Anna Eriksson awarded New Scholar Prize 2009
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- June 26th, 2009
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Dr Anna Eriksson from Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, has been awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology New Scholar Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded each year for the best publication in criminology or a related area.
The article for which the prize was awarded, ‘Challenging Cultures of Violence through Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland’, was published in Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, 2008.
Dr Eriksson will next be exploring the latest developments around restorative justice and policing in Northern Ireland through a Travelling Fellowship with Kings College London. This research builds on her book Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, published in June this year.
During her time with Kings College Dr Eriksson will also be working on a major project titled Penal excess and penal exceptionalism: contrasts in imprisonment between Anglophone (England, New Zealand and New South Wales representing Australia) and Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden and Finland) societies. This is a collaborative project with Professor John Pratt from Victoria University Wellington. The project explores why prison rates and prison conditions, although very similar in the immediate post 1945 period, now differ so much between these two clusters of societies.
As well as collaborating with the International Centre for Prison Studies at King’s College London and other relevant research centres at the Law School, she has also been invited as a guest researcher at Gothenburg University where she will spend August before beginning her Travelling Fellowship in September.
Further information on the Criminology program.
Further information on Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, Willan Publishing.