Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Fellow of Pembroke College and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology (Faculty of Law) within the University of Cambridge, was elected as President of the British Society of Criminology at the BSC’s annual conference in July.
Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Fellow of Pembroke College and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology (Faculty of Law) within the University of Cambridge, was elected as President of the British Society of Criminology at the BSC’s annual conference in July.
She has stated:
“I feel honoured to be elected as President of the British Society of Criminology (with a membership approaching a thousand)…though I am all too aware of the challenges that this leadership role brings in terms of trying to ensure that criminologists have voice and visibility. But the Society also needs vision. In particular, I want to continue the work of the Society in trying to improve the interface between academic criminology and criminal justice policy. Policy work that ignores theory is doomed, but equally, a criminology that fails to see the scope and need for ethical policy work is extremely limited.”
Professor Gelsthorpe’s current research interests revolve around notions of criminal and social justice in sentencing, youth justice issues, women and criminal justice, the development of criminological and social theories in their social and political context since 1945, community penalties, and social exclusion, crime and justice.
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