Remorse and Criminal Justice (ePub)

Steven Tudor is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at La Trobe University, Australia. He has also worked as a lawyer and as a public servant for the Victorian state government, specialising criminal law policy and reform issues. His PhD was in philosophy and his research interests mostly concern the philosophical aspects of criminal law, especially issues relating to emotions and conscience.

Richard Weisman is Professor Emeritus, Law and Society Program, Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. For the past two decades, his research has centered on exploring the interpenetration of law and moral regulation as well as the interrelationship between legal discourse and popular discourse.

Michael Proeve is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, and a forensic and clinical psychologist. He has also worked as a practising psychologist for the Victorian and South Australian governments and in private practice and as a manager of treatment services in several correctional settings. His PhD concerned remorse as an internal and interpersonal emotion, and his published works concern remorse, shame, risk assessment, and mindfulness.

Kate Rossmanith is an author, essayist and academic. Her background is in anthropology, performance studies and creative writing, and she researches the role of emotion, enactment and narrative in legal contexts. She is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.