Notes on Contributors
Clair Aldington
was trained as a Restorative Justice Facilitator in 2002 and holds a Ph.D. in Design and Restorative Justice and a m.a. in Contemporary Art and Music. Following her move to the Shetland Islands, Scotland, in 2007 Clair co-founded and is now the Director-Practitioner for Space2face – an award winning restorative justice and arts charity. As an independent researcher and practitioner, her research and practice interests are in restorative justice, participatory design, co-creation, gifting and islandness.
Monique Anderson
is a Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She has worked on a number of European projects, the most current of which will be providing training for judicial professionals on restorative justice and also providing training on supporting sexual and gender violence victims. Her Ph.D. examines the justice interests of women who were sexually harmed in childhood by another child from within their family. She held the role of Director for the European Forum for Restorative Justice.
Katrine Barnekow Rasmussen
(Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. In her research, she has focused on restorative justice, including the Danish and Norwegian Conflict Boards and the restorative aspect of the Danish Youth Offending Boards. In addition, Katrine teaches and facilitates relational and restorative practices in various municipal settings.
Kara Beckman
is an Applied Researcher in the Center for Healthy Youth Development at the University of Minnesota, United States. She has 15 years of experience evaluating restorative justice practices in school and community settings and holds a m.a. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Daniela Bolivar
(Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, at the Catholic University of Chile. She has participated in several research projects related to victims and restorative justice and written a number of articles and book contributions on the topic. She co-edited the book Victims and Restorative Justice published by Routledge and is the author of the book Restoring Harm: A Psychosocial Approach to Victims and Restorative Justice (2019, Routledge).
David J. Cox
(Ph.D.) is a Reader in Criminal Justice History at the University of Wolverhampton. He specialises in early policing and prison history, together with the history of restorative justice. He is co-editor of the Wolverhampton Law Journal (https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-centres/law-research-centre/wolverhampton-law-journal/) and Series co-editor of the Routledge solon Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories series.
Yasmin Devi-McGleish
(Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, where she specialises in restorative justice. She teaches at all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate study and is also keenly interested in youth justice and alternatives to more traditional punishments for young people.
Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt
(D.Phil) is an Associate Professor at the International Institute for Restorative Practices (iirp,
Miranda Forsyth
is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Asia and Pacific at anu. Her scholarship focuses on how people’s diverse justice needs can best be met, drawing upon multiple legal and normative orders. Her geographical focus has been primarily in the Pacific Islands region, particularly Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, but she also works in the Australian regulatory context on issues of restorative justice. In this regard, she is developing a new agenda for Environmental Restorative Justice in both Australia and internationally.
Daniela Gaddi
(Ph.D.) is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (uab) and a community mediator. Her areas of interest are restorative justice, white collar crime, corporate crime and diffuse victimization. She is currently focusing her research on the implementation of restorative procedures in cases of corruption.
Dave Gustafson
is Founding Director of Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives Association (frcjia) in Langley, b.c. Canada, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, a pastor ordained in the Mennonite Church, a Registered Clinical Counsellor (psychotherapist) and a Knight of Honour in the 1,000 year old Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaler. He holds a Ph.D. from ku Leuven, Belgium, and has worked in the areas of crime, prisons, victimology, criminology and trauma recovery for over 30 years.
Gabor Hera
(Ph.D.) is a Researcher and a Sociologist. He is primarily interested in the way rj techniques and approach can be applied in different social contexts. Currently, he is a research fellow at hun-ren Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary.
Marie Keenan
(Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at ucd. Her publications include Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power and Organizational Culture, oup (2012); Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap, oup (2022) (with E. Zinsstag). She is an accredited psychotherapist, restorative justice practitioner and a registered social worker.
Leah Koumentaki
(Ph.D.) conducted the first comprehensive and systematic research on the Cretan Sasmos, bringing empirical evidence indicating that Sasmos is a vernacular restorative justice process, closely related to the tradition of justice in Crete. She currently works as a Lecturer in Criminology at University of Keele. Overall, her research interests focus on social harm, criminality, punishment and justice from a decolonial, critical and zemiological strand of view.
Katrin Kremmel
is a Ph.D. candidate at the Social and Cultural Anthropology department of the University of Vienna (Austria) working on volunteering, citizenship and unwaged labor in the field of asylum and migration governance. Before her graduate studies, she carried out research on restorative practices in social housing estates in Vienna, as junior researcher and Workpackage leader for the alternative project at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology.
Giovanni Angelo Lodigiani
is a Philosopher and Theologian. He teaches ‘Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation’ at the University of Insubria of Como and Varese (Italy) and is a member of the Centre for Studies on Restorative Justice and Mediation, established at the same University. He is also a permanent teacher of theological ethics at the S. Agostino Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Pavia.
Kim Magiera
is currently working as a Mediator in penal matters and a Ph.D. student at the University of Kiel (Germany). She holds a diploma in pedagogy and a master’s degree in international criminology. Her areas of interest are restorative justice and mediation, Bildung, qualitative research methodology, research ethics as well as visual criminology and pedagogy. For her Ph.D., she analyses the interactions in victim-offender mediation with a focus on possible transformations of victims and offenders.
