Justice Alternatives

Pat Carlen is an English sociologist. She was co-founder (with Chris Tchaikovsky) of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology 2006-2013; recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Sellin-Glueck Prize, the British Society of Criminology's Award for Outstanding Achievement and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University. She has published over 20 books including Magistrates' Justice and Women's Imprisonment. A biographical chapter is to be found in Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge 2010). A Criminological Imagination: Essays on Punishment, Justice, Discourse was published by Ashgate in 2010. Alternative Criminologies, edited with Leandro Ayres França, was published in 2017 by Canal Ciencias Criminais in Brazil and by Routledge in the UK.Leandro Ayres França is Professor of Criminology, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Faculdade Estácio Rio Grande do Sul. He has a Master in Criminal Sciences by Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul's (PUCRS) Criminal Sciences Graduation Program and is Coordinator of the Contemporaneous Criminologies Study Group, host of the radio program Café e Fúria, broadcasted by minima.fm. He is also author/editor of Ensaio de uma Vida Bandida (2007), Inimigo ou a Inconveniência de Existir (2012), Vestígios da Copa (co-authored with Alysson Ramos Artuso, Gisele Eberspächer, Henrique Valle, Leonardo Carbonieri Campoy, Maira da Silveira Marques and Uriel Moeller, 2014), and As Marcas do Cárcere (co-authored with Alfredo Steffen Neto and Alysson Ramos Artuso, 2016). For more information, visit: www.ayresfranca.com.