Michael L. Benson is professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He is a past president of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium. He has published extensively in the areas of white-collar crime, intimate partner violence, and life-course criminology. With Francis T. Cullen, he authored Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work, which received the Outstanding Scholarship Award in 2000 from the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The second edition of his book Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective will be published in 2015. He is currently working on a book on emotions in crime and criminal justice.

Brandy L. Blasko is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at George Mason University. She received her PhD from the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. Her research focuses on how criminal justice workers and criminal justice-involved individuals perceive, understand, and negotiate formal and informal aspects of the corrections environment.

Lisa C. Bowman-Bowen received her PhD in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University in 2014; she has an MS in criminology from Indiana State University (2004) and BS degrees in criminal justice and behavioral science from Grace College (2000). Her research projects focus on survey methodology and self-report measures, specifically for adolescent and young adult problem behaviors. Her dissertation and publications focus on self-reported substance use and illegal behavior.

Pauline K. Brennan received her PhD in criminal justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, and is an associate professor and the Doctoral Program Chair for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). She also serves as the director of the London Program for UNO and is the president of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her areas of research include inequity in court processing, correctional policy, and issues related to female offenders and victims.

John Brent is assistant professor at Georgia Southern University. His recent work focuses on the cultural and structural dynamics underpinning transgressive and criminal behavior, building a theoretical foundation for criminal justice theory, critically examining school discipline and security, and methodological approaches in criminology. He is the coauthor, with Peter B. Kraska, of Theorizing Criminal Justice: Eight Essential Orientations (2010), and his work can be found in a number of leading peer-reviewed journals, including the British Journal of Criminology, Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Katherine Bright is research associate at the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. Her primary research interests include human trafficking, particularly the commercial sexual exploitation of domestic minors, expectant and parenting youth, and youth partnership models as successful intervention tools. Her recent research has focused on labor trafficking within the US, as well as on the intersection of teen pregnancy, homelessness, and commercial sexual exploitation in Massachusetts.

Timothy S. Bynum, PhD, is professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He is the former director of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Professor Bynum’s current research includes the study of community-based interventions to reduce gang and gun violence, the implementation and assessment of an innovative neighborhood approach to violence in nine communities, and an assessment of the impact of residency restrictions for sex offenders. He previously conducted research on reentry programs for offenders released from prison, programs to reduce school violence, community-based correctional alternatives for both adult and juvenile offenders, and gang intervention programs.

Kristin Carbone-Lopez is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her research focuses on gender and the connections between crime and victimization across the life course. Her recent publications appear in Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Nicholas Corsaro, PhD, is assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati and research director at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. Corsaro received his PhD from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He has served as an external evaluation researcher on a number of local and national strategic policing initiatives; this includes his work on the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership (IVRP), the national Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), gun violence reduction (and evaluation) strategy, and the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) focused deterrence strategy. His research interests focus on strategic partnerships with police agencies in order to identify and target crime problems, research methods, analyses, and evaluation designs intended to examine potential changes in gun, gang, and drug market violence.

Leah E. Daigle, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She received her PhD in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Her most recent research has centered on repeat sexual victimization of college women and the development and continuation of victimization across the life course. She is coauthor of Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course (2nd edn., 2014) and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women (2010), which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and author of Victimology: A Text/Reader and Victimology: The Essentials (2013).

Matt DeLisi is professor and coordinator of criminal justice studies and affiliate with the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. Professor DeLisi is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice and a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The author of more than 250 scholarly publications, Professor DeLisi is one of the most prolific and cited criminologists in the world.

Jared M. Ellison received his MS in criminal justice administration from Niagara University and is a third-year doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha (UNO). His research interests include court processing, the correctional system, inmate behavior, and community reentry.

Amy Farrell is associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University. Her scholarship seeks to understand arrest, adjudication, and criminal case disposition practices. Her recent research focuses on criminal justice system responses to new crimes such as human trafficking. She has led studies of police responses to human trafficking and state and local prosecution of human trafficking for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). She has testified about police identification of human trafficking before the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Farrell was a co-recipient of NIJ’s W. E. B. DuBois Fellowship on crime, justice, and culture in 2006.

Bonnie S. Fisher, PhD, is professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1988. She served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Measuring Rape and Sexual Assault in Bureau of Justice Statistics Household Surveys during 2011–2013. In 2015 she was the Co-PI (with David Cantor at Westat) working with the American Association of University Campus Climate Survey on the Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Design Team. Her published articles and chapters span the field of victimology, and her primary research area has been on violence against women, from domestic violence to stalking to sexual assault, with an emphasis on college women. She has coedited and coauthored a number of books, including the Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention (2010); The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: Campus Crime as a Social Problem (2013); Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women (2010, with Leah Daigle; this book won the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the ACJS); and Campus Crime: Legal, Social and Policy Perspectives (3rd edn., 2007). In 2015 she coedited a volume entitled Critical Issues on Violence against Women: International Perspectives and Promising Strategies and coauthored a textbook entitled Introduction to Victimology: Contemporary Theory, Research, and Practice.

Bryanna Hahn Fox, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Criminology in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida. She received her doctorate in psychological criminology from the University of Cambridge, England. Her major research interests include violence, crime analysis, criminal careers, and experimental criminology, and her recent research has been published in some of top criminology and criminal justice journals such as Social Forces and Criminal Justice & Behavior.

Owen Gallupe, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. His recent work appears in venues such as Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Youth Studies, and Rationality & Society.

Eric Grommon is assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. His research interests include research methods, the evaluation of correctional programs, policies, and operations, and prisoner reentry. His research can be found in such outlets as Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and Justice Quarterly.

