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Jonathan Aitken
Jonathan Aitken was formerly a Member of Parliament. He is now a commentator on Christian issues.

Pierre Allard
Dr. Pierre Allard is an Assistant Commissioner with the Canadian Correctional Service and a past President of the Worldwide International Prison Chaplain's Association.

Polly Ashton Smith
Polly Ashton Smith Ph. D. is Assistant Professor Department of Sociology William Paterson University of New Jersey. She received her B.F.A. from New York University, a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Before beginning her teaching career, she worked for various non-profit and government agencies in New York City relating to human rights, corrections, and community development.

Dorothy Ayling
Dorothy Ayling is a Chaplain at HMP Brockhill and Well- Being Programme Co-ordinator at HMP Hewell Grange.

Stuart Barton Babbage
The Rev Canon Stuart Barton Babbage, is one of the great figures of Australian Church life, and in particular the Anglican Church, of the past half century. He had a friendship with C. S .Lewis and mentored a generation of distinguished young Australians. He has been Dean of both St Paul's in Melbourne and St. Andrews in Sydney. He was responsible for the establishment of the respected multi-racial Gordon-Conwell Seminary in the United States. For himself, Babbage would claim to be an evangelist and an agent provocateur for the Gospel.

Baha'i faith
The Baha'i faith has five to six million followers globally. It emerged in the ninteenth century in Persia. The founder was Baha'u'llah.

Herman Bianchi
Herman Bianchi was founder and director of the Criminology Institute of the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has also served as Dean of the Law School there. He is the author of several books and many articles. He is also a film maker, and does research on early Dutch contacts with the native peoples of North America.

Johannes Beutler
Johannes Beutler was Professor of New Testament and Fundamental Theology at the Institute of Philosophy and Theology Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. From 1998 to 2000 he was the Academic-Vice Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and since 2001 Professor of New Testament Exegisis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome. He has also been a chaplain at a prison for women at Frankfurt-am-Main

Arthur Bolkas
Between 1977 and 1983, Arthur Bolkas served time in Victoria's prison system for armed robbery. He became a Christian in prison, and since his release he has worked in prison ministry (with Prison Fellowship) and schools' ministry as a motivational speaker. He is also associate pastor at Footscray Church of Christ.
For more information, contact Prison Fellowship Victoria,
Tele: 03-9482 9228 orpfvic@vicnet.net.au

Malcolm Bowman
Malcolm Bowman graduated from Durham in 1949 and spent most of his working life teaching. After studying for six terms at Wells Theological College he specialised in teaching theology in secondary schools. On retiring, he followed an interest in Law. He also was awarded an M.Phil for a thesis on the Human Geography of Northumberland. He is a Reader (or Licenced Lay Minister) in Salisbury diocese.

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE PC is a retired English judge. She was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1955 and was appointed a Registrar at the Principal Registry of the Family Division in 1970. In 1979, she was appointed as a High Court judge, assigned to the Family Division, and was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). In 1988,she was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal (judge of the Court of Appeal), and in 1999, she became President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice.

Cherie Booth QC / Cherie Blair
As the wife of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and a Catholic, Cherie Booth QC is uniquely placed to observe the interaction of the government, law and Church in respect of human rights

Gwyneth Boswell
Gwyneth Boswell is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, De Montfort University, Leicester

Michael Bourke
The Rt. Reverend Michael Bourke is the Anglican Bishop of Wolverhampton and Anglican Co-chairman of the Meissen Commission.

Tobias Brandner
Tobias Brandner is an ordained pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church with a Doctorate of Theology the University of Zurich, Switzerland

Francis Bridger
Francis Bridger is the Principal at Trinity College, Bristol

Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes is a journalist.

Jonathan Burnside
Jonathan Burnside is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol

Rod Carter
Rod Carter teaches on the Restorative Justice Program at Queen's Theological College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Nils Christie
Professor Nils Christie was the Professor of Criminology at Oslo University

Sandy Chubb
Sandy Chubb is Director of The Prison Phoenix Trust. She joined the Trust in 1989 to teach yoga and meditation to young offenders one day a week at HMYOI Aylesbury and became Director four years ago.

