David Faulkner (criminologist)

Sir David Faulkner CB is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research.

Sir David worked for over 30 years at the Home Office, where his later appointments included Director of Operational Policy in the Prison Service (1980-1982), and a period of eight years as Deputy Secretary in charge of the Criminal, Research and Statistics Departments (1982-1990). Other positions included previous postings to the Prison Department (1963-1966 and 1970-1974) and to the Police Department (1976-1977), and responsibilities for parliamentary and constitutional reform, and the management of the Government's legislative programme (on secondment to the Cabinet Office), and for the internal management of the Home Office.

Appointed CB in 1985, he was a member of the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, and of the Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention and Control during the 1980s. He led the United Kingdom's delegation to the United Nations Congresses on Crime and Criminal Justice in 1985 and 1990. He is, or has been, a trustee, member of council, or adviser to several voluntary organisations concerned with law reform, community safety and opportunities for young people. They include JUSTICE, the Mental Health Foundation, the Howard League for Penal Reform (of which he was Chairman from 1998-2002), and the Thames Valley Partnership. He was a fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, from 1992-1999.

His brother is Lord Faulkner of Worcester, a Labour member of the House of Lords.

External links

* [http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/staff/david.htm Academic Profile - Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford]