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Francis Pakes

Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth

Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth I am a psychologist turned criminologist, with an interest in comparative criminology, prisons, and crime and justice in the Netherlands, and the Nordic countries. And then in particular prisons in the Nordic countries. I studied psychology in Groningen (the Netherlands), received my PhD from Leiden University (the Netherlands) and joined the University of Portsmouth in 1998. At present I am Associate Dean looking after the research for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.