Anne-Marie McAlindenis Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.

She is the author/editor of five books, including three sole-authored monographs, and over 70 articles/book chapters on sexual violence including restorative responses, ‘grooming’, offender reintegration, peer abuse and historical abuses. Two of her books have been awarded major prizes – The Shaming of Sexual Offenders (Hart, 2007) won the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2008, and Children as ‘Risk’ (CUP, 2018) won the Kevin Boyle Book Prize 2019. Her research has been supported by awards from the ESRC, the AHRC, the British Academy, the Higher Education Academy and NOTA.

She has provided advice to governments locally, nationally and internationally. She gave oral and written evidence to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017) and has provided advice to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (2021). In March 2022, her research formed the basis of the first state apology to victims/survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

She has been interviewed for a range of international media including The New York Times, The Economist and The Sydney Morning Herald.In 2023, she was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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