ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Karyn McCluskey is a Scottish forensic psychologist and the chief executive of Community Justice Scotland. She was formerly the director of the Violence Reduction Unit. She spent 21 years working with the police and helped establish the Violence Reduction Unit in 2003 with a Public Health approach to preventing violence. She is a member of the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance and also helped set up the Medics Against Violence charity in Scotland, which speaks to school children about violence reduction, injury and keeping safe.

Community Justice Scotland’s vision: We all want Scotland to be a place where we can all feel safe. That’s why we need a justice system that we can rely on. We’ll achieve that goal through constant innovation and by working closely with our partners to develop new ways of supporting people who have committed a crime, their families and the various agencies that help to break the cycle of reoffending, allowing people to make a positive contribution to society.