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Institute Structure
The membership of the Institute consists of members of the School of Law and other university staff who have an active interest in teaching and research in criminology and criminal justice. The Institute is managed by the Director, Professor Shadd Maruna, and a committee of the School of Law.

Director of ICCJ

Professor Shadd Maruna
Ex-Prisoner Reintegration; Desistance from Crime; Punishment and Society; Psychosocial Criminology; Psychology of Hate/Conflict Resolution.

Assistant Director of ICCJ
Ms Marny Requa
Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Transitional Justice

Administrative Support

Mr Deaglan Coyle

Members

Prof Phil Scraton
Controversial Deaths, Disasters, Inquiries/Inquests, Children's Rights, Critical Theory, 'Truth', Prisons

Prof Kieran McEvoy
Restorative Justice, Drugs and Social Context, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution  

Professor Pete Shirlow
Former prisoners, political violence, ethno-sectarianism, conflict transformation, segregation and violence

Dr Clare Dwyer
Criminal Justice, Paramilitary ex Prisoners, Transitional Justice and Penal Policy

Dr Graham Ellison
Policing, Youth Crime and Justice, Crime and Victimisation

Dr Anne-Marie McAlinden
Sexual Offenders, Restorative Justice, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Dr Siobhan McAlister
Children and Young People in the Context of Conflict and Marginalisation, Underclass and social exclusion.

Dr Hakeem Yusuf
Transitional Justice, Rule of Law, Judicial Constitutionalism, Human Rights, Legal and Political Theory.

The Board of Advisers

The work of the Institute is also supported by a Board of Advisers chaired by His Honour Judge David Smyth QC which is drawn from senior positions within academia, government, north and south, the police, the probation and prisons service and the voluntary sector.

His Honour Judge David Smyth QC (Chair)
Sir Tony Bottoms (University of Cambridge)
Brendan Callaghan (Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dublin)
Pat Conway (NIACRO)
Dr Debbie Donnelly
Professor Dr Albin Eser (Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Penal Law, Freiburg)
Sir Alasdair Fraser QC (DPP)
Judith Gillespie (Police Service of Northern Ireland)
Professor Philip Heymann (Harvard Law School)
Graham Kelly
David Lavery (Northern Ireland Court Service)
Stephen Leach (Northern Ireland Office)
Dr Bill Lockhart (Youth Justice Agency)
Dr Gerald Lynch (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York)
Robin Masefield (Northern Ireland Prison Service)
Professor Egbert Myjer (Advocate General, Amsterdam)
Peter Russell (Northern Ireland Prison Service)
Professor Joanna Shapland (University of Sheffield)
Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit (Universities of Cape Town and Nottingham)