The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology

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Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York the Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology Critical Social Policy the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology. John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition Sage 2021) and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and childrens rights including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers including Crime: Local and Global (Willan 2010) Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan 2010) The Problem of Crime (2nd edition Sage 2001) Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage 20072009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.