Penny Green (criminologist)


Penny Green is an Australian criminologist. From September 2014 she is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London.

Biography

Green studied psychology, anthropology and sociology at the Australian National University. She graduated in 1979. She went to the UK and obtained her doctorate in Criminology at Cambridge.
Before being appointed as Professor at Queen Mary University of London she was Professor of Law and Criminology at King's College London and worked at the University of Southampton, University of Westminster, and the London School of Economics. Green is the founder of the International State Crime Initiative.
In March 2016, she was shortlisted as replacement for Makarim Wibisono as United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, along with Michael Lynk. Michael Lynk was appointed to this role.