Shadd Maruna, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor

School of Criminal Justice
Rutgers University - Newark
Center for Law & Justice
123 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
e-mail shadd.maruna@rutgers.edu

Professional Biography

Professor Shadd Maruna (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is the Dean of Rutgers-

Newarks School of Criminal Justice, one of the oldest and largest programs in
criminology in the United States. Prior to taking this post, he was the director for the
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Queens University Belfasts Law
School. Previously, he has taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University
at Albany, SUNY (USA). He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book
chapters and reviews, as well as several books. As of July 15, 2014, his research has been
cited over 4932 times (over 3683 times since 2009; h-index 30; i10 index 54; see Google
Scholar). His book Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives was
named the Outstanding Contribution to Criminology by the American Society of
Criminology (ASC) in 2001. His other books include: Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk
Paradigm (2007), After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Ex-Offender Reintegration
(2004), The Effects of Imprisonment (2005), Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (2010),
and Escape Routes (2011). As part of a Soros Justice Fellowship, he is currently working
on a book about the ideal of redemption in American culture. Previously, he has been a
Fulbright Scholar and an H. F. Guggenheim Fellow, and has received research funding
from the ESRC, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, the European Commission, and the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He received the Hans Mattick Award for Distinguished
Contribution to Criminology in 2014, and was the recipient of the inaugural Howard
League for Penal Reform Research Medal in 2012. In 2004, he was named the
Distinguished New Scholar by the ASCs Division on Corrections and Sentencing. He is
the Editor of the book series Psychology, Crime and Justice for American
Psychological Association Books, and has previously served as the Regional Chair of the
Northern Ireland Branch of the British Society of Criminology and the Vice Chair for
the ASC's Division of Corrections and Sentencing. He has been the external examiner for
criminology programs at Oxford University, Sheffield University and Dublin Institute of
Technology. He has delivered invited plenary addresses at the Australian and New
Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in 2007, the British Society of
Criminology Annual Meeting in 2008, and the European Society of Criminology Annual
Meeting in Slovenia in 2009. He also delivered the Edith Kahn Memorial Lecture at the
House of Lords in 2007, and has given invited keynote addresses at All Souls College in
Oxford, the Singapore Prison Service, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the
Japanese Bar Foundation, Fundacion Paz in Chile, the Appellate Court of New Zealand,
Katholieke Universiteit Belgium, the Dutch Probation Service, the French Prison Service,
and the Probation Centenary Conference in London among other places.
 Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Human Development and Social Policy

Northwestern University, USA

M.A., Human Development and Social Policy

Northwestern University, USA

B.A. (Hons), Philosophy and English Literature

Summa Cum Laude
Illinois State University, USA

Other universities attended (w/o degree): Grambling State University, Liverpool University

Academic Career

Sept 2014 Dean and University Professor, School of Criminal Justice

Rutgers University Newark

Sept 2009 - Director, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Law School
Queens University Belfast

Sept 2009-2011 Director of Research

Law School
Queens University Belfast

Oct 2007 - Professor of Justice Studies and Human Development

Law School
Queens University Belfast

Aug 2005 - 2007 Reader

Law School
Queens University Belfast

2001 2005 Lecturer

Institute of Criminology
University of Cambridge

1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor

School of Criminal Justice
State University of New York, Albany

1993-1998 Research and Teaching Assistant

Human Development and Social Policy
Northwestern University
 Select Honours and Fellowships

Celebrating Impact Prize for Impact on Public Policy, Economic and Social Research
Council, UK 2014

Hans W. Mattick Award for Distinguished Contribution to Criminology, University

of Illinois at Chicago, 2014

Howard League Research Medal, Howard League for Penal Reform, 2011

Soros Justice Fellow, Open Society Institute 2008-2009

Distinguished New Scholar Award, Division of Corrections and Sentencing, American

Society of Criminology, 2004

American Society of Criminologys Michael J. Hindelang Award for Most Outstanding

Contribution to Criminology, 2001

Most Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Illinois State University, 2005

Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Northwestern University,

1998

H. F. Guggenheim Fellow, 1997

U.S. Fulbright Scholar, 1996

Bibliography
Books

Maruna, S. (2001). Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

2013 Japanese Translation published by

Akashi Shoten Publishers (ISBN 9784750338460),
http://www.akashi.co.jp/book/b120654.html

Maruna, S. & Immarigeon, R. (Eds.) (2004). After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to
Ex-Offender Reintegration. Cullompton: Willan Books.

Liebling, A. & Maruna, S. (Eds.) (2005). The Effects of Imprisonment. Cullompton:

Willan Books.
Ward, T. & Maruna, S. (2007). Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm. Key Ideas in
Criminology Series (Tim Newburn, series ed.), London: Routledge.

K. Hayward, S. Maruna & J. Mooney (Eds.) (2010) Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology.
London: Routledge.

Farrall, S., M. Hough, S. Maruna, & R. Sparks (Eds.) (2011). Escape Routes:
Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment. London: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Maruna, S. (2014). The Role of Wounded Healing in Restorative Justice: An

Appreciation of Albert Eglash. Restorative Justice: An International Journal, 2,
9-23.

Robinson, G., McNeill, F., & Maruna, S. (2014). Castigo en Sociedad: La Improble
Persistencia de la probation y otras sanciones y medidas comunitarias. Politica
Criminal, 9(17), 147-181.

Maruna, S. (2013). In Defense of Restorative Justice: The Perils of Promising Less.

Restorative Justice: An International Journal, 1, 47-52.

Maruna, S. & Barber, C. (2013). The End of Second Acts? Wilson Quarterly, 37(2), 41-
51.

Carr, N. & Maruna, S. (2012). Legitimacy through neutrality: Probation and conflict in
Northern Ireland. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 51(5), 474-487.

Maruna, S., D. Dabney, & V. Topalli (2012). Putting a Price on Prisoner Release: The
History of Bail and a Possible Future of Parole. Punishment & Society, 14, 315-337.

Maruna, S., F. McNeill, S. Farrall & C. Lightowler (2012). Desistance Research and
Probation Practice: Knowledge Exchange and Co-producing Evidence-Based Practice
Models. Irish Probation Journal, 9, 42-54.

Maruna, S. (2012). Elements of Successful Desistance Signaling. Criminology & Public

Policy, 11, 73-83.

McNeill, F., S. Farrall, C. Lightowler, & S. Maruna (2012). Reexamining evidence-based

practice in community corrections: Beyond a confined view of what works. Justice
Research and Policy, 14, 35-60.

Maruna, S. (2011). Reentry as a Rite of Passage. Punishment & Society, 13(1), 3-27.
Maruna, S. (2011). Lessons for Justice Reinvestment from Restorative Justice and the
Justice Model Experience: Some Tips for an 8-year-old Prodigy. Criminology &
Public Policy, 10, 661-669.

Maruna, S. (2011). Why do they hate us? Making peace between psychology and prisoners.
International Journal of Offender Treatment & Comparative Criminology, 55,
671-675.

Maruna, S. (2011). Judicial Rehabilitation and the Clean Bill of Health in Criminal Justice.
European Journal of Probation, 3(1), 97-117.

Dwyer, C. D. & Maruna, S. (2011). The role of self-help efforts in the reintegration of
politically motivated former prisoners: Implications from the Northern Irish
experience. Crime Law and Social Change, 55 (4), 293 - 309.

Maruna, S. (2010). Why Our Beliefs Matter in Offender Management. Prison Service
Journal, 192, 22-28.

Maruna, S & LeBel, T. P. (2010). Les Apports de L'etude de la desistance a la reinsertion.

Actualit Juridique Penal, 9, 367-371.

Van Marle, F. & Maruna, S. (2010). Terror Management Theory and Ontological Insecurity:
Linking Two Free-Floating Anxieties Punishment and Society, 12, 7-26.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2009). Strengths-Based Approaches to Reentry: Extra Mileage

toward Reintegration and Destigmatization. Japanese Journal of Sociological
Criminology, 34, 58-80.

Reprinted in H. Tsutomi (Ed.) (2011). Paradigm Shift in the Treatment of

Offenders and Recovery. Tokyo, Japan.

Maruna, S. & King, A. (2009). Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: Redeemability and
the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes. European Journal of Criminal Policy
and Research, 15, 7-24.

Bazemore, G. & Maruna, S. (2009). Restorative Justice in the Reentry Context: Building
New Theory and Expanding the Evidence Base. Victims & Offenders, 4, 375-384.

King, A. & Maruna, S. (2009). Is a Conservative Just a Liberal Who Has Been Mugged?:
Exploring the Origins of Punitive Views Punishment and Society, 11, 147169.

Butler, M. & Maruna, S. (2009). The Impact of Disrespect on Prisoners Aggression:

Outcomes of Experimentally Inducing Violence-Supportive Cognitions.
Psychology, Crime & Law, 15, 235-250.
Maruna, S. (2008). Merton with Energy, Katz with Structure, Jock Young with Data
Theoretical Criminology, 12, 534-539.

LeBel, T., Burnett, R., Maruna, S., & Bushway, S. (2008). The Chicken or the Egg of
Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance. European Journal of Criminology, 5,
131-159.

Maruna, S. & King, A. (2008). Selling the Public on Probation: Beyond the Bib.
Probation Journal, 55, 337-351.

Maruna, S. & King, A. (2008) Giving up on the young. Current Issues in Criminal
Justice, 20, 129-135.

Maruna, S. & Matravers, A. (2007). N=1: Criminology and the Person. Theoretical
Criminology, 11: 427-442

Maruna, S. & Roy, K. (2007). Amputation or Reconstruction: Notes on Knifing Off and
Desistance from Crime. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23, 104-124.

Maruna, S. (2007). The Probation Story: One Hundred Years of Probation in the Media.
Vista: Perspectives on Probation, 11, 113-119

Maruna, S., Wilson, L. and Curran, K. (2006). Why God is Often Found Behind Bars:
Prison Conversion and the Crisis of Self-Narrative. Research in Human
Development, 3, 161-184.

Maruna, S. & Mann, R.. (2006). Fundamental Attribution Errors? Re-thinking Cognitive
Distortions. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11, 155-177.

Padfield, N. & Maruna, S. (2006). The Revolving Door: Exploring the Rise in Recalls to
Prison. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6, 329-352.

Tifft, L., Maruna, S., & Elliot, E. (2006). The State of Criminology in the 21st Century.
Contemporary Justice Review, 9, 387-400.

Maruna, S. (2006). Who Owns Resettlement? Towards Restorative Re-Integration. British

Journal of Community Justice, 4 (2), 23-33.

Burnett, R. and Maruna, S. (2006). The Kindness of Prisoners: Strength-based

Resettlement in Theory and in Action. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6, 83106

Reprinted in Priestley, P. & Vanstone, M. (2010). Offenders or Citizens? Readings in

Rehabilitation. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Maruna, S. & Copes, H. (2005). What Have We Learned in Five Decades of Neutralization
Research? Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, 32, 221-320.
Maruna, S. (2004). Desistance and Explanatory Style: A New Direction in the Psychology
of Reform. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 20, 184-200.

Maruna, S., LeBel, T., Mitchel, N. and Naples, M. (2004). Pygmalion in the Reintegration
Process: Desistance from Crime Through the Looking Glass. Psychology, Crime
and Law, 10 (3), 271-281.

Matravers, A. and Maruna, S. (2004). Modern Penality and Psychoanalysis. Critical

Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 7 (2), 118-144.

Reprinted in M. Matravers (Ed.) (2005) Managing Modernity: Politics and the

Culture of Control London: Routledge.

Maruna, S., L. Porter, and I. Carvalho. (2004). The Liverpool Desistance Study and
probation practice: Opening the Dialogue. Probation Journal, 51, 221-232.

Burnett, R. & Maruna, S. (2004). So Prison Works, Does It? The Criminal Careers of 130
Men Released From Prison under Home Secretary Michael Howard. Howard
Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 390-404.

Farrall, S. & Maruna, S. (2004). Desistance-Focused Criminal Justice Policy Research.

Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 358-367.

Maruna, S., Matravers, A, and King, A. (2004). Disowning our shadow: A psychoanalytic
approach to understanding punitive public attitudes. Deviant Behavior, 25, 277-
299.

Reprinted in Helmut Kury (Ed.) (2008). Fear of Crime and Punitivity: New
Developments in Theory and Research. Bochum, Germany: Universitaetsverlag
Brockmeyer.

Schaefer, B. M., Friedlander, M. L., Blustein, D. L., & Maruna, S. (2004). The Work Lives
of Child Sex Offenders: A Phenomenological Perspective. Journal of Counselling
Psychology, 51, 226-240.

Maruna, S. and Farrall, S. (2003) Desistance From Crime: A Theoretical Reformulation,

Klner Zeitschrift fr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 43, 171-94.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2003). Welcome Home?: Examining the Reentry Court Concept
from a Strengths-based Perspective. Western Criminology Review, 4(2) 91-107.

Reprinted in B. J. Winick and D. B. Wexler (Eds.) (2003). Judging in a

Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts. Durham, NC:
Carolina Academic Press.
 Reprinted in Latessa, E. J. and A. M. Holsinger (Eds.) (2005). Correctional
Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings, 3rd Ed. Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Maruna, S. (1999). Desistance and Development: The Psychosocial Process of Going

Straight. British Society of Criminology Conference Selected Proceedings, 2 , 1-25
(an accredited refereed journal ISSN 1464-4088).

Reprinted in Priestley, P. & Vanstone, M. (2010). Offenders or Citizens? Readings in

Rehabilitation. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Lewis, D.A. & Maruna, S. (1998). Person-Centered Policy Analysis. Research in Public
Policy Analysis and Management, 9, 213-230.

Reprinted in S. Nagel (Ed.) (1999). Policy Analysis Methods (pp.231-250).

Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Maruna, S. (1997). Going Straight: Desistance from Crime and Self-Narratives of Reform.
Narrative Study of Lives, 5, 59-97.
Reprinted in Farrall, S. (Ed.) (1999). The Termination of Criminal Careers.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Maruna, S. (1991). See No Evil: Using Prostitution Statutes in the Prosecution of

Pornographers. Illinois State Law Review, 2, 1-32.

Book Chapters and Reviews

Maruna, S. (2014). Can the Criminal Justice System Promote Desistance from Crime?:
Learning from Labelling. (pp. 90- 108) In E. Carroll & K. Warner (Eds.) Re-
Imagining Imprisonment in Europe: Effects, Failures and the Future. Dublin: The
Liffey Press.

Maruna, S. (2014). Foreword. (pp. xiii-xiv) To J. Murray, C.C.J. H. Bijleveld, D. P.

Farrington & R. Loebers Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children.
Washington, DC: APA Books.

Cook, K. J., Westervelt, S. D., & Maruna, S. (2014). The Question of Fit: Parolees,
Exonerees, and Prisoner Reentry. (pp. 237-250) In A. D. Redlich, J. R. Acker, R. J.
Norris, & C. L. Bonventre (Eds.) Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back,
Moving Forward. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

McNeill, F., Farrall, S., Lightowler, C., & Maruna, S. (2013). Discovering Desistance:
Reconfiguring Criminal Justice? Scottish Justice Matters, 1(2), 3-7.
Maruna, S. (2013). Re-integration as a Right and the Rites of Re-integration: A Comparative
Review of De-Stigmitization Practices (pp. 121-138) in J. A. Humphrey & P. Cordella
(Eds.) Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders. New York:
Springer.

Maruna, S. & Butler, M. (2013). Violent Self-Narratives and the Hostile Attribution Bias.
(pp. 27-48) in D. Youngs (Ed.) Behavioural Analysis of Crime. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Maruna, S., McNeill, F., Farrall, S., & Lightowler, C. (2013, April). Documenting the Road
from Crime. Advancing Practice, 3, pp. 14-16.

Maruna, S. (2013). Foreword. In S. Duncan (2013). Progressive Language. Liverpool.

Merseyside Probation Trust.

Maruna, S. (2013). Review of Beyond Bars: Re-joining Society after Society. EuroVista,
3(3), 233-235.

Robinson, G., McNeill, F., & Maruna, S. (2012). Punishment in society: The improbable
persistence of probation and other community sanctions. (pp. 321-340). In J. Simon &
R. Sparks (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Punishment and Society. London: Sage.

Maruna, S. (2012). Foreword. In K. S. van Wormer & L. Walker (Eds.) Restorative Justice
Today: Practical Approaches. (pp. xii xv). London: Sage.

Maruna, S. (2012). Foreword. In W. Fitzgibbon (2012). Probation and Social Work on

Trial. London: Palgrave.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2012). Approche sociopsychologique des sorties de delinquance.

(pp. 44-60). In M. Mohammed (Ed.) Les Sorties de Delinquence: Theories,
Methodes, Enquetes. Paris: La Decouverte.

LeBel, T. & Maruna, S. (2012). Life on the Outside: Transitioning from Prison to the
Community. (pp. 657-683) In Petersilia, J. & Reitz, K. R. (Eds.) The Oxford
Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections. NY: Oxford.

Barlow, S. & Maruna, S. (2012). Rehabilitation, Generativity and Mutual Aid. (pp. 131-141)
in B. Crewe & J. Bennett (Eds.) The Prisoner. London: Routledge.

Maruna, S. (2012). Foreword. In H. Toch. Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media and Police
Reform. Washington, DC: APA Books.

McNeill, F., Farrall, S., Lightower, C., & Maruna S. (2012). How and Why People Stop
Offending: Discovering Desistance. Insights: Evidence Summaries to Support Social
Services, 15, 1-12. http://www.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/iriss-insight-15.pdf
Maruna, S. & Barber, C. (2011). Why Cant Criminology Be More Like Medical Research?
Be Careful What You Wish For. (pp. 318-334). In M. Bosworth & C. Hoyle (Eds.)
What is Criminology? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

King, A. & Maruna, S. (2011). Moral Indignation in the East of England: A Youthful Twist
on Ranulfs Ageing Thesis. (pp. 123-145). In Karstedt, S., Loader, I., and Strang, H.
(Eds.) Emotions, Crime and Justice. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Maruna, S. (2011). Foreword. In W. L. Marshall, L. E. Marshall, G. A. Serran & M. D.

OBrien Rehabilitating Sexual Offenders: A Strength-Based Approach.
Washington, DC: APA Books.

Farrall, S., Hough, M., Maruna, S., & Sparks, R. (2011). Life after punishment: Identifying
new strands in the research agenda. (pp. 1-21). Farrall, S., M. Hough, S. Maruna, &
R. Sparks (Eds.) (2011). Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After
Punishment. London: Routledge.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2010). The Desistance Paradigm in Correctional Practice: From
Programmes to Lives (pp. 65-89) In McNeill, F. Raynor, P., & Trotter, C. (Eds.)
Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice.
Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Copes, J. H. & Maruna, S. (2010). Sykes and Matzas Techniques of Neutralization. In

Cullen, F. & Wilcox, P. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory, Vol 2. (pp.
919-926). London: Sage.

Kazemian, L & Maruna, S. (2010). Desistance from Crime. In Krohn, M. D., Lizotte, A.
J., & Hall, G. P. (Eds). Handbook on Crime and Deviance. (pp. 277-295). New York:
Springer Science/Business Media.

Maruna, S. (2010). Mixed Methods Research: Why Not Go Both Ways?. (pp. 123-140). In
A. Piquero & D. Weisburd (Eds.) Handbook of Quantitative Criminology. New York:
Springer

Maruna, S. (2010). John Braithwaite. (pp. 283-290) in K. Hayward, S. Maruna & J.

Mooney (Eds.) Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology. London: Routledge.

Maruna, S. (2010). Foreword (pp. ix-xi) in C. A. Appleton Life after Life

Imprisonment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Maruna, S. (2010). Edwin Lemert. (pp. 99-105) in K. Hayward, S. Maruna & J.

Mooney (Eds.) Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology. London: Routledge.

Maruna, S. (2009). Virtues door unsealed is never sealed again: Redeeming

Redemption and the Seven-Year Itch. (pp. 52-60) In Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D.
Freilich, and Todd R. Clear (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
 Policy: Policy Proposals From the American Society of Criminology Conference.
Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.

Maruna, S. & King, A. (2009). Youth, Crime and Punitive Public Opinion: Hopes and
Fears for the Next Generation (pp. 95 110) in F. McNeill & M. Barry (Eds.) Youth
Offending and Youth Justice. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Maruna, S., LeBel, T., Naples, M., & Mitchell, N. (2009). Looking-glass Identity
Transformation: Pygmalion and Golem in the Rehabilitation Process (pp. 30-55). In
Veysey, B., Christian, J., & Martinez, D. J. (Eds.) How Offenders Transform Their
Lives. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Maruna, S. (2008). Recidivism. In P. Cane & J. Conaghan (Eds.) The New Oxford
Companion to Law (pp. 987-988). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Maruna, S. (2008). Review of Reforming Punishment. Punishment and Society, 10, 484-
486.

McNeill, F. & Maruna, S. (2007). Giving up and Giving Back: Desistance, Generativity
and Social Work with Offenders (pp. 224-239). In G. McIvor and P. Raynor (Eds.)
Developments in Social Work with Offenders: Research Highlights in Social
Work, vol. 48. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing.

Mann, R., Dean, C., Milner, R., & Maruna, S. (2007). Changing Child Sexual Abusers
Cognitions. (pp. 116 134) In T. A. Gannon, T. Ward, A. R. Beech & D. Fisher
(Eds.) Aggressive Offenders Cognition: Theory, Research and Practice.
Chichester, UK: Wiley & Sons.

Maruna, S. (2007). Review of Rethinking Rehabilitation. Punishment and Society, 9, 333-

337.

