Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. h.c. mult., Dipl.-Psych. Helmut Kury studied Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Freiburg im Brsg., Germany), Diploma, Dr. in Psychology and Habilitation at the University of Freiburg. Between 1970 and 1973 Assistant Teacher at the University of Freiburg, Institute for Psychology, from 1973 – 1980 and from 1989 to 2006 Senior Researcher at the Max Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Penal Law in Freiburg im Brsg., Department of Criminology (MPI). 1980 – 1988 first Director of the new established Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN). Research in offender rehabilitation, crime prevention, attitudes to punishment, fear or crime, punitiveness, alternatives to punishment, mediation, victim offender restitution, methodological problems of empirical social science research, especially in criminology, international comparison of crime and punishment. Many scientific contacts on the background of cooperation with former Soviet states and developing countries. Round about 700 scientific publications, most recent ones: Kury, H., Ferdinand, T.N. (Eds.)(2008). International Perspectives on Punitivity. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer; Kury, H. (Ed.)(2008). Fear of crime – Punitivity. New Developments in Theory and Research. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer; Kury, H., Shea, E. (Eds.)(2011). Punitivity – International Developments. 3 Vols., Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer; Kury, H., Redo, S., Shea, E. (Eds.)(2016). Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration. Suggestions for Succeeding Generations. International Publishing/CH: Springer, 2 Vols., Kury, H., Kuhlmann, A. (2016). Mediation in Germany and Other Western Countries. Kriminologijos studijos, Vilniaus Universitetas, 4, 5-46.

Sławomir Redo, Dr. hab. (Law/Criminology) is Visiting Professor of United Nations Law. Member of the United Nations Studies Association. F. United Nations Senior Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Expert and staff of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (ret.); He had been involved in numerous projects implementing the UN standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice. In other capacities he assisted in the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and on-line international crime prevention and criminal justice education.