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Elaine Player is a Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at King's College London, where she joined the Dickson Poon School of Law in 1990. She previously held a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford. Additionally, she has served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and is a member of the editorial board for the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and the international associate editorial board of Punishment and Society. Her research primarily focuses on sentencing and penology, with ongoing projects investigating how legal processes such as bail and sentencing function differently for men and women in the criminal justice system. Player has published three monographs based on her prison research, including 'Drug Treatment Prison' and 'Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison.' She has also contributed to numerous editorial projects and scholarly articles examining issues related to women in the justice system, rehabilitation, and the implications of offender personality disorders. Her unique insights have led to her involvement with the Prison Reform Trust’s Commission of Inquiry into Women’s Imprisonment.
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