Allison Morris

Allison Margaret Morris FRSNZ (born 1945)[1] is a retired New Zealand criminologist, specialising in youth justice, restorative justice and women in crime. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2000.

Allison Morris
OccupationCriminologist
AwardsFRSNZ
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

Education

Morris earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1976.[2]

Career

Morris was appointed as Lecturer in Criminology at Cambridge University in 1976, and promoted to Reader in Criminal Justice in 1995. She left the university in 1998.[3] Morris was a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington before her retirement in 2001.[4][2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2000.[2] The Society said Morris has "been recognised internationally as an outstanding criminologist whose evidence-led work, characterised by meticulous data collection, has had global influence. In her special field of the area of youth justice she has made New Zealand a virtual world laboratory for youth justice and her work is currently influencing policy in Australia and Britain as well as in New Zealand."[2]

Selected publications

  • Allison Morris (1 June 2002). "Critiquing the Critics: A Brief Response to Critics of Restorative Justice". The British Journal of Criminology. 42 (3): 596–615. doi:10.1093/BJC/42.3.596. ISSN 0007-0955. Wikidata Q56169839.
  • Allison Morris (1987), Women, crime, and criminal justice, Blackwell Publishing, Wikidata Q109902087
  • Allison Morris; Gabrielle Maxwell, eds. (1 August 2003), Restorative justice for juveniles: conferencing, mediation and circles, Hart Publishing, Wikidata Q109902088
  • Loraine Gelsthorpe; Allison Morris, eds. (1990), Feminist perspectives in criminology, Open University Press, Wikidata Q109902089

References

  1. "WorldCat Identities".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "All Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  3. "List". venn.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. "A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Changing Tack". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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