Kerry Baker joined the Centre in December 1997 and has worked on a range of projects relating to probation and youth justice. In particular she has been involved in the development of Asset - the standard assessment tool now used by all Youth Offending Teams in England and Wales. In 2004 she completed a doctorate on 'Risk Assessment of Young Offenders'.

She is currently on secondment to the Youth Justice Board where she advises on policy developments relating to assessment, risk and public protection. She has also worked with youth justice services in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Bulgaria and Canada.

Ian Blair [Biographical notes from the official Parliament website and wikipedia]

Jennifer Brown Jennifer's research interests are in the areas of police occupational culture, especially stress and gender relations.

In addition she researches decision making in serious crime investigations including rape and murder.

Currently she is the deputy chair to Lord Stevens in his Independent Inquiry into the Future of Policing in England and Wales. She recently co-edited the Cambridge handbook of Forensic Psychology with Elizabeth Campbell and a Handbook on Sexual Violence with Sandra Walklate.

Dr Ros Burnett obtained her doctorate in Social Psychology from the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford and, before entering academia, was a probation officer and relationship counsellor. She has been a member of the Centre for Criminology since 1990 - apart from a two year period when she 'desisted from crime' - and she was the first Head of the Centre's Probation Studies Unit. Her research encompasses probation, youth justice and prison services, the unifying theme being interventions and processes that impact on criminal careers to limit reoffending and support desistance from crime. Her publications include: Fitting Supervision to Offenders (1996), Joined-up Youth Justice (with Catherine Appleton, 2003) What Works in Probation and Youth Justice (co-edited with Colin Roberts, 2004). Prisoners as Citizens' Advisers (with Shadd Maruna, 2004) and Reducing Re-offending: Key Practice Skills (with McNeill and Bachelor, 2005). Studies during the last two years have focused on organisational change in probation and prisons, including an investigation of the implications of NOMS for practice by prison officers, supported by a British Academy award. She is currently working as a Consultant to the Barrow Cadbury Trust in its development and promotion of linked services for, a neglected group, young adults (aged 18-24 years) in the criminal justice system.

David Faulkner teaches and writes on criminal justice and penology. He also works on various aspects of government, public service and public administration.

Before coming to Oxford in 1992, he worked for over 30 years at the Home Office, where his later appointments included Director of Operational Policy in the Prison Service (1980-1982), and a period of eight years as Deputy Secretary in charge of the Criminal, Research and Statistics Departments (1982-1990). Other positions included previous postings to the Prison Department (1963-1966 and 1970-1974) and to the Police Department (1976-1977), and responsibilities for parliamentary and constitutional reform, and the management of the Government's legislative programme (on secondment to the Cabinet Office), and for the internal management of the Home Office.

David was a member of the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, and of the Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention and Control during the 1980s. He led the United Kingdom's delegation to the United Nations Congresses on Crime and Criminal Justice in 1985 and 1990. He is, or has been, a trustee, member of council, or adviser to several voluntary organisations concerned with law reform, community safety and opportunities for young people. They include JUSTICE, the Mental Health Foundation, the Howard League for Penal Reform, and the Thames Valley Partnership.

David's main publication is Crime, State and Citizen: a Field full of Folk published by Waterside Press (second edition 2006). The opening chapters consider the political and social context in which Britain governs itself at the start of the 21st century; changing assumptions about the rights and responsibilities of its citizens, especially in the context of the Human Rights Act; the changing character of public services; and the relationship between citizens, public services and the state. Later chapters trace the more important ideas and influences which have over the years affected attitudes to crime and the treatment of offenders. They consider recent and current issues and policies relating to sentencing and the management of the various criminal justice services; cross-cutting issues such as the treatment of children and young people, race and diversity, and the rights and responsibilities of victims; and the implications for the courts and the machinery of government. A final chapter reviews developments during the five years since the first edition was published, which coincides with the Labour government's second term of office and the start of its third.

