Professor Catherine MacMillan
Honorary Professor
Professor Norma Dawson
Honorary Professor
Professor John Blackie
Lee Buchheit
Honorary Professor
Herrn. Prof. Dr Reinhard Zimmermann
Professor Anthony Duff
Professor Mark Findlay
Honorary Fellow
Mark was for many years the Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney before taking charge of the Centre for AI and Data Governance, in Singapore. He is the author of over 30 books and monographs and has successfully supervised scores of post graduate research students across the world. While establishing the law school at the University of the South Pacific, he wrote 'The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding transitional relationships in context'. This work led to traversing many dimensions of globalised criminology and his evolving research established a presence in international and comparative criminal justice. More recently Mark has expanded into considering the governance necessities in a digital universe. As courts and police and prisons do not exist in the virtual beyond gaming, we are required to reconsider social ordering and control themes in radically new contexts. For those interested in crime and justice, particularly as it relates to discrimination and vulnerability, virtual environments produce new and vital demands for re-theorising personhood, community, and freedom. The role of law and its enforcement in such contexts cannot be confined to what we know of criminal justice in realspace. Two of Mark's recent books 'Governing the Metaverse: Law order and freedom in digital space' and 'Law's Regulatory Relevance: Property, power and market economies' challenge every field of law and justice studies intending to engage with AI and frontier technologies.
Published books
Governing the Metaverse
Law, Order and Freedom in Digital Space
Law's Regulatory Relevance?
Property, Power and Market Economies
Dr Gillian Nancy Robinson
Honorary Fellow
BSc (Hons)(Chemistry), PhD, Postgraduate Teaching Qualification in Secondary Education
Email: V1grobi5@ed.ac.uk
Dr Gill Robinson is an Honorary Fellow in the Law School and Edinburgh Futures Institute. She has a career-long interest in widening access to opportunities and improving the life chances of people who are marginalised and excluded, especially children and young people. She is Professional Advisor for young people in custody with the Scottish Prison Service.
Her interests and areas of knowledge include children, young people and women in the justice system, children affected by imprisonment, prison policy and practice and developments in education. Her work draws together evidence and data of different kinds and seeks to communicate findings and implications in ways that are relevant to policymakers and practitioners, including teachers.
Her previous roles spanned academic research, evaluation, teaching, policy development and practice in different contexts and include Director of the East of Scotland Consortium of the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP), Chief Inspector in HM Inspectorate of Education and Head of the Scottish Government’s Curriculum, Assessment and Qualifications Division for the inception of Curriculum for Excellence.
Dr Jamie Bennett
Dr. Jamie Bennett has worked in prisons since 1996 and held a number of senior positions. He is currently group director for contracted prisons in HM Prison & Probation Service in England and Wales.
Previously he was Deputy Director for Security, Order and Counter Terrorism in HM Prison & Probation Service and Chief Operating Officer at the Youth Justice Board. Prior to this, he was Governor of HMP Long Lartin, a high security prison; HMP Grendon, the only prison to operate entirely as a series of therapeutic communities; HMP Springhill, an innovative open prison which helps men to prepare for their release and resettle into the community, and; HMP Morton Hall, a women’s prison working with a diverse international population.
Jamie has published over 100 articles and reviews covering topics including: prisons and the media, social inequality and imprisonment, prison-based therapy and the development of managerialism. He has produced eight books including: The Working Lives of Prison Managers: Global change, local cultures and individual agency in the late modern prison (Palgrave MacMillan 2015); The Penal System: An Introduction Sixth Edition (with Paul Cavadino, James Dignan and George Mair, Sage 2019); Prisoners on Prison Films (with Victoria Knight, Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), and; Managing Prisons: Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024).
He is a trustee of Bromley Trust and a member of the editorial boards of Prison Service Journal and Incarceration.
