Lorana Bartels (BA LLB LLM PhD GDLP GCTE) is a Professor of Criminology in and Deputy Director of POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research at the Australian National University. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Director of the Justice Reform Initiative and Associate of the Australian ADHD Professionals Association Ltd. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Alternative Law Journal; Criminal Law Journal; Current Issues in Criminal Justice; International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology and Journal of Criminology. She has published five books and over 125 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles, as well as numerous consultancy reports for a range of government organisations. Her research interests include the courts, corrections, and criminal justice responses to women, young people, Indigenous people and people with disability.