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 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.

Professor Roy has published research on victim restitution programmes, day reporting centres and electronically monitored home detention for adult and juvenile offenders. His specialisations are corrections, juvenile justice, victimology, programme evaluation, statistics, and race and ethnic relations.

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. Bachmann received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Central Florida and his MS from the University of Mannheim. He specialises in computer and high-technology crime, from internet piracy to hacking, and in geospatial crime analysis and crime mapping.

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.

Dr. Chokprajakchat has served on the National Anti-Corruption Commission's National Strategic Steering Committee in Thailand. Her research covers criminal justice policy, law enforcement, anti-corruption, victim and witness protection, drug policy and human rights. She received her PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University.

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.

Dr. Wong is a former Inspector of the Hong Kong Police and former Director of the Chinese Laws Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A founding member and former President of the Asian Association of Police Studies, his expertise includes comparative policing, Chinese criminal law and homeland security.

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.