Dr. Heather Strang

 

Chair

Email Address: hs404@cam.ac.uk

Dr. Strang is the Chair of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. Elected in 2019 by the Fellows of the Academy of Experimental Criminology as the Academy’s President, she also serves as the  Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She also served from 2014-2020 as Director of the Institute’s Police Executive Programme, including its Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship (SLMDA) launched in 2019. Internationally recognised for her British and Australian experiments in police-led restorative justice conferences, she was for ten years the Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice at the Australian National University. Prior to her appointment at ANU, she was Executive Research Officer at the Australian Institute of Criminology, where she founded the Australian national reporting system for homicide, after serving on the research staff of the Australian National Committee on Violence.

Dr. Strang’s research interests include the effects of crime and justice on victims of crime, the diversion of cases from prosecution to alternative disposals, and restorative justice conferences as both a supplement to and diversion from prosecution. In 2013, her research team published the Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review of the Effects of Restorative Justice Conferences on Offender Recidivism and Victim Satisfaction. She also researches police responses to domestic violence, including a five-year experiment with the Hampshire Constabulary testing the CARA programme, which successfully reduced offending in domestic abuse.

Dr. Strang was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology in 2002 and was a member of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology from 2006 to 2012. In recent years, she has been invited to lecture on her research by universities, learned societies and governments in Japan, Colombia, Norway, Uruguay, Sweden, USA, Turkey, Israel, Ireland, Scotland and Belgium. She served  as an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland from 2016-2019 and since 2017 has been  the Academic Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing.

 

Selected Publications:

  • Strang, Heather, et al. (2017) ‘Reducing the Harm of Intimate Partner Violence: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Hampshire Constabulary CARA Experiment.’ Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing (1), 160–173.

  • Strang, Heather, and Lawrence W. Sherman (2015) ‘The Morality of Evidence: Second Annual Restorative Justice Lecture.’ Restorative Justice: An International Journal (3:1), 1–15.

  • Strang, Heather, Peter W. Neyroud, and Lawrence W. Sherman (2014) ‘Tracking the Evidence of a “Mythical Number”: Do UK Domestic Abuse Victims Suffer an Average of 35 Assaults Before Someone Calls the Police?’ Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (8:2), 222–228.

  • Strang, Heather (2012) ‘Coalitions for a Common Purpose: Managing Relationships in Experiments.’ Journal of Experimental Criminology (8:3), 211–225.

  • Strang Heather, et al., (2011) Experiments in Restorative Policing: Final Report on Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) (link)