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Editors
Anne Robinson is a principal lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University and leads the programme for qualifying probation officers. She previously worked in the probation service and as a manager in youth justice. She is author of Foundations for Offender Management: Theory, Law and Policy for Contemporary Practice and Foundations for Youth Justice: Positive Approaches to Practice , as well as co-editor and contributor to Values in Criminology and Community Justice (all published by Policy Press). Anne holds a Master of Social Work qualification, in which her dissertation topic explored the experiences of women involved in street sex work. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University.
Paula Hamilton is a senior lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. She previously worked in the probation service and then taught the BA Community Justice at Manchester University. At Sheffield Hallam University, alongside undergraduate and postgraduate criminology courses, she leads the desistance-focused strand of teaching on the programme for qualifying probation officers. Her doctoral research was a narrative study exploring the processes of change for a small group of men in one metropolitan probation trust and the role of rehabilitative efforts primarily probation supervision in facilitating and supporting change. With Kathy Albertson, she has written about the ethical and value issues raised in narrative inquiry in Values in Criminology and Community Justice published by Policy Press.
Contributors
David Best is professor of research and scholarship in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University and adjunct associate professor of addictions at Turning Point, Melbourne. He gained an undergraduate degree in psychology and philosophy, a masters in criminology and a PhD in the psychology of addictions. He has authored three books on addiction recovery and has written more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and a number of book chapters and technical reports. He has worked in academic and policy research and his primary research interests are around recovery and desistance, social networks and recovery capital.
Jacky Burrows is a lecturer in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. She has extensive practice experience in a variety of psychological and offender management roles in the prison and probation services. Much of this time has been spent working with sexual offenders. Jacky has degrees in both psychology and community justice as well as an MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology from the University of Leicester. She is currently studying for an MRes at the University of Manchester alongside her teaching.
Adam Calverley is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Hull, UK where he teaches on a range of modules in Hull and Hong Kong. He is author of a research monograph, Cultures of Desistance: Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Ethnic Minorities and co-author of Understanding Desistance from Crime with Stephen Farrall. More recently he has worked with Professor Farrall and colleagues on Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime , published by Oxford University Press.
Sarah Goodwin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sheffield and lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Her current work focuses on the lived experiences of women as they attempt to desist from crime. She also has interests in criminal justice arts interventions, qualitative methodologies and ethics, community sentences and the interactions between culture, desistance and integration. Prior to studying at Sheffield, Sarah completed a BA in Law and an MPhil in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge.
James Irving is a senior lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. James was employed by the University of Manchester, as a research assistant on a Nuffield funded medical-negligence project and also collected data for Kings College Londons ESRC, Secure Estates, young offender project. His doctoral thesis is entitled, How does AAs 12 Steps and membership of the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous work for addressing drinking problems? Recent work includes, researcher and co-author of the UK Life in Recovery Survey 2015 , and co-author of A Social Capital Approach to Assisting Veterans Through Recovery and Desistance Transitions in Civilian Life (2015). Prior to his PhD, James completed a Masters degree by research at the University of Manchester.
Jennifer Sloan is a senior lecturer in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Her work focuses on men in prison, masculinities and sexual violence. She is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography , and her doctoral thesis was a prison ethnography entitled Men Inside: Masculinity and the Adult Male Prison Experience . She has undertaken comparative work looking at the prosecution of sexual violence in South Africa and England and Wales with Maggie Wykes, and has written on the topics of public perceptions of justice, stigma and cleanliness in prison. Prior to her PhD, Jennifer completed a LLB in Law from Manchester University, and the MA in International Criminology at the University of Sheffield.
