S. Priyadarsini, Ph.D.

Title: Associate Research Professor

Telephone: 973 353-5255

Office: Hill Hall 607

email:   chartjen@hotmail.com

Education

Ph.D. Rutgers University, Department of Sociology

Research Interests

Research Interests include the Indian Family, International andComparative Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, and Alcohol Abuse and Treatment.

Current Projects

Professor Priyadarsini has completed a large scale survey of all publications on youth crime and juvenile justice published around the world over the past quarter century. She is continuing analyses of information obtained from this research and completing a study of Indian women at the turn of the Twentieth Century.

Representative Recent Publications

Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: An International Bibliography (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) with Clayton A. Hartjen.

"Gender, Peers and Delinquency: A Study of Boys and Girls in Rural France," Youth and Society (2003) with Clayton A. Hartjen. pp., 387-414.

Alcohol Interventions: Historical and Sociocultural Approaches (New York: Haworth Press, 1986).With David L. Strug & Martin M. Hyman (eds.)

 "Gender-Role Dynamics in an Alcohol Therapy Group," in Strug, David L., Priyadarsini, S. & Martin M. Hyman (eds.) Alcohol Interventions: Historical and Socio-cultural Approaches (New York: Haworth Press, 1986), pp 179-196.

Delinquency in India: A Comparative Analysis (New Brunswick New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1984) with Clayton A. Hartjen

 "Crime News in Newspapers: A Case Study in Tamil Nadu, India," Deviant Behavior, 5 (1984), pp 313-326.

 "Legal Control and Alcohol in the United States and India," International Journalof the Addictions, 17:6 (1982), pp., 1099-1106 with Clayton A. Hartjen

Public Perceptions of Drinking by Juveniles in India: A Case Study," Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 42:7 (1981), pp., 594-603.

 "Delinquency and Corrections in India," in Gary F. Jensen (ed.), The Sociology of Delinquency: Current Issues, American Society of Criminology Research Progress Series (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1981), pp., 109-123 with Clayton A. Hartjen