A companion to crime, harm and victimisation

Karen Corteen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University. Areas she has researched and published in include: victimology, critical criminology, and sexuality. Her research interests comprise: victims and harm; harm and sports entertainment; hate crime, and sexual violence. She is a member of networks concerned with crime, harm and victimisation within and without academia.

Sharon Morley is Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Chester. Her research interests and publications include gender/sexual violence, gender space and self-regulation and, narrative research. Sharon is a member of a number of sexual violence research networks.

Paul Taylor is Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science and concurrently a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Chester, UK. His research and scholarly interests lie within the fields of mental health and criminal justice discourse/law/policy/system convergence as well as undertaking research with military veterans and the police.

Jo Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Chester. Her research interests and publications primarily lie in the field of the history of crime and punishment, particularly those relating to female offending, imprisonment and aftercare. Jo is a member of several research networks relating to crime history and regularly presents at relevant academic conferences.