Chief Editors' Introduction

Professor Carrington is the Head of the School of Justice in the Law Faculty at QUT and Vice Chair of the Division of Critical Criminology, ASC and Chief Editor for The International Journal for Crime and Justice. Kerry is a leading expert in the field of youth justice in Australia. Her contributions spanning 20 years include Offending Girls (1993), (based on a PhD winner of the 1991 Jean Martin Award) and Offending Youth (2009). Her other books include Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: International Perspectives; Policing The Rural Crisis, Who Killed Leigh Leigh?, Critical Criminology, and Travesty Miscarriages of Justice. Professor Carrington has an extensive record of externally funded research activity, is an internationally leading expert in criminology and sociology, and was recently awarded the 2012 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award presented by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. From 2003 to 2005 she worked for a short time in Australian Parliament as a senior researcher and then as the Head of the Children, Youth and Families Unit at AIHW.

Professor Reece Walters is the Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Law, QUT. He is a leading international scholar in the field of green criminology.