Paul Anskat is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of New Hampshire and affiliated faculty at Emerson College, USA. His research interests include social stratification, race and ethnicity, and gender inequality. He is currently working on an analysis of racial and gendered discourse in internet comment sections.

Kevin M. Beaver is Judith Rich Harris Professor of Criminology at Florida State University in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a visiting distinguished professor in the Center for Social and Humanities Research at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on the biosocial underpinnings to antisocial behaviors.

Peter Becker teaches modern history at the University of Vienna, Austria. His main fields of research include the history of the Habsburg Empire from the late 18th century, the history of European policing and security systems of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of criminology. He is particularly interested in the transformation of state, politics, and society in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the biologization of the social, and in the connection of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states to the new international regime of the late 19th and the 20th centuries. His publications include: Verderbnis und Entartung. Zur Geschichte der Kriminologie des 19. Jahrhunderts als Diskurs und Praxis (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002); Dem Täter auf der Spur. Eine Geschichte der Kriminalistik (Darmstadt: Primus, 2005); Sprachvollzug im Amt. Kommunikation und Verwaltung im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. (editor) (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011); The Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. (ed. together with Richard Wetzell) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Little Tools of Knowledge: Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices (ed. together with William Clark) (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001); “The Neurosciences and Criminology: How New Experts have Moved into Public Policy and Debate,” in: Kerstin Brückweh, Dirk Schumann, Richard Wetzell, Benjamin Ziemann (Eds.), Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880–1980 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 119–138).

Patricia Brantingham is Director of the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (ICURS) and Co‐director of the ICURS Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. She is also a Professor of Criminology. Her research interests include pattern theory, environmental criminology, situational crime prevention, criminal justice planning, and policy evaluation. She has received international recognition for her work on offender target selection processes and geography of crime. Her mathematical work on the distribution of crime in regard to the structure of neighborhoods is fundamental to environmental criminology. Professor Brantingham is the author/editor of numerous books and monographs as well as more than 100 articles and scientific papers. Her current research focuses on patterns of crime at shopping malls and transit systems, the distribution of crime on road networks, and the location of crime in complex urban ecologies. She spent four years as Director of Program Evaluation at the Department of Justice, Canada, in the mid‐1980s.

Paul Brantingham is Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. In 1992, he served as Director of the Simon Fraser Centre for Canadian Studies. He was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies during the 1980s. He is the author/editor of more than 20 books and monographs, and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. He is best known for his research on crime analysis and prevention, including how the physical environment affects incidence and fear of crime. He was one of the co‐developers of the primary/secondary/tertiary model of crime prevention. An expert in legal aid, Professor Brantingham has served as special consultant to the Canadian Department of Justice for more than 10 years. His current research focuses on victimization on college campuses, the geography of persistent offending, and the study of crime in complex urban ecologies. Professor Brantingham is a member of the California Bar Association.

Jean‐Philippe Crete is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research focuses on the intersections of culture, criminal law, and punishment in the Canadian context. He completed his MA at Carleton University with a thesis entitled: “A Disciplined Healing: The New Language of Indigenous Imprisonment in Canada.” His PhD dissertation examines the historical emergence of penology as a correctional science in Canada since Confederation.

Tom Daems studied criminology and political science at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is currently Associate Professor of Criminology at Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven.

Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, USA. His teaching and research specialties include law and social control, policing, popular culture, and sociological theory. He has authored dozens of articles and three books, including The Policing of Terrorism (2010) and Sociology of Law (2008), and has also edited about a dozen volumes, including works in the areas of criminological theory, criminal justice and legal institutions, international policing, and terrorism.

Bruce DiCristina is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Dakota, USA. His research centers on the history of criminology and the philosophical foundations of criminological inquiry. He is the editor of The Birth of Criminology (Wolters Kluwer) and has articles appearing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Theoretical Criminology.

Aleksandras Dobryninas is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and the Head of the Centre for the Criminology Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Graduating from Vilnius University as a mathematician, he holds Doctoral degrees in Philosophy (1985) and Sociology (habilitation procedure, 2005). His research interests lie in the area of the theoretical aspects of criminological knowledge, media and crime, corruption, and homicide problems. He is the author and co‐author of various academic publications on criminological, sociological and philosophical issues: “Foundation of Criminology: Logical and Philosophical Aspects” (1990), “Virtual Reality of Crime” (2001), “Lithuanian Map of Corruption” (2004), “Criminological Theories” (2008), and “Perception of Criminal Justice in Society” (2014), etc.

Kirstin Drenkhahn is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology in the Department of Law of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on life in prison and other forms of detention, penal sanctions depriving liberty, restorative justice, juvenile justice, and the criminology of state crime.

