Soros Justice Fellowships

Scholar

The popular American ideal of redemption sits in stark contrast to the harshly punitive and unforgiving nature of much of the U.S. criminal justice system. Shadd Maruna will complete a book on the state of the redemptive ideal in U.S. criminal justice. Redemption RIP? will analyze famous stories of redemption, explore the future of redemption as an ideal, ask whether we still believe in it, and argue why we should.

Maruna is a reader in criminology at the Queen’s University Belfast School of Law. Previously he taught at the State University of New York, Albany, and the University of Cambridge. He has 12 years of experience working with formerly incarcerated people and their families in the U.S., the U.K., and Ireland, including a recent study of former political prisoners incarcerated during the conflict in Northern Ireland. His book Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives was named the “Outstanding Contribution to Criminology” by the American Society of Criminology in 2001. His other books include Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm, After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Reintegration, and The Effects of Imprisonment. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow, and was named the Distinguished New Scholar in Corrections and Sentencing by the American Society of Criminology.

Belfast, Northern Ireland |