Steve Hall is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology who worked at the universities of Northumbria, Durham and Teesside. Essentially a criminologist, he has also published in the fields of sociology, history and radical philosophy. He is author of Theorizing Crime and Deviance, and co-author of The Rise of the Right, Revitalizing Criminological Theory, Riots and Political Protest, Rethinking Social Exclusion, Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture and Violent Night. He is co-editor of New Directions in Criminology.

Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the author of the monographs How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People, Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique and editor of Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism, as well as Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the open-access peer-reviewed Journal of Extreme Anthropology.

Mark Horsley is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Chester. He is the author of The Dark Side of Prosperity, a book about the causes and consequences of mass indebtedness in the run up to and aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In addition to other works on credit and debt, he has also published on criminological theory and the history of crime.