Frances Crook
CEO
Howard League for Penal Reform
Frances Crook
LONDON
Appointed in 1986, Frances Crook is the CEO of the Howard League for Penal Reform. She was awarded an OBE for services to youth justice in the 2010. She is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Criminology at Leicester University. She has Honorary Doctorates in Law from Liverpool and Leeds Beckett universities. Frances Crook was previously campaigns co-ordinator at Amnesty International and a secondary school teacher in Liverpool and London. She has held several non-executive roles including on Barnet NHS, the School Food Trust and as a Governor of Greenwich University.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is a national charity working for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison. The Howard League campaigns on a range of issues including; transforming prisons, reducing child arrests and ending the criminalisation of children in residential care. The legal work of the charity transforms and shapes the law for children and young people. The Howard League is entirely independent of government and is funded by voluntary donations and membership subscriptions.