
Justin Rollins is an author and youth worker who draws on his past experiences with gang culture and the criminal justice system to divert young people from crime.

Justin Rollins is an author and youth worker who draws on his past experiences with gang culture and the criminal justice system to divert young people from crime.
Sally Dickinson has worked at the heart of the magistracy for many years.

Michael Crowley is a writer and dramatist who has worked in theatre, youth theatre, prisons and elsewhere. He lives in West Yorkshire. His writings include The Man They Couldn’t Hang and Behind the Lines: Creative Writing with Offenders and People at Risk (both Waterside Press) and his poetry Close to Home and First Fleet.

Judy Stove is an academic based at the University of New South Wales, a role she balances with working in school administration. After studying classics at the University of Sydney, she worked for the Australian Commonwealth Departments of Defence and Finance.… Read more “Judy Stove”

Criminologist Nina Wilde was born in Holland and first met Myra Hindley in Cookham Wood Prison, Kent in 1993, where she was engaged in research. She was shocked when the Governor told her that Hindley had already been in prison for almost 30 years, thinking that because sentences of this length are largely unknown in Europe (except for war criminals, though even these people had been released) there must have been some kind of mistake.… Read more “Nina Wilde”