Governance

Management Committee

The activities and research programme of the Centre are overseen by a Management Committee, which meets once per term. The committee comprises the following people:

Prof. William Swadling (Chair, and the Law Board's nominee)
Dr. Heather Hamill (Social Science Division representative)
Prof. Ian Loader (Centre Director)
Prof. Rachel Condry (Director of Graduate Studies - Taught and Assistant Centre Director)
Prof. Katrin Mueller-Johnson (Director of Graduate Studies - Research)
Dr. Florian Grisel (Appointment by the Law Board)
Prof. Nicholas Barber (Associate Dean for Research)
Mr. Daniel Cullen (Research Staff representative)

In attendance - secretariat: Angela Patterson (Centre Administrator)

External Advisory Board

The Advisory Board consists of a group of eminent persons chosen for their academic or professional expertise who can give guidance on the general direction of the Centre and provide a link between the Centre, the wider academic world and criminal justice agencies. The Board currently comprises:

Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, Editor-in-Chief on the British Journal of Criminology

Andrea Coomber, Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform

Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Prison Philanthropist

Jason Hogg, Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police

Alison Liebling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge, Director of the Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre

Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, Queen’s University Belfast, President, American Society of Criminology

Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory, Law School, Yale University

Rick Muir, Director of the Police Foundation

Laura Piacentini, Professor of Criminology, School of Social Work & Social Policy, University of Strathclyde

Jennifer Sergeant, Head of Youth Justice and Exploitation, Oxfordshire County Council

Maximo Sozzo, Professor of Sociology of Law and Criminology, Director of the Crime and Society Program, National University of Litoral, Argentina

Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, Leiden University