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Board members of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Working Group:

Jennifer (Jenny) Maher
Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, specialises in Green Criminology and youth violence and victimisation. She has published widely on animal abuse and interpersonal violence, dangerous dogs, illegal pet trades and wildlife crime by attracting funding for her research from the European Commission, European Parliament, UK Governments, South Wales Police and the RSPCA. Her expertise is sought internationally, including completing the UN ICCWC Toolkit review of the UK response to wildlife and forest crime. She is committed to enhancing the welfare of animals and in so doing, protecting vulnerable people and environments. She organised the first international symposium on animal abuse in the UK 'Situating Animal Abuse in Criminology' (2010), which resulted in the first criminology journal special issue on animal abuse (Crime Law and Social Change: Special Issue on Animal Abuse, 2011, co-edited with Piers Beirne). She is currently reviewing the Welsh Government’s Animal Health and Welfare Framework and evaluating alternative approaches to effective dog control for the RSPCA.

Mònica Pons is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Rovira i Virgili in Spain. Her academic journey includes a BSc in Criminology from the University of Barcelona (Spain), an MSc in Transnational Crime, from the University of Glasgow (UK), and a PhD in Law from the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at Northumbria University (UK).

In recognition of her PhD project, she received the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Society of Criminological Research (SEIC) in 2022. And, in 2023, she received the American Society of Criminology’s Graduate Student Paper Award from the Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, as well as the Student Paper Award from the Division in International Criminology.

Marieke Kluin is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She studied Criminology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. During her studies Marieke worked as a clerk of criminal law at the District Court of Rotterdam and as a probation officer in The Hague. She also conducted research at the Dutch National Police.

After her studies she worked as a researcher at the Safety Science Department of the Delft University of Technology, where she developed several courses and studied various accidents to implement these in faculty education. In November 2014 she successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Optic Compliance - Enforcement and Compliance in the Dutch Chemical Industry" at TU Delft under the supervision of Ben Ale and Wim Huisman. In 2012 Marieke was one of the organizers of the seminar Environmental Crime and its Victims (together with Toine Spapens and Rob White) with a focus on green criminology. She was co-editor of “Environmental Crime and its Victims” (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).

Since then, Environmental crime and… became a (bi)yearly seminar that focuses on different aspects of environmental crime, with the aim of pushing green criminological scholarship further by bridging (sub)disciplinary boundaries but also by bringing together junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners to learn from each other. Her interdisciplinary research currently focuses on white-collar crime, environmental crime, compliance and regulatory enforcement. Marieke is currently involved in projects which focuses on corporate crime by using a life-course criminology perspective and effectiveness of sanctions of environmental crimes.

Nigel South PhD FAcSS is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex; Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Justice and Crime, University of Suffolk; and Adjunct Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. He has been a longstanding contributor to the field of green criminology and related areas of study. In 2022 he received the ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ from the British Society of Criminology and in 2013 a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice.

Lieselot Bisschop is Professor of Public & Private Interests on the sector plan for law Rebalancing Public Interests in Private Relationships and member of the multidisciplinary Erasmus University Rotterdam research team of Erasmus Initiative on Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. She obtained her PhD in criminology at Ghent University and previously worked as a junior and postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University and as Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY).

The areas of interest and expertise of criminologist Prof. dr. Lieselot Bisschop are environmental damage, corporate crime, organized crime and the governance of these phenomena. The difficult balance between economic, environmental and social considerations and between public and private governance is what continues to intrigue her and inspire her research. Completed and ongoing environmental and corporate crime research focuses on PFAS pollution, the e-waste trade, planned obsolescence of electronics, wildlife trade, gold and timber trade, shipbreaking and land loss. Together with her colleagues, she has been involved in various practice-oriented scientific studies on (the approach to) organized drug crime in the Netherlands, and the port of Rotterdam in particular, since 2018. Their main objectives are to obtain empirically based knowledge on drug trafficking (through the Port of Rotterdam), on its facilitating criminal and legal structures, on vulnerabilities within port logistics, and to help improve port governance by public authorities and private companies.

Tanya Wyatt is a green criminologist with nearly 20 years of experience researching Crimes that Affect the Environment. She joined the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Research and Trend Analysis Branch in November 2022. There, Professor Wyatt is the Lead Researcher on Crimes that Affect the Environment.

Before joining UNODC, she was a Professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. During this time, she published nearly 100 books, journal articles, book chapters, and reports on Crimes that Affect the Environment. Prior to that, she was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine and a police officer for nearly 5 years in the US.

Professor Tanya Wyatt holds a BA in Biology from Mills College in Oakland, California, US and a Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, US. She earned her Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.

David R. Goyes is a researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway. Goyes holds a PhD in criminology from the same university. He has contributed extensively to the study of North-South global relations, environmental conflicts, and Indigenous issues. Goyes is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and a member of several editorial boards. In 2024, Goyes received the 'Critical Criminologist of the Year Award' from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice.

Joanna Narodowska is Assistant professor at the Department of Criminology and Forensics of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Poland. In 2015, she defended her doctoral thesis on the topic: "Crimes of fishing poaching. Criminal and criminological law study". Since 2016, she has been employed at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warmia and Mazury. The main area of ​​research is green criminology. Other areas of research interest: crime against cultural and natural heritage, illegal markets, victimology, cybercrime, food crime, economic crime, women's crime, juvenile delinquency, penitentiary studies, social pathologies.

Daan van Uhm is Professor of Environmental Crime (Open University) and Associate Professor of Criminology (Utrecht University) specializing in Green Criminology. He has conducted research on various forms of environmental crime, including illegal mining in Latin America, wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia, deforestation in Central Africa, and the criminalization of ecocide. Daan van Uhm obtained his PhD in Criminology at Utrecht University in 2016. He received the Veni grant of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2018 for his research project 'The Diversification of Organized Crime into the Illegal Trade in Natural Resources' and in 2022 the ERC Starting Grant (European Research Council) for the research project 'Green Crimes and Joint Crime Ventures: Laundering Natural Resources'. Van Uhm primarily focuses on research in the context of green crimes and harms.