Visiting Fellows 2008-09

Professor Darryl Brown, University of Virginia School of Law

Darryl Brown is the O.M, Vicars Professor and David H. Ibbeken Research Professor at University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches criminal law, criminal adjudication, and evidence law.

He formerly taught at Washington and Lee University Law School and has visited the faculty of several other law schools. His scholarship has focused on criminal adjudication issues including jury and prosecutor decision making, and on issues of democracy and criminalization.

Prof David Brown, Emeritus Professor, UNSW (summer and Michaelmas Term 2009)

David Brown is Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW, where he taught criminal law, criminal justice, criminology and penology from 1974 to 2008.

He has been active in criminal justice movements, issues and debates for over three decades, is a regular media commentator and has published widely in the field. He has co-authored or co-edited The Prison Struggle (1982); The Judgments of Lionel Murphy (1986); Death in the Hands of the State (1988); Criminal Laws in four editions (1990); (1996); (2001); (2006); Rethinking Law and Order (1998); Prisoners as Citizens (2002); and The New Punitiveness (2005).

Dr Vittoria Vufacchi, London School of Economics

Vittorio Bufacchi holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Vittorio taught at the University of Manchester and University College Dublin, and has held Visiting Professorships at Yale University, University of Colorado at Boulder and Dartmouth College.

Vittorio is currently working on a special issue of the journal Global Crime on “Rethinking Violence”. He is the author of Violence and Social Justice (Palgrave 2007) and editor of Violence: A Philosophical Anthology (Palgrave 2009). Apart from issues of violence and social justice, Vittorio is also interested in the philosophical foundations of human rights; he has recently published the article ‘The Truth About Rights’ in The Journal of Human Rights, Volume 7, Number 4, 2008, and is currently working on an article on ‘Towards a Deflationary Theory of Rights’.

Dr Anita Heber, National Council for Crime Prevention, Sweden

Anita Heber holds a PhD in Criminology and is currently working as a researcher at the Swedish research centre the National Council for Crime Prevention. Her main research interests are fear of crime, victimology and organized crime.

Anita’s doctoral thesis, submitted in June 2007, analyses the fear of crime in Sweden. By means of three studies, the dissertation illustrates how the fear of crime is understood in Anglo-Saxon and Nordic research, by a group of interview subjects and also how this fear is depicted in Stockholm’s daily press. During her stay as a visiting fellow at Oxford University she will be writing an article about fear of crime in the daily press. Anita has several years experience conducting studies on organized crime. The methodologies that she has used are interviews and statistical analysis, such as network analysis. She has published a number of reports, some of them in English, for example measuring organised crime in Europe, Cultural Heritage Crime, as well as two recently published articles in the journal Trends in Organized Crime. Anita has just been granted funding for a two-year project entitled "The Criminal as a Crime Victim". In this project she will analyse different perspectives on incarcerated criminals who are also crime victims. The main research objectives are: how do these people view themselves and how does society (judges and politicians) define them and reason about how they should redress their wrongs? In addition to her research work, Anita has taught more than 300 hours of criminology at the University of Stockholm.

Professor Dr Yong-se Kim, Daejeon University

Professor Dr Erwin Muller LLM, Leiden University

Prof. E.R. (Erwin) Muller (1965) holds an professorship on Safety, Security and Law at the Leiden University in the Netherlands and is Director of the Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management which is an Aon Company. Muller is also a member of the Dutch Council for Public Administration, a member of the Board of the Research School Safety and Security in Society, a member of the Supervisory Council of the Royal Dutch Rescue Society and a member of the Police Knowledge Council. Muller is the editor-in-chief of the Kluwer series Order and Security and a member of the editorial council for the Journal for Security (Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid). He is Chairman of the Consortium of the European Union project Transnational Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law. That Consortium houses Dutch, Danish, Spanish and Czech Republic research institutes.

In Oxford he will write a book on the balance between safety, security and law in modern times where terrorism and other threats are eminent. Safety and security organizations need to adopt specific strategies; the book will focus on the different strategies these organizations can and may use.

His scientific research at Leiden University is now concentrated on police organisations and policing, criminal investigation, crime policy, terrorism and counter-terrorism, safety and security policy, crisis management, enforcement, the judiciary, detention, intelligence services and research into other organisations related to safety and security. The main focus of his publications is on institutionalization of safety and security in a democratic state where the rule of law is crucial. The manner in which safety and security organisations are institutionalized is essential for the effectiveness and lawfulness of security policy within any democratic state.

Core scientific (co-)publications are: Terrorism and political responsibility (Terrorisme en Politieke Verantwoordelijkheid, dissertation 1994), Police (Politie, 1999 and 2007), Disaster and Law (Ramp en recht, 2001), Conflict mediation (Conflichtbeslechting, oration, 2001), Public Order (Publieke Orde, 2002), Principles of Proper Disaster Investigation (Beginselen van behoorlijk rampenonderzoek, 2002), Parliamentary investigations in the Netherlands (Parlementair onderzoek in Nederland, 2002), Trends in Terrorism (Trends in Terrorisme, 2003), Criminal Investigation in the Netherlands (Rechercheportret, 2004), The Enschede Fireworks Disaster (De vuurwerkramp van Enschede, 2004), The Armed Forces (Krijgsmacht, 2004), Security and Safety (Veiligheid, 2004), The Police Organization (Politie en bestel in de knel, 2004), Police and Media (Politie en media, 2005), The Evil of Terrorism (Het Terroristisch kwaad (2005 and 2006, English, 2007), Detention (Detentie, 2005), Text and Commentary Public Order and Security (Tekst and Commentaar Openbare Orde en Veiligheid, 2006), Enforcement (Handhaving, 2006), To Principles of Proper Police Care (Naar beginselen van behoorlijke politiezorg, 2006), The Judiciary (Rechterlijke Macht, 2006), The Fire Department (Brandweer, 2007), Security and Privacy (Veiligheid en Privacy, 2007), Forensic Science (Forensische wetenschap, 2008), Administration, Law and Security (Bestuur, recht en veiligheid, 2008) and Terrorism (Terrorisme, 2008).

Sandra Reynaers, Tilburg University

Sandra Reynaers is a lawyer from the Netherlands who started a PhD in September 2005 at Intervict - The International Victimology Institute of Tilburg - which is set within the Law Faculty of Tilburg University. Her PhD project is about Victim Rights and the Role of the Public Prosecution Service. The aim of this study is to develop a set of recommendations which will enable the Public Prosecution Service to use a victim-focused approach without prejudicing other values of the criminal justice system in both civil (inquisitorial) and common (adversarial) law-based systems. Therefore she will compare two jurisdictions: the Netherlands and England & Wales. She has already conducted field research within several district offices of the Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands, and will now explore the practices within some of the district offices of the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales. Her main fields of interest are Criminal Justice, Victimology, Human Rights, Law and Psychology, and International and European law, which are all embodied within her research. On all of these topics, she has also published some articles in Dutch criminal justice journals and books, and gave presentations at several international conferences and workshops like the Annual Conference of the World Society of Victimology “Enhancing the Mission” in Orlando 2006 and the Workshop “Victim Participation in Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Comparative Analysis”, in Onati 2007. Besides doing research Sandra has also taught a few lectures within the Master courses “Criminal Law and Human Rights” and “Harmonisation of Laws” at Tilburg University. Besides, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Tilburg Foreign Law Review. Brown is Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW, where he taught criminal law, criminal justice, criminology and penology from 1974 to 2008.