Mike Nellis, a former social worker with young offenders, is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the Law School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and a long-term attender at Glasgow LM. In 1996 he undertook a 12-month Joseph Rowntree Travelling Fellowship on “revitalizing penal reform in the Society of Friends”. and subsequently served on BYMs Crime and Community Justice Committee. He has written widely on penal reform (including Quaker contributions to this), and on the ethics and politics of alternatives to custody, notably the probation service and electronic monitoring.