Ian Marder

I conduct research and engage with governments and criminal justice agencies in order to encourage a greater focus on evidence-led criminal justice reform. My main interest relates to the applications and implementation of restorative justice, for which I work closely with researchers, NGOs and public bodies in several countries. My Ph.D. investigated empirically the institutionalisation of restorative justice within the police, and I have also conducted research on the use of restorative justice with young adult offenders and for burglary offences, public attitudes towards restorative policing, and the development of restorative justice in universities and Moroccan Child Detention Centres.

Following the adoption of the Council of Europe Recommendation concerning restorative justice in criminal matters in October 2018, I co-instigated and coordinate Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change, a collaborative project to implement the Recommendation in ten European countries.

I have a broader interest in practitioner decision-making, and I am currently involved in an ongoing research project which uses advanced quantitative methods and policy analysis to assess and compare the impact of sentencing guidelines on judicial decision-making in different jurisdictions. This also involves exploring the principles on which sentencing guidelines should be based, in light of our findings on the effects of having different formats and content.

Outside of criminology, I have an interest in social enterprise and social value. I am particularly interested in the reorganisation of the financial sector along social lines, and have conducted research on high-cost credit, environmentally-focused social finance, and the role of universities in promoting the equitable distribution of the benefits of economic growth. I am also interested in disarmament, having conducted research for the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (2013) on the integration of stockpile management concerns into disaster risk reduction strategies.

In 2018/19, I coordinated LW269 Policing (2nd year BCL and BA) and LW454 Introduction to Criminology (4th year LLB). I also taught half of LW164B Introduction to Criminological Theory (1st year BCL and BA) and LW165A Introduction to Criminal Justice (1st year BCL and BA)

I supervised master's students on the LW653 Advocacy (MA and LLM) and LW690 Dissertation (MA and LLM) modules. I contributed lectures to PO224 Researching Criminology (2nd year BCL and BA) and LW631 Criminology and Criminal Justice (MA and LLM).

At the University of Leeds (2013-2018), I taught a range of subjects, including penology, youth justice, restorative justice, victimology, criminal justice processes, transnational crime, foundations of social science, research methods and introductory crime and criminal justice modules. I regularly gives guest lectures at universities (e.g. KU Leuven, the Universities of Gloucestershire, Tirana and Limerick, and Palacky University Olomouc) and criminal justice agencies (e.g. West Yorkshire Police, the Estonian Prison Administration), and would be happy to do so at other places.