Heather Douglas is Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences and Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, United States Sandra Walklate is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, England