Zagreb, Croatia), and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Additionally, he reviews manuscripts for Justice Quarterly, The Justice Professional, and Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. He also reviews manuscripts for Prentice-Hall as well as West/Wadsworth Publishers. Furthermore, he has presented a number of papers in international, national, and regional professional meetings. In 1992 and 1994, he was invited as a resource faculty at the Eighth and the Tenth Annual Post Graduate Seminar on "Victims and the Criminal Justice System" held at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Also, as a doctoral student he participated in the same seminar held at the Inter-university Centre of Post-graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1987. 

Prior to accepting a faculty position at Indiana State University in Fall 1994, Dr. Roy was on the Faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Northwest, and Department of Sociology, Delaware State University. He has conducted varied evaluation research projects on community correctional programs in Michigan, Delaware, New York, and Indiana. He is a member of the World Society of Victimology, American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and Association for Correctional Research and Information Management. 

Dr. Roy's teaching expertise include Criminological Theories, Research Methods in Criminology/Criminal Justice, Community-Based Corrections, Juvenile Delinquency, Victimology, Crime and Public Policy, Introduction to Corrections, etc. His areas of specialization are corrections, juvenile justice, victimology, criminology, program evaluation, statistics, and race and ethnic relations.

Dr. Roy is the liaison person (Academic/Research Management) for the exchange program established between Indiana State University and the University of Zagreb, Croatia on April 26, 2005.

Publications:

Avdija, Avdi, & Roy, Sudipto, "A Psychosocial Measure of the Factual Autonomy and Job Satisfaction Among Prison Employees", Criminal Justice Studies, 2012, Vol. 25. No. 3, p. 251-264.

Roy, Sudipto & Avdija, Avdi, "Assessing the Effect of Prison Security Level on Job Satisfaction and Job Burnout Among Prison Staff", International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2012 (accepted).

Roy, Sudipto, "Convicted Drunk Drivers in an Electronically Monitored Home Detention Program: A Three-Year Study on Exit Status and Subsequent Recidivism", Criminology and Social Integration, V. 19, No. 2, 2011 (accepted)

Roy, Sudipto, Novak, Tihana, & Miksaj-Tedorovic, Ljiliana, "Job Burnout Among Prison Staff in the United States and Croatia: A Preliminary Comparative Study", International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010, p. 189-202.

Barton, Shannon, and Roy, Sudipto. “Convicted Drunk Drivers in an Electronic Monitoring Program: An Exploratory Study”, International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008, p. 28-43.

Roy, Sudipto and Barton, Shannon, “Convicted Drunk Drivers in Electronic Home Detention and Day Reporting Center: A Comparison”, Criminology and Social Integration [published by the University of Zagreb, Croatia], 2007, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 39-49.

Shon, Phillip C. H., Roy, Sudipto, and Targonski, Joseph, “Female Offender Parricides: The Asymmetrical Distribution of Homicide for Parents and Stepparents”, Criminology and Social Integration, 2007, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 13-25.

Barton, Shannon and Roy, Sudipto, "Convicted Drunk Drivers in Electronic Monitoring Home Detention and Day Reporting Center: An Exploratory Study", Federal Probation, 2006, June, p. 49-55.

Barton, Shannon and Roy, Sudipto, "Convicted Drunk Drivers in a Day Reporting Center Program", Criminology and Social Integration, Vol. 13, No.1, 2005, p. 1-9.

Roy, Sudipto, "Factors Related to Success and Recidivism in a Day Reporting Center", Criminal Justice Studies, No.1, 2004, p. 3-17.

 Roy, Sudipto, "Jail Reforms in India: A Review", Criminology and Social Integration [published by the University of Zagreb, Croatia], Vol. 11, No.1 and 2, 2003, p. 33-40.

Roy, Sudipto and Grimes, Jennifer, "Adult Offenders in a Day reporting Center Program: a Preliminary Study", Federal Probation, June, 2002 p. 44-50. 

Roy Sudipto, "Brutality in Police Custody in India', Criminology and Social Integration [Published by the University of Zagerb, croatial], vol. 8, No. 1-2, 2000, p.95-102

Roy, Sudipto, "An Analysis of the Exit Status of Adult Offenders in an Electronic Monitoring Home Detention Program in Indiana," Journal of Offender Monitoring, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1999, p.8-13. 

Schrink, Jeffrey L., Roy, Sudipto, and Ransburg, John, "Perceptions of Alumni Concerning Their Level of Preparation for Criminal Justice Careers: A Pilot Study," Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1999, p. 75-85. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Violations of the Rights of the Accused and the Convicted in India", Criminology and Social Integration, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997, p. 83-88.

Roy, Sudipto, "Five Years of Electronic Monitoring of Adults and Juveniles in Lake County, Indiana: A Comparative Study on Factors Related to Failure", Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1997, p. 141-160. 

Roy, Sudipto and Schrink, Jeffrey, "Juvenile Restitution in the United States: Bringing Justice for Victims?", Criminology and Social Integration, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1996, p. 53-59. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Juvenile Offenders in an Electronic Home Detention Program: A Study on Factors Related to Failure", Journal of Offender Monitoring, Spring 1995, p. 9-17. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Juvenile Restitution and Recidivism in a Midwestern County", Federal Probation, March 1995, p. 55-62. 

Roy, Sudipto and Brown, Michael P., "Juvenile Electronic Monitoring Program in Lake County, Indiana: An Evaluation" (p. 21-35), in Intermediate Sanctions: Sentencing in the 1990s (ed.) Smykla, J. and Selke, W., Anderson Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 1995. 

Brown, Michael P. and Roy, Sudipto, "Manual and Electronic House Arrest Programs for Adults: An Evaluation of Factors Related to Failure" (p. 37-53), in Intermediate Sanctions: Sentencing in the 1990s (ed.) Smykla, J. And Selke, W., Anderson Publishing, Cincinnati, OH, 1995. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Adult Offenders in an Electronic Home Detention Program: Factors Related to Failure", Journal of Offender Monitoring, Fall 1994, p. 17-21. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Electronic Monitoring of Juvenile Offenders in Lake County, Indiana: An Exploratory Study", Journal of Offender Monitoring, Winter 1994, p. 1-8. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Electronic Monitoring of Juvenile Offenders: The Lake County, Indiana Experience" (p.159-167), in Innovative Trends and Specialized Strategies in Community based Corrections (ed.) Fields, Charles, Garland Publishing Inc., New York, 1994. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Victim Offender Reconciliation Project for Juveniles in Elkhart County, Indiana: An Exploratory Study", The Justice Professional, Spring 1994, p. 23-35. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Two Types of Juvenile Restitution Programs in Two Midwestern Counties: A Comparative Study", Federal Probation, December 1993, p. 48-53. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Victim Meets Offender: A Comparative Study on Juveniles and Adults in a Midwestern County", Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, May 1993, p. 117-133. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Offender-oriented Restitution Bills: Bringing Total Justice for Victims?", Federal Probation, September 1990, p. 30-36. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Indians in Kenya and Trinidad: A Study of Interethnic Relationships in Plural Societies", Man and Life, January-June 1983, p. 75-87. 

Roy, Sudipto, "Asian Male Labor Force in Canada, 1921, 1941, and 1961", Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, November 1982, p. 245-252. 

Book Review: 

Managing Police Organizations (ed.) Cordner, Gary W. And Kenney, Dennis J., Anderson Publishing Company, Cincinnati, OH, in The Justice Professional, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1997.