Jon Silverman is Emeritus Professor of Media & Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire. He’s a former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent in which role he won the Sony Radio Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of the UK’s investigations into Nazi collaborators. He is the author of four books, including the first British examination of the phenomenon of crack cocaine and the Yardies – ‘Crack of Doom’ (Headline, 1993). Other works are ‘Innocence Betrayed’ (Polity, 2002) about paedophilia, media and society; and ‘Crime, Policy and the Media’ (Routledge, 2012). His latest (co-authored) work is ’Safe Haven’ (OUP, 2023). He reported from both the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals and has written extensively for journals on international war crimes justice, including the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa.