Robert Peacock is a Full Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, and honorary Research Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Siciences (JIBS), O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Prof Peacock served as the President of the World Society of Victimology (with Special Category consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and the Council of Europe) and is the Immediate Past President of the World Society of Victimology. Since the Apartheid years in South Africa, Prof Peacock has been working actively in the fields of criminology, victimology and transitional justice with institutional and structural victimisation as particular focus areas. With the dawn of democracy in South Africa, he enjoyed Ministerial appointment as a National Chairperson of the Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards of South Africa. In pursuit of the advancement of an African Victimology that is both regionally and globally relevant, he is the editor of the textbook Victimology in Africa (2019), endorsed by the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. As a National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated scientist, he has been playing an active role within the scientific community with the presentation of research findings at various regional and international symposia, service to scientific committees and editorial boards or as a visiting professor to Higher Education institutions across the globe. Prof Peacock is a founding member and course co-director of the African Postgraduate Course of Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice of the World Society of Victimology (WSV). He has been the recipient of a number of awards and is widely published. 

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Access to Justice

Criminology 

Critical Victimology 

Macro and micro links between interpersonal victimisation and victimisation in broader society.

Identity, decolonisation and justice  

Victimology in Africa 

Criminal Justice

Transitional justice

Restorative justice

Victimology, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, Child Justice, Transitional Justice, Marginalisation, Criminal Behaviour, Street child phenomenon, Children deprived of their liberty