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The Speakers

Chicken Shed

Chickenshed is a theatre company that delivers performances and workshops using dance theatre as a medium for highlighting social issues. The performance Crime of the Century looks at issues of knife crime, youth violence, gangs and social exclusion. The performance has been awarded 5 stars by What’s On Stage who describe the production as “Beautiful…superbly executed…an outstanding performance…everyone should see this show”

Marc Groenhuijsen

Dr. Marc Groenhuijsen is a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and victimology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In 2005, he became the founding director of INTERVICT, the International Victimology Institute, Tilburg. He is the vice-president of the World Society of Victimology and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for Victim Assistance. He also serves as a part-time judge in the Court of Appeal in Arnhem. A renowned expert in the victimology field, his extensive research has advanced the universal understanding of victim issues.

Kathryn Turman

Kathryn Turman has been active in developing services to victims of crime for over 20 years. She pioneered the provision of services and support to victims of terrorism while serving as Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and was in charge of developing victim assistance to families of Pan Am 103 victims during the trial of two Libyan intelligence agents involved in the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. She currently serves as the Director of Victim Services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington D.C. The Office for Victim Assistance was created shortly after 9/11 to centralise the FBI’s victim assistance program and ensure that every victim in an FBI investigation receives the rights and assistance to which they are entitled under the law to help them cope with the impact of crime.

Kathryn Stone

Kathryn Stone is the Chief Executive of VOICE UK, a national charity supporting people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people who have experienced crime or abuse. VOICE also provides support services to the victim’s family, carers and professional workers. Kathryn believes passionately in the rights of people with learning disabilities to have equal access to justice and to have their voices heard. She was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2007 for services to people with learning disabilities.

Dean Kilpatrick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dean Kilpatrick is a distinguished university professor of clinical psychology and the director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also serves as the president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. His globally recognised research achievements and his many publications have been fundamental in understanding the risk and resilience for PTSD after traumatic events like disaster, terrorism and violent crime.

Antony Pemberton

Antony is currently involved in the management and undertaking of a number of research projects concerning victims of various types of crime within the International Victimology Institute (INTERVICT) at Tilburg University. He is the programme manager of the Achmea-supported Risk Assesment in Domestic Violence cases, and project leader of the Justice Department projects concerning the oral Victim Impact Statement, qualifying victims and the needs of victims. He is also the lead researcher of the project 'The Cross-Over' - a social-psychological approach to victims in the criminal justice system, which includes research into restorative justice and is supported by the Dutch Victim Support Fund.

 

Marketa Vitousova

Marketa has been actively involved in Bily kruh bezpeci (the Czech victim support organisation) since 1995. She is currently the head of Prague Advice Centre for Victims of Crime and a member of Bily kruh bezpeci executive committee. Following her masters in social work at the Charles University, Prague, she has 12 years experience working with victims of crime as a practitioner and 9 years experience working specifically with victims of domestic violence. Marketa leads the team of 55 professional volunteers (advocates, judges, public prosecutors, police officers, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, university students etc) She also serves as a guest lecturer at universities and colleges and has published several articles in the victimology field.

 

Ann Moulds

Unremitting terror has incredibly blighted the life of Ann Moulds - not once but twice.  In 1999 both she and her daughter were victims of a violent armed robbery in their home. Thinking she had experienced the worst that could ever happen, Ann then became a victim of a stalker. What started in February 2004 with a simple Valentine’s Day card escalated to become one of the worst stalking crimes recorded in Scotland. 

When her perpetrator escaped jail with a lenient sentence in April 2008, she was forced to relocate from her home town of 30 years. She left behind her Private Practice, her home, her friends and family.

With a BSc in Podiatric Medicine, Ann has worked both within the NHS and Private Practice. An experienced psychotherapist, she has a BSc in Psychology and a Pg.Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy & Group work. She holds a diploma in Training & Development and is also an accredited trainer with Cosca Counselling Scotland. Ann is also a visiting lecturer at Caledonian University, to 3rd year health care students on the subject of Mental Health.

Ann is open to sharing her experiential expertise that comes from being a victim. She believes it will help provide a deeper understanding of the multidimensional complexity of what it means to be a victim not just of crime but within the criminal justice system and the infinite array of situations or circumstances that can enforce and impact.  

 

Viviane Reding

Born in Luxembourg, Viviane Reding has a long and established career within European politics. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1989 and has also had many areas of responsibility within the European Commission. As Vice-President of the European Commission, she is committed to work for Europe's citizens and for a Europe of results. She also serves as the first EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, where she hopes to make full use of the new possibilities offered by the Lisbon Treaty.  She has set herself the objectives to develop a truly European area of Justice based on mutual recognition and mutual trust; be the Guardian of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; take the lead in promoting EU Citizenship; and further strengthening gender equality throughout the Union and in all fields of EU policy.

 

Kathleen O’Hara, MA

Kathleen is a psychotherapist and the author of A Grief Like No Other, Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love (DaCapo 2006), which presents a seven stage model for victims and service providers to understand and deal with the trauma of crime and violent death. She is a member of the World Society of Victimology as well as a consultant for the US Federal Office for Victims of Crime and provides innovative and comprehensive training programs to Victims Service Providers throughout the US as well as the UK. 

 

Kenny MacAskill MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice

Mr MacAskill was educated at Linlithgow Academy and Edinburgh University and was a senior partner in a law firm. He was an MSP for the Lothians Region from 1999 to 2007 and has been MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh since the General Election on May 3, 2007. Born in Edinburgh, he has previously been Shadow Justice and Home Affairs Minister. He was a long standing member of the SNP's NEC and has been National Treasurer and Vice Convener of Policy. In 2004 Kenny wrote a book entitled 'Building a Nation - Post Devolution Nationalism in Scotland'. He has since edited another book 'Agenda for a New Scotland - Visions of Scotland 2020' and has co-authored two books on the Scottish Diaspora, 'Global Scots - Voices From Afar' and 'Wherever the Saltire Flies’, with the former First Minister Henry McLeish.