Enver Solomon - Deputy Director, Centre for Criminal and Justice Studies, Kings College London
Enver Solomon is deputy director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, an independent charity affiliated to the Law School at King's College, London, that informs and educates about all aspects of crime and criminal justice in the UK. The Centre has produced a number of influential reports that have had a direct impact on policy making and public thinking on criminal justice. It produces a highly respected quarterly magazine, Criminal Justice Matters, which Enver edits, and also owns the British Journal of Criminology, one of the world's leading criminology journals.
Enver lectures on the King's College Masters programme in Criminology and supervises the research work of Masters Students. He regularly commentates on criminal justice issues in the British media appearing on national radio and television programmes and has written articles for national newspapers and specialist magazines, including the Guardian and the London Evening Standard. He has a bi-monthly column in Inside Time a newspaper distributed in every prison in England and Wales.
Enver has worked for a number of years on criminal justice and penal policy for the not for profit sector. Before joining CCJS at King's College he was head of research and policy at the Revolving Doors Agency, a national charity providing services for offenders. His areas of interest include prisons, mental health and criminal justice, crime and the media, youth justice, community sentences and sentencing policy. He has authored a range of publications (see below). Most recently he was the lead author of a major analysis of the Labour government's ten year record on law and order.
Enver is currently working with the Prison Service as a member of an independent review body examining race equality. He is an advisor to a major independent inquiry into criminal justice in the UK organised by the Centre for Social Justice. He is also on the on the advisory group of an independent three year project run by the Prisoners Education Trust looking at offender learning in England and Wales and has worked as advisor to HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales as part of work on foreign national prisoners.
Enver speaks widely at conferences in the UK and in 2007 was invited to give one of the prestigious Perrie lectures at the Prison Service national training college.
