About Dr. Leonard

Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD), researcher and international academic is based at Winchester University. Previously with Arden University, Manchester UK, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University, also formerly with California State University, Los Angeles and is also an Associate Professor with West Virginia University, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former Member Secretary and President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. Dr. Leonard was the Senior Academic and primary instructor on the award winning Custodial Care Prison Studies Program, which trained approx. 1,000 recruits in a humane approach to prison and corrections work for the Irish Prison Service. The author/editor of over 25 books and numerous journal articles, Liam was Senior Editor of the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC: Journal of Social Criminology. Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and a California State University Author’s Award in 2015. He has given papers to conferences of the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance, the American Criminology Association, the California Sociology Association and the Western Criminology Association. Dr. Leonard is Editor of the IGI Global Criminology Book Series and serves on the Editorial Board of the Laws Journal.