Eamonn Carrabineis Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books includeCrime in Modern Britain(co-authored, 2002);Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot(2004);Crime, Culture and the Media(2008); andCrime and Social Theory(2017). He has published widely on media criminology, the sociology of punishment, and cultural theory. The textbook he co-authors with colleagues from the University of Essex,Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, is now in its fourth edition. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of theBritish Journal of Criminologyand is writing a book on theIconography of Punishment.

Anna Di Roncois Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Director for its Centre for Criminology. Her research critically addresses the dynamics of exclusion and penalisation in the public space as well as performative, visual, and mediated practices of resistance. Her books includePolicing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times(2023);Criminology: A Sociological Introduction(co-authored; 2020, 4th ed.);Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility(co-edited; 2021); andMedical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective(co-edited; 2020).