Professor Mary Bosworth is Professor in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College <http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/>, University of Oxford, and Professor of Criminology, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include: immigration detention, punishment, race, gender and citizenship. She is author of Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons (1999, Ashgate); The US Federal Prison System (2002, Sage); Race, Gender and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror (2007, Rutgers University Press) co-edited with Jeanne Flavin, and Explaining US Imprisonment (2009, Sage), What is Criminology? (2010, OUP), co-edited with Carolyn Hoyle, The Borders of Punishment (2013, OUP), co-edited with Katja Aas, Inside Immigration Detention (2014, OUP) and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on prisons, punishment, race, gender and qualitative research methods. She is UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology.
Professor Carolyn Hoyle is Professor in Criminology and Fellow of Green Templeton College University of Oxford. Her research interests include: wrongful convictions; victims; restorative justice; the death penalty. Her publications include, Negotiating Domestic Violence (1998, OUP); New Visions of Crime Victims (2002, Hart Publishing) (co-edited with Richard Young); What is Criminology? (2010, OUP), co-edited with Mary Bosworth; The Death Penalty, 5th edn. (2015, OUP) (with Roger Hood); Last Resorts for Wrongful Convictions (with Mai Sato) (forthcoming, OUP) and book chapters and articles in refereed journals on domestic violence, restorative justice, the death penalty, criminal justice policy and victims.
Professor Lucia Zedner FBA is Professor in Criminal Justice and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research interests include: criminal justice, criminal law, security, and counter-terrorism. Her publications include Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (1991, OUP); Child Victims (1992, OUP), with Jane Morgan; The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (2003, OUP) (co-edited with Andrew Ashworth); Criminal Justice (2004, OUP); Security (2009, Routledge); Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2012, OUP) (co-edited with Julian Roberts); Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (2013 OUP) (co-edited with Andrew Ashworth and Patrick Tomlin); Preventive Justice (2014 OUP) (with Andrew Ashworth). She has published many articles and chapters on criminal justice, criminal law, policing, punishment, counterterrorism and security.