
In this episode, Lieven and Marcelo interview Patricia Mayhew.
Patricia "Pat" Mayhew has had a distinguished career in criminology, significantly influencing the field both in the UK and internationally. She served as a senior principal research officer at the UK Home Office's Research and Planning Unit, later known as the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit. Her work extended abroad to the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra. Additionally, she was the Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Collaborating with Ronald Clarke, she played a key role in developing situational crime prevention and the British Crime Survey. Together with Jan van Dijk and Martin Killias, she helped design the International Crime Victims Survey. Her contributions earned her the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2015
This interview was conducted in two parts, on 21 March 2023 and 25 April 2023.