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 Allison Morris was a visiting fellow at the Institue of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington (on leave from the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge) when the research for this book was carried out. She returned to Victoria University of Wellington in 1993 to become Director of the Institute of Criminolgy, and has written extensively on youth justice and restorative justice. She is now retired and living near Ely in England.
