Prato 2023 – Stronger Trajectories, Safer Communities: Improving welfare, mental health and legal responses to crime

Neil Campbell

General Manager Rautaki Maori – Ara Poutama Aotearoa, Department of Corrections

Neil Campbell is of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau A Apanui descent. He has worked for Ara Poutama Aotearoa, New Zealand's Department of Corrections, for the past 28 years and held many operational positions.

He is the former Director Maori and General Manager Cultural Capability for the department. Neil currently holds the national position of General Manager Rautaki Maori – Maori Strategy, Partnerships and Outcomes.

Neil is driven by culture in its many contexts and works closely with other jurisdictions on matters of cultural identity and effective ways of working with indigenous peoples within the criminal justice system.

Pernilla Leviner 

Professor in Public Law, Stockholm University

Pernilla Leviner is Professor in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests lie within and across public and family law – more specifically child law and social welfare law.

It deals with different aspects of the relation between the state, the family and the individual, including children’s rights – often focusing on the responsibility and role of public authorities. 

Pernilla is also the Director of the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University – a research centre dealing with child law and children’s rights with a strong focus on interdisciplinary perspectives.

She is the General Editor of the Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights, published by Brill Nijhoff and also the Editor of the Nordic Journal of Social Welfare Law.

Lawrence Jones 

Head of Psychology, Rampton Hospital

Lawrence Jones is Head of Psychology for England's high-security psychiatric Rampton Hospital and is past Chair of the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology.

His work aims to develop and support trauma-focused psychological interventions across mental health, personality disorder, intellectual disabilities, women's and D/deaf services in the hospital.

He has initiated conferences and co-edited books on trauma-informed care and interventions in forensic settings and on forensic assessment and its problems and biases in measuring offending behaviour using conviction or reconviction.

Lawrence is also Honorary Associate (Clinical) Professor at Nottingham University – teaching in the Forensic doctorate at Nottingham, Sheffield and Leicester clinical programmes.

He has worked in Wormwood Scrubs Prison and a prison-based therapeutic community, where he introduced an early version of schema therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy.

Patricia Kerig

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Utah

Patricia K. Kerig, PhD received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley with a specialisation in developmental psychopathology.

She currently is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Utah and has previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and as a Co-Director of the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice.

She is an author of over 200 scholarly works devoted to understanding the factors that predict risk, resilience and recovery among adults, adolescents, children and families coping with adversity and traumatic stress.

As juvenile justice and other care systems increasingly become trauma-informed, she has an abiding interest in developing effective strategies to bolster resilience among staff exposed to secondary traumatic stress in work context.