Dr. Gabrielle Maxwell was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington at the time of writing this book. Later she was the founding director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre and is now a senior associate at the Institute of Policy Studies. Her research interests have focussed on youth justice, restorative justice and family violence.
Dr. James Hou-fu Liu is Associate Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington and Deputy Director of its Centre for Applied Cross Cultural Research. His research specialties are in cross-cultural psychology, inter-group relations and social identity.