Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern
Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern ( born September 25, 1941) is a British politician. It is regarded as one of the leading experts and pioneers in the field of criminal justice reforms.
Life
Vivien Stern was born as Vivien Helen Stern, the daughter of Frederick Stern and his wife Renate Mills. She attended Kent College Pembury in the county of Kent. She studied English literature at the University of Bristol; where she graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and in 1964 with a Master of Letters ( MLitt ) in English Literature. In 1965 she put the teacher's exam ( Certificate in Education; CertEd ) from.
In 1970 she was a lecturer ( Lecturer ) for education. From 1970 to 1977 she worked for the established by the Race Relations Act 1968 Community Relations Commission. 1977 Star Director (Director) of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders ( NACRO ), a registered charity ( Registered Charity ) in the field of prevention of crime and delinquency and the rehabilitation of offenders. This office she had almost 20 years ( until 1996) held.
From 1984 to 1991 she worked as a guest lecturer ( Visiting Fellow ) at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 1984/1985 she was a member ( Committee Member ) of the Prison Disciplinary System. In 1989 she founded with other colleagues, the organization Penal Reform International ( PRI), a non-governmental organization, world committed to a reform of the penal and criminal justice reform. From 1989 to 2006 she was there, General Secretary ( Secretary General); now is the honorary president of the organization. In 1997 she was a Senior Research Fellow of the London University, the International Centre for Prison Studies ( ICPS ) at King's College London. In 2003 she was Convenor of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice.
Stern was also active in numerous international organizations: it was from 1993 to 2000 Member of the Board (Board members ) of the Association pour la prévention of Torture ( Association for the Prevention of Torture ) in Geneva. She was further from 2001 to 2007Vizepräsidentin ( vice -president ) in the Comité de Soutien ( Support Committee ) of the organization Français Incarcérés au loin (FIL ). Currently (November 2012) she is a member of the Beratngsgremiums ( Advisory Board ) of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders ( ILANUD ).
Star is also a trustee ( Trustee ) of the Milton S Eisenhower Foundation, Washington DC and patron ( patron ) of numerous charities, including Venture Trust, Prisoners ' Education Trust, New Bridge Foundation, Royal Philanthropic Society, Clean Break and Rethink.
Stern is the author of many books, especially on the topics of correctional and criminal justice. Her publications include: Bricks of Shame: Britain's Prisons, A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World, Failures in Penal Policy; Imprisoned by Our Prisons: a program for reform ( Fabian Series); The Prisons We Deserve, 'Alternatives to Prison in Developing Countries, Developing Alternatives to Prison in East and Central Europe and Central Asia and Sentenced to Die? The problem of TB in prisons in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Her book Creating Criminals: Prisons and People in a Market Society was published in May 2006 in the publishing Zed Books.
Stern Review
In September 2009, the Government Equalities Office Star and the Home Office of the British government with the Presidency and the leadership of a systematic study on the treatment and prosecution of rape by the authorities in England and Wales was commissioned. The investigation was announced by Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, in September 2009. Your 2010 report published, called The Stern Review was general recognition and attention.
Membership in the House of Lords
On August 13, 1999, she was appointed Life Peer. It bears the title " Baroness Stern, of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth ." In the House of Lords she sits as a cross Bencher. On November 24 1999 she held her inaugural speech.
Stern has served on numerous committees of the House of Lords. From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the House of Lords European Select Committee with responsibility for European Union Affairs. Since 2004 she is a member of the responsible for Human Rights Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. She is also a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.
Among the political areas of interest include star particular criminal justice and criminal justice, penal reform penal system and the prison system, human rights, foreign policy and international development.
Honors
Stern was appointed in 1992 Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Stern is the recipient of several honorary doctorates. She is an honorary doctor of the University of Bristol, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Stirling and the University of Edinburgh. She is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics.
Private
Stern is married to the former university professor Andrew Coyle.