Dr Scicluna is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Criminology.  Her Ph.D. research is called "Prisons in Malta".  She has been lecturing and coordinating courses on a full-time basis at the Department of Criminology since 1998. Dr Scicluna lectures in the following areas: transnational crime, punishment, substance abuse, the world of corrections, dealing with foreign offenders and organised crime.

Holding a general B.A. degree in Sociology and Psychology and an honours degree in Psychology with a thesis dealing with Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, Dr Scicluna also holds a Masters degree (obtained from Leicester University –UK) which dealt with the Need and Management of a Correctional Day Centre in Malta.  Her Ph.D. work focused on the treatment of workers and offenders in the Maltese prison.

Dr Scicluna  has past experience working as a Probation Officer and was elected as member of the CEP Board (an international board which promotes the treatment and the rehabilitation of offenders). She is also a member of the Police Academy Board and has acted as an assistant to prisoners on the Prison Appeals Tribunal. In addition, Dr Scicluna also acts as a consultant to the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs.

Mr Calafato joined the Department on the 1st April 2009 as a full-time Assistant-Lecturer. Having achieved a BA in Psychology and Communications from the University of Malta, he continued his studies in Post Graduate Diploma in Probation Services. On 17th February, 2003 he became a Probation Officer within the Department of Correctional Services. Having been chosen to be the Health, Safety and Security Representative of the Probation Services he carried a number of risk assessments and a number of security and safety provisions have been implemented. Mr Calafato also followed a number of course with the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) and the Institute of Health and Safety (IHS).
In 2004 Mr Calafato read a MSc in Security and Risk Management at the University of Leicester. The dissertation of the MSc focused on the preventions and possible reactions of emergency and security services to respond effectively to a major terrorist incident in Malta, whilst investigating the Maltese populace trust in the local authorities in terrorist contingencies. Later his interest in terrorism led to reading an E-Learning Certificate in Terrorism Studies, at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

As from 2005 Mr Calafato was employed as a visiting lecturer by the former Institute of Criminology, also presenting work both locally and internationally at seminars and conferences and have been active in community outreach programs with schools. Mr Calafato has been involved as a voluntary with non-governmental rescue organizations for the last ten years occupying different responsibilities.

In October 2008, Mr Calafato initiated reading for a PhD in Terrorism at the University of Sheffield.

Dr Muscat is a full-time resident academic and she lectures in Crime Prevention, Community and International Policing with the Institute of Criminology as well as in Environmental Crime with the Environment and Planning Law Unit of the Faculty of Laws. She also serves as a part-time child advocate with the Family Section of the Civil Courts, and as a part-time Deputy Defender of the Bond at the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Maltese Catholic Archdiocese. She is also Cepol's (the European Police College) National Research and Science Correspondent for Malta.

Dr Muscat spent 13 years in the Malta Police, terminating her career as a Senior Police Inspector having served in the district, set up the Community and Media Relations Unit  and was the public relations officer of the Malta Police. As a lawyer, she headed the Data Protection Unit within the Prosecutions Unit of the Police and represented the Malta Police within the EU on issues of racism and xenophobia. By graduating in LL.D in 2005 and subsequent admission to the Bar in 2006, she became the first female officer of any rank in 191 years of Malta Police history to obtain such achievements.

Dr Muscat  has also been a visiting lecturer, tutor and marker of dissertations with the Institute of Criminology and in Geography with the Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta since 1999, a MATSEC examiner in Geography since 2004, and a lecturer in geography, crime prevention, criminal and police law at the Police Academy since 1993.  She is a PhD candidate with the University of Sheffield and is researching the setting up of the Malta Police in first 50 years of British administration. She holds degrees from the Universities of Malta and of Portsmouth (UK), professional warrants in legal practice before the Maltese Civil Courts and the Catholic Ecclesiastical Tribunals in Malta, as well as a warrant in proofreading Maltese. She has published a series of articles related to police practice and law in the Malta Police Association's publication Il-Pulizija.

Dr Muscat is involved in ongoing work as CEPOL's Research and Science Correspondent (RSC) on the National Implementation Plan to further police research in Malta. Cuurent research activities are on observations on the role of Child Advocate in Malta, Maltese police leadership and Policing in the Mediterranean. 

Ms Holland is a part time lecturer with the Department of Criminology and a forensic psychologist at the Corradino Correctional Facility. Ms Holland is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Malta Union of Professional Psychologists.  She teaches on psychology of crime.

Ms Attard joined the Department during 2011 as a Clerk.

She worked as a secretary with PBS Newsroom for 18 years.

Ms Sciberras is a full-time member of the Department of Criminology.Joined the Department in October 2011, having moved from the Library where she worked as a Library Assistant since 1993.

Ms Xerri joined the Department on the 6th April 2009 as a research assistant.

In 2008 she graduated with Honours in Criminology after being a full-time student for three years. Her dissertation of the BA focuses on 'Omerta` in Gozo' which concludes that fear of crime and omerta` correlate intermediary with each other, particularly through one factor for each of the constructs: fear of crime as a perceived Gozitan characteristic with omerta` as an internal matter.

Prior to joining the Department, she worked full-time with a Security Company with the responsibility to monitor and manage back office operations. She also coordinated and prepared documents for enforcement officers as well as reported back on their work.