Maruna, S. (2007). After Prison: The Ex-Prisoners Struggle to Desist from Crime. (pp.
650-671). In Y. Jewkes (Ed.) Handbook on Prisons. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

Maruna, S. (2007). Adjusting to Release. (pp. 5-7). In Y. Jewkes & J. Bennett (Eds.)
Dictionary of the Prisons and Punishment. Cullompton: Willan.

Maruna, S. (2007). Whats So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Understanding? Safer
Society: The Journal of Crime Reduction and Community Safety, 35, 25-28.

Maruna, S. (2007). Review of Crime Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland.
British Journal of Criminology, 47: 980-982

Maruna, S. (2007). Prison Works. (pp. 227-228). In Y. Jewkes & J. Bennett (Eds.).
Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment. Cullompton: Willan.
Crewe, B. and Maruna, S. (2006). Life Narratives and Fieldwork Methodology (pp. 109-
123) in D. Hobbs and R. Wright (Eds.) The Handbook of Fieldwork. London:
Sage.

Maruna, S. (2006). Desistance from Crime (pp. 120-123) in E. McLaughlin and J.

Muncie (Eds.) The Sage Dictionary of Criminology, 2nd Ed. London: Sage.

Maruna, S. (2006). Saying Sorry or Making Things Right?: From Passive to Active
Responsibility in Work with Young Offenders in M. Tansey (Ed.) Re-integration
of Offenders. Dublin: ACJRD.

Murray, J., Cheliotis, L. K., & Maruna, S. (2006). Social factors and crime. In M. Parker
(Ed.), Dynamic security: The democratic therapeutic community in prison (pp.
23-36). London: Jessica Kingsley.

Maruna, S. (2006, May). Will the move to unpaid work please all or please none?
Howard League Magazine, 24 (2), 15-17.

Maruna, S. (2006). Review of In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39, 270-272.

Harris, N. and Maruna, S. (2005). Shame, Shaming and Restorative Justice: A Critical
Appraisal (pp. 452-462) in D. Sullivan and L. Tifft (Eds.) Handbook of Restorative
Justice: A Global Perspective. London: Routledge.

Reprinted C. Hoyle (Ed.) Restorative Justice. London & New York: Routledge
(2009).

Maruna, S. (2005). Rehabilitation as Waste Management: Autobiographical

Reconstruction and Desistance from Crime. NOTA News, 51, 2-5.

King, A. and Maruna, S. (2005). The Function of Fiction for the Punitive Public (pp. 16-
30) in P. Mason (Ed.) Captured by the Media. Cullompton: Willan.

Maruna, S. & Toch, H. (2005). The Impact of Incarceration on the Desistance Process In
Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher (Eds) Prisoner Reentry and Public Safety in
America (pp. 139-178). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Maruna, S. & Butler, M. (2005). Phenomenology. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.)

Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol. 3 Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Liebling, A. & Maruna, S. The Effects of Imprisonment Revisited. In Liebling, A. &

Maruna, S. (Eds.) (2005). The Effects of Imprisonment (pp. 1-29). Cullompton:
Willan Books.
King, A. & Maruna, S. (2005). Vigilante Violence. In R. Wright and J. M. Miller (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Criminology, Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Maruna, S. (2005). Neutralization/Drift Theory. In R. Wright and J. M. Miller (Ed.)

Encyclopedia of Criminology. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Maruna, S. and King, A. (2004). Public Opinion and Community Penalties. (pp. 83-113)
in Bottoms, T., Rex, S. and Robinson, G. (Eds.) Alternatives to Prison: Options for
an Insecure Society. Cullompton: Willan.

Reprinted in Helmut Kury (Ed.) (2008). Fear of Crime and Punitivity: New
developments in theory and research. Bochum, Germany: Universitaetsverlag
Brockmeyer.

Maruna, S. (2004). California Dreamin: Are We Heading Toward a National Offender

Waste Management Service?. Criminal Justice Matters, no. 56, pp. 6-7.

Maruna, S. (2004). Is Rationalization Good for the Soul? Resisting Responsibilization in

Corrections and the Courts (pp. 179-199) in Arrigo, B. (Ed.) Psychological
Jurisprudence. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Maruna, S. & Ramsden, D. (2004). Living to Tell the Tale: Redemption Narratives,
Shame Management and Offender Rehabiliation (pp. 129-151) in Lieblich, A.,
McAdams, D. P. & Josselson J. (Eds.) Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of
Psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Maruna, S., Immarigeon, R., and LeBel, T. (2004). Ex-Offender Reintegration: Theory
and Practice (pp. 1-25) in S. Maruna and R. Immarigeon (Eds.) After Crime and
Punishment: Pathways to Ex-Offender Reintegration. Cullompton: Willan Books.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2004). The Emergence of a Strengths-Based Approach in

Reentry Programming. Offender Programs Report, 7 (5), 53-64.

Maruna, S., LeBel, T., & Lanier, C. (2004). Generativity Behind Bars: Some Redemptive
Truth about Prison Society. In de St. Aubin, E., McAdams, D. & Kim, T. (Eds).
The Generative Society. (pp. 131-152). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.

Translated into Spanish in Maruna, S., LeBel, T., & Lanier, C. (2009). La
generatividad tras las rejas: La verdad redentora sobre la sociedad carcelaria.
Conceptos, 9, 1-19.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2004). Assessing Reentry Court Models Offender Programs
Report, 7 (6), 71-84.
Maruna, S. (2004). Feature Article: Whats Love Got to Do With It? Safer Society: The
Journal of Crime Reduction and Community Safety, 22, pp. 12-14.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2004). A Strengths-Based Reentry Court Offender Programs

Report, 8 (1), 1-12.

Maruna, S. (2003). Edwin M. Lemerts Contributions to Social Psychology,

Contemporary Psychology, 48(2)

Maruna, S. (2003). Review of Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our

Everyday Lives. British Journal of Criminology, 43(1)

Maruna, S. (2003). Review of Critical Criminology: Issues, Debates, Challenges.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 36 (1)

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2002). Revisiting Ex-Prisoner Re-Entry: A New Buzzword in

Search of a Narrative. In S. Rex & M. Tonry (Eds.) Reform and Punishment: The
Future of Sentencing. Devon, UK: Willan.

Maruna, S. (2002). In the Shadows of Community Justice. In Dave Karp & Todd Clear
(Eds) What is Community Justice? Case Studies of Restorative and Community
Justice. Boston, MA: Pine Forge.

Maruna, S. (2002). The Prisoners Beatitude, Relational Justice, 14.

Maruna, S. & LeBel, T. (2002). The Science and Politics of Offender Treatment, Round
Two, Contemporary Psychology, 47.

Maruna, S. (2002). Review of States of Denial. Criminal Justice, 2(3)

Maruna, S. (2000). Desistance and Rehabilitation: A Tale of Two Literatures. Offender

Programs Report, 4(1).

Maruna, S. (2000). Examining the Hearts and Minds of Inmates. Contemporary

Psychology, 45.

Maruna, S. (2000). Criminology, Desistance and the Psychology of the Stranger. In D.

Canter & L.J. Alison (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Crime (pp. 287-320).
Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth.

McAdams, D.P., Hart, H., & Maruna, S. (1998). The Anatomy of Generativity. In D.P.
McAdams & E. de St. Aubin (Eds.) Generativity and Adult Development (pp. 7-
43). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Lewis, D.A. & Maruna, S. (1995). The Politics of Education. In V. Gray and H. Jacob
(Eds.) Politics in the American States, 6th Ed. Boston: Scott, Foresman/Little,
Brown Higher Education.
Revised version in V. Gray, R.L. Hanson, & H. Jacob (Eds.) (1998). Politics in the
American States 7th Ed. Boston: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education.

