Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Memberships / External Activities

Learned Societies:

• Elected to Association for Learned Societies in Social Sciences (2006-)
• Member of Executive Committee and Council, British Society of Criminology 1990-2005
• Member, Council of Europe Criminological and Scientific Council
• Chair Wales & the West branch, British Society of Criminology (1995-2005)
• Elected to Board of European Society of Criminology 2006-8
• Programme Planning Committee, American Society of Criminology 2006-7
• Fellows Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2006-7
• Board member, European Society of Criminology

Other “Evidence of Esteem” 2002-2008 e.g. consultancies, journal editorships, membership of national and international research bodies, advice to government etc:

• 2012- President, US National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium
• 2011- Member, Group of Experts on Corruption, European Commission
• 2011- Non-executive member, Independent Crime Statistics Advisory Committee, UK Statistics Authority and ONS
• 2011- Member, Worshipful Company of Security Professionals
• 2011- Advisory Board, Transparency International National Integrity Study
• 2011-  Member, Economics and Resource Analysis Unit Advisory Panel on Security and Civil Liberties, Home Office
• 2010- Member, Organised Crime Council, World Economic Forum
• 2010- Member, Peer Review College, Economic and Social Research Council
• 2010- Advisor, Identity Crime Strategic Threat Assessment, National Fraud Authority
• 2009- Member, Economics and Resource Analysis Unit Advisory Panel on Crime and Policing, Home Office
• 2009- Member, Expert Group for Review of Serious Organised Crime, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, UK
• 2009- Advisory Panel, Audit Commission review of Protecting the Public Purse
• 2008-2010 Advisory Panel, UK Drug Policy Commission
• 2007-2008  Member, EC Money Laundering Statistics Sub-Group
• 2007-  Member, EC Proceeds of Crime Confiscation Expert Working Group and Asset Recovery Office Working Group
• Awarded the American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology's Outstanding Achievement Award
• ESRC representative on ESRC/EPSRC team assessing research proposals on technology and crime reduction (MIAP initiative)
• Editor in chief, Criminology and Criminal Justice (official journal of British Society of Criminology)
• Senior criminology editor, Crime, Law and Social Change.
• Editorial board member: British Journal of Criminology; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research; Global Crime; Howard Journal of Criminal Justice; and Security Journal
• Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Law & Society
• Reviewer for international journals including Australia & New Zealand Journal of Criminology and Law & Society Review, as well as for some international NGOs and international publishers such as Oxford UP (UK and US), McGill University Press (Canada), Edward Elgar, Kluwer, Sage, Springer.
• Reviewer of research proposals for Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Killam Fellowships, ESRC, Arts & Humanities Board, Leverhulme.
• External Member, Cambridge Institute of Criminology Teaching and Learning Review
• External adviser, LSE Promotions Committee
• Requested referee by several Australian and US Universities (e.g. ANU, Boston, California at Irvine, Melbourne, Penn State) for promotions to Full Professorship.
• Chair, Wales & West of England Branch, Executive Committee and Council, British Society of Criminology
• Committee Member, Association for Combating Fraud in Europe
• UK academic representative, Falcone Organised Crime Research Committee of European Commission     
• Scientific Expert Advisor to Council of Europe on Organised Crime
• Honorary Fellow, Society of Advanced Legal Studies
• Adviser to the Statistics Commission on measurement of financial and organised crime (member of ‘Scientific College’)
• Adviser to Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit on confiscation of proceeds of crime.
• Elected sole British member of Council of Europe’s Criminological and Scientific Research Committee
• Member, Council of Europe Reflections Committee on the 1990 Money-Laundering Convention
• Consultant to the Commission for Africa on the prevention and recovery of the proceeds of corruption
• Organised academic seminars for senior management of Serious and Organised Crime Agency
• Senior policy adviser on law enforcement issues, Transparency International
• Member of Law Society Money Laundering Task Force
• Specialist Parliamentary Adviser, Welsh Affairs Committee, on Policing and Anti-Social Behaviour in Wales
• Member, Home Office Consultative Group on Identity Fraud
• National Audit Office panel for the National Audit Office and HM Treasury Guide: Good Practice in Tackling External Fraud
• Fraud Advisory Panel’s Sub-Committee Reviewing Anti-Money Laundering Initiatives in the UK
• Expert Advisory Group to UK Information Commissioner
• Invited to participate in Cybercrime Foresight Panel work for DTI
• Reviewer of Council of Europe’s Annual Organised Crime Report
• Interviewee for Organised Crime Threat Assessment Reports by Europol and by the US National Intelligence Committee.