Allison Morris

Allison Morris (born 1945) is a retired New Zealand criminologist whose specialities are youth justice, restorative justice and women in crime. She earned her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1976 and was appointed lecturer in criminology there that year, becoming Reader in Criminal Justice in 1995. After leaving Cambridge in 1998 she was a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington until she retired in 2001. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi in 2000, and the Society described her evidence-led work as having made New Zealand a world laboratory for youth justice. Her publications include Women, Crime and Criminal Justice (1987), Understanding Juvenile Justice with Henri Giller, and Restorative Justice for Juveniles, edited with Gabrielle Maxwell.