Speakers
Adrian Barton
Dr Adrian Barton is Associate Dean (Graduate Affairs) in the Faculty of Social Science and Business at the University of Plymouth. He has researched and published around the interface between social and public policy and criminal justice policy and agencies, notably in the areas of drugs and drug treatment. He is currently undertaking some British Academy funded research which examines the use a of a World health Organisation screening tool for alcohol use in a custody suite. Beyond that he is on the editorial board of Social and Public Policy Review and is acting as a research consultant for the Prison Advice and Care Trust.
Greta Squire
Greta Squire is a University of Plymouth bursary funded doctoral researcher within the Faculty of Social Science and Business. Her research examines the role of the voluntary and community agencies within the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership framework under the supervision of Dr Adrian Barton and Professor Rob Mawby. She has also worked on the collation of the Crime and Disorder Audits for Cornwall in 2004, and is currently working alongside Dr Adrian Barton on research evaluating the use of a screening and brief intervention tool within a custody suite. Greta is currently interested in domestic violence, partnership working and crime prevention.
Teela Sanders
Dr Teela Sanders is a senior lecturer in sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds and specialises in the sociology of crime and deviance. She has published research findings in journals such as Sociology, Urban Studies, the Sociology of Health and Illness and Gender, Work and Organization, , British Journal of Sociology. She has published on the indoor sex markets, Sex Work: A Risky Business’ (Willan, 2005) which was shortlisted for the Philip Abrahms prize, and recently Paying for Pleasure: Men Who Buy Sex (Willan, 2008). Teela has recently completed a project ‘Pathways out of Prostitution: Becoming an Ex-Sex Worker’ (funded by the British Academy) which can be found in the journal Feminist Criminology. Co-authored with Harriet Churchill, Teela has written ‘Getting Your PhD: A Practical Insider’s Guide’ (Sage, 2007). Current interests focus on the regulation of sexuality and illegal and informal economies across Europe. Teela is a Board Member of the UK Network of Sex Work Projects, and has been the Chair of the women’s outreach charity, Genesis, in Leeds for the last three years.
Brian McIntosh
Brian McIntosh is an ESRC funded doctoral researcher and tutor in Criminology within the school of Social Science at Cardiff University. His research is exploring anti-social behaviour and its regulation from the perspectives of youths who currently have or have had some form of anti-social behaviour intervention. Prior to the PhD, Brian has also obtained an MSc with distinction in Social Science Research Methods at Cardiff University. In addition he was also one of the co-founders of the recently introduced Criminology Postgraduate Research Group at Cardiff University.
Alex Stevens
Alex Stevens is Senior Researcher at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research). He has published on the use of evidence in drug policy, including the UK Drug Policy Commission’s Analysis of UK Drug Policy (which he co-authored with Peter Reuter) and papers on the over-estimation of drug-related crime in policy debates. He also led QCT Europe, a European-funded, six country research project on treatment for drug dependent offenders and has recently completed a project, called Early Exit, on early retention in treatment for the Department of Health.
Stephen Case
Dr Stephen Case is a lecturer in criminology in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology at Swansea University. His research interests include risk and protective factors for youth offending, youth justice, crime prevention, public opinion of crime, antisocial behaviour and sentencing, and teaching and learning in criminology. Stephen has recently completed the national evaluation of the Welsh Assembly Government’s ‘Extending Entitlement’ youth inclusion strategy. He is currently co-writing a book (with Dr Kevin Haines) entitled ‘Understanding youth offending: Risk factor research, policy and practice’.
In 2008, Stephen was named as the joint winner of the British Society of Criminology’s inaugural Brian Williams Prize for his 2007 article 'Questioning the 'evidence’ of risk that underpins evidence-led youth justice interventions’, which was published in Youth Justice (Vol 7 (2), 91-106). The Prize is given to new Criminological scholars within five years of appointment, who publish a sole authored peer reviewed journal article which makes a valuable contribution to the further development of Criminology and which is judged to be the best such article published in that year.
Gemma Harper
Dr Gemma Harper is Programme Director of Research, Development and Statistics National Offender Management Service Research and Evaluation (RDS NOMS R&E) in the Ministry of Justice. After completing a psychology degree at Leicester University and an MSc and a PhD on social psychology at LSE, London University, she joined the University of Reading as a Research Fellow in the Department of Agricultural Economics, where she conducted research on consumer psychology for the UN, EU, DeFRA and DfID. She joined the Home Office in 2002 as a Principal Research Officer and managed a programme of probation research, including evaluation of what works to reduce re-offending. In 2004, she became Programme Director in RDS NOMS responsible for research and evaluation relating to sentencing, offender management, reducing re-offending and public protection.
Julian Roberts
Before coming to Oxford in 2005, Julian Roberts was Professor of Criminology and University Research Professor at the University of Ottawa. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1982. From 1991-2005 he served as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and has recently assumed the Editorship of the European Journal of Criminology. His research interests include: sentencing; public opinion about crime and criminal justice; restorative justice; victims and the criminal justice system.
Robert MacDonald
Robert MacDonald is Professor of Sociology at the University of Teesside. He has undertaken a range of studies about young people and youth issues. Recent publications include: Disconnected Youth? Growing up in Britain’s Poor Neighbourhoods, (2005) Palgrave (with Jane Marsh), and Drugs in Britain: Supply, Consumption and Control (2007) Palgrave (edited with Mark Simpson and Tracy Shildrick).
Francis Pakes
Francis Pakes is Reader in Comparative Criminology at the University of Portsmouth. Psychologist by trade, Francis joined the Institute for Criminal Justice Studies in 1998. His research expertise includes crime and justice in his native the Netherlands, comparative criminal justice, and criminal justice and mental health. His first book, Comparative Criminal Justice, was published by Willan in 2004. Francis is currently treasurer of the British Society of Criminology.
Pat Carlen
Pat Carlen is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Kent and Westminster, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, founder of the Keele Criminology Department, co-founder of the campaigning group Women in Prison and has published 17 books and many articles on criminal and social justice. She has conducted research in England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, USA and Peru, and has also given public or invited lectures in all those countries as well as in The Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Austria, Hungary, and South Africa. Her work has been translated into Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish. In 1997 she was awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin-Glueck Prize for outstanding international contributions to Criminology and is currently engaged in editing a book entitled Imaginary Penalties, to be published by Willan in 2008.
David Miers
Professor David Miers was appointed Professor of Law at Cardiff in 1992. Between 1992 and 2000 he was Director of the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at Cardiff, and between 2000-2004 Deputy Head and 2004-2005 Acting Head of the Law School. He previously held appointments at the Queen’s University, Belfast and in Cardiff. In 1981-82 he was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford.
He has a long-standing research interest in crime victim compensation and more generally in the place of the victim in the criminal justice system. He is an Editor of the International Review of Victimology, founded in 1989, and in 2001 completed two Home Office funded research projects on restorative justice. Between 2002-2006 he was one of the two UK national representatives on an EU COST Action researching restorative justice and victim offender mediation provision across Europe. He has participated as an expert in other EC funded research restorative justice, funded by the Grotius and AGIS programmes. He recently completed a project for the French Ministry of Justice, and is regularly consulted by other governments.
Rod Morgan
Rod Morgan is Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol, and Visiting Professor at the Police Science Institute, Cardiff University and at the London School of Economics. Until February 2007 he was Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and prior to that (2001-4) HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales. He has held almost every post within the criminal justice system it is possible to hold part time, locally (magistrate, police authority member, etc), nationally (Parole Board, commission member, government advisor, etc) and internationally (expert advisor to the UN, Council of Europe and Amnesty International on custodial conditions and the prevention of torture). He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (4th ed., OUP, 2007) and co-author of the Council of Europe’s guide to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (Combating Torture in Europe, Council of Europe, 2001).
