Crime Prevention and Communities
 

Keynote speakers

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International speakers

Superintendent Bruce Bird, National Manager: Prevention, National Prevention Centre, New Zealand Police

Superintendent Bruce Bird is a senior New Zealand Police Officer with over 36 years of service, He has worked in a number of policing roles within the organisation including command experience both at District and Area level, based mainly in South Auckland.

In his current position of National Manager of Prevention, Superintendent Bird heads up the National Prevention Centre which is develops evidence based strategies to be implemented at various levels within Police. The role also involves building working partnerships with other Government agencies and non-government organisations.

The National Prevention Centre includes the areas of Family Violence, Victims, Alcohol, Youth, Community Policing, Schools, Deployment and Tasking and Co-ordination.

Over the past four years Superintendent Bird has been involved in the development and implementation of a new Police operating model which integrates Prevention into the traditional Police models of response and investigation.  This process necessitated the development of the Prevention First national operating strategy.  This new strategy is based on the principle that prevention is better than cure and has seen a major change in how New Zealand Police officers think and deliver service for the public.

In 2008, Superintendent Bird was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the New Zealand Police.

Professor Richard Catalano, Director, Social Development Research, and Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Washington

Dr. Richard Catalano is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence and the Director of the Social Development Research Group in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is also Adjunct Professor of Education and Sociology. For over 30 years, he has led research and program development to promote positive youth development and prevent problem behavior. His work has focused on discovering risk and protective factors for positive and problem behavior, designing and evaluating programs to address these factors, and using this knowledge to understand and improve prevention service systems in states and communities. In addition, Dr. Catalano has extensive experience developing and validating measures to access child well-being that have been evaluated internationally. He has published over 300 articles and book chapters. His work has been recognized by practitioners; criminologists; and prevention scientists and social workers.

He is a member of the Steering Committee for the National Strategy for Behavioral Health Promotion. He has served as chair of the National Institutes of Health, Risk, Prevention and Intervention for Addictions Review Committee; chair of the Free To Grow Evaluation Advisory Panel and senior advisor to Active Living Research, both funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; as a member of the NIDA Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Services Research; the Office of National Drug Control Policy Evaluation Committee; U.S. Attorney General’s Methamphetamine Task Force; Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Study Group on Serious Chronic and Violent Offenders; the CSAP Prevention Enhancement Protocol System for Family Programs; the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Evaluating Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution programs; and the National Institute on Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Prevention Review Committee. He is the co-developer of the Social Development Model; the parenting programs “Guiding Good Choices,” “Supporting School Success,” “Staying Connected with Your Teen,” and “Focus on Families;” the school-based program, “Raising Healthy Children;” and the community prevention approach, “Communities That Care.”

Karyn McCluskey, Director, Scottish Violence Reduction Unit

Karyn has worked in the police for the last 20 years in Sussex, Lancashire, West Mercia, as head of intelligence analysis. She joined Strathclyde Police 10 years ago as and was responsible for setting up the intelligence function.

In 2004 she and John Carnochan wrote the report on Violence Reduction for Strathclyde police proposing a different way of addressing violence in Scotland. They went on to set up the Scottish violence reduction unit – a national unit. She supports Medics Against Violence charity in Scotland, set up in conjunction with the Violence Reduction Unit, where Doctors and Surgeons attend schools to give inputs on violence reduction and injury and keeping safe.

Karyn trained as a registered nurse, has a B.Sc and M.Sc in Psychology and is a fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health. She has worked in a variety of areas within the NHS, East Africa and HM Prisons. She completed the strategic command course in 2009 and spent a year in the Metropolitan police developing a violence plan, and leading the Territorial Policing change programme. The Institute of Directors awarded her Female Director of the year in April 12, The Guardian Newspaper nominated her as Public Service Leader of the Year.

Professor Nick Tilley, Director of the University College London Security Science Research Training Centre

Nick Tilley is a member of the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He is also Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He is author of over 150 publications, most of which relate to policing, crime prevention or programme evaluation methodology. Books include Realistic Evaluation (with Ray Pawson), Crime Prevention, and Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships: Implementing an Evidence-based Approach to Crime Reduction (with Karen Bullock and Rosie Erol). He spent ten years, from 1992 to 2003, seconded to the Home Office, most of the time attached to the Police Research Group. He was also Senior Advisor to the Home Office East Midlands Research Team and Director from 2003 to 2007. Recent and current research projects include explanations for the international crime drop, a review of what works in crime prevention, dowry deaths by burning in Mumbai and Delhi, models for problem-solving in policing and crime reduction, crime and disorder associated with soccer in England and Wales and forms of police-university collaboration to improve policing and crime reduction. He was awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2005 and elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2009.

Local speakers

Ms Heather Nancarrow, Chief Executive Officer, Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS)

Heather has held many leadership roles at both the state and national level in the development of policy on the prevention of domestic, family and sexual violence.  This includes work on the development and implementation of the Queensland Government Policy: Stop Violence against Women (1992); management of the Queensland Government’s Domestic Violence Policy Unit; and membership of the national Partnerships Against Domestic Violence Taskforce (1998 – 2002).  In 2002 Heather was appointed foundation Director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, a position she held until her recent appointment to the NCE. During that time (2008-2009), Heather was Deputy Chair of the National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, which produced Time for Action, the blue-print for the Council of Australian Governments’ National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022.

Dr Julie Rudner, Community Planning and Development Program, La Trobe University

Dr Julie Rudner is a lecturer in the Community Planning and Development Program, La Trobe University, Bendigo.Her ambition is to shift current ‘risk culture’ and worse case scenario thinking so uncertainty and possible danger is viewed as a challenge and learning opportunity. She seeks to understand howadults, children and young people can expand their confidence and skills to engage with their environments and their communities. Through research, consulting and teaching, Julie explores children's and young people's views and experience of their environments, promotes cities as sites for experiential learning and supports children's and young people's citizenship through participation inplanning and urban design. She is particularly interested in how we create a ‘public knowing’ of risk that limits our freedom, and especially the freedom of children and young people, to use public space independently. Julie has over 10 years professional experience as a planner and consultant.