Jury
The prize selection processes are conducted by a jury, an independent international body that selects and appoints the prize recipient(s) from the nominations submitted. The jury consists of distinguished criminologists and practitioners of criminology, such as internationally recognised scholars and law enforcement officials and former prize recipients. The jury has chosen Lawrence Sherman and Jerzy Sarnecki to co-chair the jury.
Nominations for the jury to consider will be invited from universities, criminological associations and others.
In addition to the jury there is a steering body for strategic decision-making and financial management. The steering body decides on donor-related and financial issues.
Members of the jury
Lola Aniyar de Castro (Venezuela)
Lola Aniyar de Castro is Doctor of Law, specialized in Penal Law and Criminology at the Universities of Rome and Paris. Professor for the Latinamerican Master's Degree in Criminology. Former Director at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Zulia (named after her) in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and Vice President of the International Society of Criminology for Latinamerica. She is now Vice President at the International Society of Social Defence and Human Criminal Police. She has been a Senator in the Venezuelan National Congress, first Venezuelan woman elected Governor of the Zulia State and a Venezuelan Diplomatic to the UNESCO. She has written several books and been honoured with awards of Distinguished Latinamerican Scholar, by the American Sociological Association.
Hans-Jurgen Kerner (Germany)
Hans-Jürgen Kerner is Professor in Criminology, Juvenile Law, Corrections and Penal Procedure at the Faculty of Law, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, and Director of the Institute of Criminology. He is Honorary President on the International Society for Criminology, President-Elect of the European Society of Criminology, Chair of the German Foundation for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders, and President of the National Association for Social Work, Penal Law and Crime Policy (DBH). He has written extensively on many topics of crime, crime prevention, crime control, criminology, criminal justice, juvenile justice, corrections, probation and parole. He is serving at present as an expert for the German federal task force to prepare the second edition of the "Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control in Germany", to be published in early 2006. He has received a couple of awards, among them the "Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award" of the American Society of Criminology for outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by a non-American criminologist.
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Friedrich Lösel (Germany)
Friedrich Lösel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University (UK) and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He has carried out research on juvenile delinquency, violence, offender treatment, prisons, football hooliganism, school bullying, personality disorders, resilience, developmental prevention, and program evaluation, and published more than 20 books and 320 articles/chapters on such topics. He has been Founding President of the European Association of Psychology and Law, a member of the Anti-Violence Commission of the German Government, President of the Criminological Society of the German-speaking countries, and chair of the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel of England and Wales. He is a member of the steering committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Collaboration and a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
For his scientific work he has received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology, the Award for outstanding achievement of the European Association of Psychology and Law, an honorary Doctorate, the German Psychology Prize, and in 2006 the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.
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Tiyanjana Maluwa (South Africa)
Tiyanjana Maluwa is the H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at the Dickinson School of Law, and concurrently Director of the School of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has been legal counsel for the Organization of African Unity (now African Union) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, where he was involved, inter alia, in providing advice and developing policy on issues relating to human rights and international criminal justice. He has published extensively on various aspects of international law and international human rights. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of learned journals and is a member of various international professional associations and learned societies.
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Terrie E. Moffitt (UK)
Terrie E. Moffitt is Kurt Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Psychology at Duke University, USA, and Professor of Social Behavior and Development at the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London (UK). She has a leadership role in major social, psychological and biological studies of crime and human development around the world. Her work on the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study in New Zealand has identified patterns of intimate as well as stranger crime, including discoveries about the role of females as initiators of violence. Professor Moffitt is also carrying out an important large-scale follow-up of twins in the UK to investigate biological, psychological, and social influences on development.
She received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2007.
Peter William Neyroud (UK)
Peter William Neyroud CBE, QPM, formerly Chief Constable and Chief Executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency, UK; PhD researcher at Cambridge University UK.
He was also formerly Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, the fifth largest police force in the UK with a population of over 2.2 million people, covering the areas of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire in South-East England. He was Third Vice President of the UK's Association of Chief Police Officers and is currently a Member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council of England and Wales. He has a particular interest in policing ethics, human rights in policing and criminal justice and is the author of numerous books and articles. In January 2004 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal and in April 2004 he was the recipient of the Police Executive Research Forum Gary P Hayes Award. He was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2011.
Jerzy Sarnecki (Sweden)
Co-chairman
Jerzy Sarnecki is Professor in General Criminology at the Stockholm University. He is past President of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology and past Head of Department of Criminology. He is the author of numerous books and articles on delinquent networks, studies on juvenile delinquency and textbooks in criminology.
Sarnecki is director of the project "The Stockholm Boys: Life Courses & Crime in the Swedish Welfare State Through Half a Century". He is serving as an expert on several scientific panels and committees in Sweden and internationally. Among others, he is a member of the Scientific Council for the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention and the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
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Lawrence W. Sherman (USA)
Co-chairman
Lawrence W. Sherman, the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, is also Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology and the Police Executive Programme at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The President Honoraire of the Societe' Internationale de Criminologie, he is also past President of the American Society of Criminology and the Ametrican Academy of Political and Social Science. The author of numerous controlled field experiments testing theories of crime prevention, police practices and criminal sanctions, he has received awards for distinguished scholarship from the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Academy of Experimental Criminology, American Society of Criminology, the Society of Criminology of German-Speaking Nations, and other learned societies.
Hiroshi Tsutomi (Japan)
Hiroshi Tsutomi is the Professor of Faculty of International Relations at the University of Shizuoka, Japan, and served as former Editor-in-Chief of the Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology. He has been interested in testing delinquency theories and assessing effectiveness of criminal justice interventions. He is also a director of an nonprofit organization organizing former juvenile school inmates.
He is a member of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Steering Group and represents the Campbell Collaboration in Japan.
Letizia Paoli (Belgium)
Letizia Paoli is professor of criminology at the K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium. Italian by birth, she received her Ph.D. in social and political sciences from the European University Institute.
From 1998 to 2006 Prof. Paoli was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. She also served as consultant to the Italian Ministries of the Interior and Justice, and the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNODCCP, now UNODC) and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Since the early 1990s she has published extensively on the Italian mafia, organised and serious crime, drugs and related control policies.
David Weisburd (USA/Israel)
David Weisburd is the Walter E. Meyer professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem; and Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, and Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University in Virginia.
Professor Weisburd is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He is a member of a number of prestigious national and international committees including the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Office of Justice Programs, the Campbell Crime and Justice Group (as Chair); the Harvard Executive Session in Policing; and the US National Research Council Committee on Crime, Law and Justice. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington DC, and Chairs its Research Advisory Committee. Professor Weisburd is the recipient of the Joan McCord Award from the Academy of Experimental Criminology (2008), the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the Klachky Family Award for Advances on the Frontiers of Science (2011). He is author or editor of 20 books and more than 100 scientific articles. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology.
Last updated:
April 4, 2013
Source: Communications Office
