Amber Phillips Author & Editor

Ed Johnston is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Procedure at the University of Northampton. His research and teaching centres on the field of field of criminal justice and in particular on the law of disclosure, fair trial rights and adversarial justice.

Dan Jasinski is a Barrister (Unregistered) and Senior Lecturer in Law at Kingston University. Dan's current research focusses on legal skills and the criminal process and he has previously taught skills modules on the Bar Training Course, in addition to Organised Crime on the LLB. Dan is currently undertaking a PhD on the use of technology in the criminal courtroom.

Amber Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of the West of England. Having initially trained as a translator, her career as a criminologist began in 2012 while she was living and working in Calabria, Italy as part of the EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci scheme. Her experiences with anti-mafia organisations in Calabria inspired her AHRC-funded PhD, which she successfully defended in 2018. As a researcher, Dr Phillips is primarily interested in transnational organised crime and mafia-type groups, as well as the impact of cultural representations and media narratives on crime control policy.