Professor Pat O’Malley
Currently University of Sydney Professorial Research Fellow in Law, and previously Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ottawa.. Over the past fifteen years research has focussed mostly on risk management techniques as they are used to govern such fields as criminal justice. This work has also played a role in developing ‘governmentality’ as a form of theoretical analysis. Recent books on risk include Risk, Uncertainty and Government (2004), Crime and Risk (Forthcoming, Sage) and with Kelly Hannah Moffat an edited collection Gendered Risks (2007). Current work is focused on the use of money in justice and the latest book The Currency of Justice: Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies (2009) has just been published by Routledge Cavendish.
Dr Jo Phoenix
Jo Phoenix is Reader in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences and Deputy Head of Faculty, Social Sciences and Health, Durham University. She has been involved in research on prostitution and prostitution policy reform since the mid 1990s and is author of many articles, chapters and books on the subject. Most recently, she has edited Regulating Sex for Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK (2009, Policy Press) and co-authored (with Sarah Oerton) Illicit and Illegal: Sex, Regulation and Social Control (2005, Willan Publishing). She is also interested in research on youth justice and has published several articles and chapters on risk assessment and decision-making in youth justice in England and Wales.
Professor Eric Drogin
Eric Y. Drogin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, a Diplomate and former President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Drogin is a former Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Professional Practice and Standards, a former Chair of the APA’s Committee on Legal Issues, a former Chair of the APA’s Joint Task Force with the American Bar Association, and a former President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association. He serves on the faculties of the Harvard Medical School (as a member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, and on the staff of the Forensic Psychiatry Service, in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Drogin received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University.
Dr. Drogin is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. His current American Bar Association roles include Chair of the Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Scientists, Secretary of the Section of Science & Technology Law, and Commissioner of the Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. Dr. Drogin is a former Chair of the ABA’s Life & Physical Sciences Division, and a former Chair of the ABA’s Behavioral Sciences Committee. He serves on the adjunct faculty of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, participates as an Instructor in the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, and teaches for the University of Wales (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) as an Honorary Professor of Law. Dr. Drogin received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Villanova University School of Law.
Currently serving as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Dr. Drogin has authored or co-authored over 150 legal and scientific publications to date, including the American Bar Association’s Criminal Law Handbook on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence and Testimony (2000), Civil Law Handbook on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence and Testimony (2001), Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony (2007), and Science for Lawyers (2008). He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in England, Ireland, Wales, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia, and regularly presents continuing education seminars for attorneys and mental health professionals on such topics as forensic assessment, ethics, and professional development. Dr. Drogin’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses mental health law, expert witness testimony, and trial consultation.
Dr Aisha Gill
Dr Aisha Gill (B.A., M.A. [Di], PhD (University of Essex)) PGCHE, is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Roehampton University. Her main areas of interest and research are health and criminal justice responses to violence against Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) women in the United Kingdom. She has been involved in addressing the problem of Violence Against Women (VAW) at the grassroots and activist levels for the past ten years. She is Chair of Newham Asian Women’s Project, management committee member of Imkaan (a second-tier national VAW charity) and a member of Liberty’s Project Advisory Group and 'End Violence Against Women’ group (EVAW). Dr Gill has extensive experience of providing expert advice to government and the voluntary sector on legal policy issues related to so-called 'honour’ killings and forced marriage, and has challenged politicians to be more inclusive of BMER women’s voices in policy-making on issues of gender-based violence and human rights. Her current research interests include the following: rights, law and forced marriage; crimes related to patriarchy; 'honour’-based violence and femicide in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdish/South Asian Diaspora; post-separation violence and child contact; trafficking; missing women; and sexual violence. She has also published widely in referred journals (see publications section) and is currently working on a manuscript on violence against women in the South Asian community in the UK (due to be published with Jessica Kingsley Publishers in summer 2009).
