A passionate champion of victims’ rights, Irvin Waller is an author and university professor who is internationally sought after as an expert and speaker on stopping crime. He currently serves as the President of the US-headquartered International Organization for Victims’ Assistance.
Waller has a Ph.D. in Law and an MA in Economics from Cambridge University. He was the founding executive director of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, which received funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the US Department of Justice and is affiliated with the United Nations.
He received awards from the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) and the World Federation for Mental Health for his work leading to the magna carta for victims – when the UN adopted the Declaration on Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power which has influenced the victim movement world-wide. Waller´s unique contribution to the ¨Victim Assistance Movement¨ in the USA was recognized by his inclusion in the Oral History of the Crime Victim Assistance Field sponsored by the Office for Victims of Crime of the US Department of Justice (http://vroh.uakron.edu/summaries/Waller.php).
Waller has worked on national commissions in the USA, Canada and South Africa, and he has advised governments and attorneys general in more than 40 countries on how to prevent violence and respect victim rights. He developed the Safer Cities program with UN Habitat, advised on UN crime reduction guidelines and collaborates with the World Health Organization. His achievements in crime prevention have been recognized by England, Canada, Belgium, France and The Netherlands.
He has been elected to the board of NOVA and received more than one award since leaving their board. He has championed the rights of child victims through the International Bureau of Children´s Rights, where he mentored the adoption of the UN Guidelines on Justice for Child Victims and Witnesses in 2005.
A Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa who also taught at the State University of New York in Albany, he is author of two complimentary books for legislators and crime victims. The most recent focused on Rights for Victims of Crime: Rebalancing Justice, followed his popular and compelling book on stopping crime – Less Law, More Order: The Truth about Reducing Crime , which is now available in four other languages.
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