Arthur Bostrom appeared as Officer Crabtree in eight series of ‘Allo ‘Allo! (still repeated in the UK and sold to 80 countries worldwide) and also in the stage version. Born in Rugby, he graduated from the University of Durham. As an actor he has appeared in many theatrical, TV and radio productions.… Read more “Arthur Bostrom”
Ursula Smartt is an Associate Professor of Law and Criminology at Northeastern University London, with extensive academic research in prisons internationally.
Matt Seiber is a former Royal Marines Commando and researcher whose work focuses on the societal impacts of gun crime and ballistic trauma.
Judith Bourne is the Dean of CILEX Law School, having previously been an academic at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Culture. She founded and chairs the ‘First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire Symposia’.… Read more “Judith Bourne”
Alan Smith is a novelist whose columns for The Guardian introduced readers to some of the absorbing characters and true storylines in this book. A university lecturer as well as a prison tutor, he empathises with life’s failures—and as he explains, Philosophy in prison may sound strange but neither was it a regular degree choice for someone brought up in the back streets of 1950s Sheffield.