Popular Media Work by Maruna

Maruna, S., McNeill, F., Farrall, S., & Lightowler, C. (2012) The Road From Crime. 45-
minute Documentary supported by ESRC Knowledge Exchange Grant.

Maruna, S. (2010, August). Bringing Prisoners Back Home. Parliamentary Brief

http://www.parliamentarybrief.com/2010/07/bringing-prisoners-back-home#all

Droppelmann, C. & Maruna, S. (2009). Cuando Los Condenados Vuelven a la Sociedad.

La Segunda (Chilean Daily). 14 August 2009.
http://lasegunda.com/thinktank/2009/08/26/cuando-los-condenados-vuelven.asp

Maruna, S. (2007). Public Opinion. The Times. 24 April 2007.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/public_sector/article1693275.ece

Maruna, S. (2007). Volunteering for Rehabilitation. The Guardian. 24 April 2007

http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,2064451,00.html

Maruna, S. (2007). We can change criminals. The Adelaide Advertiser (Australia) 15

September 2007

Interviews with Maruna

Shannon, S. & Lageson, S. (2013). Discovering Desistance, with Shadd Maruna and
Fergus McNeill. In D. Hartmann & C. Uggen (Eds). Crime and the Punished. New
York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Lageson, S. (2012). Shadd Maruna and Fergus McNeill on the Road from Crime.
The Society Pages
http://thesocietypages.org/officehours/2012/12/18/shadd-maruna-and-fergus-mcneill-on-the-road-from-crime/

Polizzi, D. (2010). In search of the human in the shadows of correctional practice. A

Theoretical Reflection with Shadd Maruna. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical
Criminology, 2 (2), 158-197.
http://www.jtpcrim.org/July_2010/In-search-of-the-human-in-the-shadows-of-correctional-practice.pdf
Sundt, J. L. (2010). Shadd Maruna: Redemption Scripts and Desistance (pp. 574-577) In
Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (Eds). The Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory,
Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/criminologicaltheory/n159.xml

Galvez, M. (2009). Shadd Maruna, psiclogo y especialista en el tema: Experto afirma

que los delincuentes tienen derecho a la rehabilitacin. El Mercurio (Chilean Daily). 11
August 2009.
http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id={853c9921-6aa4-414e-8e8c-b5cd98831dd3}

Corrections News (2007). Hope for Reintegration: An Interview with Dr. Shadd Maruna.
Corrections News, May, 2007.
http://www.rethinking.org.nz/images/newsletter%20PDF/070605%20Maruna%20on%20Reintegration%20-
%20Corrections%20News%20May%202007%20-%20.pdf

Crewe, B. (2007). Interview: Shadd Maruna. Prison Service Journal.

http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/resourcecentre/prisonservicejournal/index.asp?id=5745,3124,11,3148,0,0

Duke, K. (2007). Shadd Maruna Breaks New Ground Studying Prisoner Reform. Inquiry.
http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/newsCenter/inquiry/?issueSelect=17&category=4

Select Research Reports

Maruna, S. (2013). What Works and Desistance from Crime: Merging Two
Approaches to Research. Commissioned by the Correctional Services Advisory and
Accreditation Panel, National Offender Management Service.

Butler, M. & Maruna, S. (2012). Discipline and Disparity: An Independent Report

Prepared for the Northern Ireland Prison Service. Belfast: Department of Justice.

Maruna, S. (2011). The Great Escape: Exploring the Rehabilitative Dynamics Involved
in Changing Tunes. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Maruna, S., Francis, V., Liddle, M., McAteer, L., Watts, E. and Wright, S. (2008).
Reducing Offending: A Critical Review of the International Research Evidence.
NIO Research and Statistical Series: Report No. 18. Belfast: NIO.

Gormally, B., Maruna, S., & McEvoy, K. (2007). Politically-Motivated Former Prisoners
and Their Families: Thematic Evaluation of Funded Projects. Monaghan, Ireland:
Border Action.

Maruna, S., Wright, S., Brown, J., Van Marle, F., Devlin, R., & Liddle, M. (2007). Youth
Conferencing as Shame Management: Results of a Long-term Follow-Up Study.
Belfast: Youth Conferencing Service.
Maruna, S., M. Nel, L. Digard, F. Van-Marle, and A. King. (2005). Evaluation of the Trail-
Blazers Mentoring Programme, Feltham Young Offenders Institution. London:
HMPS

Burnett, R. & Maruna, S. (2004) Prisoners as Citizens Advisors: The OxCAB-HMP

Springhill Parntership and its Wider Implications. London: Esmee Fairbairn.

Butler, M. & Maruna, S. (2004). Evaluation of the Dialogue Trust Group in HMP
Norwich. London: Dialogue Trust.

Canter, D., Maruna, S., Porter, L., & Lundrigan, S. (2001). Going Straight: Final Report of
the Liverpool Desistance Study. London: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Porter, L., Maruna, S., Canter, D., & Youngs, D. (1998). Changing the Script: An
Evaluation of Reintegration Services for Drug Misusers on Merseyside. Liverpool:
Merseyside Safer Cities and the Safer Merseyside Partnership.

Maruna, S., Canter, D., & Hodge, S. (1997). Alternatives to Drugs Project Evaluation:
Final Report. Liverpool: Merseyside Drugs Council.

Maruna, S., Christian, E., & Lewis, D.A. (1996). The Good Neighbor Project Evaluation:
Final Report. Chicago: Center for Public Ministry.

Select Invited and Plenary Lectures

All Souls College, Oxford University, Invited Lecture 30 January 2002

Annual Keith Bottomley Lecture, University of Hull, Invited Lecture 25 April 2013

Appellate Court of New Zealand, Invited Lecture 14 May 2007

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse, Plenary Speaker, Atlanta USA, 25
October 2008

Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Plenary Speaker 24 September

2007

Australia National University, Invited Lecture 28 September 2007

Avon and Somerset Probation Trust Annual Conference, Invited Lecture, 18 March
2013
 Barcelona Master Interuniversitario de Criminologia y Ejeccion Penal, Professor
Visitante del Master Oficial en Ciencias Juridicas. Barcelona 14 17 June 2011.

Barrow Cadbury Trust Seminar on Transitions to Adulthood, House of Lords,

Plenary Speaker 17 February 2011

British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology, NI Branch, Annual

Conference, Keynote Speaker 25 November 2010

British Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Plenary Speaker 9 July 2008

British Psychological Society, Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference,

Plenary Speaker 26 June 2013

Children of Conflict International Conference, Invited Plenary, 27 March 2012

Conference European Probation, Invited Plenary, Malaga, Spain, 28 May 2010

Correctional Services Accreditation and Advisory Panel, National Offender

Management Service, Invited Plenary, London, 18 January 2013

Desistance and What Works Workshop, Correctional Services Accreditation and

Advisory Panel, National Offender Management Service, Invited Plenary, London 28
September 2012

Dutch Probation Service, Invited Plenary Utrecht, Netherlands 22 October 2009

Edinburgh University, Faculty of Law, Invited Lecture 23 January 2003

Edith Kahn Memorial Lecture, Invited Lecture, House of Lords, 24 April 2007

ESRC Seminar on Reducing Recidivism, Plenary Speaker, University of Kent-

Canterbury 6 September 2004

ESRC Seminar on Life After Punishment, Plenary Speaker, University of Edinburgh

30 May 2006

ESRC Seminar on Rethinking Reintegration, Plenary Speaker, Queens University

Belfast 28 November 2007

European Forum on Restorative Justice, Plenary Speaker, 12 June 2014

European Society of Criminology, Plenary Speaker, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11 September

2009

European Prisons Regime Forum, Plenary Speaker, 17 February 2006

Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Plenary Speaker 2 February 2005

 Facultat de Dret, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Plenary Speaker 12 June
2008

French Prison Service Annual Lecture, Invited Speaker, Agen, France 5 June 2010

Fundacion Paz Ciudana Annual Conference, Santiago, Chile, Plenary Speaker 4

August 2009

Glasgow University, Turning Point?: Confinement, Coping and Change

Conference, Plenary Speaker, Glagow 4 April 2014

Home Office/Ministry of Justice, Academic Roundtable Event, Invited Speaker,

London 19 February 2010.

Howard League Community Penalties Conference, Plenary Speaker, 22 June 2005

Howard League What is Justice? Seminar, Invited Speaker, 16 May 2013

Human Face of Offender Management Conference, Plenary Speaker Bristol 5

February 2008

Include Youth (Northern Ireland), Reducing Re-Offending Invited Speaker 19

March 2010

International Community Corrections Association Annual Meeting, Plenary Speaker,

San Diego, 29 October 2007

International Workshop on Desistance from Crime and Imprisonment, Keynote

Speaker, Bucharest Romania, 7 March 2013

Irish Association for the Study of Delinquency, Plenary Speaker 9 November 2006

Japanese Bar Foundation, Tokyo, Invited Speaker 15 January 2011

John Jay College, City University of New York, Invited Lecture 22 October 2008

John Jay College, City University of New York, Philosophy Department, Invited
Seminar 15 November 2011

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Criminology, Invited Lecture 17

December 2004

Keele University, Department of Criminology, Invited Lecture 12 March 2003

Leeds University, Department of Law, Invited Lecture 3 February 2004

London Practitioner Forum, Invited Lecture 1 May 2013

 London Probation Area/University of Hertfordshire, Invited Lecture 21 October 2003

London Probation Trust Annual Conference, Invited Lecture, 15 May 2013

London School of Economics, Faculty of Law, Invited Lecture 18 January 2003

Manchester University, Faculty of Law, Invited Lecture 28 April 2010

Michael J. Hindelang Lecture, 11th Annual, State University of New York, Invited
Lecture 9 May 2012

Middlesex University, Criminology Department, Invited Lecture 12 February 2003

Ministry of Justice, New Zealand, Invited Lecture 15 May 2007

Nacro, Integrated Resettlement: Making it Work, Plenary Speaker London 9

February 2005

National Offender Management Service (England and Wales) Annual Conference,

Plenary Speaker London 29 March 2012

National Offender Management Service Leadership Group, Invited Lecture London

17 January 2013

NCOVR (National Center of Violence Research) Meeting, Plenary Speaker

Washington DC 23 April 2006

New York State Department of Corrections Awards Banquet, Keynote Speaker 9

May 2001

NIACRO, 34th Annual General Meeting, Plenary Speaker 24 November 2005

NIACRO, Staff Training Day, Plenary Speaker, Belfast 15 October 2012

NOMS Treatment Managers Conference, Plenary Speaker Nottingham 29 January

2008

Northern Ireland Prison Service, Desistance Workshop Plenary Speaker, Belfast 29

August 2012

Northumbria University, Inaugural Symposium, Centre for Offenders and Offending,

Plenary Speaker 11 September 2012

Northwestern University, Second Chances in Life: Transformative Stories of Self

and Society, Plenary Speaker 7 May 2004

NOTA (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers) Conference, Plenary

Speaker, Dublin 14 September 2005
 NOTA (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers) Conference, Plenary
Speaker, Belfast 21 September 2010

NOTA-Ireland Conference, Plenary Speaker, Dublin 29 March 2007

Opportunity Youth AGM, Plenary Speaker, Belfast 10 September 2012

Oxford University, Centre for Criminology, Invited Speaker, 7 May 2009

Oxford University What is Criminology? Conference, Invited Speaker, 1 October

2009

Pact (Prisoner Advice and Care Trust) Annual Lecture, Plenary Address,
Birmingham, UK 8 October 2013

Perrie Lecture 2010 for the National Offender Management Service, Newbold Revel
10 June 2010

Prison Fellowship International Conference, Plenary Speaker, Wellington, New

Zealand 11 May 2007

Prisoner Reentry Conference: A New Deal for Justice, Plenary Speaker, New York
City 18 November 2003

Prison Service Chaplains Association Annual Conference, Plenary Speaker, 30 May

2007

Probation Board of Northern Ireland, What Works in Reducing Offending Seminar,

Invited Lecture Belfast 5 March 2010

Probation Board of Northern Ireland, Invited Speaker, Belfast 28 January 2013

Probation Centenary Conference, 1907-2007, Plenary Speaker London, 2 May 2007

Punishment and Society Conference, Plenary Speaker Edinburgh 13 May 2011

Reconciling Desistance and What Works Perspectives, Correctional Services

Advice and Accreditation Panel, NOMS, Plenary Speaker, London 1 October 2012

Reimagining Imprisonment in Europe, Plenary Speaker Dublin 5-7 Sept 2012

Restorative Justice: An International Journal, Formal Launch of Inaugural Issue,

Invited Plenary, Budapest, Hungary, 5 September 2013

RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and
Commerse), Invited Address, London 29 March 2014

Rikkyo University, Invited Lecture Tokyo, Japan, 14 January 2011

 Queens University Belfast, School of Law, Invited Lecture 28 April 2004

Safe Ground, Annual Policy Symposium, House of Lords, Keynote Speaker, 19 May
2012

Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, 4th Annual Lecture, Edinburgh 1
June 2010

Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice, Plenary Speaker Glasgow 23

February 2010

Scottish Government, Reducing Re-Offending Programme, Invited Lecture

Edinburgh 24 February 2010

Scottish Howard League for Penal Reform, Invited Lecture Edinburgh 9 March 2005

Scottish Prison Service Occasional Lecture Series, Invited Lecture Edinburgh 23

October 2004

Sheffield Desistance Conference, Invited Plenary Sheffield 13 September 2014

Singapore Prison Service, Invited Lecture, Singapore 21 September 2007

Southern Illinois University, Administration of Justice Conference, Plenary Speaker

21 April 2001

Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust Annual Conference, Invited

Lecture, 6 March 2013

Stirling University, Department of Criminology, Invited Lecture 22 October 2004

St. Giles Trust, 50th Anniversary Annual General Meeting, Plenary Speaker London 1
October 2012

Sussex and Surrey Probation Trust Annual General Meeting, Plenary Speaker 8
October 2012

University at Albany, Psychology Department, Invited Lecture 27 November 2000

University of Amsterdam, Centre for Radicalisation Studies, Invited Lecture 12 April

2010

University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry, Invited Lecture 13 February

2002

University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology, Invited Lecture 18 May 2006

