Murray Lee is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School, Australia. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety, co-author of Policing and Media: Public Relations, Simulations and Communications, co-author of Sexting and Young people, co-editor of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety, and editor of the scholarly journal 'Current Issues in Criminal Justice'. His research focuses broadly on representations and perceptions of crime and how these lead to processes of criminalisation.

Gabe Mythen is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is also Regional Director of the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Partnership and President of the International Sociological Association Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Group. His current research interests include critical approaches to fear of crime; the limits to state counter radicalisation policy and the securitisation of everyday life.