The international independent jury consists of members representing both practitioners and academics. Today the Jury consists of following: • Co-chair
Jerzy Sarnecki, Professor Emeritus in General Criminology at Stockholm University, University of Gävle and Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall. Senior Professor at the University of Gävle and Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm. (Sweden) • Co-chair
Lawrence Sherman,is Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientific Officer of the Metropolitan Police in London, UK. Appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Order of the Northern Star (KNO) by King Carl XVI Gustav in 2016, he also holds honorary doctorates from Stockholm University, Sweden, and Denison University, USA. (UK/USA) •
Friedrich Lösel, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany & Past Director and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. (Germany/UK) •
Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at the Dickinson School of Law, and concurrently Director of the School of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University, USA. (South Africa) •
Peter William Neyroud, CBE QPM, formerly Chief Constable and Chief Executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency, UK; Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. (UK) •
Hiroshi Tsutomi, Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at the
University of Shizuoka, Japan. (Japan) •
David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University in Virginia, USA; Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel. (USA/Israel) •
Susanne Karstedt, Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Australia. She held Chairs in Criminology at Keele University and the University of Leeds, UK, and positions at the Universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld, Germany. (Australia) •
Candace Kruttschnitt, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto & Past President of the American Society of Criminology and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. (Canada) •
Emil Plywaczewski, Professor, habilitated doctor (Law/Criminology); Doctor honoris causa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok (Poland); Director: Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. Since 2017, Director of the International Centre of Criminological Research and Expertise, at the University of Białystok. He is also Full Professor at the Higher School of Police Training (Polish National Police Academy) in Szczytno, and elected Chair of the Scientific Board of the Professor Jan Sehn Institute of Forensic Expertise in Kraków. (Poland) •
Beatriz Abizanda, senior modernization of the State Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, responsible for the Bank’s security programmes and technical cooperation in Costa Rica and Uruguay. (Costa Rica/Uruguay) == The Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation ==