International Advisory Board

Professor David S. Wall researches cybercrime, cybersecurity, organised crime, policing and intellectual property crime. He has published more than 50 articles and 12 books, including Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, and has led interdisciplinary research funded by the EU, ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC, the Home Office and DSTL. He has served on the Home Office Cybercrime Working Group, the HMIC Digital Crime and Policing working group and the UNODC cybercrime expert group. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the RSA, and was a Turing Fellow (2018 to 2021). Earlier he was Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds (2000 to 2005).

Dr. Onwudiwe received his PhD from the School of Criminology at Florida State University in 1993. He has published widely on international policing, terrorism, transnational crime and African criminology. His books include The Globalization of Terrorism and, with Dominique Wisler, Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives (2009). He has edited the International Police Executive Symposium Working Paper Series.

Professor Sandra Walklate holds the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. Her research has focused on criminal victimisation, the fear of crime, and gender and crime, and more recently on terrorism, policy responses to it and the idea of resilience. She was President of the British Society of Criminology, elected in 2019, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology from 2014. Her books include The Contradictions of Terrorism (with Gabe Mythen) and Victim, Trauma, Testimony, Justice (with Ross McGarry), and she co-edits the book series Victims, Culture and Society. The British Society of Criminology honoured her with its award for outstanding achievement in 2014.

Professor Newman is Associate Director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. He has advised the United Nations on crime and justice for many years and in 1990 established the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. His work spans the history and philosophy of punishment, international criminal justice, situational crime prevention, problem-oriented policing and information technology.

Professor Meško is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and a visiting professor in Sarajevo and Belgrade. His research covers comparative criminology and victimology, fear of crime, the history of criminology and crimes against the environment.

Professor Miller specialises in feminist theory and qualitative methods, with research on gender, crime and victimization, offender networks, the commercial sex industry and youth gangs. She is the author of Getting Played (2008), a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, and One of the Guys (2001), and has conducted field research on the commercial sex industry in Sri Lanka.

Professor Ronel is a licensed clinical criminologist and the proponent of the criminological theory of the Criminal Spin. He previously served as Researcher-in-Chief of the Center for Children and Youth Studies at Tel Aviv University and teaches on the postgraduate course on victimology at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik. His work focuses on spiritual-based intervention and recovery, moral transformation and positive criminology.

Dr. Tina Patel is Associate Professor and Reader in Criminology at the University of Salford, where she has worked since 2008, having previously held posts at Liverpool John Moores University and Nottingham Trent University. Her research examines identity, social inequality and marginalisation, and their links to crime, justice, social harm and victimisation. She has written on policing, surveillance, crime in areas undergoing urban regeneration, access to education, and social interaction during periods of political and public health change. She holds a first degree in Criminal Justice from Liverpool John Moores University and a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sheffield, and she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Harries chaired the Department of Geography at UMBC from 1985 to 1995 and earlier taught at Oklahoma State University. He has written a dozen books, most on criminal justice, including Geography of Crime and Justice, Serious Violence and Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice. He holds a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and an MA and PhD from UCLA.

Professor Shapland has served as Head of the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Sheffield, and as Executive Editor of the International Review of Victimology. Her research includes restorative justice with adult offenders and the longitudinal study of desistance from offending.

Professor Groenhuijsen was the founding director of INTERVICT, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg, and President of the World Society of Victimology. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a judge in the Court of Appeal in Arnhem, and has published more than 250 articles and 24 books. He received the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Dr. Yeldell served in the Law / Justice Department of Rowan University for thirty-one years. A graduate of Howard University School of Law, his work centres on victimology. He founded the Victim Awareness Organization and chaired the Gloucester County Advisory Probation Board (1991 to 2001) on the appointment of the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Professor Nikolić-Ristanović is Editor-in-Chief of Temida, the journal on victimization, human rights and gender. She has led many national and international studies on women as victims, domestic and sexual violence, trafficking in human beings, and truth and reconciliation, and has served as President of the European Society of Criminology.

Dr. Wisler specialises in internal security sector reform in transition states and has served as Senior Advisor on Policing with UNDP in Kinshasa. He has worked on police reform in Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique, Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq. He holds a PhD from the University of Geneva.

Professor Chui's research and teaching cover criminal justice, criminology, youth justice and social work with offenders. He co-edited Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong and has served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology and Managing Editor of the Asian Journal of Criminology.

Professor Viano has written or edited more than 30 books and over 120 articles. He frequently provides expert commentary to international media and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology.

Professor Kam C. Wong teaches in the Department of Criminal Justice at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, which he previously chaired, and is concurrently a Faculty Fellow at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany (SUNY), New York. He earned his BA with honours and his JD from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his PhD in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, where he received the Remington Award for Distinguished Work in Law and Social Science. As an Inspector of Police with the Hong Kong Police, he was awarded the Commissioner's High Commendation, and for twenty years he was a black belt karate instructor. He has been Managing Attorney of the Legal Services Corporation in Michigan, Corporate Counsel for Everex, a publicly listed company, and Director of the Chinese Law Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He served as Vice-President (1999 to 2000) of the Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong, and Vice-Chair (2000 to 2002) of the Hong Kong Society of Criminology, and he is now an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 100 articles and 10 books in ten countries, in journals including Police Quarterly, the British Journal of Criminology, the Asian Journal of Criminology, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, the Columbia Journal of Asian Law, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, the International Journal of the Sociology of Law and the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal.

Professor Tandon was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University and has more than 40 years of experience in criminology, correctional administration and social welfare administration. Her books include Probation: A New Perspective and Senior Citizens: Perspective for the New Millennium.

Professor Yanay's cross-national research evaluates social policy and public services for victims of crime and terrorism, including mediation and restorative justice programmes that reduce community tensions.

Professor Quraishi studies Muslim populations as victims and offenders, racial and religious discrimination, and comparative criminology. His books include Muslims and Crime, Researching Racism and Towards a Malaysian Criminology (2020). He has advised UK bodies including the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service.