Lieven and Marcelo's Criminology Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marcelo F. Aebi & Lieven Pauwels
This podcast aims to draw a map of the state of criminology across Europe through the words of contemporary criminologist. How is criminology defined and taught? Which are the main lines of research? Which are the main schools of thought in each country? These and many other questions are answered by fellow researchers who share their vision on the development of criminology in their countries from its beginnings to the second decade of the 21st century. The podcast is hosted by Marcelo F. Aebi, from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Lieven Pauwels, from Ghent University (Belgium).
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Tapio Lappi SeppälläTapio Lappi-Seppälä is a professor of criminal law and criminology and the director of the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy at the University of Helsinki. He holds a long career as a senior adviser in the drafting of criminal law in the Ministry of Justice from the mid 1980s to mid1990s and the director of National Research Institute of Legal Policy in 1996-2015 and from 2015 in the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy. He has taken actively part in international co-operation in the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, Council of Europe, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, United Nations, and in the European Society of Criminology. In 2015 Lappi Seppälä was awarded by the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin-Glueck Award for his comparative researchThis interview was conducted on 8 March 2024Please visit our website: wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo are interviewing Ian O'Donnel.
Ian O'Donnell is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin. Previously he was Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, Research Officer at the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research, and Research Assistant at the University of London. During his time in England he served as a member of the Board of Visitors for HMP Pentonville and as a Magistrate on the Oxford bench. His latest book, "Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose", published by New York University Press, won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award given by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology. He is co-editor of Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement.
This interview was conducted on 03 May 2024
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo are interviewing Michael Tonry.
Professor Emeritus Michael Tonry retired in December 2021 and was the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy, director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy of the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was professor of law and public policy and director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. He has been the president of the American and European Societies of Criminology. He has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutes (e.g. he was a senior fellow in the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement). He has been the editor of Crime and Justice. He had many research interests, such as racial disparities in punishment.
This interview was conducted on 2 May 2023.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Paul Ponsaers.
Paul Ponsaers is professor Emeritus of criminology at Ghent University in Belgium, where he joined the department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law. He was founder and director of the Research Group Social Analysis of security. He is interested in a wide variety of topics, a.o. the police as an institution, and policing in general, urban safety, white collar crime. Paul Ponsaers played a pivotal role in developing the Belgian Police Statistics and in making a federal crime and victimization survey possible in the 1990s. He holds a degree in sociology and criminology (Leuven University).
This interview was conducted on 23 June 2023.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Leslley McAraLesley McAra is Professor of penology at Edinburgh Law School and former dean. She began her career as a researcher in the Scottish Office where she led a major programme of research evaluating social work criminal justice services. She is the Co-Director of the Edinburgh Longitudinal Youth in Transitions Study (together with Susan McVie). She was organizer of the 2008 ESC conference in Edinburgh and a forer president of the ESC board (2020)This interview was conducted on 23 February 2024.Please visit our website : https://wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod/
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Miroslaw Scheinost.Professor Miroslaw Scheinost is the director of the institute of Criminology and Social prevention in the Czeck Republic and head of the Czech Society of Criminology, he was co-organizer of the ESC Conference in Prague in 2014. His research interest are, among others, organized crime.This interview was conducted on 23 May 2023Please visit our website: wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Patricia Mayhew.
Patricia "Pat" Mayhew has had a distinguished career in criminology, significantly influencing the field both in the UK and internationally. She served as a senior principal research officer at the UK Home Office's Research and Planning Unit, later known as the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit. Her work extended abroad to the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra. Additionally, she was the Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Collaborating with Ronald Clarke, she played a key role in developing situational crime prevention and the British Crime Survey. Together with Jan van Dijk and Martin Killias, she helped design the International Crime Victims Survey. Her contributions earned her the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2015
This interview was conducted in two parts, on 21 March 2023 and 25 April 2023.
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Ian van Dijk. Jan Van Dijk is professor of victimology and human security at Tilburg University (in the Netherlands). He holds a degree in law from Leiden University and a PhD in criminology from the University of Nijmegen. Jan Van Dijk was a former director of the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. Under his supervision programs of policy-oriented research were launched on alternative sanctions, victims’ rights, crime prevention and organized crime. He later acted as Director of Strategic Policy Planning at the same ministry. He played a major role in the development of The International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS- together with Pat Mayhew and Martin Killias).This interview was conducted on 28 March 2023.Please visit our website: https://wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Lode Walgrave.
