Members of the Research Group

Members of the Research Group (2004)
*Otto Adang (NL)* http://omjadang.homestead.com/
	Prof. Dr. Otto M.J. Adang, behavioural scientist, is Chair, Public order management, Police Academy of the Netherlands & Visiting professor, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool. He is interested in the way in which individuals regulate conflicts and social tensions in interaction with one another, and more specifically in aggression, reconciliation, collective behaviour and processes of social control. At the Police Academy of the Netherlands, he is in charge of the Research Programme "Managing Dangerous Situations", which he initiated in 1998. The programme focuses on interactions between police officers and citizens in a variety of (potentially) conflictuous or dangerous situations. Methodologically, the programme links to his original Ph.D. study on the development of quasi-aggressive behaviour in chimpanzees and his innovative post-doc research on public order policing in the Netherlands.
David Baker (US) David.Baker@arts.monash.edu.au
	David Baker is Head of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2000 as Senior Lecturer, he has worked in this department, and previously for eight years in the Police Studies department, Monash. University. In the eighties, he spent five years as a Communication Skills Instructor at the Victoria Police Training Academy. His main area of research is the policing of public disorder, especially industrial disorder. A book, Batons and Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia, is presently in production (Melbourne Publishing Group). David’s other research interests include police history, comparative policing, policing in the South Pacific, police unionism, and police and government relationships. He has published in criminal justice, criminology, industrial relations and labour history journals. David is a member of Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Unit.
Christopher Birkbeck (VE) C.H.Birkbeck@salford.ac.uk
	Christopher Birkbeck is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford, United Kingdom, and Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. He has conducted research on the situational analysis of crime, the use of force by the police, alternatives to imprisonment, the social construction of the crime problem, and Latin American criminology.
Yoana Monsalve Briceno (VE) yoanamob@ula.ve
	Yoana Monsalve Briceño has a degree in Law from the University of Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, 1993, and is Lecturer in Criminology at the same University, School of Criminology, since 2000. She has prepared technical reports on decentralization and management of incarceration facilities in the State of Mérida, as well as articles on informal control within this environment. She has worked on police processing of criminal cases and comparative perspectives on the police in Latin America, within al international project sponsored by the University of Augsburg, Germany, between 1997-1999, and with juveniles and firearms, in a project sponsored by Catholic University Andrés Bello, Caracas, between 1998 and 1999. Her current research interest is the use of punishment by the police in comparative perspective.
Thomas Feltes (GER) mail@thomasfeltes.de www.thomasfeltes.de
	Thomas Feltes is Professor of Criminology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. From 1992 until 2002 he was Director of the University of Applied Police Sciences in Villingen- Schwenningen, Germany; his main fields of research are policing (training, everyday business, structure), juvenile delinquency and the prosecutor and court system; he published over 140 books and articles (see his list of publications and articles for download at www.thomasfeltes.de) For further information, goto http://www.thomasfeltes.de/vita_engl.htm ).Since 2005, he offers the first Masters Program in Criminology and Police Science at an German University:see www.rub.de/kriminologie
Luis Gerardo Gabaldon (VE) lgabaldo@ucab.edu.ve
	Luis Gerardo Gabaldón is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology in the University of Los Andes, Mérida, and Catholic University Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela. He has a Law Degree from University of Los Andes and a Specialist in Criminal Law and Criminology Degree, cum laude, from University of Rome, Italy. He has been Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge, 1981 and Fulbright Fellow, Visiting Professor and Research Associate in the University of New Mexico, in 1991-92 and 1997. He has been Consultant to Ilanud, Quito, Ecuador, 1994, to Institucionalidad y Justicia Foundation, Dominican Republic and to Forum Against Violence, Salvador, Brasil, 2000, and to the Andean Community, Lima, Peru, 2001. He has published 9 books and 60 articles on subjects related to perceptions on law and justice, legitimacy of governments, social control, police, community and use of force, juveniles and firearms and corporate criminal liability and takeovers.
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld (US) makih@sprynet.com
	Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is an Associate Professor of Police Science, in the Department of Law and Police Science, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She holds two Bachelor or Art degrees, two Master degrees, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. Prior to coming to John Jay she served in the Israel National Police, and left the force at the rank of Lieutenant. She also worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Field Office, as a special consultant. She taught at Yeshiva University and New Jersey City University. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of private and public law enforcement, specifically training, police integrity, and comparative policing. For four years she was a member of a research team, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, studying police integrity in three major police departments in United States. Currently she is the Principal Investigator of the NIJ sponsored research project in Poland, where she studies the Polish National Police and its transformation to Community Oriented Policing. Her most recent involvement in Eastern Europe includes redesigning the basic academy curriculum of the Czech National Police, with the emphasis on integrity-related training.
Eduardo Paes-Machado (BR) emp@ufba.ba; epaesm@hotmail.com
	Eduardo Paes-Machado, sociologist, Ph.D., is a professor in the Sociology Department and the Institute for Public Health at the Federal University of Bahia. He was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Field research includes victimization and policing. He is a consultant in governmental and non-governmental organizations in the area of violence prevention.
Peter Manning (US) pet.manning@neu.edu
	(Ph.D. Duke, 1966, MA Oxon. 1982) holds the Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in Policing at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has taught at MIT, Oxford, and the University of Michigan, and others, and was a Fellow of the National Institute of Justice, Balliol and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, The American Bar Foundation, the Rockefeller Villa (Bellagio), and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he has been awarded many contracts and grants, the Bruce W. Smith and the O.W. Wilson Awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Michigan Sociological Association. The author and editor of some 13 books, including Privatization of Policing: Two Views (with Brian Forst) (Georgetown University Press, 2000), his research interests include the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing, crime mapping and crime analysis, uses of information technology, and qualitative methods. The 2ed. of Narcs' Game [1979], will appear in 2003 (Waveland Press).His monograph, Policing Contingencies, was published in July, 2003 by the University of Chicago Press.
*Thomas Ohlemacher (D)* thomas.ohlemacher@polizei.niedersachsen.de
	Ohlemacher, Thomas, Dipl. Pol., Dr. phil., Professor of Criminal Sciences at the Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences for Administration and the Administration of the Law (Nds. FHVR), Faculty of Police, Hildesheim; born 1962; Student of Sociology and Political Science in Marburg, Birmingham/UK and Hamburg 1983-1988; PhD in Berlin 1992, Venia Legendi (Sociology) in Hamburg 2000; Junior Research Fellow at the Berlin Science Center (WZB) 1988-1993; Senior Researcher at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), Hanover, 1993-2002; since 2002 Professor at the Nds. FHVR, Reader at the University of Hildesheim (Institute of Social Sciences) & Project Manager at the KFN; since 2004 Vice President for Research and Further Education of the Nds. FHVR.Important Publications in English: Ohlemacher, Thomas (2002): Racketeering and Restaurateurs in Germany. Perceived Deficiencies in Crime Control and Effects on Confidence in Democracy. British Journal of Criminology 42: 60-76; Ohlemacher, Th. (1999): Viewing the Crime Wave from the Inside: Perceived Rates of Extortion among Restaurateurs in Germany. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 7: 43-61; Ohlemacher, Th. (1996), Bridging People and Protest: Social Relays of Protest Groups against Low-Flying Military Jets in West Germany. Social Problems 43: 187-218; Ohlemacher, Th. (1994): Public Opinion and Violence against Foreigners in the Reunified Germany. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 23: 222-236. homepage: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/media/magazin/kurzinfo_ohlemacher_10_2007.pdf
Ceci Vilar Noronha (BR) ceci@ufba.ba
	Ceci Vilar Noronha, sociologist, is a professor in the Sociology Department and the Institute for Public Health at the Federal University of Bahia. Since 1990, she has been studying victimazation, media, and crime. She was the main investigator, in the metropolitan area of Salvador, of the Multicenter for the Study of Cultural Norms and Attitudes Towards Study, (the ACTIVA Project), supported by the Pan American Health Organization. She is a participating member of the Managing Group of the Community Forum in the Fight Against Violence, which is made up of governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations, manifesting interest in accompanying the public politics on the reduction of death and injuries caused by intentional violence in the city of Salvador.
Philip Stenning (NZ) philip.stenning@vuw.ac.nz
	Philip Stenning is Professor in Criminology at Keele University in the U.K. His principal research interests include policing (public and private), firearms abuse and gun control, accountability issues in criminal justice, the prosecution process, criminal law, and aboriginal/indigenous justice issues. His principal publications have been: Appearing For the Crown: a legal and historical review of prosecutorial authority in Canada (1986), Private Policing (edited with C. Shearing, 1987), and Accountability for Criminal Justice: Selected Essays (editor & contributor, 1995). In addition to his current contribution to the international comparative research project on police use of force, Philip is also currently undertaking a comparative study of the relationships between the police and governments in Canada, Australia, the U.K., and New Zealand.
P.A.J. Waddington (GB) p.a.j.waddington@wlv.ac.uk
	P.A.J. Waddington is Professor of Social Policy at the Policy Research Institute, The University of Wolverhampton, England. He has authored several books on policing, including The Strong Arm of the Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991), Liberty and Order (UCL Press, 1994), and Policing Citizens (UCL Press, 1999). He has published numerous articles on policing, especially the police use of force. He is currently conducting research on the experience of violence amongst caring professionals, the policing of hostile encounters, and police stop and search.
Michael C. Walker (US) walkermi@shu.edu
	Michael Walker retired from the Paterson, New Jersey, Police Department in October, 2002 after twenty six years of service. For the last sixteen years of his career he was assigned to the Department’s Training Division and served as the Director of the Paterson Police Academy. He also served as a Commissioner for the State of New Jersey Police Training Commission and as Vice President of the New Jersey Police Academy Director’s Association. He attended the 170^th Session of the F.B.I. National Academy and has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the William Paterson University of New Jersey and a Master in Public Administration Degree from the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Michael currently works as an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the Passaic County Community College and is an Adjunct Professor at both the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Seton Hall University. He has also lectured at several sessions of the FBI National Academy on topics concerning police training. His current research includes policing in emerging democracies, police use of force, and international comparisons of crime.
Sergio Roberto De Abreu (BR) srabreu@via-rs.net

Maurice Punch (Guest) punch@xs4all.nl
	Maurice Punch studied at the universities of Exeter, London, Cambridge, and Essex (M.A.,1966, and Ph.D.,1972). He has worked at Essex University, University of Utrecht, S.U.N.Y. Albany, Nyenrode University (The Netherlands Business School) and has given numerous lectures, seminars and courses in several countries including Spain, Italy and Finland. In the U.K. he first specialised in the Sociology of Education while in The Netherlands (where he has lived since 1975) he has researched corporate crime, regulation and control in business and also deviance, corruption, integrity and reform of the police organisation. He has published in English, Dutch, French and American journals and has written several books including Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct (London: Sage: 1996). His latest book, with Jim Gobert (University of Essex), is Rethinking Corporate Crime (Butterworths: 2003). After sixteen years as Professor of Sociology at Nyenrode, where he held many administrative functions and set up the International M.B.A. Programme, he became an independent researcher and consultant in 1994. Since then he has researched crises in policing in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands; taught on the National Police Training (Bramshill) and University of Cambridge programme in Applied Criminology for senior police officers in the UK; and has taught on various executive programmes for managers, bankers and consultants including seminars on ethics, integrity and control. In 1999 he became Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice, London School of Economics where he teaches primarily in the areas of policing and of corporate crime; in the Netherlands he was on the board of "R.B.C. Network" for several years and with colleagues from R.B.C. Network he engaged in studies of organisations leading to strategic interventions. He has been involved in numerous conferences as presenter, organiser and chair including contributions for the Council of Europe, United Nations and National Institute of Justice; he organized and chaired panels at the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity II in The Hague and at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Prague in 2001.