Joanna Shapland

Joanna Shapland was born in 1950. She earned her B.A. from St. Hilda’s College, which was promoted to an M.A. She went on to earn a diploma in criminology from Darwin College before earning a PhD from Wolfson College.

She has spent her career studying victimology and victimisation, exploring the restorative justice approaches employed by police officers and crime reduction programs, and engaging in longitudinal research into the life choices of adult offenders in their early twenties. Her efforts have yielded critically important insights into effective practices for restorative justice. She has been honored for these contributions by the British Society of Criminology, which chose her for their Outstanding Achievement Award in 2013. In 2011, she collaborated with colleagues to write Restorative Justice in Practice, and she has also written numerous journal articles.

Since 2013, Shapland has served as the Edward Bramley Professor Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield. She has served as a research fellow at King’s College in London and at the University of Oxford. In addition, she is the executive editor of the International Review of Victimology. Her current research has her working with the National Offender Management Services to assess the quality of probation supervision programs and to determine what causes offenders to desist criminal activity.

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