Authors

Professor Elizabeth Stanley is an internationally recognised scholar in the areas of state crime, human rights, incarceration, and social justice. Her work is highly regarded for its originality, quality, and social impact. Her books include: Human Rights and Incarceration (edited collection, Palgrave, 2018); State Crime and Resistance (edited collection, Routledge, 2013); and Torture, Truth and Justice (Routledge, 2009). Her monograph The Road to Hell (Auckland University Press, 2016) contributed to the 2018 establishment of a Royal Commission into Abuse in Care in New Zealand. Dr Trevor Bradley is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, where he teaches courses on policing and crime prevention. His ongoing programme of research focuses on plural policing in Aotearoa New Zealand, which incorporates private policing, security, and various citizen-led policing bodies. Recent projects have included an international research collaboration on intelligence-led policing, as well as work on volunteer community policing in New Zealand. Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville is a lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Her current research is broadly centred on harms to the environment in the New Zealand context, with a specific focus on (1) water-related harms and water security, (2) historical pollution, and (3) exploitative human-animal relations embedded into contemporary New Zealand culture. She also has an ongoing interest in the intersections between media representations, crime, and youth justice, stemming from her past work on moral panics in relation to young people.

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Cycling doyen, sports scientist and lately barista, Steve Stannard succumbed to cancer on Saturday, 30th August 2025, aged 58.

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Editors Metiria

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Paul Star was born in England in 1950 and has lived in New Zealand since 1972. He holds a masters degree in European history and English literature from Cambridge University. He gained a further masters and a doctorate from the University of Otago, focusing on nineteenth-century New Zealand environmental history. As a postdoctoral fellow at Otago he contributed to the Marsden-funded Empires of Grass project, which studied the transition of much of New Zealand from native forest to exotic pasture. Paul has published 30 articles in New Zealand, Australian and British journals, and wrote the chapter on environmental history in the new Oxford History of New Zealand. He lives and gardens on the Otago Peninsula.

Ulf Stark (1944–2017) is one of the world's great writers. Author of over 30 books for children and young adults, he has won many prizes, including the German Youth Literature Prize and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. He was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2018.Anna Höglund is a Swedish illustrator and author. Her work has been recognized with Swedish and international awards. She has worked with many well-known authors including Barbro Lindgren and Ulf Stark.

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C.K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015–2017, has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand. He has just been Longlisted in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.

C. K. Stead is an award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015-2017, has won the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand.