12 J Maher et al Service Cymru and has publications in internationally recognised, peer reviewed journals, such as Policing and Society: An International Journal and Criminology and Criminal Justice: The International Journal She is a co-editor of the Handbook on Crime, for Willan Publishing She has also presented her research at key national and international conferences and has been by invited by academics and practitioners to give guest lectures She is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Criminology (Chair, Regional Groups and Specialist Networks) and of the South Wales Police Independent Ethics Committee Professor Piers Beirne has taught sociology, law and criminology in England, Ireland and the United States, where he is currently Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies in the Department of Criminology at the University of Southern Maine Among his books are Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty (2015, Palgrave Macmillan); Criminology: A Sociological Approach (2015, with James W Messerschmidt, Oxford University Press, 6th edition); and Confronting Animal Abuse (2009, Rowman & Littlefield) Recent edited books include Issues in Green Criminology (2007, with Nigel South, Willan); a 6-volume reprint series, The Chicago School of Criminology 1914–1945 (2006, Routledge); and Green Criminology (2006, with Nigel South, Ashgate) He is the founding co-editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology