Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University in Scotland. He has written widely on issues relating to social policy and urban studies. Together with Gill Scott, he is editor of Exploring Social Policy in the 'New' Scotland, Policy Press, 2005. Gill Scott is Emeritus Professor of Social Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. She has extensively researched and written on many key areas of social policy making in the Scottish and European contexts.