Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology in the Institute of Criminology and criminal Justice, Queen's University, Belfast. His research and publications include deaths in custody, prison protests, state authoritarianism and criminalization and children's rights. His most recent books are Hillsborough: The Truth (Mainstream), Beyond September 11(Pluto) and Power, Conflict and Criminalisation (Routledge) Jude McCulloch is Associate Professor in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Her research interrogates institutionalised state violence. She has published extensively on deaths in custody, police violence, police shootings and paramilitary policing. Her recent work focuses on state crime in the 'war on terror'. She is the author of Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia (Melbourne University Press).
"""A powerful and scholarly analysis of the modern penal context which locates the horrors of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base firmly within a long western tradition of penal violence. Essential reading"" Professor Penny Green Chair, Research Degrees Committee Director, Law School Research Centre University of Westminster ""A powerful and scholarly analysis of the modern penal context which locates the horrors of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base firmly within a long western tradition of penal violence. Essential reading."" - Professor Penny Green, Director, Law School Research Centre, University of Westminster"