Dr Tom McNeil is The JABBS Foundation for Women & Girls CEO, making strategic grants to prevent women from being caught in the criminal justice system. He sits on the Ministry of Justice Women’s Justice Board and is a Criminal Justice Alliance trustee.
Previously a charity lawyer, he became West Midlands’ Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner; initiating and supporting various community rehabilitation projects.
He has a Social Policy and Criminology PhD from the University of Birmingham and policy fellowships at the University of Cambridge and York University. He is the author of Public Opinion on Crime, published by Routledge in September 2025.
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