
Jason Novick MA is a Research Assistant at the University of Calgary/Alberta Children’s Hospital.

Jason Novick MA is a Research Assistant at the University of Calgary/Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Mike Ryan is an academic and author focusing on the intersection of politics and the penal system, examining how political culture shapes criminal justice policy.

Charmaine Richardson is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who has pursued a variety of careers: counselling, home tutoring and funeral celebrant. She met and married Ray Wyre—the nationally acknowledged expert in the sexual crime field—in the late-1990s.

Born in Liverpool and the youngest of a family of eleven, George Skelly left school at fifteen and was later educated in Oxford and at Liverpool University graduating with joint honours in History and English. With several short stories published and broadcast and his novel, The Most Familiar Face in the World, he is the author of two Waterside Press books about disturbing miscarriage of justice cases where innocent men were hanged.
Muriel Whitten is a former magistrate and researcher who has extensively documented the early intervention and diversionary practices within the youth justice system.