Lode Walgrave is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is an internationally well-known and excellent scholar in restorative justice research and played also a pioneering role in studies of juvenile delinquency. He was at the forefront of the interactionist school in Belgian criminology. Lode Walgrave received the ESC lifetime achievement award in 2008.
This interview was conducted on 14 March 2023.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Michael Levi.Mikael Levi is Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has a strong international reputation for excellence in both fundamental and policy-oriented research on money laundering, corruption, cybercrimes, fraud, transnational organised crime and white-collar crimes. Michael Levi received different major lifetime achievement awards, a.o. from the BSC and ASC and was organizer of the ESC conference in 2017.This interview was conducted on 21 February 2023.Please visit our website: https://wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Michel BornMichel Born is Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the department of psychology at Liege University in Belgium. He is a clinical psychologist by formation and wrote a major textbook in French on the psychology of juvenile delinquency and on effective interventions for juveniles. Juvenile delinquency and its development through the lifecourse is one of his key research topics. He played a key role in the Belgian ISRD-project, being responsible for the data collection in Walloon cities (Liege and Verviers). This interview was conducted on 14 February 2023.Please visit our website: https://wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Elena Larrauri.
Elena Larrauri is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She is past President of the European Society of Criminology. Her research interests are prison systems, criminal records, community sentences, and gender analysis of criminal justice system. She is founding member of the Criminology and Criminal Justice System Research Group. She has been Head of the Department of Law in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Director of the Master Programme in Criminology.
This interview was conducted on 20 December 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Jose Cid Moline.
Jose Cid Moline is Professor at the Department of political science and public law at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona). He was Principle Investigator of several research projects on desistance, recidivism, criminal careers and the study of transitions from adolescence to early adulthood.
This interview was conducted on 20 December 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Gorazd Meško.
Gorazd Meško is Professor of criminology and has worked at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security since 1992 at the Maribor University in Ljubljana (Slovenia). He is Head of the Department. He is a former president of the ESC and was principle investigator in many research projects in various areas, a.o. on legitimacy and procedural justice to juvenile delinquency. He received many awards, a.o. the Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award by the American Society of Criminology in 2022 for his significant contribution to the development of international criminology.
This interview was conducted on 16 December 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Miklós Lévay.Miklós Lévay is Professor of criminology at the ELTE University in Budapest (Hungary). He is a former president of the ESC. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in 1980 and started his career as prosecution drafter at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Budapest, before starting his academic career. He is a former Head of Department, Dean and Vice-Rector at the ELTE University. He is a member of the Directory Board of the Hungarian Society of Criminology and a member of the Scientific Board of National Institute of Criminology.This interview was conducted on 16 December 2022.
Note to the episode: During the discussion about the creation of a master program im criminology at the ELTE University in Budapest (Hungary), the name of Professor Klára Kerezsi was forgotten. She was among the contributors of this MA program in Criminology.Please visit our website: https://wp.unil.ch/lm-crimpod/
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Sonja Snacken.
Sonja Snacken is Professor of criminology at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium. She is a former president of the ESC, and was granted several Awards, a.o. the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ESC, and a Honoris Causa by the University of Glasgow. Professor Sonja Snacken’s research interests are related to human rights, penology, prison overpopulation, and alternatives to prison sentences as a way of sanctioning people who committed crimes.
This interview was conducted on 7 October 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Aleksandras Dobryninas.
Aleksandras Dobryninas is Professor of criminology at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is a former president of the European Society of Criminology. Professor Aleksandras Dobryninas’ research interests are the theoretical and especially also philosophical aspects of criminological knowledge. Topical research interest are corruption, violent crime, media and crime, confidence and trust in criminal justice institutions.
This interview was conducted on 7 October 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Marie Torstensson Levander.
Marie Torstensson Levander is Professor of criminology at Malmö University. Professor Torstensson Levander’s research interests are among others the study of criminal careers, longitudinal research designs, comparative criminology, sex differences, crime in urban areas, fear of crime and crime prevention. She is the principle investigator of the MINDS study (The Malmö Individual and Neighbourhood Development Study).
