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Contributors
Gareth Addidle is a lecturer in criminology and criminal justice studies at Plymouth University, UK. He has previously worked for the Open University and Glasgow Caledonian University. His current research focuses on the development of community planning, policing and community safety policies within Scotland.
Stuart Agnew is the finance director of the Institute for Social, Educational and Enterprise Development (iSEED) and a senior lecturer in criminology at University Campus Suffolk, UK. Recent research projects include investigating the prevalence of urban street gangs in Birmingham, educational experiences of young people in Suffolk and youth unemployment in Ipswich, and the evaluation of a diversionary programme for Suffolk Youth Offending Service.
Andy Alaszewski is emeritus professor of health studies at the University of Kent, UK. His academic research has focused on the formation and implementation of health and social care policy and on the construction and management of risk in health and social care. He is editor of the international journal, Health, Risk & Society.
James R. lvarez is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist with West London Mental Health Trust, UK. Prior to that, he worked in the private kidnap for ransom insurance industry and is the only consultant ever used by both Scotland Yard and the New York Police Departments (NYPDs) hostage negotiation teams. He is an honorary police surgeon with the NYPD and is the former operations director for the International Association of Hostage Negotiators.
Vici Armitage is a research associate and part-time lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK. She is currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project exploring policy implementation in the youth justice system in England. She completed doctoral research into youth anti-social behaviour at Durham University, UK, in 2012 and has previously worked as a volunteer Youth Worker.
Jac Armstrong is a lecturer within the School of Law at the University of Chester, UK, where he teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate courses. His research interests include restorative justice, criminal justice and jurisprudence. An accredited restorative justice facilitator (International Institute for Restorative Practices [IIRP]) and commercial and civil mediator (ADR-Group [Alternative Dispute Resolution]), the Honourable Society of Inner Temple called him to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013.
Lisa Armstrong is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has previously worked as an approved social worker in the community and as a forensic social worker within a medium secure unit in England.
Linda Asquith is a senior lecturer in criminology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her recently completed PhD was in the field of the re-establishment of life after genocide. She has previously worked in the Universities of Leeds and Huddersfield, UK, and prior to that, was a high school teacher.
Helen Baker is a senior lecturer in criminology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. She previously worked at Liverpool University, UK, and Lancaster University, UK. Helen is an interdisciplinary researcher with long-standing interests in womens and childrens experiences of male violence, and the legal and policy responses to them. Currently, her research focuses on child-to-parent violence.
David Balsamo is dean of social science at the University of Chester, UK. His teaching interests include the political economy of professional work and the sociology of deviance as applied to organisations. He is a former probation officer, and while in practice, he developed expertise working with sex offenders and drug users.
Peter Barham is a psychologist and a social historian of mental health. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society. His books include Schizophrenia and human value (1984), Relocating madness (with Robert Hayward, 1993), Closing the asylum (1997) and Forgotten lunatics of the Great War (2004).
Mark Bendall is a senior lecturer in politics and criminology at the University of Chester, UK. He has published on corporate social responsibility and state power, and has given conference papers spanning identity politics and criminalised identities. In 2007, he was shortlisted for Marketing Initiative of the Year at the Times Higher Awards.
Emma Bond is a senior lecturer in applied social sciences at University Campus Suffolk, UK, and deputy director of the Institute for Social, Educational and Enterprise Development (iSEED). She has extensive teaching and social science research experience and is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Matt Bowen is a senior lecturer in mental health nursing at the University of Chester, UK. He has previously worked as the clinical specialist at the Henderson Hospital, a centre of excellence in the psychosocial treatment of people with a diagnosis of personality disorder. His current research is in the representations of personality disorder in UK newspapers.
Avi Brisman is an assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.
Charlie Brooker is an honorary professor of mental health and criminal justice at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Patrick Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He previously lectured at the University of Kent, UK, and has published widely on research into risk and trust within a range of health policy contexts.
