 Vivien Stern is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King’s College, London. She is also Honorary President of Penal Reform International (PRI), a non-governmental organisation promoting penal reform throughout the world which she founded with others in 1989.
From 1977 to 1996 she was Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). In 2003 she became the Convenor of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice; she has been a Crossbench Peer since 1999 and a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights since 2004. From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the House of Lords European Select Committee. She is a Trustee of the Milton S Eisenhower Foundation in Washington D.C. and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).
Her publications include Bricks of Shame: Britain’s Prisons, A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World, Alternatives to Prison in Developing Countries, Developing Alternatives to Prison in East and Central Europe and Central Asia and Sentenced to Die? The problem of TB in prisons in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Her latest book, Creating Criminals: People and Prisons in a Market Society, was published by Zed Books in May 2006.
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