Selected Publications
Books
Bennett, J. (2024) Managing Prisons: Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness London: Palgrave MacMillan
Bennett, J. and Knight, V. (2021) Prisoners on Prison Films London: Palgrave MacMillan
Cavadino, P., Dignan, J., Mair, G. and Bennett, J. (2019) The Penal System: An Introduction Sixth Edition London: Sage 2019
Jewkes, Y., Crewe, B. and Bennett, J. (eds) (2016) Handbook on Prisons London: Routledge
Bennett, J. (2015) The Working Lives of Prison Managers: Global change, local cultures and individual agency in the late modern prison London: Palgrave MacMillan
Crewe, B. and Bennett, J. (eds) (2011) The Prisoner London: Routledge
Jewkes, Y. and Bennett, J. (eds) (2008) Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment Cullompton: Willan
Bennett, J., Crewe, B. and Wahidin, A. (eds) (2008) Understanding Prison Staff Cullompton: Willan
Book Chapters
Bennett, J. (2024) Dirty Work and Beyond: Representations of Prison Officers in Films in Arnold, H., Maycock, M., Ricciardelli, R. (eds) Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 141-162.
Bennett, J. (2021) “Let’s Make This Show Happen, People”: Black Mirror and Populist Punitiveness in Grubb, J. and Posick, C. (eds) Crime TV: Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture New York: New York University Press p.129-145
Bennett, J. (2019) Resisting Supermax: Rediscovering a Humane Approach to the Management of High Risk Prisoners in Lobel, J. and Scharff Smith, P. (eds.) Solitary Confinement: Effects, Practices, and Pathways toward Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press p. 279-96
Bennett, J. (2018) Representations of prison escapes in films in Martin, T. and Chantraine, G. (Ed) Prison breaks: Toward a sociology of escape Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan p.117-33
Bennett, J. (2017) Documentaries about crime and criminal justice in Oxford Research Encyclopaedia on Crime and Criminal Justice (2017) available at http://criminology.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-52
Bennett, J. (2008) The man, the machine and the myth: Reconsidering Winston Churchill’s prison reforms in Johnston, H. (Ed) Punishment and control in historical perspective Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008) p.95-114
Articles
Bennett, J. (2023) ‘Scrutinising prisons through popular culture: Jimmy McGovern’s Time’. Prison Service Journal. 265: 6-15
Bennett, J. (2023) ‘Disrupting prison managerialism: Managing prisons in an age of pandemic’. Incarceration 4 https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663231169716
Bennett, J. & Smith, M. E. (2024) ‘Documenting prison therapy: Insider audience perspectives on The Work (2017)’. Crime, Media, Culture https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590241229438
Bennett, J. (2020) Against prison management in Prison Service Journal. No. 247: 4–1
Bennett, J. (2019) Reform, Resistance and Managerial Clawback: The Evolution of ‘Reform Prisons’ in England in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice Vol 58 No 1. p. 45–64
Bennett, J. (2018) Hope, harmony and humanity: Creating a positive social climate in a democratic therapeutic community prison and the implications for penal practice (with Richard Shuker) in Journal of Criminal Psychology Vol.8 no.1 p.44-57
Bennett, J. (2018) Governing a therapeutic community prison in an age of managerialism in Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities vol.39 issue 1 p.14-25
Bennett, J. (2017) The potential of prison-based democratic therapeutic communities (with Richard Shuker) in International Journal of Prisoner Health 13(1) p.19-24
Bennett, J. (2014) Resisting the audit explosion: The art of prison inspection in Howard Journal of criminal justice 53:5 p.449-67
Bennett, J. (2013) Race and power: The potential and limitations of prison-based democratic therapeutic communities in Race and Justice 3:2 p.130-43
Bennett, J. (2006) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Media in Prison Films in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol 45 No 2 p. 97–115
Bennett, J. (2006) The Woodsman: Saying the unsayable in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media no.48 available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc48.2006/Woodsman/text.html
Bennett, J. (2006) ‘We might be locked up, but we’re not thick’: Rex Bloomstein’s Kids Behind Bars in Crime Media Culture vol.2 issue 3 p. 268-85
Other contributions
Secret Life of Prisons Podcast (2025) https://secretlifeofprisons.libsyn.com/moral-blindness-jamie-bennett-and-andrew-morris
Locked Up Living Podcast (2023) https://lockedupliving.podbean.com/e/jamie-bennett-outstanding-insider-ethnographer-describes-prisons-during-trhe-pandemic/
Justice Focus Podcast (2020) https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/justicefocus/episodes/17-Dr-Jamie-Bennett---Against-Prison-Management-eiavpb/a-a2vrr7g
