Vivien Stern

Dr Vivien Stern is one of the world’s leading authorities on criminal justice issues. For many years she was Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) in Great Britain. She is Honorary Secretary General of Penal Reform International; a former Council Member of the Howard League for Penal Reform; an Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE); holds an Eisenhower Foundation trusteeship; and is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College, London. The author of numerous books and reports, her most widely read book has been A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World .

• Crime & Law