Professor John Pitts
John Pitts is Vauxhall Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Bedfordshire. He has worked in printing and publishing; as a school teacher; a street and club-based youth worker; a group worker in a Young Offender Institution and as a consultant to workers in youth justice and youth social work, legal professionals and the police in the UK, mainland Europe, the Russian Federation and China. More recently he has acted as a consultant on violent youth gangs to local authorities, police forces and ‘think tanks’.
His research includes studies of The differential treatment of black and white young offenders; Anglo-French responses to youth crime and disorder; The violent victimisation of school students; Inter-racial youth violence; The impact of youth work on the life chances of socially excluded young people in five European cities; The contribution of detached and outreach youth work to the life chances of socially excluded young people in the UK and Violent youth gangs in three London boroughs.
His publications include: The Politics of Juvenile Crime, Sage Publications (1988), Working With Young Offenders, BASW/Macmillan (1990 & 1999), The New Politics of Youth Crime: Discipline or Solidarity Macmillan (2001), Crime Disorder and Community Safety, (with R. Matthews [eds.]) Routledge, (2001), The Russell House Companion to Working with Young People, (with F. Factor & V. Chauchun [eds.]) Russell House (2001), Reaching Socially Excluded Young People, (with D. Crimmens, F. Factor T. Jeffs, C. Pugh, J.Spence & P. Turner) National Youth Agency, (2004), The Russell House Companion to Youth Justice, (with T. Bateman [eds.]) Russell House (2005), Reluctant Gangsters: The Changing Face of Youth Crime, Willan Publishing, (2008). He is editor of Safer Communities, associate editor of Youth and Policy and an editorial board member of Youth Justice and Juvenile Justice Worldwide (UNESCO).
Dr Harriet Pierpoint
Dr Harriet Pierpoint is a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminology at University of Glamorgan in Wales. Her interests relate to (1) criminal justice processing and vulnerable people in the criminal justice system and (2) alternatives to prosecution and imprisonment, and she has recently also become interested in animal abuse. Her previous research experience includes evaluations of community safety strategies, audits for youth inclusion programmes and a study of the role of volunteer appropriate adults for young suspects, which was the basis for her PhD thesis. More recent projects include: a Home Office study “Evaluation of Conditional Cautions: Surveys of Stakeholders, Offenders and Victims” (2006) and a Ministry of Justice study “Fine Payment Work – Process Study” (2008). She is currently working on an evaluation of a “Third Sector (Future Skills) Demonstrator Project” for the National Offender Management Service Cymru and projects on “Speech and Language Therapy in Criminal Justice” and “The Use and Abuse of Animals in UK Youth Gangs” funded by the University Research Investment Scheme. She has a number of publications in these areas, including in internationally recognised, peer reviewed journals, such as: Policing and Society and Criminology and Criminal Justice: The International Journal. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming book, the Handbook on Contemporary Forms of Crime , for Willan Publishing. She has also presents her research at key national and international conferences and has been by invited by academics and practitioners to give guest lectures. She is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies and the Chair of the British Society of Criminology Wales Branch.
Dr Francis Cowe
Dr Francis Cowe is Director of Academic Development at Newport and founder of the Newport Centre for Criminal and Community Justice. He joined Newport in 1999 having previously worked in the Probation Service. His research interests include; approved premises and the rehabilitation of offenders, notions of creative practice with socially excluded groups and the practical and theoretical challenges of making links between theory, policy and practice.
Professor Mike Nellis
Mike Nellis is Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the Glasgow School of Social Work, University of Strathclyde. He is a former social worker with young offenders, trained at the London School of Economics in 1977/8 and between 1990 – 2003 was himself closely involved in the training of probation officers at the University of Birmingham. He was awarded his Phd from the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in 1991. He has written extensively on the changing nature of the probation service, the promotion of community penalties, the significance of electronic monitoring and the cultural politics of penal reform (including the educational use of prison movies and offender’s autobiographies). His last book (edited with Eric Chui) was Moving Probation Forward (Longmans 2003) and he is currently editing a book, with Belgian colleagues, on electronic monitoring around the world.
Professor Mark Drakeford
