Some themes I speak on…

• Different strategies for and experiences in trying to improve conditions and human rights in prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean, including lessons for the US and Canada

• Building more participatory, dignity-oriented frameworks and indicators in project evaluation

• Approaches for doing research with prisoners and prison staff in meaningful, rigorous, ethical ways

• Foreign policy and international security policy with regard to criminal justice issues

• The politics of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

I have presented at:

• The International Corrections and Prisons Association

• Measures and Meanings of Crime and Justice in the Global South. Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, Newark, October.

• Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Regional Review Conference

• Academic conferences: American Society of Criminology, Law & Society Association, Latin American Studies Association, Society of Latin American Criminology (SOCLA)