Christopher Kay is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Loughborough University and is a member of the Parliamentary Knowledge Exchange Unit COVID-19 expert database and the International Corrections and Prisons Association COVID-19 Expert Group. Stephen Case is Professor of Youth Justice at Loughborough University.
Mark Monaghan is a lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Crime at the University of Leeds, UK. He completed his first degree in Sociology from the University of Liverpool and then went to Leeds to undertake postgraduate study. His doctoral research centred on the problematic nature of evidence-based policy-making, when applied to heavily politicised areas.
Sarah Moore joined the University of Bath in 2015, having previously held posts at Royal Holloway University of London and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research ranges across the sociology of crime/criminal justice and the sociology of health, linked by an interest in the cultural construction of danger and the social mechanisms of blame. She is the author of two previous books. Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion, and Public Awareness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008/2010), awarded the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize and Crime and the Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Stephen Case is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Swansea University. He has published in a range of international journals and conducted research for the Youth Justice Board, Home Office and Welsh Government.