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.
AlcoholInterventions: HistoricalandSocioculturalApproaches (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," DeviantBehavior, 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