Amber Marks is a British

United Kingdom

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 barrister

Barrister

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 and author

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. After working as a lawyer in private practice and in the UK government legal service, she took up research on the increasing use of sniffer dogs and other olfactory

Olfaction

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 surveillance

Surveillance

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 methods. She has written an account of her research for the popular market, Headspace (published 2008); in connection with this publication, articles by or about her were published by some of the major English newspapers. She also works on forensic science and criminal justice technologies. She is a trustee of Release (agency)

Release (agency)

Release, founded in 1967 by Caroline Coon and the late Rufus Harris , is a UK agency that provides legal advice and arranges legal representation for people charged with the possession of drugs...

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Marks currently teaches at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 and King's College London

King's College London

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Marks' father is former teacher, convicted drug smuggler, former prisoner and author Howard Marks

Howard Marks

Dennis Howard Marks is a Welsh author and former drug smuggler who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug...

 and her mother is Judy Marks

Judy Marks

Judy Marks is an English-born author.Judy Marks was born in Hertfordshire. From October 1974 until 2006 she lived with and eventually married the marijuana smuggler Howard Marks. She is the mother to three of his four children, the privacy researcher Amber Marks, Francesca Marks , and Patrick...

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Works

• Marks, A. (2006). Drug detection dogs and the growth of olfactory surveillance: Beyond the rule of law? Surveillance and Society, 4, 257-271.
• Marks, A. (2008). Headspace. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-1364-4.
• Marks, A. et al. (2008). Crime Control Technologies: Towards an Analytical Framework and Research Agenda. Regulating Technologies, ed. R. Brownsword, K. Yeung. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 978-1-84113-788-9.
• Bladerunner and biometrics: Heathrow T5 unveiled. The Register, 26 March 2008.
• Smells Suspicious. The Guardian, 31 March 2008.
• Don't Kill Me: Can we trust new weapons that are supposed to be non-lethal?. Prospect, 4 July 2009.

External links

• Page about Amber Marks on the website of her literary agent
  Literary agent
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  s, David Higham Associates.
• Profile in Elle Magazine, Nov. 2008.
• Review of Headspace in The Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2008.
• Review of Headspace in Surveillance & Society, 7.1 (2009), 85-6.