Joe Sim is Professor of Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion. He is the author of a number of texts on prisons including Medical Power in Prisons and Punishment and Prisons. He is also a trustee of the charity INQUEST which is the only charity providing expertise on state related deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, advice and support agencies, the media and parliamentarians