Peter Raynor

Professor Peter Raynor PhD FAcSS
Emeritus Research Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swansea University

Peter Raynor is a former probation officer, currently retired as Emeritus Professor of Criminology after 50 years at Swansea University.

He has carried out research mainly on the effectiveness and impact of probation services, including work on programmes, pre-sentence reports, risk and need assessment, prisoner resettlement, the experiences of Black and Asian probationers and the skills used by practitioners in face-to-face work with offenders.

In the academic world he has served on two Research Assessment Exercise Panels and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2016 he was presented with the inaugural Research award of the Confederation of European Probation at its General Assembly in Bucharest, and in 2017 he was a keynote speaker at the World Congress of Probation in Tokyo.