Robert Peacock

Robert Peacock is President of the World Society of Victimology and Chair in the Department of Criminology at the University of the Free State (UFS). Before joining the UFS this year, he was academic leader of the Criminology and Forensic Studies Cluster at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Since the apartheid years in South Africa he has been working actively in the field of victimology with child justice and institutional victimisation as particular focus areas. Areas of expertise refer to the victimisation of children deprived of their liberty, street/community children, transitional justice and the victimology of international crimes. He has been playing an active role within the scientific community with the presentation of research findings at various international symposia and has been invited as a visiting professor to the Faculties of Law, University of Valencia (Spain) and Universita degli studi di Bari (University of Bari, Italy), and Leuven Institute of Criminology (LinC), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). In addition, he has presented guest lectures in Criminology and Victimology at Monash University (Australia) and the University of Indonesia. Prof. Peacock is a founding member and course co-director of the African Postgraduate Course of Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice of the World Society of Victimology.  He has been the recipient of a number of awards (for instance, honorary academic colours, Media Publication Awards, study and teaching awards). In the fields of criminology, victimology, law, social and criminal justice, he is the author of several scientific publications (in English, Spanish and Afrikaans). Prof Peacock assists regularly on the scientific committees of international and local conferences and as an editorial board member of the international scientific journals Quaderni del Dipartimento di Bioetica (Italy), Temida (Serbia), Ethnicity and Criminal Justice (USA). Prof Peacock served for a number of years as the editor of the accredited and peer reviewed Southern African Journal of Criminology, Acta Criminologica. Most recently, Prof Peacock was the editor of the text Victimology in South Africa (2013).