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Ursula Smartt JP MA MPhil PGDipjur Biography and Professional Details

Ursula Smartt specialises in Media Law and all aspects of Criminal Law and comparative Criminal Justice systems. She has authored five books, the lastest being 'Media and Entertainment Law' (May 2011, Routledge). Other books include: 'Media Law for Journalists' (Sage); 'Criminal Justice' (Sage) and 'Law for Criminologists' (Sage). She is an independent consultant in prison policy matters and has conducted independent prison research for the Home Office/ Ministry of Justice and a number of foreign prison ministries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Latvia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the USA, Canada, Australia and India. Her book 'Grendon Tales' (Waterside Press) features the uncomfortable histories of some of the most dangerous prisoners in the UK prison system; the book focuses on long-term high security prisoners who have chosen to undergo psycho-therapy in order to establish the causes for their offending. Ursula Smartt has an extensive collection of her own prison photography from across the world. Some of the photos feature prisoners at work and correctional industries inside prisons, such as Tihar Jail, New Delhi, Terminal Island, USA, and meaningful work in the UK, Belgium and Germany. She has studied art and music therapy on Death Row at St. Quentin’s Prison in San Francisco and inspected HMP Grand Turk in the British Turks and Caicos Islands. Her prison photographic exhibitions have largely been in German prison settings, such as JVA Hannover, JVA Huenfeld, the EXPO 2000 Hannover, and Wagnitz Institut, Wiesbaden.

Ursula Smartt was awarded a visiting scholarship to the German Max Planck Institute, Freiburg in Comparative Criminal International Law and published one of the first studies on stalking. She lectures in law at the University of Portsmouth and is external examiner for the University of Plymouth. Past jobs included Head of Modern Languages at secondary schools in Leeds, Glasgow and Surrey and Human Resource Manager for Trusthouse Forte Hotels in Glasgow and London's West End.

She is a Magistrate in Surrey (Guildford) and has served on the magistrates' bench in West London. Her hobbies include tennis, cycling, hiking and photography.

Contact details: Portsmouth University, School of Law. Email: ursula.smartt@port.ac.uk Twitter@mediaentslaw. http://www.ursulasmartt.com