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Professor Barry Goldson

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University of Liverpool

  1. Adhere to knowledge, evidence and human rights standards
  2. Focus on diversion from the formal youth justice system
  3. Focus on non-custodial solutions
There is a striking correspondence between the relevant provisions of international human rights standards and the knowledge/evidence base, and practice should be explicitly grounded and informed by both

Biography

Professor Barry Goldson was awarded a Personal Chair in Criminology and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool in 2006 before being appointed to the endowed Charles Booth Chair of Social Science in 2009. In 2020, he was conferred ‘Professor Emeritus’ and ‘Honorary Professor’.

He founded ‘Youth Justice: An International Journal’ (SAGE) in 2000, after which he served as its Editor-in-Chief until 2015. Between 2010 and 2017 he was an appointed member of the Panel of European Youth Researchers (PEYR), an expert group established by the European Commission and the Council of Europe to advise on European youth policy and research.

In 2018 he was awarded a ‘Juvenile Justice Without Borders International Award’ by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory. He was also a member of the Expert Advisory Board that guided and supported the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Currently, he is the Chair/Convenor of both the British Society of Criminology ‘Youth Criminology/ Youth Justice Network’ and the European Society of Criminology ‘Thematic Working Group on Juvenile Justice’ and he is also an Honorary Professor/Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

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