Bio Sketch
Larry Siegel has been a professor of criminal justice for more than 40 years, including stints at Northeastern University, St.Anselm College and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He is the author of 15 books on justice related topics including criminology, juvenile delinquency and criminal procedure. His articles have appeared in Criminology, Adolescence, Criminal Law Bulletin and the British Journal of Criminology. He recently published two new books, one on the American Court System and the other on Correctional Treatment. He is also a court certified expert on police and has testified in numerous cases.
Professor Adam Crawford
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies I am a graduate of the Universities of Warwick (Law
and Sociology, First Class) and Cambridge (M.Phil Criminology) and hold a PhD from the University of Leeds. I have held visiting positions at the Free University of Amsterdam, Australian National University, Pennsylvania State University, Griffith University and Sydney University and the Maison des Sciences de l’Hommes in Paris and Lyon. I am a member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
Ken Pease (PhD, University of Manchester, 1971) is internationally renowned for his work in various areas of criminal justice and crime prevention, having published around two-hundred and fifty studies. In recent years, his influential work has included that on repeat victimisation, ‘self-selecting’ offenders, and the development of Crime Science (which has the value-driven aim of seeking to prevent and reduce crime harms just as medicine has the value-driven aim of seeking to prevent and cure illness, through the use of all relevant academic disciplines).
The Essay on Criminal Justice theory of crime
There is no single cause of crime, it is rooted in a diversity of casual factors and takes a variety of forms, depending on the situation in which it occurs. Nonetheless, some theories of human behavior help us understand why certain people engage in acts that society defines as criminal or deviant, while others do not. A theory is a kind of model. Theories posit relationships, often of a casual ...
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Dr. J. David Hawkins is the Endowed Professor of Prevention and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, He received his B.A. in 1967 from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1975. His research focuses on understanding and preventing child and adolescent health and behavior problems. He seeks to identify risk and protective factors for health and behavior problems across multiple domains; to understand how these factors interact in the development of healthy behavior and the prevention of problem behaviors. He develops and tests prevention strategies which seek to reduce risk through the enhancement of strengths and protective factors in families, schools, and communities.
Dr. Richard Catalano, Ph.D. is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence in the School of Social Work and the Director of the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He is also Adjunct Professor of Education and Sociology. He received his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, and his masters and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. For 30 years, he has led research and program development to promote positive youth development and prevent problem behavior. His work has focused on discovering risk and protective factors for positive and problem behavior, designing and evaluating programs to address these factors, using this knowledge on etiology and efficacy to understand and improve the prevention services system in states and communities. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters
Social Welfare Doctoral Faculty
WALLER, Irvin
The Research paper on Juvenile Crime Prevention Programs Kids
Truth Of Juvenile Delinquency Truth Of Juvenile Delinquency Essay, Research Paper A movement has taken hold nationally to change the juvenile justice system, and erase any distinction between young offenders and adult criminals. Almost all fifty states have overhauled their juvenile justice laws, allowing more youths to be tried as adults and scrapping long-time protections to help rehabilitate ...
* Ph.D., Criminology (Law), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 1973 * Director, Institute for the Prevention of Crime, University of Ottawa E-Mail Address :
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Prof John Muncie
Professor of Criminology, Social Policy and Criminology (PhD Leicester) Course Development and Teaching Commitments
During my Open University career I have either chaired or have produced teaching materials for almost all criminology and social policy courses that the University has offered at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the current undergraduate courses Crime and justice (DD301), and Welfare, crime and society (DD208) and the postgraduate courses Youth justice, penality and social control (D864) and Community safety, crime prevention and social control (D863).
Research Interests
Critical criminology, comparative youth justice, crime, harm and social policy. Since 2003 I have been a Director of The Open University International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR).My current research focuses on comparative analysis of global youth justice reform, international policy transfers and compliance with children’s rights conventions. An edited volume on comparative youth justice with 17 international contributors was published by Sage in 2006. Related to this from 2002-06 I was the UK representative on an international working group funded by SSRC (USA) exploring the relations between Youth, Globalisation and the Law. I am the co-editor of the journal Youth Justice: An International Journal and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.
Andrew is Senior Research Fellow in Urban Crime and Disorder in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. His main research interests include anti-social behaviour, crime and cities, policing and criminological theory. Recent publications include “Anti-Social Behaviour” (2009, Open University Press) and a collection of essays on “Securing Respect” (2009, Policy Press).
The Essay on Justice, Crime and Ethics
Justice is mainly concerned with the appropriate ordering of persons and things within the society. Thus when one is aggrieved by another person, he or she is supposed to seek justice to be administered on the person who has violated the rights of the other. Thus the person whose rights are violated is not supposed to take law on his hands and punish the person who has violated his rights but is ...
Andrew is Publications Chair and Executive Committee member of the British Society of Criminology, for whom he also edits their online journal and newsletter. He is an editor of the Urban Studies journal and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology E mail:
