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Yvonne Daly is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and the Law of Evidence in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University and a member of DCU's Socio-Legal Research Centre. Her research focuses on the pre-trial investigative process, with particular regard to the rights to silence and legal advice, and to the rules on improperly obtained evidence. She has published widely and is co-author of Irish Criminal Justice: Theory, process and procedure (Clarus Press, 2010). She is a Board Member of the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development (ACJRD) and Vice-Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee.

Michelle Butler is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast. She is a former graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Kent at Canterbury and holds a Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include imprisonment, criminological psychology, identity, shame, masculinity and violence. To date she has been involved in a number of research projects in England, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland exploring issues such as imprisonment, identity, violence, young people on remand, fear of crime and vulnerable people in the criminal justice system.