Shadd Maruna
Shadd Maruna (Ph.D., Northwestern University, USA) is Professor of Justice Studies and Human Development at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Previously, he taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University at Albany, SUNY (USA). 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 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), and Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (forthcoming from Routledge).
In 2004, he was named the Distinguished New Scholar in Corrections and Sentencing by the ASC. He is the Editor of the book series "Psychology, Crime and Justice" for American Psychological Association Books, and the book review editor for the journal Punishment and Society.
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.
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