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.

Peter Nils Grabosky is Distinguished Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is Co-chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, and Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. A past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and former Deputy Secretary-General of the International Society of Criminology, he serves on the editorial boards of numerous learned journals and has written extensively in criminal justice and public policy. He was a recipient of the 1996 Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for contributions to international criminology.

Katalin Gönczöl is Professor of Criminology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Hungary), State Secretary for Criminal Policy at the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement, President of the Hungarian Society of Criminology and the past first Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of Hungary. She is Vice President of the International Society of Criminology and past European Director of the International Ombudsman Institute. She is the author of numerous books and articles on violent crime, social reproduction of crime and criminal policy, and responsible for the first strategy of community crime prevention, reform of the national probation service and the new conception of victim policy and victim support in Hungary. She has received among others the Refugee's Prize from the Hungarian Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Order Cross of the Republic of Hungary, the International Community Justice Award.

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.

Professor Friedrich Lösel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at University of Cambridge. Before that he was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he was Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Psychology. Prior to that, he was a Professor of psychology at the University of Bielefeld.

His research interests are in the fields of criminology, clinical psychology, psychology and law, assessment, and programme evaluation. He has worked, for example, on juvenile delinquency, prisons and their alternatives, offender treatment, football hooliganism, school bullying, personality disordered offenders, resilience, close relationships, risk assessment for child abuse, and evaluation methodology. Since 1999, he has been conducting a combined prospective longitudinal and experimental study of 700 children and their families to investigate factors that either fuel or prevent the development of antisocial behaviour.

Professor Lösel received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2006.

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.

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.

Chief Constable Peter Neyroud is the first Chief Executive (Designate) of the National Policing Improvement Agency, a brand new UK body responsible for the national development and improvement of policing in the UK. As part of this role he is responsible for the development in policing in the UK, including the direction and development of research and evidence based practice.

He was 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.

Co-chairman
Jerzy Sarnecki is Professor in General Criminology at the Stockholm University. He is the 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. He is serving as an expert on the Governmental Comity on Juvenile Delinquency and Children and Youths as well as other scientific panels/committees in Sweden and the EU.

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 is the Associate Professor of Faculty of International Relations at the University of Shizuoka, Japan, and served as 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 and now engages in organizing a self-help group of former juvenile inmates. He is a member of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Steering Group and represents the Campbell Collaboration in Japan.

David Farrington

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