Phil Scraton - 16 Jun

Phil Scraton PhD is Professor of Criminology in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queens University, Belfast, and Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative. Formerly Director of the Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice at Edge Hill University, his books include: Causes for Concern: Criminal Justice on Trial; The State of the Police; In the Arms of the Law: Coroners Inquests and Deaths in Custody; Law, Order and the Authoritarian State; Prisons Under Protest; Childhood in Crisis?; Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent; Power, Conflict and Criminalisation; The Violence of Incarceration; The Incarceration of Women: Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits. His recently published research reports include: Childhood in Transition: Experiencing Marginalisation and Conflict in Northern Ireland; The Hurt Inside: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in Northern Ireland; The Prison Within; Childrens Rights in Northern Ireland.

His work on Hillsborough includes two substantial reports: Hillsborough and After: The Liverpool Disaster (1990) and No Last Rights: The Promotion of Myth and the Denial of Justice in the Aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster (1995). Hillsborough: The Truth was first published in 1999, the second revised edition in 2000 and the third revised edition in 2009. In 2010 he was appointed by the Home Secretary to the Hillsborough Independent Panel to lead the panels research team, based at Queens University, and he is primary author of Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel (2012). He was seconded to the Hillsborough families legal teams throughout the new inquests, 201416. He was research consultant for Dan Gordons Emmy-nominated BBC/ESPN film Hillsborough.

In 2016 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. He lives in Belfast with his partner Deena Haydon and has two sons, Paul and Sean.

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First published in Great Britain in 1999 by Mainstream Publishing Company
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Mainstream edition revised and reprinted 2000, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014
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Dedicated to the memory of

John Alfred Anderson

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The bereaved, the survivors, the rescuers
The Hillsborough disaster
15 April 1989

Map of Hillsborough Stadium and Approaches, April 1989, from Lord Justice Taylors Interim Report

Hillsborough: The Truth is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the inhumanity of the identification process and the vilification of fans in the national and international media.

In 2012, Phil Scraton was the primary author of the ground-breaking report published by the Hillsborough Independent Panel following its new research into thousands of documents disclosed by all agencies involved. Against a backdrop of almost three decades of persistent struggle by bereaved families and survivors, in this new edition he reflects on the Panels in-depth work, its revelatory findings and their unprecedented impact an unreserved apology from the Prime Minister; new criminal investigations; the Independent Police Complaints Commissions largest-ever inquiry; the quashing of 96 inquest verdicts; a review of all health and pathology policies. Paving the way for truth recovery and institutional accountability in other controversial cases, he details the process and considers the impact of the longest ever inquests, from the preliminary hearings to their comprehensive, devastating verdicts.