Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern

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Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern (born September 25, 1941 ) is a British politician . She is regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of criminal law reforms.

Life

Vivien Stern was born Vivien Helen Stern to 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 ; There she graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1964 with a Master of Letters (MLitt) in English literature. In 1965 she passed the teacher's exam (Certificate in Education; CertEd).

In 1970 she became a lecturer in education . From 1970 to 1977 she worked for the Community Relations Commission established by the Race Relations Act 1968. 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. She held this office for almost 20 years (until 1996).

From 1984 to 1991 she served as a guest lecturer ( Visiting Fellow ) at Nuffield College of the University of Oxford operates. In 1984/1985 she was a Committee Member of the Prison Disciplinary System. In 1989 she and other colleagues founded the organization Penal Reform International (PRI), a non-governmental organization that advocates reform of the penal system and criminal law reform around the world . From 1989 to 2006, she was there Secretary General ( Secretary General ); meanwhile is the honorary president of the organization. In 1997 she became a Senior Research Fellow at London University at the International Center for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College London . In 2003 she became convenor of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice.

Stern was also active in numerous international organizations: from 1993 to 2000 she was a board member of the Association pour la prévention de la torture (Association for Prevention of Torture) in Geneva . From 2001 to 2007, she was also Vice-President of the Comité de Soutien (Support Committee) of the organization Français Incarcérés au Loin (FIL). Currently (as of November 2012) she is a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).

Stern is also a trustee ( Trustee ) of the Milton S Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC , and patron ( saint ) of numerous charities, including Venture Trust, Prisoners' Education Trust, New Bridge Foundation, Royal Philanthropic Society, Clean Break and Rethink.

Stern is the author of numerous books, particularly on the subject of the penal system and the administration of 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: People and Prisons in a Market Society was published in May 2006 by Zed Books .

Stern Review

In September 2009, Stern was appointed by the Government Equalities Office and the UK Government Home Office to chair and direct a systematic investigation into the treatment and prosecution of rape by the authorities in England and Wales . The investigation was announced by Minister for Women and Equality Harriet Harman in September 2009. Their report published in 2010, the so-called The Stern Review , received general recognition and attention.

Membership in the House of Lords

On August 13, 1999, she was made a Life Peer . It bears the title Baroness Stern , of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth . She is a crossbencher in the House of Lords . She gave her inaugural address on November 24, 1999.

Stern was a member of 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 has been a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, which is responsible for human rights. She is also a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.

Stern's political interests include, in particular, criminal justice and the administration of justice , criminal law reforms, the penal system and the prison system, human rights, foreign policy and international development.

Honors

Stern was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992.

Stern has several honorary doctorates . She is an honorary doctor from 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 former college professor Andrew Coyle .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vivien Helen Stern in: Dod's Parliamentary Companion 2003 . 2002, p. 716
  2. ^ Baroness Vivien Stern - The Pain of Prison Radio New Zealand, November 18, 2012
  3. ^ Harman announces review of rape cases in: The Guardian, September 22, 2009
  4. ↑ The Stern Review (2010) ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (original text as PDF document; 1.1 MB)
  5. ^ The Stern Review (2010) (foreword, summary and main theses); Anti Feminist Media blog from January 28, 2011
  6. ↑ Stern Review into the handlung of rapecases in the UK ( Memento of November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Human Rights in Ireland of March 15, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
  8. ↑ Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (wording of the inaugural address of November 24, 1999)
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Vivien, Baroness Stern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Vivien Helen, Baroness Stern (full name); Stern, Vivien Helen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1941