Kelly Hannah-Moffat is assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Toronto. She is a past president of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society, a halfway house and organization that works for and on behalf of all women in conflict with the law. Margaret Shaw has taught in the department of sociology and anthropolgy at Concordia Univeristy in Montreal since 1990. She has worked as a criminologist at the Home Office in England. She is also a board member of the Societe Elizabeth Fry du Quebec and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.