Molly Dunn is a doctoral student in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA, pursuing her degree in Justice Studies. Her current interests seek to build upon previous ethnographic research within the field of critical trafficking studies, pertaining to the intersections of gender, public policy, and the discursive collapse of various forms of sexual commerce and sexual practices into human trafficking. More specifically, her research examines the role of Christian politics and discourse in the framing of human trafficking within the criminal justice system.

John M. Eassey received his PhD from the University of Florida and is currently a tenure track Professor at Missouri State University, USA. His research interests relate to crime across the life course, including the statistical methodology necessary to study such phenomenon. Within this domain, he specializes in crime and delinquency related to employment and employment conditions, substance use among general and special populations, and the relationship between peers and criminal behavior across the life course.

Daren Fisher, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. His research interests include the relationship between government actions and subsequent terrorism, criminological theory, policing, and crime prevention. Daren received his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, and has published articles in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Police Practice and Research, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, and Critical Criminology.

Elaine Fishwick is currently working as a freelance researcher and is an active member of the Institute of Criminology at Sydney University, Australia. She has extensive experience teaching law, criminology, social policy and human rights in universities in the UK and in Australia. She has a strong research and publishing track record on a diverse range of criminology and human rights‐related topics.

Jamie M. Gajos is a PhD candidate in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University, USA. Her research interests span a variety of disciplines and include biosocial criminology, developmental psychology, behavior genetics, life‐course criminology, and prevention science.

Jurg Gerber is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of International Initiatives in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, USA. For the last fifteen years he has also served as Professeur Invité at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Research interests include white‐collar crime, criminology, drug control policy, and international criminal justice issues.

Tim Goddard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Florida International University, USA. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, Department of Criminology, Law and Society. His research interests include race and class disparities in the criminal justice system, grassroots organizing for criminal justice reform, and critical investigations of risk assessment instruments and the risk factor paradigm. His work has appeared in various journals including Theoretical Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, Social Justice, Youth Justice, and the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. He is currently finishing a book project, with Randolph R. Myers, entitled Youth, Community, and the Struggle for Social Justice (to be published by Routledge in 2017).

Wim Hardyns is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University and the Faculty of Law at University of Antwerp. Belgium. He is member of the Institute of International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP). During his academic career, Hardyns has built up a broad expertise in theory‐testing research and studied the collective efficacy theory in Belgium (the Social Cohesion Indicators for the Flemish Region (SCIF) study and the Social capital and Well‐being In Neighborhoods in Ghent (SWING) study).

Bill Hebenton is Associate Professor at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK. He has eclectic research interests, but currently his research can be categorized broadly around four areas: (1) comparative criminology, mainly China, Greater China/Taiwan; (2) demystifying the “smoke and mirrors” of contemporary crime and criminal justice, including sexual crime, sentencing and “enforcement” of judicial penalties; (3) applications of crime science; and, finally, (4) situational vs dispositional explanations and implications for criminology. He co‐edited the Handbook of Asian Criminology (Springer), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (Routledge). He is joint editor of the new book series “Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia.”

Susyan Jou is Professor of Criminology at National Taipei University, Taiwan, and was the founding Director of the university’s Graduate School of Criminology. She was General‐Secretary of the Asian Criminological Society (2009–2012), and Vice Chair (2013–2015). Her research interests have focused on comparative punishment, white‐collar crime, juvenile justice, and the development of the subject area of criminology in Taiwan and China. She co‐edited the Handbook of Asian Criminology (Springer), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (Routledge). She is joint editor of the new book series “Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia.”

Hee Joo Kim earned her PhD at Sam Houston State University in 2011 and she is currently a Visiting Professor at Kyonggi University in South Korea. Her primary research areas are reintegrative shaming theory and restorative justice.

Bryan Kinney is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His teaching and research interests include police studies, crime pattern analysis, and crime prevention.

