Biko Agozino is a professor of sociology, Coordinator of the Criminology Unit and the Acting Head of Behavioral Sciences at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His books include Black Women and the Criminal Justice System (1997), and Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society (coauthored, 2001). He is the series editor for the Ashgate Publishers Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender, and Class Relations and the editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies.