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Malcolm Lacey
Malcolm Lacey was formerly Head of Social Work at Coventry Polytechnic and Chief Probation Officer for Dorset.

Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was a famous English poet and essayist. Some of his works were published together in Essays of Elia.

Giles Legood
The Revd Giles Legood is a university chaplain in the diocese of London.

C. S. Lewis
C. S Lewis, a renowned English theologian, had a knack of placing his finger on the weakness of an argument. As so often C. S. Lewis went to the heart of the matter with a simplicity and directness which concealed profundity of thought and incisiveness of mind. Lewis is best known, however, for his fiction and his Christian apologetics, two disciplines complementary to each other within his oeuvre.

Marian Liebmann
Marian Liebmann has worked in the criminal justice field for over 20 years with offenders and victims. She was director of Mediation UK for four years and now works free lane in restorative justice and mediation training both in the UK and abroad.

Lucy Faithfull Foundation
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs Stop it Now - a helpline for adults who are worried about their own or others' behaviour towards children

Elaine MacInnes
Sister Elaine MacInnes is a member of a Religious Congregation, Our Lady’s Missionaries, in Toronto, Canada.

Tim Macquiban
Tim Macquiban is the principal of Sarum College, Salisbury, and can be contacted at tmacquiban@sarum.ac.uk

Christopher D. Marshall
Dr. Christopher Marshall taught New Testament at the Tyndale Graduate School of Theology in Auckland. He moved to Wellington at the end of 2004 as St John's Senior Lecturer in Christian Theology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
He is also Chairman of the Waitakere Restorative Justice Community Group and is actively involved in restorative justice conferencing.

Sean McConville
Sean McConville is Professor of Criminal Justice and Professional Research Fellow in the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.

David McIlroy
David McIlroy is a barrister at 3 Paper Buildings, Temple, London EC4 7EU

Gillian McLean
Gillian McLean is a part-time student in the MTS program at Queens Theological College in Canada. She also works part-time as a pastoral counsellor at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston. She is married with three children, and as a family they attend a local Anglican Church

Rhonda Mann
Mrs Rhonda Mann is a prison chaplain of the Lutheran Church of Australia in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the chaplain at James Nash House, a Forensic Mental Health Facility and provides ecumenical pastoral care at other South Australian correctional facilities including Yatala Labour Prison and Adelaide Women's Prison. Rhonda was the Project Officer on the Children of Prisoners Project for the Justice Strategy Division of the South Australian Department of Justice. She has a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of South Australia and a Diploma of Theology from Australian Lutheran College.

Charles Moule
The Reverend Professor C.F.D. Moule was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge 1951-1976

Jeffrie Murphy
Jeffrie Murphy is Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Mike Nash
Mike Nash is Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.

Ronald W. Nikkel
Ronald Nikkel is the President of Prison Fellowship International and a Patron of Justice Reflections

Wayne Northey
Wayne Northey is Director of M2/W2 Association - Restorative Christian Ministries, British Columbia, Canada

Terry Nowell
Terry Nowell works as Methodist Minister in Nottingham, having previously served in Lincoln as part-time chaplain to the prison.
He was appointed as editor to Justice Reflections in March 2007.
He can be contacted at tnowell@clap2gnu.gotadsl.co.uk.

Daniel O'Leary
Daniel O'Leary is he parish priest of St. Wilfred's, Ripon, North Yorkshire. He kindly gave permission for the inclusion of this article which was previously published in The Tablet on 16th July 2005.

Onora O'Neill
Dr Onora O'Neill is the Principal of Newnham College Cambridge

Anne Owers
Anne Owers is HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Luke Lungile Pato
The Reverend Canon Luke Lungile Pato works for the South African Council of Churches as Programme Director on Reconciliation, Healing and Peace

Tony Pearson
Tony Pearson is Chairman of Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Council.

Lord Phillips
Lord Phillips was educated at Bryanston School, and King's College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1962, made a QC in 1978 and was appointed a Recorder in 1982. He was appointed to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in 1987, and became an Appeal Court judge in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and in 2000 he was appointed Master of the Rolls. Lord Phillips was appointed in 2005 to take over from Lord Woolf as Lord Chief Justice.

Laura Piacentini
Dr Laura Piacentini is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Strathclyde Law School — University of Strathclyde.

Kay Pranis
Kay Pranis is a trainer/facilitator for peacemaking circles and the philosophy of restorative justice. She served the Minnesota Department of Corrections in the position of Restorative Justice Planner from 1994 to 2003 providing education to  the criminal  justice system,  other  agencies and the general public about  restorative justice.   She is a co-author of the book 'Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community' and author of the 'Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking'.
kaypranis@msn.com

John Pratt
John Pratt is Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Helen Prejan

Stephen Pryor
Stephen Pryor recently retired after a long and distinguished career as a Prison Governor

John Race
John Race is an administrator who works for the Prison Service in London.

