RightsNI - Phil Scraton, 'Punishing Women, Breaking Spirits: Hearing the...

Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law, Queen's University and Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative. He is co-author of Prisons Under Protest (Open University Press), The Violence of Incarceration (Routledge) andPunishing Women, Breaking Spirits (Palgrave MacMillan). He is co-editor of special issues of Social Justice on Deaths in Custody and Detention and on Penal Abolition, Prison Reform and the Expansion of Incarceration. He co-authored the NIHRC Reports: The Hurt Inside: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in Northern Ireland and The Prison Within. He was a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel (2010-2012) and primary author of Hillsborough: The Report of the Independent Panel (2012).