Joanna Mary Shapland (born 17 February 1950) is a British

criminologist Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

forensic psychologist Forensic psychology is the development and application of scientific knowledge and methods to help answer legal questions arising in criminal, civil, contractual, or other judicial proceedings. Forensic psychology includes both research on various ...

, and academic, specialising in restorative justice and

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. Since 2013, she has been Edward Bramley Professor of Criminal Justice at the

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. Before joining Sheffield in 1988, she was a

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King's College, London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King G ...

and the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She is executive editor of the '' International Review of Victimology''.

Early life and education

Shapland was born on 17 February 1950. She was educated at Croydon High School, an all-girls

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in London. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1971: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a

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(MA Oxon). She then undertook a diploma in criminology at Darwin College, Cambridge, which she completed in 1972. She moved to

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to do her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree. Her

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was titled "Behaviour and personality in delinquent children" and was submitted in 1976.

Career

From 1975 to 1978, Shapland was a Home Office

in criminology at

. She then moved to the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

where she was a research fellow at the Centre for Criminology Research from 1978 to 1988. While at Oxford she was also a junior research fellow (1979–1983) and then research fellow (1938–1988) at

. Shapland joined the

in 1988. She was a senior research fellow at its Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies from 1988 to 1989. She then joined the Department of Law, where she was a lecturer from 1989 to 1991 and a

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from 1991 to 1993, before being made Professor of Criminal Justice in 1993. She was head of the School of Law between 2009 and 2013. She was appointed to the Edward Bramley Chair of Criminal Justice in 2013.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapland, Joanna 1950 births Living people British criminologists British women criminologists Forensic psychologists Academics of King's College London Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford Academics of the University of Sheffield People educated at Croydon High School Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge