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C. Nana Derby, PH.D.

         

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

Colson Hall 201-H

Phone: 804-524-6863

Fax:     804-524-6883

Email: cderby@vsu.edu

 

 

Education:
        
Ph.D. Comparative Sociology, Florida International University
M. A. Comparative Sociology, Florida International University
B.A. (Hons.) Sociology, University of Cape Coast
 
 
Research Interests:
 
            Child Labor Exploitation
            Crimes of Transnational Migration
            Contemporary Slavery
            Human Trafficking
            Feminist Criminology
 
 
Recent Publications:
 
Derby, C. N. (2009). Enslavement and human trafficking: the supple swimmers of Yeji, Ghana. In Shechory, M., Ben-David, S., and Soen, D. (eds). (2009). Who Pays the Price? Foreign Workers, Society, Crime and the Law. New York: Nova Publishers, Inc. 193 – 204.

Derby, C. N. (2009). Child Labor Exploitation: An Overview. In Tenaglia-Webster, M. (ed) (2009). Global Viewpoints: Slavery, 1 158 – 165.

Shahidullah, S. and Derby, C. N. (2009). Criminalisation, modernisation, and globalisation: the US and international perspectives on domestic violence. Global Crimes, 10 (3) 196 – 223.

Derby, C. N. (2009). Contemporary Slavery: Researching Child Domestic Servitude. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Derby, C. N. (2008). Domestic Servitude in Ghana: Conflicts between Tradition and Social Reforms. Virginia Social Science Journal, 43 1-20.

Derby, C. N. (2004). The Case against the Medicalization of Female Mutilation. Canadian Woman Studies, 24 (1) 95-100.

Derby, C. N. (2003). Causes and characteristics of “Contemporary Slavery”: Impact on women and children. Canadian Woman Studies, 22 (3, 4) 60-65.


 
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