Dr David Scott works at The Open University and is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the module chair for DD105 Introduction to criminology. David has published 15 books, including Why Prison? (2013) and Against Imprisonment (2018), and more than 100 book chapters and articles. He is co-founder of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance and a former coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, the most established critical criminology forum in the world today.