Paddy Hillyard Editor & Author

Paddy Hillyard is a Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast. His research focuses on social order and control in modern welfare states, with particular attention to violence, criminality, poverty, and inequality. He has done extensive work on political violence in Northern Ireland and Britain and the attendant growth of police power. His recent work includes research not only in Northern Ireland but also South Africa and Lebanon. He is the co-author of Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously (Pluto Press). Christina Pantazis is Research Fellow in Social Justice at the University of Bristol. Steve Tombs is Head of the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University Dave Gordon is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Bristol.