Kirsty Bennett is a senior lecturer within policing and criminology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She also runs a voluntary cold case unit, which independently provides reviews of unsolved cases and long-term missing persons.
Laura Riley is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK, and a PhD researcher. Her research concerns desistance from sexual offending and the role of community networks in supporting this. Laura’s work examines how positive criminology can prevent recidivism and promote the effective safeguarding of vulnerable people. Her teaching focuses on vulnerabilities, diversity, abuse, multiagency working, policing, ethics, and mental health.