Dr Giuseppe Maglione joined the University of Kent’s School of Social Sciences in September 2021 and is currently a Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Restorative Justice Clinic. He teaches criminology and criminal justice across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In 2025 he was awarded the Senior Fellowship of Advance HE.
Dr Maglione received a PhD in Legal Theory from the University of Florence, where he also graduated cum laude in Law, and holds professional certificates in mediation, conflict management, and restorative justice awarded by institutions including SAIS-Johns Hopkins University and Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo, the University of Cambridge, Durham University, KU Leuven, the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati.
Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr Maglione worked as a legal advisor in prisons, a victim-offender mediator, a community mediator, and a trainer in conflict management and mediation for private and public organisations (including police, social workers, and healthcare teams) in Italy, Norway, and Scotland.
His theoretical grounding and practical engagement are nowadays reflected in his research on restorative justice across theory, policy, and practice, and in the clinical work developed through the University of Kent’s Restorative Justice Clinic, which he founded in 2023.
Dr Maglione’s research focuses on restorative justice, conflict mediation, penal politics and penal abolitionism. His interest in these fields emerged from his early work as a legal advisor in prisons in the 2000s, where he first encountered the everyday violence of penal institutions, an experience that continues to shape his work on imagining justice beyond punishment.
His publications have appeared in leading international journals, including Theoretical Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, Theory & Society, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Critical Criminology and Social & Legal Studies, and he regularly presents his work at national and international conferences.
In 2024 he published Restorative Justice and Contemporary Political Theory: Critical Encounters and co-edited Restorative Justice at a Crossroads: Dilemmas of Institutionalisation (with Ian Marder and Brunilda Pali), both with Routledge.
He is currently involved in the following projects:
Dr Maglione teaches criminal justice and criminological subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Undergraduate
He adopts a critical pedagogical approach and has a strong interest in clinical education, including learning-by-doing, scenarios, and role plays.
Dr Maglione supervises empirical qualitative projects as well as historical-philosophical research on restorative justice. He welcomes PhD and MA students working on restorative justice, conflict mediation, and penal punishment.
Dr Maglione has served as External Examiner at Royal Holloway University of London, the University of Bradford, and Sheffield Hallam University, and as External Academic Panel Member for the Subject Review and Re-validation of Criminology programmes at the University of Huddersfield.
He frequently peer reviews research grant applications (for the Danish Ministry of Education, Research Foundation Flanders, the Carnegie Trust, ESRC, AHRC, among others) and journal/book proposals (including Critical Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, Journal of Youth Studies, International Review of Victimology, International Journal of Restorative Justice, and Teaching and Teacher Education).
He served on the Research Committee of the European Forum for Restorative Justice from 2020 to 2022.
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