Dr Anna Eriksson
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Dr Anna Eriksson is a Lecturer in Criminology and the Honours Coordinator for the discipline
Biography
Dr Eriksson completed her undergraduate degree in Criminology and Behavioural Science at Griffith University, Brisbane. She then returned to her native Sweden for a short break before undertaking an MPhil in Criminology at Cambridge University. Her doctoral studies took her to Northern Ireland where she completed a thesis titled 'Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland: Building Bridges and Challenging Cultures of Violence' at Queen's University Belfast.
In 2009, Dr Eriksson was awarded the prestigious ANZSOC New Scholar of the Year Prize.
Dr Eriksson teaches:
CRI1001 - Understanding Crime
CRI4020 - Researching Criminal Justice
She is the Honours coordinator for Criminology.
Research
Dr Anna Eriksson's research interests include:
- Restorative Justice
- Transitional Justice
- Crime prevention in high-crime communities
- Cultures of violence
- Social control in post-conflict societies
- Comparative penology and Scandinavian exceptionalism
Publications
Articles in Scholarly Journals
- Eriksson, A. (2009) ‘A Bottom-up Approach to Transformative Justice in Northern Ireland’, International Journal of Transitional Justice 3(3): 1 – 20.
- Pratt, J. and Eriksson, A. (2009) ‘Den Skandinaviska Exceptionalismen i Kriminalpolitiken’ Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab 96(2): 135 – 151.
- Eriksson, A. (2008). 'Challenging Cultures of Violence through Community Restorative Justice' Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice. Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, vol. 11. Elsevier Science Ltd.
Book
- Eriksson, A. (2009) Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, Willan Publishing
Book Chapters
- McEvoy, K. and Eriksson, A. (2008). 'Who Owns Justice?: Community, State, and the Northern Ireland Transition'; in J. Shapland (ed.), Justice, Community and Civil Society: A contested terrain across Europe. Willan Publishing.
- McEvoy, K. and Eriksson, A. (2006). 'Restorative Justice in Transition: ownership, leadership, and 'bottom-up' human rights', in D. Sullivan and L. Tifft (eds.), Handbook of Restorative Justice, Routledge: London and New York: pp. 321-335.
Reviews
- Vaughan, B., and Kilcommins, S. (2008) 'Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating justice in Ireland', Willan Publishing. British Journal of Criminology, 49:2, 2009.
- Omaji. Hawkins Press, (2003). British Journal of Criminology, 2004, vol. 44:5.
- 'Critical Issues in Restorative Justice', edited by Howard Zehr and Barbara Toews (Monsey: NY: Criminal Justice Press, 2004). British Journal of Criminology, 2005, vol. 45:6.
- 'Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex'. Julia Sudbury ed. (2005). Routledge: New York, London. ISBN 0-415-95057-0. Social Justice, 33:4.
Reports
- Eriksson, A. (2006). Statistical Summary of Community Restorative Justice Ireland practice for 2006. Report prepared for Northern Ireland Office Minster of Justice David Hanson. Presented to Mr Hanson on meeting 26 October 2006.
- Eriksson, A. (2005). Punishment Violence in Northern Ireland: January 2004-August 2005. Report written for Northern Ireland Care and Resettlement of Offenders. Queen's University Belfast.
- Eriksson, A. (2001). Assessment of the effectiveness of treatment in a closed psychiatric facility, Report for Barrett Adolescent Centre, Queensland, Australia. Unpublished.
Online Publications
- Eriksson, A. (2006).The Politicisation of Community Restorative in Northern Ireland, April edition on www.restorativejustice.org
Conference Papers
- Understanding Penal Exceptionalism in Scandinavia: A Preliminary Research Agenda, Presented at the Critical Criminology Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 8 – 9 July 2009 together with Professor John Pratt.
- Promoting Restorative Justice in a Punitive Society: A case study from Northern Ireland, Presented at ‘Discovering Balance: Prison reform, restorative justice and human rights’, Murdoch University, Western Australia, 2-4 October 2008
- Peace-building by Challenging Cultures of Violence in Northern Ireland: Restorative Justice in Transition. Australian and New Zealand Criminology Conference, Adelaide, 23-26 September 2007.
- Critiquing the Assumption of Passivity in Reintegration: Ex-prisoners as Leaders in Transition, Rethinking Reintegration, a two-day seminar as part of the ESRC 'Life After Punishment' Series. Co-presented with Professor Kieran McEvoy. Queen's University Belfast, 28-9 November 2006.
- Communities and Paramilitaries: Challenging mind-sets through restorative justice in Northern Ireland, European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Belfast, September 2005
- Bottom-up Transitional Justice: Community-bases restorative justice and transformation of cultures of violence in Northern Ireland, British Society of Criminology, Leeds, July 2005