A companion to state power, liberties and rights

Sharon Morley is Deputy Head of Department of Social and Political Science and senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Chester, UK. Sharon's research interests include young women's experiences of violence; gender, space and self-regulation and span the areas of violence in society and the victimisation of health and social care professionals and media representations of mentally disordered offenders. Sharon is a member of a number of sexual violence research networks. Jo Turner is senior lecturer at the University of Chester, UK. Jo's eclectic mix of research interests come under the broad umbrella of comparative criminology: comparisons with the past - the history of criminal justice; comparisons globally - state crimes in the international arena; and gender based comparisons - women's experiences of the criminal justice system. Karen Corteen is a senior lecturer in criminal justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Areas Karen has published in include victimology, critical criminology, and hate crime. Her research interests comprise: zemiology; occupational-related harms within the sports entertainment industry; victimisation, survival and resistance, and visual victimology. Paul Taylor is Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester, teaching criminology and criminal justice. His research and writing focuses on the sociology and social context of occupations, and the convergence of mental health and criminal justice discourse, policy and practice. Further, Paul is researching and writing (with colleagues from the University of Chester's Institute of Medicine and Institute of Policing) on police firearms officers and personal/professional wellbeing.

This book provides succinct yet robust definitions and explanations of core concepts and themes in relation to state power, liberties and human rights. Laid out in a user-friendly A-Z format, entries have with clear direction to related entries and further reading. It will be suitable for students on a variety of courses.