Timothy Radcliffe
Timothy Radcliffe OP is a Dominican and can be contacted at timothy.radcliffe@english.op.org

Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner was a Roman Catholic theologian born in 1904 at Freibourg and died in 1984 in Innsbruck.

Mamphela Ramphele
A South African-born medical doctor, Mamphela Ramphele is also a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. She also holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology, a BCom degree in Administration, and diplomas in Tropical Health & Hygiene and Public Health. As a student and former partner of Steve Biko, the murdered anti-apartheid fighter, she played a key role in the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. She has received many prestigious national and international awards and eighteen honorary doctorates and the Medal of Distinction from Bernard College. She has written many books and articles on education, health, and social development for which she has received numerous prizes and awards.

David Ramsbotham
Lord Ramsbotham was the Chief Inspector of Prisons and is a Patron of Justice Reflections

Pierre Raphael
Pierre Raphael is a priest of the Mission de France. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Helen Reid
Helen Reid is Director of Faith to Faith, a Christian consultancy supporting those involved in mission and ministry among people of other faiths

Mian Ridge
Mian Ridge is a journalist who writes for The Tablet

Declan Roche
Declan Roche works in the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

David Scott
David Scott is based at the University of Central England. His email address is dscott@uclan.ac.uk

Peter Sedgwick
Dr. Peter Sedgwick, is the Secretary of the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of England.

John Sentamu
Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, and Primate of England.
He was consecrated Bishop of Stepney in 1996 and was appointed Bishop of Birmingham, where his ministry, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was praised by "Christians of all backgrounds". He was formally elected the 97th Archbishop by the Canons of York Minste rin 2005, and enthroned at York Minster on 30 November 2005 (the feast of Saint Andrew).

Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw, a pseudonym, is a qualified management consultant with an international reputation in his earlier field of study who spent 4½ years in high security prisons following his wrongful conviction as a result of allegations arising from false memory syndrome. A Christian for over 40 years, he has worked with people in a wide variety of situations, including staff dealing with various forms of difficult behaviour, and taught mature students in higher education. He used his time in prison to draft five books on, among other things, supporting prisoners, the English criminal justice system and understanding abuse. He has written a number of shorter papers and continues to work as a management consultant and to support victims, offenders and their families.

Randell G. Shelden
Randall G. Shelden is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), where he has been since 1977.

Henk Smidstra
Henk Smidstra has worked as chaplain in women's prisons in British Columbia, Canada since 1991. Before that he also worked in victim offender mediation, and served overseas as a missionary in the Philippines

Jens Soering
Jens Soering, inmate I.D. 179212, has served seventeen years of his two life sentences for double murder

Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka has been professor of comparative literature at th University of Ife since 1975. He has periodically been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Yale.

Basia Spalek
Dr. Basia Spalek is a Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, She edited the book Islam, Crime and Criminal Justice (2000).

Jean Stairs
The Reverend Dr. M. Jean Stairs is the Principal of the Theological College at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Jean joined the College as an assistant professor in 1991, became Head of Theological Studies in 1996, and was awarded tenure with her promotion to associate professor in 1998. She became the Principal in 2001. She served as President of The Association for Theological Field Education, 1997-99, and was Chair of the Canadian Affairs Committee, The Association of Theological Schools, 1998-2000.

Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan directs the Institute for Economic and Restorative Justice and is an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany.

Vivian Stern
Vivian Stern, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London

Vic Thiessen
Vic Thiessen is the Director of the Mennonite Centre London

Larry Tifft
Larry Tifft is a Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University.

Desmond Tutu
Bishop Desmond Tutu is the retired Archbishop of Cape Town. Bishop Tutu gave a version of the above paper on 16th February 2004 in London as the Third Longford Lecture

Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams is Archbishop of Canterbury. From 1986-1992, Dr Williams was Professor of Theology at Oxford. He was enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth in 1992 and Archbishop of Wales in 2000. Elected as Archbishop of Canterbury on 23 July 2002. Enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury on 27 February 2003 in Canterbury Cathedral.

Jeremy Witherow
Jeremy Witherow is a student at the Tyndale Graduate School of Theology, New Zealand

Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Dave Wood
Dave Wood currently works as a Probation Officer in the Merseyside area. In his role he advises the Courts on relevant sentencing and supervises individuals sentenced to community-based orders working with them to help them become offence free in the future. As part of his role he also works with other agencies and organisations to support the individuals sentenced and to ensure any risk they may pose is properly assessed and managed.

Kim Workman
Kim Workman is the Executive Director, Prison Fellowship New Zealand

Martin Wright
Martin Wright was an early advocate for restorative justice in the UK and Europe, and continues to provide leadership there and abroad. He has been Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Policy Officer of Victim Support, and Librarian of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He was a founding member of Mediation UK, and more recently of the European Forum on Mediation and Restorative Justice. He acts as a voluntary mediator in the Lambeth mediation Service, London. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Legal Studies, University of Sussex.