Katalin Gönczöl (Hungary)

Katalin Gönczöl is Professor of Criminology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Hungary), State Secretary for Criminal Policy at the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement, President of the Hungarian Society of Criminology and the past first Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of Hungary. She is Vice President of the International Society of Criminology and past European Director of the International Ombudsman Institute. She is the author of numerous books and articles on violent crime, social reproduction of crime and criminal policy, and responsible for the first strategy of community crime prevention, reform of the national probation service and the new conception of victim policy and victim support in Hungary. She has received among others the Refugee's Prize from the Hungarian Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Order Cross of the Republic of Hungary, the International Community Justice Award.