| Affiliation: | Stephen C. Richards is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northern Kentucky University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Critical Criminology, Social Justice;, and The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. His most recent books include Behind Bars: Surviving Prison (2002) and Convict Criminology (2003), with Jeffrey Ian Ross. He is currently writing USP Marion: The First Super Max Penitentiary. Richards is a Soros Senior Justice Fellow and member of the American Society of Criminology National Policy Committee Jeffrey Ian Ross is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Policy, and a Fellow in the Center for Comparative and International Law at the University of Baltimore. He has conducted research, written and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, violent crime, corrections, and policing. His work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular magazines. Ross is the editor of Controlling State Crime;(1995/2000), Violence in Canada: Sociopolitical Perspectives (1995), Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice (1998), Varieties of State Crime and Its Control (2000), and the author of Making News of Police Violence (2000) and The Dynamics of Political Crime (2003) |
