Criminologist Martin Glynn has a masters degree in criminology coupled with 20 years experience as a practitioner working with offenders. During this time he has worked as a consultant on a variety of projects with different prison services across the country including Manchester and West Midlands.

This has involved working in all categories of prisons and coordinating a variety of different workshops including one centred on gun crime and gang affiliation.

He is currently working on a ‘Desistence’ programme and works with youths to try to get them to turn their backs on crime. He has written comprehensively on male hierarchy in prisons and also runs a number of workshops in prisons which are centred on gang affiliation.