School of Law

Staff

Biography
Shadd Maruna is Professor of Justice and Human Development at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. Previously he has taught at the State University of New York and the University of Cambridge, and he has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University (Chicago, USA). His book Making Good was named the “Outstanding Contribution to Criminology” by the American Society of Criminology in 2001. In 2004, he was named the Distinguished New Scholar in Corrections and Sentencing by the ASC. He is currently a Soros Justice Fellow and has previously been a Fulbright Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Full CV

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Criminology
• Criminology and Criminal Justice

Postgraduate

• MSSc Criminology & Criminal Justice /Criminal Justice Management/ Criminology and Human Rights
• Elective Modules in Punishment & Society, Penal Policy & Practice, and Restorative Justice

Research

Ex-Prisoner Reintegration; Desistance from Crime; Punishment and Society; Psychosocial Criminology; Psychology of Hate/Conflict Resolution..

Selected Publications

Rehabilitation (2007, with Tony Ward) London: Routledge

"A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions" (with Ruth Mann) (2006). Legal and Criminological Psychology, Vol. 11, pp.
155-177.

Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives (2001) Washington, DC : American Psychological Association Books

“What Have We Learned in Five Decades of Neutralization Research?” (with Heith Copes) (2005) 32 Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 221

The Effects of Imprisonment (2005, edited with Alison Liebling) Cullompton: Willan Books

After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Ex-Offender Reintegration (2004, edited with Russ Immarigeon) Cullompton: Willan Books

Administration
Postgraduate Co-ordinator 2005 - 2008