Sun Young Chung
Sun Young Chung is a M.Div. student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She and her husband John pastor a multiethnic church in Boston.

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was the Home Secretary in a Liberal Government when he delivered this famous speech in the House of Commons on 20 July 1910. It has been reproduced through the kind assistance of Victoria who works in the Archives Office of the House of Lords Record Office.

Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke is the present Home Secretary (2006)
This is his speech to the Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture 19 September 2005.

Jane Clay
Jane Clay is the Chaplain at HMP/YOI New Hall, Wakefield WF4 4AX, UK

Debra Clothier
Debra Clothier is Chief Executive of the Restorative Justice Consortium. It is the only independent, membership/ umbrella organisation for all those with an interest in Restorative Justice in the UK. It promotes the use of restorative practices where conflict arises.

Helen Codd
Helen Codd is Principal Lecturer in Law at Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Peter Cordella
Peter Cordella is Associate Professor and Chair in the Criminal Justice Department at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire

Andrew Coyle
Dr Andrew Coyle CMG, FKC, is Professor of Prison Studies in the School of Law, King's College, University of London. Between 1997 and 2005 he was Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies in King's College London. Prior to that he worked for almost 25 years in the prison systems in the United Kingdom.

John Croft
John Croft, C.B.E., studied at Oxford University, the Institute of Education of London University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. During World War II he was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. He joined the Home Office in 1952 as an Inspector in the Children's Department and later transferred to the Research and Planning Unit of which he became head and chief research officer. He was also Chairman of the Criminological Scientific Council of the Council of Europe. Following retirement he has been involved in conservation issues while maintaining his professional interest in criminology. He is also an artist, his paintings being held in both public and private collections.

Elena Curtis
Elena Curtis is an English journalist.

Kathleen Daly
Kathleen Daly is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University (Brisbane). She writes on gender, race, crime and justice; and on restorative, Indigenous, and international justice. She is President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Nick Davies
Nick Davies is a prize winning journalist who works for The Guardian.

Kathleen Denison
Kathleen Denison is Executive Director of God Accepting The Exiled (GATE), a non-profit organization serving the needs of men and women who are incarcerated. She also serves as a senior counselor at a drug and alcohol recovery center and has worked in the prison chaplaincy.

Stuart Dew
Stuart Dew is the Churches' Criminal Justice Officer at the Churches' Criminal Justice Forum.

Rodolfo Diamente
Rodolfo de los Santos Diamante is the Executive Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care and ASIA'S Representative on the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care and International Prison Pastoral Care.

Alan Duce
Alan Duce was a Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln. Alan had been a full time Church of England prison chaplain for twenty-eight years. He was the editor of 'New Life'- the Prison Service Chaplaincy Review - for over twenty years and founder/editor of Justice Reflections.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.
Cardinal. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. An internationally known author and lecturer, he was born in New York on August 24th 1918, the son of John Foster Dulles, a previous American Secretary of State, and Janet Pomery Avery Dulles. He was created a Cardinal in the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul 11 on February 21, 2001 — the first American born theologian who is a non-bishop to receive this honour. He is the author of 750 articles on theological topics.

Louis Dupré
Louis Dupré is the Emeritus T. Lawson Riggs Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Yale University

Edward Echlin
Dr Edward P. Echlin is Visiting Scholar, Sarum College, Salisbury; Honorary Research Fellow in Theology, University College of Trinity & All Saints, Leeds; and author of The Cosmic Circle, Jesus and Ecology (Columba Press, 2004).

David Faulkner
David Faulkner is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research

Duncan B Forrester
The Eighteenth ERIC SYMES ABBOTT Memorial Lecture was delivered by The Reverend Professor Duncan B. Forrester of New College, The University of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May, 2003

Jean Franklin
Jean Franklin taught at the Lovett School in Atlanta for 17 years. Lovett student Jens Soering, the son of a German diplomat, won a prestigious Jefferson Scholarship to the University of Virginia and received the “Best Student in English” Award even though English is not his native language.

David Garland
David Garland is Professor of Law at New York University; his many publications include The Culture of Control (2001) — published by Oxford University Press.

David Goodhart
David Goodhart is the Editor of 'Prospect'.
More information about 'Prospect' can be found on www.prospect-magazine.co.uk

Timothy Gorringe
The Reverend Timothy Gorringe is the Professor of Theology at Exeter University.

Jonathan Gorsky
The Reverend Jonathan Gorsky is the Education Advisor to The Council for Christians and Jews

Ted Grimsrud
Ted Grimsrud is Associate Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at Eastern Mennonite University and an ordained minister in Mennonite Church USA. He is currently working on a book on biblical views of salvation.

José Luis Peréz Guadalupe
Dr José Luis Peréz Guadalupe is Director of the Social Pastoral Mission for the Diocese of Lima, Peru

John Haldane
John Haldane was Professor in Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University.

Brenda Hale
Brenda Hale is a distinguished English judge. Brenda Hale is most grateful to her legal assistant, Rachel Avery, for the help given with this lecture. The errors and opinions are all her own.

Peter Hammersley
Peter Hammersley is Co-ordinating Chaplain at HMP Hewell Grange.

Patrick Hannon
Patrick Hannon is Professor of Moral Theology at Maynooth College, County Kildare, Eire.

Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was Sub-Dean at Westminster Abbey

Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley is a well-known political commentator in England.

Nicholas Holtam
Nicholas Holtam is the Vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.

Russ Immarigeon
Russ Immarigeon is an editor, writer, and local court judge. Currently, he edits Justice Connections, the quarterly newsletter of the Victim-Offender Mediation Asociation, as well as the following Civic Research Institute publications: Women, Girls & Criminal Justice, Community Corrections Report, and Offender Programs Report. Edited or co-edited books include Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System (CRI, 2006) and After Crime and Punishment (Willan, 2004). In Hillsdale, New York, where he lives, Immarigeon was elected Town Court Justice in 2003 and re-elected in 2007.

Philip Ireson
Philip Ireson is the Church of England Chaplain at HMP Doncaster and can be contacted at:
Philip@Iresonr.freeserve.co.uk

Dr Bob Johnson
Dr Bob Johnson is a member of Hampshire and the Islands Quaker Area Meeting and a Consultant Psychiatrist. He is listed on the GMC speciality register for psychiatry. He is a Member of The Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Member of Royal College of General Practitioners.

Todd M. Johnson
Todd M. Johnson is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA.
He is co-author of World Christian Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Oxford, 2001, and World Christian Trends, AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library 2001.

Gregory Jordan
Gregory Jordan is a New Zealand Jesuit priest

Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian writer

Christine Knott, CBE. MA
Christine Knott CBE MA, is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Swansea University and formerly National Offender Manager in NOMS with nearly 30 years experience of working in the Criminal Justice System, primarily in the field of Probation. As Chief Officer of Greater Manchester Probation, she created an organisation that was closely aligned to its criminal justice and social exclusion partners. Christine has been at the forefront of the 'What Works' movement in correctional services for the last 15 years, culminating in the phased implementation of OM across all prison and probation services in England and Wales. She has a history of commissioning and using research to further strategic and practices developments and is an independent consultant, specialising in evidence based practices, performing improvement and change management and leadership.

August Konkel
August H. Konkel (Ph. D.) is the Principal of Providence College and Theological Seminary, Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada.

Norman Kraus
Emeritus Professor of Religion from Goshen College (Indiana); ordained to ministry in the Mennonite Church; served with the Mennonite Board of Missions in Japan and Asia; lectured and taught in Theological Colleges and universitiesAuthor of some dozen books on theology and ethics.
Krauscn@aol.com
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