Dr Diana Johns

Associate Professor
University of Melbourne
Australia

Diana Johns is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Melbourne. Her research is focused on the effects of criminalisation, the impacts of imprisonment, and the possibilities of restorative, relational and reintegrative justice practices. She is particularly interested in exploring experiences of transition, in-betweenness and liminality. Diana’s book, Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner, based on her PhD research with formerly imprisoned men and people supporting their transitions to community, was published in 2018 by Routledge. Her new book, Coproduction and Criminal Justice, co-written with Catherine Flynn, Maggie Hall, Claire Spivakovsky and Shelley Turner, was published by Routledge in 2023.