Andriani Fili Andriani holds MSc qualifications from Oxford and LSE in Criminology and Criminal Justice and in Gender and Social Policy respectively. She currently works as a research assistant in Greece for a project on border policing and the intersection of security, gender and human rights supported by Monash University and the University of Oxford. The project aims to gather women's migration stories and experiences of border policing and immigration detention to better understand key trends as well as individual factors that inform women's strategies and decision-making in relation to irregular migration and its control. Andriani has a range of experience working in the non-profit sector, in both Greece and internationally, with women affected by the criminal justice system and vulnerable groups in Athens amid the financial crisis. Andriani joined the department to work alongside Dr Mary Bosworth on the border control project and will seek with her assistance to develop and extend the detention part of the project in Greece. In future, Andriani plans to continue her long-standing work on women's imprisonment in Greece.

Ben Goold (B.Ec., LL.B. (Tasmania), B.C.L. (Oxford), D.Phil. (Law) (Oxford)) has been Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of British Columbia sine January 2010. Ben is still associated with the Centre for Criminology through research projects. He was a University Lecturer in Law and a Fellow and Tutor at Somerville College until January 2010. His major research interests are in the use of surveillance technology by the police, and the relationship between individual privacy rights and the criminal law. He is author of CCTV and Policing (2003, Oxford UP) and several articles on these topics. He taught Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Penology, Introduction to Law, and Torts for Somerville. He also writes on aspects of the Japanese criminal justice system, and is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and an Associate Member of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.

Roger Hood obtained his BSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics in 1957; his PhD from Cambridge University in 1963; and DCL from Oxford University in 1999. He was a Research Officer at the LSE from 1961-63, then Lecturer in Social Administration at Durham University, and Assistant Director of Research and Director of Post-Graduate Studies at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge from 1967-1973 and Fellow of Clare Hall. In 1973 he came to Oxford as the University Reader in Criminology and head of the Penal Research Unit, which became the Centre for Criminological Research in 1976. In 1996 he was given the title of Professor of Criminology.

He has been a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales, of the Judicial Studies Board and of the Departmental Committee to Review the Parole System (1987-88). He has also been consultant to the United Nations on the death penalty and was responsible for the UN Secretary General's reports on the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Quinquennial Surveys of Capital Punishment in 1995, 2000-2001 and 2004-2005. From 1987-89 he was President of the British Society of Criminology. He is a member of the Foreign Secretary's Death Penalty Panel; has taken part in the UK/China Human Rights Dialogues and the UE/China Human Rights Seminars; is consultant on the death penalty to the Great Britain-China Centre; and a Trustee of the Grendon Friends Trust and The Death Penalty Project.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School in 1980-82, 1984-90, and since 2005, and Adjunct Professor at City University Hong Kong since 2008, where he teaches an intensive short course on international perspectives on the death penalty. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished Contributions to Criminology'; in 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy; and in 1995 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 'for services to the study of criminology'; and in 2000 he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel. He was sub-Warden of All Souls College from 1994-96, and was College Steward from 1993-2003. From October 2003 to May 2004 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2003, a Festschrift entitled The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (edited by Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth) was published by Oxford University Press to mark his retirement.

His recent research has had three main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; and parole. The fourth edition of his book The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective (with Carolyn Hoyle) was published by Oxford University Press in April 2008.

Jacqui Karn is Research Fellow at the Police Foundation, an independent charity working to improve policing policy and practice (and related issues) through research, policy development and training/consultancy. She is principally engaged in the development of a large scale project to explore innovation in policing practice over the next four years. Prior to that appointment Jacqui has worked in academia (London School of Economics ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow), non-profit and government criminal justice sectors, nationally and internationally (Nacro, UK; Ministry of Justice, UK; The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada), on urban safety and policing, mental health in the criminal justice system, and policies to reduce the use of short term custody and remand. Further details can be found on her website: http://jacquikarn.wordpress.com/. She has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MA in ?Crime, Law and Society? from Manchester University and a PhD in Criminology from Keele University. Her book based on that PhD research, Narratives of Neglect: community, regeneration and the governance of security (Willan, 2007), was shortlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2008 She intends to work closely with Professor Ian Loader in the development of a four-year action research project on innovative approaches to democratic policing practice, currently being established at the Police Foundation. Together they intend this to result in joint research on the project (or collaborative work on parallel research projects complementing Oxford University/ Police Foundation work) as well as papers published by the Police Foundation and academic articles to be published in international peer reviewed journals. She will also be a key contact in linking the Centre into an international network of policy and academic opinion formers engaged in this area that the Police Foundation will establish during the course of the project.

Blerina Kellezi Blerina finished her PhD in Psychology at the University of St Andrews in 2007. Before joining the Criminology department she worked at the Medical Foundation for the care of victims of torture in London as research fellow. Her research has focused on understanding the impact of social identities on appraisal and coping strategies used by war survivors in the aftermath of extreme events. While at the Medical Foundation she was involved in conducting a systematic review on psycho-social interventions with torture survivors. Her future interests include understanding how people deal with extreme events both at the individual and societal level, and the role of justice and reconciliation following wars and armed conflicts. She is particularly interested in combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in her research.

Blerina completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology (in 2000) and in Law (in 2009) from the University of Tirana.

Blerina joined the Criminology department to work with Dr Mary Bosworth on Understanding migrant detention project funded by John Fell Foundation.

Peter Neyroud, CBE QPM, retired from the Police service in December 2010 after 30 years, having served in Hampshire, West Mercia, Thames Valley (as the Chief Constable) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (as the Chief Constable and CEO). He is now a PhD student at Cambridge University studying the application of a Crime Harm Index to police prosecution decisions and the measurement of police effectiveness. The research is funded by the Monument Trust and is intended to result in randomised trials of the approach in up to 10 forces. The whole project involves the Cambridge Stats Lab using PNC data to construct a CHI and then applying it to the triage of offenders in police custody.

At the same time Peter has completed a Review of Police Leadership and Training for the Home Secretary (to be published in February 2011) which will lead (if accepted) to radical change to police training and leadership development. During 2011 he is also involved in delivering a major leadership programme to senior Indian police officers in Hyderabad and Cambridge.

Peter is also the General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Policing, which is developing a good reputation as a Journal of practice and would offer staff and students at the Centre for Criminology opportunities to publish their research to practitioners.

He is also a member of the Campbell Crime and Justice Steering, a Jury member for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and a member of the Harvard Session on Policing and Public Safety. Through these memerships he can bring up-to-date knowledge on policing from around the world to the Centre.

Conor O'Reilly

Conor O’Reilly initially joined the Centre for Criminology as an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in January 2008 (Grant Ref: PTA-026-27-1795). His preceding doctoral studies were conducted at Queen’s University Belfast, focussing upon the transnational security consultancy industry. In addition to his doctorate, he holds degrees in Common and Civil Law from Queen’s University Belfast (LLB) and European Law and Policy from the University of Ulster (LLM). He is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Porto where he teaches on security issues, globalization and crime, policing models and organised crime. Previously, he has also been a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He is currently developing research regarding Portuguese colonial and postcolonial policing as part of a pan-European project by GERN, as well as extending his research interest into the intersection between the commodification of security and transnational policing through a project entitled ‘Branding Security in a Global Marketplace’. He is also finalising a monograph entitled Policing Global Risks: The Transnational Security Consultancy Industry (to be published with Hart Publishing, Oxford) and has published in various journals including International Political Sociology, Theoretical Criminology, the British Journal of Criminology, Crime Law & Social Change and Police Quarterly. He has presented at a wide-range of international conferences regarding these and other related issues.

Mai Sato holds the Oxford-Howard League post-doctoral fellowship. She joined the Centre in January 2011. Before coming to the Centre, she completed her PhD at King's College London in 2010. Her thesis focused on public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan. It examined the impact of information and "deliberation" on attitudes to punishment, and how trust in people and in institutions can explain support for, and opposition to, the death penalty. Prior to her PhD, she completed her Inter-Collegiate LLM at SOAS after obtaining her undergraduate degree jointly from the University of York and Chuo University in Japan. She also works part-time at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research on Euro-Justis, an EU-funded project on public trust in justice, and teaches a short course on quantitative analysis at King's College London.

Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about crime, policing and punishment in the wake of South Africa's transition to democracy. Two of them, Midlands (2002), about the murder of a white South African farmer, and The Number (2004), a biography of a prison gangster, won South Africa's premier nonfiction award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. His books also include Thin Blue (2008), an exploration of the unwritten rules of engagement between South African civilians and police. Jonny has also written several monographs on criminal justice policy for South African think tanks and has published widely in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology and Policing & Society. He is a lecturer in African Studies at Oxford University and is a research associate at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) at the University of Cape Town.

Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He maintains active research links with the Centre in his capacity as Research Associate.