Centre for Law Crime And Justice
The Right Honourable Professor Dame Elish Angiolini QC DBE
Dr. Monica Barry (Law)
Key areas: criminal justice social work; desistance from crime; youth justice; women offenders; risk assessment.
Key Areas: Sexual Killers; Domestic Violence; Homicide; Violence; Gender and Justice
Key Areas: Sexual Killers; Domestic Violence; Homicide; Violence; Gender and Justice
Prof. Neil Hutton (Law)
Key areas: judicial cultures; sentencing; sociology of criminal justice; penology.
Niall Kearney Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
Key Area: Restorative Justice
Prof Tony Kelly (Law)
Key areas: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Human Rights
Prof Nancy Loucks (Law)
Key areas: women offenders, impact of sentencing on children and families, justice services and the voluntary sector
Dr. Claire McDiarmid (Law)
Key areas: criminal law; capacity; childhood and crime; penal welfare; youth justice.
Mary Munro (Law)
Key areas: financial penalties and justice; penal history; summary justice reform; community penalties; devolution and criminal justice policy
Prof. Mike Nellis (Law)
Key areas: supervision of offenders in the community; community justice penal reform; popular culture and criminal justice; surveillance; electronic monitoring.
Therese O'Donnell (Law)
Key areas: human rights; hate speech; terrorism; war crimes, collective guilt and transitional justice.
Dr. Laura Piacentini (Law)
Key areas: sociology of imprisonment; Russian prisons; transitional justice and globalisation; human rights.
Jane Scoular (Law)
Key areas: theories of gender and law; feminist legal theory; legal social and political aspects of sexwork; gender and crime; domestic violence.
Dr. Cyrus Tata (Law)
Key interests include: sentencing and penal processes; access to justice; guilty pleas and plea bargaining; penal theory; discretionary decision-making; technology and justice.
Elizabeth (Beth) Weaver (Social Work)
Key areas: penal theory and policy; public protection; desistance from crime; criminal justice social work.
Dr. John Wilson (Computer & Information Science)
Key areas: ontologies for legal systems; biometric data; information technology decision support systems
Dr Hakeem Yusuf (Law)
Key Areas: Human Rights, Transitional Justice, the Rule of Law, Judicial Accountability and Constitutionalism