Giuseppe Maglione
(Ph.D.) teaches criminology at the University of Kent,
Anna Matczak
is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Criminology at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, focusing on how Polish lay people perceive punishment and justice, and how these narratives inform the viability of restorative justice in Poland. Post-Ph.D. she has engaged in a number of initiatives to popularise restorative justice in Poland, as well as she has continued to write about the need to shift the academic debate about the nature and application of attitudinal research.
Caroline O’Nolan
is a Senior Research Officer in the National Disability Authority and also Chair of a charitable organisation that works to rehabilitate men with a history of violent offending. Her Ph.D. thesis was awarded by the University of Dublin, Trinity College (Ireland), and explored the presence and treatment of non-Irish nationals in the Irish District Court. Her extensive post-doctoral research has spanned many areas of social policy including female labour market participation, child protection, restorative justice, and dementia.
Brunilda Pali
(Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Dynamics and Governance at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. She researches, teaches and publishes on gender and feminism, restorative, environmental and social justice, cultural and critical criminology, and arts and justice.
Crystena Parker-Shandal
is an Associate Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development and a Master’s of Teaching from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. For more on her work, visit www.drparkershandal.com.
Christa Pelikan
(Ph.D.) is a Senior Consultant (and former Researcher) at the Institute for Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology in Vienna. She has been doing research on the theory and practice of restorative justice. She has been chairing the ‘Committee of experts on mediation in penal matters’ of the Council of Europe. She is a founding member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice.
Antony Pemberton
(Ph.D.) is a Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, ku Leuven, Belgium and a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Crime and Law Enforcement (nscr) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research concerns victimology, restorative justice, and narrative criminology. He has published over 125 articles, book chapters and books about these subjects.
Ellie Piggott
is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Her research aims to examine the impact of criminogenic risk and intervention experience on the effectiveness of restorative justice conferencing in reducing recidivism. Simply, it seeks to determine for whom and under what circumstances conferencing works to reduce reoffending.
Lindsey Pointer
is an Assistant Professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School and Principal Investigator for the National Center on Restorative Justice. She has a Ph.D. in Restorative Justice from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and is a former Fulbright Fellow and Rotary Global Grant recipient. She is the author of: The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools (Good Books, 2020), The Restorative Justice Ritual (Routledge, 2021), and a children’s picture book Wally and Freya (Good Books, 2022).
Nicola Preston
is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Studies in Special Educational Needs, Disability and Diversity at the University of Northampton and Adjunct Faculty for the International Institute for Restorative Practices Graduate School. She has been a practitioner, trainer and researcher in restorative practices since 1996 when she was introduced to the ideas as a serving police officer in Thames Valley Police. She has two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D., all of which involve research into restorative practices. She is a qualified primary school teacher and sen Co-ordinator, a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice Newsletter Editorial Team.
Federico Reggio
is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Padova, where he also teaches public ethics. He previously chaired the Research Committee at the European Forum for Restorative Justice and currently chairs Scientific Directory of ‘Mediares, Journal on Conflict Transformation, Restorative Culture and Mediation’.
Clara Rigoni
is Maître Assistante at the Faculty of Law, criminal justice and public administration of the University of Lausanne. In 2019, she obtained her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law where she worked as senior researcher until 2022. She has been lecturer and visiting professor at several universities, among which the University of Freiburg, the University of Trento, the Washington and Lee University and the elte University Budapest. Since 2022, she is Editor in Chief of the German Law Journal, and since 2024 she is member of the scientific Committee of the Swiss Group of Criminology.
Anna Rypi
is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of Lund in Sweden. Her research is mainly about crime victims from different perspectives. She is also a relational psychotherapist.
Masahiro Suzuki
(Ph.D.) is a Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, Sociology, and Social Policy, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. His research interests include restorative justice, youth offending, desistance, and comparative criminology.
Felicity Tepper
is a Senior Researcher in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. As a socio-ecological-legal scholar, she continues to explore the shaping, complementarity and application of Environmental Restorative Justice in multiple areas including environmental governance, multispecies justice, coexistence, and community engagement. She hopes her synthesis of ideas around restorative justice in the environmental space will contribute to advancing opportunities for scholars, practitioners and communities to forge a more just world for all species.
Tinneke Van Camp
(Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Victimology Option, at California State University, Fresno. She has done qualitative research into victim satisfaction with, and motives for, participation in restorative interventions in Canada, England and Belgium. Her research interests also include teen dating violence and support needs following wrongful convictions. She is an editor of the International Review of Victimology, and book series co-editor for Studies in Restorative Justice.
Roxana Willis
is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. Before joining the lse, she completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Junior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg; a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford; and a Junior Research Fellowship in Law at University College, Oxford. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxon), an ll.m. in International Economic Law (soas, London), and an ll.b. in Law with European Legal Studies (University of Kent and Charles University, Prague).
Estelle Zinsstag
(Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University and a Researcher at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, as well as an associate researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium) and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford (UK). She was the recipient of a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship in 2024–2025. She publishes mainly in the fields of sexual/gendered violence, restorative and transitional justice (a recent publication is the open access Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap with Marie Keenan for Oxford University Press). She is co-general editor of The International Journal of Restorative Justice and of the book series Studies in Restorative Justice published by Brill (Brill/De Gruyter, the Netherlands).