Dr Giuseppe Maglione

Dr Giuseppe Maglione is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent and founding Director of the University’s Restorative Justice Clinic. He holds a PhD in Legal Theory from the University of Florence and has a professional background in law, restorative justice and mediation. Before entering academia, he worked as a legal adviser in prisons and as a victim-offender and community mediator in Italy and Norway.

Dr Maglione has held visiting research positions at the University of Cambridge, Durham University, KU Leuven, the University of Oslo, the International Institute for the Sociology of Law and the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg. In 2026, he was a resident researcher at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.

He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and an external professor on the PhD in Peace Studies at Sapienza University of Rome. He also trains public, educational and third-sector organisations in restorative justice and conflict transformation.

Dr Maglione’s research focuses on restorative justice and conflict transformation, with particular attention to the relationship between justice practices, power and political order. His work examines restorative justice from theoretical, policy and practice perspectives, including its institutionalisation, relationship with criminal justice, and role in responding to structural harm and conflict. 

His research has contributed to restorative justice policy debates internationally and has been cited in policy and government publications in Scotland, Queensland (Australia), Catalonia (Spain) and the Netherlands. His work also informs practice through engagement with public bodies and restorative justice organisations. 

Currently, he is particularly interested in how restorative and conflict-transformation practices operate in everyday organisational and community settings, and how small-scale interventions can address harm, conflict and power relations. 

Current and recent projects

• AHRC Impact Acceleration Account – Accelerator Fund (Principal Investigator)
  Scaling Restorative Micro-Practices: Strategic Engagement for Developing Cross-Sector Models of Everyday Democratic Conflict Transformation.
  This project explores how restorative micro-practices can be developed and scaled across different organisational and community settings. 

• British Academy International Writing Workshops 2024 (Co-Investigator)
  Innovative Approaches to Justice in Brazil: An Inclusive Writing Workshop Series (IWW24\100109), led by Dr Kerry Clamp and Dr Fernanda F. Rosenblatt. 

• Restorative Justice Clinical Program
  An innovative suite of experiential learning and practice activities at the University of Kent, centred on the UK’s first university-based Restorative Justice Clinic. The programme connects research, education and practice through restorative casework, professional training and community engagement. The Clinic also provides professional development training in restorative justice, conflict analysis, resolution and mediation.

Dr Maglione teaches criminal justice and criminological subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

 Undergraduate

• Restorative Justice: Theories and Practices (SOCI5004)
• Theories of Crime and Harm (SOCI5050)
• Restorative Justice Clinic (SOCI6444) 

Postgraduate

• Theoretical Criminology (SOCI8681)
  
  

 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, the University of Law 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.