Kiyoshi Abe received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He is a professor in the Graduate School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He has published widely on surveillance and policing. His work has appeared in English, including an article in the journal Theory, Culture & Society (2009) and a chapter in the edited volume Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1960 to London 2012 (Palgrave, 2016).

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His scholarship examines several human‐justice controversies and social‐welfare issues at the intersection of law, health, and politics; theory, culture, and society; and disorder, crime, and punishment. He is an elected fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Brittany Arsiniega holds a J.D. from the School of Law and is a Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores the intersection of criminal law and immigration, examining the role that local law‐enforcement actors play in enforcing federal immigration law. She is currently conducting dissertation fieldwork on the policing of undocumented persons in rural areas.

Heather Y. Bersot is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her areas of research include ethics and the law, correctional mental health, and solitary confinement. Her peer‐reviewed articles have appeared in journals including the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology and Critical Criminology: An International Journal.

Kristie R. Blevins is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include crime prevention, corrections, and the occupational reactions of criminal justice employees. Her recent work can be found in outlets such as the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Criminal Justice Policy Review, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, and International Journal of Police Science and Management.

Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her primary interests are environmental conflicts and environmental inequalities. She is the author of Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro‐Dependent World (Temple University Press, 2012). Her recent articles include “Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers,” with Tom Shriver and Tamara Mix, in the American Sociological Review, for which they received the 2011 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association.

Bradley Campbell is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of a number of works dealing with moral conflict, including The Geometry of Genocide (University of Virginia Press, 2015) and The Rise of Victimhood Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), coauthored with Jason Manning.

Nicolas Carrier is Associate Professor of Criminology, Sociology and Legal Studies at Carleton University.

John Casey is a professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. From 1999 to 2008, he was a senior lecturer at the Australian Graduate School of Policing. Prior to his academic career, he held executive positions in government and nonprofits in Australia, Spain, and the USA. He is the author of The Nonprofit World: Civil Society and Rise of the Nonprofit Sector (Lynne Rienner, 2016).

Brooke B. Chambers is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research addresses the aftermath of genocide. She has visited Rwanda twice to engage in ethnographic research and conduct in‐depth interviews. Her dissertation addresses the intergenerational transmission of knowledge about and memory of the genocide, especially the engagement of young Rwandans with memorial sites and commemorative events. She has interned at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Stephen Chicoine is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He teaches Introduction to Sociology, Deviant Behavior, and Collective Behavior. His main research interests include subcultures, terrorism, and the social implications of the Internet. His doctoral dissertation involves a sociological study of terrorist subcultures.

James J. Chriss is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology at Cleveland State University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. His most recent books are Social Control: An Introduction, 2nd edn. (Polity, 2013), Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century (Routledge, 2013), Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism (Haymarket, 2017), and Law and Society: A Sociological Approach (Sage, forthcoming).

Toycia Collins is a doctoral student at Sam Houston State University. She received her M.S. in criminal justice from Wayne State University. Her research interests include police organizational structure, police practices to prevent and reduce crime, and crime analysis in the Caribbean.

Robert D. Crutchfield is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. His research is on labor markets and crime, and race, ethnicity, and the criminal justice system. He is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and a winner of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award.

Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching interests concern a variety of aspects and dimensions of social control, including international police cooperation, surveillance, censorship, and law. He has authored four books, including The Policing of Terrorism (Routledge, 2010) and Sociology of Law (Cambridge, 2008).

Alexander C. Diener is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research engages geopolitics, borders, mobility, and urban landscape change. He has authored several books, including One Homeland or Two? (Stanford University Press, 2009), and co‐edited several more, including From Socialist to Post‐Socialist Cities: Cultural Politics of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Identity in Eurasia (Routledge, 2014). He has held research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center, George Washington University, and Harvard University.

April D. Fernandes is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on the employment, health, and housing consequences of misdemeanor criminal‐justice contact, with an eye toward the racial and ethnic disparities that exist within these systems of control.

Joshua Hagen is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern State University. His research includes borders, geopolitics, and nationalism, most notably in the coauthored books Borders: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation‐State (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). He has received awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright Scholar Program, German Academic Exchange Service, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Samantha Hauptman is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She teaches a broad range of classes and has a variety of research interests, including immigration, criminal/social deviance, social control, and globalization. In addition to publishing several book chapters and articles, she is the author of The Criminalization of Immigration: The Post 9/11 Moral Panic (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2013).

Steven Hutchinson teaches in the Department of Criminology and the Department of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research deploys Foucauldian epistemologies and covers areas including policing, intelligence, risk, and security. He recently co‐edited a special issue of the British Journal of Criminology, which explored interdisciplinary approaches to the study of security.

Roy F. Janisch was born and raised on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. He attended the University of South Dakota, obtaining a B.S. in Criminal Justice/Psychology, then a Master of Public Administration. He has worked as a law‐enforcement specialist, management analyst, and federal criminal investigator. He obtained his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, and is currently Associate Professor/Coordinator of Justice Studies at Pittsburg State University. In 2016–17, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Vancouver Island University.

Michael J. Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Scranton. He is coauthor with John Casey and Harry Dammer of the 2nd edition of Policing the World: The Practice of International and Transnational Policing (Carolina Academic Press, 2018). He has also authored Police Leaders in the New Community Problem‐Solving Era (Carolina Academic Press, 2014).

Paul Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University and the former President of the Western Society of Criminology (2013–14). He received his PhD in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Prior to entering academics, Dr. Kaplan worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases. His primary research areas are capital punishment and cultural criminology, but he also works on projects involving socio‐legal theory and comparative law. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, and Law & Social Inquiry, and he is the author of Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Lexington Books, 2012). He is the co‐creator of the Art | Crime Archive: www.artcrimearchive.net.

