Discovering Balance - Invited Speakers
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Professor David Brown
Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Professor Andrew Coyle CMG
International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London
Andrew Coyle is Professor of Prison Studies at Kings College, University of London. Between 1997 and February 2005 he was also Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). Before that he had worked for 25 years at a senior level in the prison services of the United Kingdom, during which time he was governor of several major prisons, the last of which was Brixton prison in London.
He is a prisons adviser to the UN, the Council of Europe, including its Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and several national governments. He is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Expert Committee against Torture.
He has a PhD in criminology from the Faculty of Law in the University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of King's College London.
His publications include The Prisons We Deserve (1994), A Human Rights approach to prison management (2002), Managing prisons in a time of change (2002) and Understanding prisons: Key issues in policy and practice (2005).
Professor Richard Harding
Inspector of Custodial Services in Western Australia
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Steven Heath
Chief Magistrate, Western Australia
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Ian Johnson
Commissioner, Department of Corrective Services, Western Australia.
Corrective Services Commissioner Ian Johnson has a long and varied career in the justice system. Ian joined the WA Police in 1976, and after five years of general policing, became a detective in the Criminal Investigation Branch. Advancing through a number of senior positions, in 1995 Ian played a significant role in the development of a National Code of Ethics for covert operations. He was promoted to Superintendent in Charge of Major Projects in 2001, and in December 2003 was appointed Assistant Commissioner Traffic and Operations Support. In April 2005, Ian was seconded to the Department of Justice as Executive Director Prisons, providing leadership and direction during the Inquiry into the Management of Offenders in Custody and in the Community (the Mahoney Inquiry). In February 2006, he became Acting Commissioner of the newly-created Department of Corrective Services, a role he was formally appointed to in May 2006.
As the inaugural Commissioner for the new department, Ian set about building the foundation for a credible organisation. In 2006, he appointed the department’s inaugural leadership team, provided clear direction with the first strategic plan, and set up initiatives for continuous improvement and monitoring. In 2007, Ian continued to drive a diverse reform program to establish Corrective Services as a stable and independent organisation, addressing the key areas of leadership, staff safety, security, offender management and corporate governance.
Ian is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (Quantico 1995) and the Police Executive Leadership Program (Manly 2002). He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Business (Management). In June 2005, he was awarded the Australian Police Medal.
Professor John Pratt
Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
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Hon. Margaret Quirk
Minister for Corrective Services; Small Business; Member for Girrawheen
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Baroness Vivien Stern CBE
International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London
Vivien Stern is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College, London. She is also Honorary President of Penal Reform International (PRI), a non-governmental organisation promoting penal reform throughout the world which she founded with others in 1989.
From 1977 to 1996 she was Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). In 2003 she became the Convenor of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice; she has been a Crossbench Peer since 1999 and a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights since 2004. From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the House of Lords European Select Committee. She is a Trustee of the Milton S Eisenhower Foundation in Washington D.C. and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).
Her publications include Bricks of Shame: Britain's Prisons, A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World, Alternatives to Prison in Developing Countries, Developing Alternatives to Prison in East and Central Europe and Central Asia and Sentenced to Die? The problem of TB in prisons in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Her latest book, Creating Criminals: People and Prisons in a Market Society, was published by Zed Books in May 2006.
Professor Hilde Tubex
Department of Corrective Services
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