Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe

Former Director of the Institute and Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

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Former Director of the Institute and Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Loraine is the former Director of the Institute and Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology. She is also Hon Professor of Criminology at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Glasgow, where she is undertaking research with colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Prison Service. Loraine is also chair of the national Probation Service, and sits on various Ministry of Justice Advisory Committees and on the Chief Inspector of Probation’s Advisory Committee.

Loraine's current research revolves around women and sentencing, residential alternatives to women’s custody, women working in the welfare sphere (trauma experiences) and deaths under community supervision

Loraine's first degree was in History and Philosophy at the University of Sussex; after a brief career in social work she turned to Criminology – first to do an MPhil in Criminology at the |University of Cambridge and then a PhD. Postdoc positions followed at the University of Lancaster (working with the Metropolitan Police in London), UCNW (Bangor) working in men’s prisons in the Midlands, and then at the LSE (research on race and gender issues in pre-sentence reports). A lectureship at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge followed – where Loraine set up the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice (now called Justice and Society Research Centre). Loraine continues to supervise PhD students and is actively involved in research and teaching.