Charles F. Klahm IV is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University. He received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati.

Gary Kleck is the Emeritus David J. Bordua Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. His research has focused on the topics of the impact of firearms and gun control on violence, deterrence, crime control, and violence. He has served on National Research Council committees and the US Sentencing Commission’s Drugs‐Violence Task Force, and has advised the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Understanding and Prevention of Violence.

Johann Koehler is a student in the J.D./Ph.D. program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He draws on the sociology of knowledge, critical criminology, and law and society to explore the origins, applications, and limitations of evidence‐based criminology. Selected recent work appears in Criminology, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Psychology, Crime, and Law. He received the 2016 Young Scholar Award from the European Society of Criminology.

Stéphane Leman‐Langlois is Professor of Criminology at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair on Surveillance and the Social Construction of Risk. He is Director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Research Group and of the Centre on International Security at Laval University. He is also co‐investigator on the Big Data Surveillance Project at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He edited Technocrime: Policing and Surveillance (Routledge, 2012).

Jason Manning is an associate professor at West Virginia University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His work focuses on moral conflict, and he has published several papers on suicide as a way of handling conflict, as well as articles examining changing moral cultures on college campuses. The Rise of Victimhood Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which he coauthored with Bradley Campbell, deals with this latter topic.

Laura McKendy is a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of provincially incarcerated men and women in the Ontario context, with a particular focus on the pains of jail imprisonment, the collective and individual ways prisoners adapt to and resist the qualities of institutional life, and the sociological factors that mediate jail experiences.

Robert F. Meier is a professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is the author or editor of 24 books (both original and revised editions) and over 80 articles appearing in professional journals, book chapters, and technical reports. He is a consultant for the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, and National Institute of Justice. He was elected Vice President of the American Society of Criminology in 2004–05.

Holly Ventura Miller is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of North Florida, a former National Institute of Justice W.E.B. DuBois Fellow, and Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Her research interests include correctional policy, immigration and crime, and program evaluation. She has had recent articles in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Prison Journal, and Criminology & Public Policy. She is editor, along with Anthony Peguero, of the Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime (Routledge, 2018).

Calvin Morrill is Stephan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Jurisprudence and Social Policy/Legal Studies in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and coauthor of Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High‐Poverty School (University of Chicago Press, 2018). His current research explores the interplay of law, economic and social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement across the life course in marginalized populations.

Massimiliano Mulone is an associate professor at the School of Criminology, University of Montreal, and a researcher at the International Center of Comparative Criminology. Working in the field of policing and security studies, his main research focus is the commodification of security – how policing and security are progressively being transformed into a consumer good – and its consequences for the governance of security. Other topics of interest include the policing of protest and the control of police deviance.

Pat O’Malley is Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since the early 1990s, most of his research has focused on risk as a framework for governance, especially in relation to criminal justice, insurance, and illicit drug use. Over the past decade, the pivotal place of money sanctions in civil and criminal justice has become another major focus.

Justin Piché is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and co‐editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (www.jpp.org).

Rose Ricciardelli is a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is Associate Director of the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment, leading research on institutional and community corrections. Her research centers on penal living and community re‐entry for federally incarcerated men in Canada, evolving understandings of gender, vulnerabilities, risk, and experiences and issues within different facets of the criminal justice system.

Anna S. Rogers is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. She teaches courses in Introductory Sociology and Visual Sociology. Writing her dissertation on the stigmatization and control of self‐professed “witches” in contemporary culture, she specializes in sociological questions of deviance and social control, popular culture, and gender.

Rachel Rogers is a graduate student in the M.S.C.J. program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Currently, she serves as a graduate research assistant in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research interests include immigration policy, interactions of marginalized populations with the criminal justice system, and how stigmatization affects these groups post‐exposure. She hopes to pursue her Ph.D. in Criminology in order to further her research experiences with marginalized populations both within and outwith the criminal justice system.

Gil Rothschild‐Elyassi is a Ph.D. student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in critical theory. He holds an LL.M. from New York University and an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work, which draws on sociological and critical theory, explores penal practice in the age of data analytics, as well as noncustodial penal strategies for governing communities afflicted by legacies of racial violence.

Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and specializes in analyzing punishment from historical and sociological perspectives. She is currently completing a book manuscript examining why Eastern State Penitentiary alone retained the Pennsylvania System of long‐term solitary confinement despite extensive criticism and great personal cost to the prison’s administrators.

Joachim J. Savelsberg is Professor of Sociology and Law and Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair at the University of Minnesota. His books include Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur (University of California Press, 2015), Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities (Sage, 2010), and, with Ryan D. King, American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011),.

Shelly S. Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science at Hamline University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. Her research and prior publications focus on juvenile justice policy, the transition to adulthood, and community re‐entry after a period of confinement.

Derek M. D. Silva is Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at Western University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of South Carolina. His research examines practices of policing terrorism and radicalization, anti‐terrorism law in the West, and political and media rhetoric in the so‐called “War on Terror.”

Jonathan Simon is Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. His work includes Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press, 2009), Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (The New Press, 2016), and, with Richard Sparks, The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society (SAGE Publications, 2012).

A. Javier Treviño is Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Sociology of Law: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), Talcott Parsons on Law and the Legal System (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Kevin Walby is Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Research Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg. He is co‐editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (www.jpp.org).

James P. Walsh is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In addition to surveillance, his research focuses on crime and media, globalization, and border security and migration policing.

James J. Willis is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University. His interests include police technology, organizational reform, and street‐level decision‐making. His current research focuses on the effects of different technologies on police organization structure and practice. Along with his coauthors, in 2008 he was awarded the Law and Society Association’s article prize for research using different theoretical perspectives to explain Compstat’s implementation in three police departments.