Benson Njongoro

Position/Status

Tutorial Fellow - School of Education, Arts & Social Sciences

E-mail Address

bnjongoro@kcau.ac.ke

Academic Qualification

  • Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice-Keele University(UK)
  • Postgraduate Academic English for Postgraduate students-Keele University(UK)
  • Certified Criminal Intelligence Analyst- Harley Janets Education (UK)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor-Skill Success College (UK)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Public Safety- Karatina University-Kenya

Membership of Professional Bodies or Associations

  • Howard League for Penal Reform Member NO 23006
  • Commonwealth Scholarship Alumni Association Kenya
  • Howard League for Penal Reform’s Early Career Academics Network (ECAN) Member

Research Interest

  • Post colonial societies, crime and deviance
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Stories of violent men-narrative criminology
  • Reintegration/resettlement and desistance
  • Punishment in pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial African societies
  • Restorative justice and Indigenous justice
  • Motherhood and desistance
  • Comparative and international criminology
  • Citizen and officer perceptions of police and policing
  • Improving the understanding about the causes of serious and persistent offending and ‘what works’ to reduce this offending

Conferences & Chapters

Conferences/Seminars/Training/ Workshops

  • WWP EN Annual Conference 2022-Dublin, Ireland. 17th – 19th August 2022. Titled ‘From Harm to Hope-Youth Interventions against Domestic abuse’
  • Online conference on Results of Mapping of perpetrator programmes in the Western Balkans 16 June 2022
  • Manual launch: Scripting violence, rehearshing change 26 April 2022
  • Interchange 22 virtual conference 15th – 16th March 2022 hosted by commonwealth scholasrhips.
  • Attended Leadership training funded by Santander Bank-UK and got awarded Inclusive Global Leadership Certificate and Micro-credential 31/03/2021
Benson Njongoro
bnjongoro@kcau.ac.ke