Paul Knepper is Professor of Criminology, School of Law, University of Sheffield, and visiting Professor of Criminology, School of Criminal Sciences, University of Lausanne. His recent books include Writing the History of Crime (Bloomsbury, 2015), and along with co‐editor Anja Johansen, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Marvin D. Krohn is currently a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. He has a long‐standing interest in the etiology of delinquency and drug use, focusing primarily on social process and life course approaches. For the past 29 years he has been a Co‐Principal Investigator on the Rochester Youth Development Study, a three‐generational longitudinal panel study targeting those at high risk for serious crime and delinquency. His book (with co‐authors Terence P. Thornberry, Alan J. Lizotte, Carolyn A. Smith and Kimberly Tobin), Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective, was the American Society of Criminology’s recipient of the 2003 Michael J. Hindelang Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He has also co‐authored Delinquent Behavior (with Don C. Gibbons) and Researching Theories of Crime and Delinquency (with Charis E. Kubrin and Thomas D. Stucky) and has co‐edited six compendiums on crime and delinquency. In addition, he has contributed numerous research articles and book chapters. He is a former Vice President and Executive Counselor of the American Society of Criminology and was named a Fellow of that Society. Professor Krohn has also won teaching awards at both SUNY Albany and the University of Florida and most recently was presented with the Outstanding Mentor Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Travis Linnemann is Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA. His work focuses upon police and state violence, and has appeared in British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Crime, Media, Culture, and Critical Criminology. He is also the author of Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power (New York University Press, 2016).

Michael J. Lynch is Professor of Criminology and an associated faculty member in the Patel School of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida, USA. Among his approximately 20 books is Primer in Radical Criminology, first published in 1986 with W. Byron Groves, and now in its fourth edition with Raymond J. Michalowski. Lynch is considered the founder of green criminology, and much of his research focuses on explaining green crimes and empirical assessments of environmental justice propositions from a political economic perspective. In 2011, Lynch received a lifetime achievement award from the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

Marinella Marmo is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice at Flinders University Law School, Australia. She researches in the areas of international criminal justice and transnational crime. Currently, she works in the area of migration, border control, and human mobility. She is also interested in the judiciary’s role and judges’ involvement in the approximation and harmonising process in human rights and criminal justice. She has co‐authored the books Crime, Justice and Human Rights (with Leanne Weber, and Elaine Fishwick) and Race, Gender and the Body in British Migration Control (with Evan Smith). Her research has been widely cited in numerous newspapers, including The Guardian and The New York Times. She is the recipient of an Office for Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning by the Australian Federal Government.

Kyra A. Martinez is a graduate student at Eastern Kentucky University, USA. Her research interests include abolition, the sociology of punishment, and critical race theory. Her work appears in the edited volumes, The Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology and Global Moral Panics (Duke University Press, 2017).

Marília Montenegro Pessoa de Mello is Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco and at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She earned her PhD in Law in 2008 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In 2002, she was awarded a Master’s degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco. She coordinates the Asa Branca Research Group of Criminology and currently serves as Head of the Department of Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco. Her primary research interests include critical criminology, feminist criminology, gender studies and domestic violence. She has published in a number of academic journals and is the author or co‐editor of several books, including Lei Maria da Penha: Uma Análise Criminológico‐Crítica (Revan, 2015), on domestic violence in Brazil.

Randolph R. Myers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, USA. He received his PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. His work examines the relationship between inequality and violence, community‐derived alternatives to the criminal legal system, and the lived realities of juvenile justice. Among other outlets, his work has appeared in Youth Justice, Social Justice, Theoretical Criminology, British Journal of Criminology and the Prison Journal. Along with Tim Goddard, he is working on a book entitled Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice (Routledge, 2017).

Stephan Parmentier is Professor of Sociology of Crime, Law and Human Rights at the KU Leuven, Belgium, and coordinates the Research Line on Human Rights and Transitional Justice at the Leuven Institute of Criminology. He studied law, political science, and sociology at the KU Leuven, Belgium. and the University of Minnesota‐Twin Cities, USA. In 2010, he was elected the Secretary‐General of the International Society for Criminology. His research interest and publications are in the field of political crimes, human rights and transitional justice, the administration of justice, and public opinion about justice.

Ray Paternoster is Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, USA. His research interests include offender decision‐making, criminological theory, and quantitative methods.

Lieven J.R. Pauwels is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University, Belgium. He is Director of the Institute of International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP). His main research interest is the interaction between individual and ecological explanations of adolescent offending and problematic youth groups.

George Pavlich is a Canada Research Chair in Social Theory, Culture and Law, and Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is currently working on a project dealing with the political logics of criminal accusation and other entryways to complex criminal justice arenas. His co‐edited collection Accusation (in‐process) deals with political logics of criminal accusation.

Cesar J. Rebellon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, a Faculty Fellow with the Carsey Institute, and a Core Faculty Member in the Justice Studies Program, at the University of New Hampshire, USA. He was trained as social psychologist and his primary research interests involve family and peer influences on juvenile crime and delinquency. His recent publications have appeared in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, European Journal of Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Rural Sociology, Journal of Adolescence, and Law and Human Behavior. He is currently involved in two interdisciplinary data collection projects with faculty from multiple departments and colleges. One is funded by the National Science Foundation and involves the collection of survey data from middle‐school and high‐school students in southern New Hampshire. The other is funded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and involves similar data collection from middle‐school and high‐school students from Coos County in New Hampshire’s North Country. Both projects have been following the same students over time and hope to follow them into their early adulthood to examine the predictors of both deviant behavior and positive outcomes.

Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt is Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In January 2014, she completed her DPhil in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. In 2005, she was awarded a Master’s degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the World Society of Victimology. She is also a member of the Asa Branca Research Group of Criminology. Her research interests include restorative justice, community (justice), youth justice, street children, and critical criminology. She has published peer‐reviewed articles and book chapters in these areas, both in Brazil and abroad, and is the author of The Role of Community in Restorative Justice (Routledge, 2015).

Catherine Sacarellos is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Her research interests include biological factors and their interplay with criminal behavior.

Ricardo D. Salvatore is Plenary Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era (Duke University Press) and co‐editor of Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times (Duke University Press).

Joachim J. Savelsberg is Professor of Sociology and Law, and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, University of Minnesota, USA. His past work addressed white‐collar crime legislation, sentencing guidelines, variation in rates of punishment, criminology, and human rights crimes. Recent publications include Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur (University of California Press, 2015), “Global Justice, National Distinctions: Criminalizing Human Rights Violations in Darfur” (with H. Nyseth Brehm, American Journal of Sociology, 2015), American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (with Ryan King; Russell Sage Foundation, 2011) and Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities (Sage, 2010). Current work addresses dynamics between denial and acknowledgment in legislative and legal contexts for the case of the Armenian genocide.

Kaitlyn J. Selman is a doctoral candidate in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, USA. Merging perspectives from multiple disciplines, her research aims to unearth the influence of carceral control on everyday life, particularly for margin‐ alized populations. Specifically, she explores the structural reproduction of inequality for young people within the carceral state. She has specific interests in youth justice, carceral studies, and critical education studies. Her most recent publications appear in Wom & Criminal Justice and the International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

Olga Semukhina is currently an Associate Professor of Criminology and Law Studies at Marquette University, USA. She holds LLB/LLM degrees from Tomsk State University (Russia) and MS/PhD degrees in criminal justice from the University of Central Florida. She is a former defense attorney in Russia and a former Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Procedure at Tomsk State University. Her areas of research include comparative criminal procedure, transactional crimes, and comparative policing. Professor Semukhina has been awarded multiple grants from Ford and the Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute, Civil Education Project, IREX and U.S. State Department to conduct research and sustain the development of legal services in Russia.

Ruth Ann Triplett is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Her research interests include testing and developing social disorganization theory, policing and community satisfaction, and, most recently, uncovering and expanding the use of symbolic interactionism in criminological theory. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Deviant Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Policing, Justice Quarterly, and Journal of Crime and Justice.

Jeffery T. Ulmer is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State University, USA, and also serves as Associate Department Head for Sociology and Criminology. His books and articles in sociology and criminology journals span topics such as courts and sentencing, criminological theory, symbolic interactionism, religion and crime, race/ethnicity, and violent crime. His research on criminal courts and sentencing is among the most cited in the USA on those topics. He was awarded the 2001 Distinguished New Scholar Award, the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections and Sentencing. He and his co‐authors also won the American Society of Criminology’s 2012 Outstanding Article Award, and the 2006 Hindelang Award for Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise (Aldine‐Transaction, 2005).

Matthew P. Unger is Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montréal. His monograph, entitled Sound, Symbol, Sociality, uses the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur to understand the intersection of the social, juridical, and political implications within aesthetic judgment. His co‐edited collection Accusation (2016) brings to bear theoretical and archival approaches upon the social discourses of sovereignty, the legal person, and accusation.

John Paul Wright is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and research faculty at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has published broadly in biosocial criminology where his work has assessed the role of genetic influences on aggression and violence. Stemming from his experiences in biosocial criminology, he has recently reinitiated scholarship on the role ideology plays in the study of crime.

Kideste Wilder Yusef is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Justice and Society Studies Department at Bethune‐Cookman University in Florida, USA. Her research focuses on criminal justice policy with a particular interest in racial and social justice, the policing of blackness, and community‐police relations.

Tseleq Yusef is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois, USA, in Education, Policy, Organization, and Leadership. His research situates religion as an informal institution of learning. His dissertation “Islam in black and brown: The making of Muslim communities, intra‐faith dialogue, and diversity in East‐Central Illinois” uses oral history narratives to interrogate changing as well as differing notions of what constitutes being a “Muslim” and “Islam” in East‐Central Illinois from the 1960s to the present.