 University of Cambridge, Institute of Crimionology, MST in Applied Criminology
Reunion Conference, Invited Plenary 13 September 2012

University of Central Lancashire, Launch of the Institute of Criminology and

Criminal Justice, Plenary Lecture 18 April 2008

University College Dublin, Institute of Criminology, Invited Lecture 1 October 2008

University of Kent-Canterbury, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology,

Invited Lecture 4 February 2010

University of Illinois at Chicago, Hans Mattick Lecture, Chicago 30 April 2014

University of Lancaster, Invited Lecture 13 March 2007

University of Liverpool, Conference on Understanding and Controlling Criminal

Behaviour, Plenary Speaker 13 May 1997

University of MissouriSt. Louis, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

Invited Lecture 14 November 2001

University of MissouriSt. Louis, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,

Invited Lecture 23 April 2014

University of Oslo, Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, Invited Lecture 29 June

2014

University of Portsmouth, Forensic Psychology, Invited Lecture 23 June 2005

University of Sheffield, Institute of Criminology, Invited Lecture 11 October 2006

Victim Support Cambridge, Annual General Meeting, Keynote Speech 13 May 2002

Violence Prevention Network/NOMS/Council on European Probation International

Conference on Engaging with Violent Extremist Offenders in Prison and on
Probation, Plenary Speaker 5 October 2010

Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Department of Criminology, Invited Lecture 3 Nov 2011

Wilton Park Policy Seminar on 'Leaving extremism behind: Disengagement policy and
programmes' Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 8 July 2009

World Congress of Probation, Invited Plenary, Westminster London, 9 October 2013

 Funded Research Experience (Select)

2013 2016 Co-Principal Investigator (with A. McAlinden) Economic and Social

Research Council Grant Ref: ES/K006061/1 Desistance from Sexual
Offending. 224,207

2013 2015 Co-Principal Investigator (with I. Aertsen) European Commission Action

Grant JUST/2011/JPEN/AG/2962 Desistance and Restorative Justice.
537,063

2013- 2014 Principal Investigator, Paul Hamlyn Trust, Desistance and the Arts in
Prison. 20,185

2011 2012 Co-Principal Investigator (with F. McNeill and S. Farrall) Economic and
Social Research Council RES189250258 Desistance Knowledge
Exchange. 105,197

2007 2008 Co-Principal Investigator (with M. Liddle) Northern Ireland Office.

Reducing Offending: A Critical Review of the International Research
Evidence. 19,778

2006 2007 Co-Principal Investigator (with K. McEvoy and B. Gormally) Border Action,
Thematic Evaluation of Funded Projects for Politically-Motivated Former
Prisoners and Their Families. 20,000

2006 2007 Co-Principal Investigator (with M. Liddle) Youth Justice Agency, Long-term
Follow-up of Restorative Justice Conference Participants. 30,000

2005 Principal Investigator, HMYOI Feltham, Trailblazers Mentoring Project

Evaluation 10,000

2003 2006 Associate Investigator (I. ODonnell, PI), Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, A Multi-Level, Multi-Method Study of
Offender Re-entry in Ireland, Dublin 89,375

2003 2004 Principal Investigator H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, Understanding Public

Punitiveness Toward Offenders, Cambridge, UK $45,000

2003 2004 Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Ros Burnett) Esmee Fairbairn
Foundation, Evaluation of the Citizens Advice phone line run by prisoners,
Cambridge and Oxford, UK 15,000

2001 2003 Co-Principal Investigator (with Professor David Duffee) Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Grant, Initiating a Continual Improvement Process in
Residential Educational Institutions for Youth, Albany, NY $200,000
1997 - 2001 Co-Principal Investigator (with Professor David Canter) Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, Liverpool Desistance Project, Liverpool, UK 85,000

1999 2000 Principal Investigator, Faculty Research Awards Program, Category A,

Opening the Black Box in Corrections Research: Offender Rehabilitation
Process and Content, Albany, NY $20,000

1997 - 1998 Principal Investigator, Safer Merseyside Partnership and Merseyside Safer
Cities, A Comparative Study of Training Provision for Drug Misusers in
Merseyside, Liverpool, UK 20,000

1997 Principal Investigator, Merseyside Drugs Council, Alternatives to Drugs

Project Evaluation, Liverpool, UK 10,000

1996 Principal Investigator, Center for Public Ministry, Good Neighbor Project
Evaluation, Northwestern University, US $10,000

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

Candidate Topic Progress

Thomas LeBel Ex-Convicts Overcoming Stigma Completed 2005

Anna King Punitive Psychology Completed 2005
Michelle Butler Violence in Prison Completed 2007
Carol DiMambro Prison Education Completed 2007
Marian Duggan Homophobic violence Completed 2010
Brian Payne Community Restorative Justice Completed 2012
Lisa White Victims of Torture Completed 2012
Roisin Devlin Youth Offending Completed 2014
Brendan Coyle Maturation and Crime Began 2010
Brendan Marsh Desistance in Dublin Began 2010
Maria Ansbro Attachment Theory and Probation Began 2010
Dominic Kelly Prison Officers and Penal Reform Began 2011
Mark Farmer Desistance from Sexual Offending Began 2011

External Ph.D. Examiner

Tyrone Busch University of Cape Town, South Africa 2001

anonymous review Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand 2002
Monica Barry University of Stirling, Scotland 2003
Cathy Murray University of Stirling, Scotland 2006
Lesley Hardcastle Deakin University, Australia 2007
Martina Feilzer Oxford University 2007
Rosie Meek University of Sussex 2007
Paul Gray Keele University 2008
Leonidas Cheliotis Cambridge University 2008
Catherine Appleton Oxford University 2008
Stephen Barlow Australian Catholic University, Australia 2010
Jennifer Murphy University of Essex 2011
Margaret Fitzgerald University of Cork 2012
Andy Bain University of Portsmouth 2012
Emily L. Hart Leeds University 2012
Lucy Wainwright University of Portsmouth 2013
Marguerite Schinkel Edinburgh University 2013
Ruth Armstrong Cambridge University 2013
Gary Manders Birmingham University 2013
Elizabeth Weaver Strathclyde University 2013
Gabriella Costa Deakin University, Australia 2013
Serena Wright University of Surrey 2014
Lisa Cuthbert NUI Maynooth 2014
Hannah Graham University of Tasmania 2014

Internal Ph.D. Examiner

Lila Kazemian (Cambridge) Desistance from Crime 2005

Jade Moran (Cambridge) Informal Justice in Belfast 2005
Anna Eriksson (QUB) Community Restorative Justice 2007
Vicky Conway (QUB) Police Accountability in Ireland 2008
Stephen Hrotic (QUB) Academic Peer-Evaluation Tactics 2009
Clare Dwyer (QUB) Former Politically Motivated Prisoners 2010
Mary Lally (QUB) Drugs and Driving 2010
Kirsten McConnachie (QUB) Justice in a Refugee Camp 2011
Ron Dudai (QUB) Informants in Conflicts 2013

Ph.D. Committee Member (SUNY Albany)

