Julie Truschel MA

CEO, Supervision Around the World (SAW) Project, United States

Julie Truschel has worked in criminal justice since 1985, building extensive experience across both custodial institutions and community-based supervision. Her career has been shaped by a commitment to bridging research and practice, with a focus on approaches that support long-term success for individuals while enhancing public safety. Through the SAW Project, she documents and shares supervision practices from around the world, highlighting innovative and effective models. Her work emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and community engagement, promoting practical, evidence-informed strategies that help agencies improve outcomes and foster more responsive and humane justice systems.

Fergus McNeill

Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow. Prior to becoming an academic in 1998, Fergus worked for a decade in residential drug rehabilitation and as a criminal justice social worker. His research projects and publications have focused mainly on institutions, cultures and practices of punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration. As well exploring how increasingly knowledge about desistance from crime might re-shape rehabilitation and reintegration (both within and beyond criminal justice), Fergus’s work has increasingly used creative and ethnographic methods to better understand how criminal justice is experienced, both by those subject to it and by those whose job is to try to realise it in practice. From January 2026-December 2030, Fergus is leading a major 5-year study, funded by the European Research Council’s Advanced Grants scheme, of ‘Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe’ (RaRiE), working with colleagues in the Universities of Leiden (Miranda Boone and Hilde Wermink) and Oslo (Thomas Ugelvik).