This interview was conducted on 1 July 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Helgi Gunnlaugson.
Helgi Gunnlaugson is professor of Sociology at the University of Iceland, where he teaches sociology of deviance. His research interests are crime perceptions, local crime trends, the criminalization of beer. He is probably the most famous criminology professor in Iceland and often interviewed in the media.
This interview was conducted on 10 June 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Jerzy Sarniecki.
Jerzy Sarnecki is Professor of criminology at Stockholm University's Department of Criminology is a regular commentator in the Swedish media on the subject of crime. Professor Sarnecki came to Sweden in 1968, where he earned a PhD in sociology at Stockholm University. His research interests are among others delinquent networks (youth co-offending) and network analysis, life course criminology. He has previously also worked for the Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention.
This interview was conducted on 10 June 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Susanne Karstedt.
Susanna Karstedt is Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice of Griffiths University in Australia. Formerly she held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Bielefeld and Hamburg in Germany and she was professor of criminology at Keele University and at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom.
This episode was recorded on 17 December 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Marc Cools.
Marc Cools is Professor of Criminology at Ghent University and is specialized in the study of private security and historical criminology. He formerly worked at the Free University of Brussels. He was a member of the organizing committee of the 2019 edition of the ESC conference.
This interview was conducted on 3 June 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Henrik Tham.
Henrik Tham is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stockholm and a former president of the ESC. His research interests comprise many areas among others criminal policy, its development and determinants, including research on the crime victim, narcotic drugs policy, and public attitudes to punishments.
This interview was conducted on 11 March 2022
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Per-Olof Wikström.
Per-Olof Wikström is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, He is the director of the Centre for Analytic Criminology.
This interview was conducted on 20 May 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Ernesto Savona.
Ernesto Savona is the Director of Transcrime, Joint Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Università degli Studi di Trento and since 2003 professor of Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
This interview was conducted on 18 March 2022.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Friedrich Lösel.
Friedrich Lösel is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge in England, and at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) in Germany. Formerly, he was professor of psychology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Erlangen, tenured senior lecturer at Bamberg University and lecturer at Erlangen University.
This episode was recorded on 1 December 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Frieder Dünkel.
Frieder Dünkel is Emeritus Professor at the University of Greifswald. Formerly, he was full professor of criminology in Greifswald for many years, and there he developed a pioneer program of studies in criminology.
This episode was recorded on 17 November 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Hans-Jürgen Kerner.
Hans-Jürgen Kerner is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he was before full professor and Director of the Institute of Criminology for many years. Formerly, he was Professor of Criminology at the universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Heidelberg.
This episode was recorded on 10 November 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Martin Killias.
Martin Killias is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Lausanne, Zurich, and St Gallen. Formerly, he was professor of criminology in these three universities.
This episode was recorded on 4 June 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Candido de Agra.
Cândido da Agra is full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Lusíada Norte University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Porto, both in Portugal. Formerly, he was full professor at the University of Porto for many years, and there he developed in 2002 a pioneer program of studies in criminology.
This episode was recorded in French on 11 May 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Jacques Farsedakis.
Iakovos (Jacques, James) Farsédakis, is Emeritus Professor at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens, Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law of the European University of Cyprus, Director of the Hellenic Center of Criminology, President of the Hellenic Society of Criminology, and “Beaumont-Tocqueville” award.
This episode was recorded in French on 31 May 2021.
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In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Klaus Boers.
Klaus Boers is professor of criminology at the University of Münster in Germany. Formerly, he held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Tübingen and at the Technical University of Dresden.
This episode was recorded on 25 May 2021.
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Notes and corrections:
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Christine Morgenstern became a Professor of Criminal Law and Gender Studies at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin at the time of the interview, and is not working at the University of Greifswald.
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Prof. Dr. Ineke Régina Pruin is a Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bern, not at the University of Basel.
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Uberto Gatti.
Uberto Gatti is emeritus professor at the University of Genoa in Italy, where he was before full professor of criminology for many years and developed a program in criminology.
This episode was recorded in French on 4 May 2021.
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