Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology - About the Editors-in-Chief

The Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology are Darrick Jolliffe (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) and Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge, UK).

Darrick Jolliffe, a proud Canadian, is a Professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He was educated at McMaster University Hamilton, Canada (Honours BSc Psychology) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil, PhD Criminology) and has worked at London Metropolitan University, Leicester and the University of Greenwich. Darrick's main areas of expertise are conducting evaluations research in the criminal justice system and related areas. This has included leading the first evaluation of the London Pathway Project, an NHS initiative to manage those with severe personality disorders in the community and in custody.  Darrick has recently been commissioned to undertake a new evaluation of the operation of the London Pathway Project by four NHS Trusts. In his role as Trustee for the Association of Panel Members Professor Jolliffe is working to establish a diversionary intervention in Harringay to reduce the number of young black men being officially processed through the justice system.  He is also currently working with Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality in ten prisons to examine the disproportional treatment of BAME prisoners and to evaluate approaches to reduce such disproportionality.  Similarly, Darrick is working with the Zahid Mubarak Trust to evaluate their Equality Advocate Programme in HMP Feltham and Wormwood Scrubs.  Professor Jolliffe has published a number of high-quality evaluations on RCTs and QEDs and this includes developing the methodological approach used for the Social Impact Bond payment-by-results used by the Ministry of Justice and Social Finance.   Various national and international agencies (Equality and Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody, NHS, Scottish Risk Management Authority, East Midlands Probation, London Probation Trust, the Swedish National Council on Crime Prevention, National Police Improvement Agency and the Ministry of Justice in Chile) have commissioned Professor Jolliffe to undertake evaluations research. Professor Jolliffe was appointed to the Expert Panel of the £200 million Youth Endowment Fund and is co-Director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.

Manuel Eisner studied history at the University of Zurich and holds a PhD in sociology. He has published several authored or edited books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters in English, German, Spanish and French. His academic work revolves around the explanation of the causes, the consequences and the prevention of interpersonal violence across human societies. Manuel’s research tries to contribute to the following questions: How can we describe and explain variation in levels of violence between societies and over the course of human history? What psychological and social mechanisms account for change and stability of violent behaviour over the life course? What combination of prevention, intervention and control is best suited to reduce interpersonal violence in different societies across the world? Manuel is a member of several editorial and advisory boards of academic journals and book series. He has also been working as an expert or co-author of reports with national governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and UNODC. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Society of Experimental Criminology and the Sellin-Glueck award by the American Society of Criminology. In 2014, he organised, with the World Health Organization, the First Global Conference on Violence Reduction at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the 2017 ESC European Criminology Award for his lifetime contribution to European criminology.