Shadd Maruna is a Reader in Crimonology at Queen's University Belfast. He is interviewed by Ben Crewe, a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.
Shadd Maruna is a Reader in Criminology at the Law School of Queen's University, Belfast. He has also taught at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, and the University at Albany, in State University of New York. His main research interest is the reintegration of formerly incarcerated citizens into society, including issues of resettlement, processes of self-change, and the psychology of intolerant and punitive attitudes among members of the public. With regards to the latter, he has recently completed an in-depth study of public opinion regarding punishment issues in the east of England. 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 (ASC) in 2001, and in 2004, he was named the Distinguished New Scholar by the ASC's Division of Corrections and Sentencing. He is co-editor of two recent books from Willan Publishing: After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration (2004) and The Effects of Imprisonment (2005).
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