Brian Renauer Community Activist Motivations 1998
Amie M. Schuck Cycles of Violence 1999
Bianca Shaefer Sex Offender Rehabilitation 1999
Tom Roscoe Probation Outcomes 1999
Toni Milhollin Domestic Violence Shelters 1999
Gretchen Bickerstaff Cruelty to Animals 2000
Johnna Christian Families of Prisoners 2000
Michael Cretacci Religion and Social Bond Theory 2000
Mike Weiss Public Defender Motivations 2000
Reginald Fluellen Community Justice 2000
Sarah McClean Judging Domestic Violence 2000
Jeanne Kaufman Child Abuse and Delinquency 2001
Jason Scott Community Policing 2001
 Ph.D. Committee Member (Elsewhere)
Kim Kras (UMSL) Desistance from Sex Offending 2014
Vickii Coffey (UIC) Ex-Prisoner Reentry Planned 2015

Board Memberships and Other Professional Activities (select)

External Examiner, MSc in Criminology, University of Oxford, 2011-2014

External Examiner, BA in Criminology, University of Sheffield, 2013-
External Examiner, MA in Criminology, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2006-2011
External Examiner, MSSc in Criminology, Queens University, 2002-2004
Chair of the REF/RAE Sub-Committee for the British Society of Criminology
Regional Chair of the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Society of Criminology,
2008-
Appointed Panel Member, Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, NOMS, 2012-
Appointed Panel Member, Scottish Advisory Panel for Offender Rehabilitation,
Justice Directorate, Scottish Government, 2012-
Appointed Member of the Professional Affairs Committee of the British Society of
Criminology, 2007-
Vice Chair, Division of Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of
Criminology, 2007-2009
Steering Committee, Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge, 2010-
Board of Advisors, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, 2006-2011
Board of Trustees, Opportunity Youth, 2012-
Board of Directors, International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology,
University of Portsmouth, 2006-
Board of Directors, Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research,
Rutgers University, 2004-
Board of Advisors, Positive Convictions UK, 2012-
Appointed Member, Reference Group for the Youth Justice Review Team, Ministry
of Justice, Northern Ireland, 2011
Board of Trustees, Niacro: The Crime Reduction Charity, Northern Ireland, 2012-
Co-author (with Tim Chapman, University of Ulster) of the revised National
Outcomes and Standards for Criminal Justice Social Work Services for Scotland,
2007
 Co-organiser/host (with University of Ulster), European Forum on Restorative
Justice, Annual Conference (300 attendees), Queens University Belfast, 12-15 June
2014
Book Series Editor, Psychology, Crime and Justice for American Psychological
Association Books
Expert Assessor, Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, NOMS, 2009
Assessor, Research Assessment Exercise, Australia National University,
Criminology.
Steering Group Member, One to One Project, Princes Trust Northern Ireland,
2009-12
Patron, UNLOCK Charity, 2010-
Advisory Board Member, Strategic Reference Group for the Community Safety
Strategy, Department of Justice, Northern Ireland, 2010-2012
Board Member, Regional Steering Group for Community Safety, Department of
Justice, Northern Ireland 2012-
Advisory Board Member, Priority Youth Offending Scheme, Youth Justice Agency,
Northern Ireland 2009-2011
Area Chair (Corrections and Sentencing), Program Committee, American Society
of Criminology, 2004 2009
Appointed Member, International Advisory Board for the European Society of
Criminology. Also Steering Group Member, European Society of Criminology
Working Group on Community Penalties, 2007-
Appointed Member, International Advisory Board for the Center for Positive
Criminology, Bar Ilan University, 2011-
Co-Editor, Special Issue (vol. 43, no. 4) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
Co-Editor, Special Issue (vol. 11, no. 4) Theoretical Criminology
Book Review Editor for Punishment and Society (Sage), 2005-2012
Chair, Academic Steering Group, Scottish Drugs Forum Life History Research
Project, 2010-
Editorial Board Member for
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Australian Academic Press)
Contemporary Justice Review (Routledge) stepped down 2010
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal (Sage)
European Journal of Probation (Open)
Journal of Criminology (Open)
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (Wiley)
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology (Open)
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (Ottawa)
 Health & Justice (Springer)
Legal and Criminological Psychology (Wiley)
Probation Journal (Sage)
Punishment and Society (Sage)
Restorative Justice: An International Journal (Hart)
Theoretical Criminology (Sage)
The Open Criminology Journal (Bentham)
British Society of Criminology Conference Proceedings (BSC)
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (Haworth) stepped down as board member 2005

ESRC Seminar Series, Life After Crime and Punishment: Developing Theories,
Connecting to Practice, ESRC Award RES-451254078, awarded to Stephen
Farrall, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough and Richard Sparks
Editorial Advisory Board Member for
Prisons and Punishment Book Series, Palgrave
Desistance and Resettlement Book Series, Routledge

Expert Advisory Group, Benchmarking Restorative Corrections Project Restorative

Justice Division, Correctional Services Canada, 2009
National Intensive Alternatives to Custody Academic Reference Group, Ministry of
Justice, Great Britain, 2009
Board Member, HMP Grendon Research Advisory Committee, 2002-2005
Board of Directors, Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, 2000-2001
Peer reviewer for The Economic and Social Research Council, UK
National Science Foundation (US)
Leverhulme Trust
British Academy
The European Science Foundation
Research Foundation Flanders
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Sage Books
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Routledge Publishing
Palgrave/MacMillan
Wadsworth Books
Anderson Books
Willan Publishing
University of Illinois Books
Guildford Press
NYU Press
 Chair, Publications Committee, Division of Sentencing and Corrections, 2008
Member, Program Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2004 - 2008
Member, Publications Board, American Society of Criminology, 2006-
Member, Michael J. Hindelang Award Committee, ASC, 2002-2003
Member, Sellin-Glueck Award Committee, ASC, 2003-2004
Vice Chair, Board of Directors for CURE-New York, 1998-2002
Volunteer Tutor, NY State Department of Corrections, 1999-2001
Certified Real Justice family group conferencing facilitator and dispute mediator
Peer reviewer for Criminology
American Journal of Sociology
Criminology and Public Policy
Justice Quarterly
European Journal of Criminology
European Journal of Probation
Criminal Justice
Ethnography
Punishment and Society
Theoretical Criminology
Psychology, Crime and Law
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Social Problems
International Journal of Offender Treatment & Comparative Criminology
Western Criminology Review
Journal of Criminal Justice
Contemporary Justice Review
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Crime and Justice: A Review of Research
Social Science Computer Review
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
British Journal of Sociology
British Society of Criminology Conference Proceedings
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

University Administrative Experience

Director, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law School, Queens

University Belfast, 2009 -
Director of Research, Queens University Belfast School of Law, 2009-2011
 Member, Management Board, Queens University Belfast School of Law, 2009-2011
Assistant Chair, Research Ethics Committee, Queens University Belfast School of
Law, 2008-2012
Chair, Research Ethics Committee, Queens University Belfast School of Law, 2012-
2013
Co-ordinator, Postgraduate Studies, Queens University Belfast School of Law, 2005-
2008
Member, Postgraduate Advisory Board (university wide), Queens University Belfast,
2005-2008
Member, Awards and Scholarships Committee (university wide), Queens University,
2005-2008
Curriculum Coordinator for Criminology, Masters in Penology and Applied
Criminology, Cambridge University, 2001-2005
Co-Chair, Speakers and Events Committee, Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge, 2003-2005
Member, Postgraduate Admissions Committee, Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge, 2003-2005
Curriculum Area Chair, Planned Change, School of Criminal Justice, University at
Albany, 1999-2001
Chair, Undergraduate Admissions Committee, School of Criminal Justice, University
at Albany, 2000-2001