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Dr Caroline Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Glyndwr University. She worked as a Probation Officer and Youth Justice Social Worker for ten years before joining the Criminal Justice team in 2002. Her PhD explored physical, psychological and social aspects of homelessness. She has been involved in a number of research projects focussing on Children and Young People at Risk of offending or abuse. She has published in the Howard Journal and the Social Policy and Society Journal and has presented papers at the British Criminology Conference and the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Dr Iolo Madoc-Jones is a Reader in Social and Criminal Justice at the Glyndwr University. He served as a Probation Officer before moving to an academic post. His PhD explored Welsh language use in the Criminal Justice System in Wales. As well as working in Glyndwr he is an Associate Inspector with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation and inspects provisions for managing and addressing offending behaviour in community (probation and youth justice) and custodial contexts. He has published in the Howard Journal, British Journal of Social Work, and Probation Journal and presented papers at the British Criminology Conference.

Professor Odette Parry retired in 2015 as the Director of the Social Inclusion Research Unit at the Glyndwr University. She has substantial experience in health and social care research, securing funding from the ESRC, Department of Health, Scottish Office, and SCIE. She was previously based at the University of the West Indies (1993-1996) where she headed a UNICEF funded school-based action research project focussing on the educational performances of Caribbean school children. She was later appointed to the University of Edinburgh and headed a qualitative research programme on health-related risk behaviour.

Dr Sarah Dubberley is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Glyndwr University. Her continued academic interest is within the field of youth justice, imprisonment and women in the criminal justice system. In April 2010, she was awarded a PhD for a thesis that examined the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and Young Offenders in the Secure Estate. She has recently been involved in a number of research projects, including; Young people’s experience of, and compliance with, Referral Orders and Youth Rehabilitation Orders and Homelessness in Wrexham.