Thomas J. Holt, PhD, is associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University and specializes in cybercrime, policing, and policy. He received his PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis in 2005. He has published extensively on cybercrime and cyberterror; he has over 35 peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as Crime & Delinquency, Sexual Abuse, Journal of Criminal Justice, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Deviant Behavior.

Beth M. Huebner, PhD, is professor and director of graduate programs in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her research interests include prisoner reentry, criminal justice decision-making, gendered perspectives on crime and justice, and public policy. She is the author or coauthor of several scholarly articles and book chapters, and her work on incarceration and marriage was honored with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Donal MacNamara Award. She was also given the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice Wall of Fame: Young Alumni Award.

Janice A. Iwama, MS, is a doctoral candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Her dissertation research focuses on examining the community conditions and social processes that impact hate crimes, particularly against immigrants and Hispanics. Her work applies a theoretical framework to improving our understanding on hate crimes within a community context, given the increasingly diverse population of the United States. Her research interests involve the impact of communities on crime, disproportionate minority contact, prevalence of hate crimes, racial and ethnic issues, and the victimization of immigrants. She recently worked on a National Institute of Justice-funded study examining national trends in hate crimes against immigrants and Hispanic Americans and is currently working on a study that examines racial profiling at traffic stops in Rhode Island for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, with the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University.

Jonathan Jackson is professor of research methodology in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology. His research interests include procedural justice, legitimacy, trust, fear of crime, and measurement. He would like to thank Yale School Law and Harvard Kennedy School for hosting him during research leave while he coauthored this chapter; he is also grateful to the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council for funding that research leave (grant number ES/L011611/1).

Wesley G. Jennings, PhD, is associate professor, associate chair, and undergraduate director in the Department of Criminology, has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Florida Mental Health Institute in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. In addition, he also has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and is a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Child Health Policy in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. He received his doctorate degree in criminology from the University of Florida.

Brian D. Johnson is associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland. His areas of expertise involve social inequality in the justice system, with a particular focus on racial disparities in criminal case-processing and sentencing. Much of his research examines contextual influences in punishment as well as the use of advanced statistical modeling techniques to study the criminal process. Dr. Johnson is the recipient of the 2008 ASC Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award and the 2011 American Society of Criminology, DCS Distinguished New Scholar Award. He has delivered invited workshops to the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and has served as a research consultant for organizations like Weststat, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), and the Vera Institute of Justice. He is currently a co-PI on the National Science Foundation, Research Coordination Network grant for Understanding Guilty Pleas, and his published work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Justice Quarterly.

Jay Kennedy is assistant professor in the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection and the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. His research addresses the multilevel antecedents of corporate crime, business ethics, and crimes committed against corporations, including employee theft and intellectual property theft. Dr. Kennedy received his PhD in criminal justice, as well as an MBA, from the University of Cincinnati.

Daryl G. Kroner, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University. Prior to this position, he was employed as a correctional psychologist from 1986 to 2008. During this time he worked at maximum, medium, and minimum facilities delivering intervention services to offenders. His current research interests include risk assessment, measurement of intervention outcomes, interventions among offenders with mentally illness, and criminal desistance.

Jouni Kuha is associate professor of statistics and research methodology in the Departments of Statistics and Methodology at the London School of Economics. His research interests include model selection, measurement error, misclassification and missing data, latent variable modelling, and analysis of cross-national survey data.

Aaron Kupchik is professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. His work focuses on the policing and punishment of children in schools, courts, and correctional facilities. He is the author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (2010) and Judging Juvenile: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts (2006).

Michael J. Kyle is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies Michael served as a law enforcement officer in both Missouri and Kansas. His research interests include policing, police leadership and ethics, and police legitimacy.

Matthew Logan is a PhD candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to beginning the doctoral program, he completed his Master’s in sociology and Bachelor’s in criminology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. His research interests include criminological theory, institutional corrections, white-collar crime, and violence and victimization. He is currently using nationally representative data on state and federal correctional facilities to study the prison experience of white-collar inmates on a host of negative and positive prison outcomes. In the past he has also examined the prison experience of other inmate groups, including those with military backgrounds and mental illnesses.

Jack McDevitt, PhD, is associate dean for research for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Jack also directs the Institute on Race and Justice and the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research. Jack is the coauthor of three books: Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed (1998) Hate Crime Revisited: American War on Those Who Are Different (2002; both with Jack Levin) and Victimology (2002, with Judith M. Sgarzi). He has also coauthored a numerous articles and reports on hate crime, racial profiling, and human trafficking and a monograph for the US Department of Justice on local law enforcement experiences with cases of human trafficking. He was recently appointed by the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to chair a gun violence commission to make recommendations on ways to reduce gun violence in the commonwealth. He has spoken on hate crime, racial profiling, human trafficking, and security, both nationally and internationally, and has testified as an expert witness before the Judiciary Committees of The US House of Representatives and as invited expert at the White House.

Kyle McLean is a doctoral student at the University of South Carolina. He received his Master’s degree in criminology and criminal justice from the University of South Carolina. His research interests are in criminological theory, policing, and perceptions of crime and justice.

Joseph M. McKenna is associate director of research and evaluation for the Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University. He has an MS in criminal justice and is pursuing a PhD at Texas State University. His research interests include violence, school crime/disorder, policing, and public policy. His recent publications focus on the role of the conflict faced by police officers who work in school environments.

Chris Melde, PhD, is associate professor and coordinator of undergraduate studies in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri, St. Louis in 2007. His primary research interests include street gangs, the ecology of violence, program evaluation, the impact of violent offending and victimization on adolescent development, and individual and community reactions to victimization risk.

Scott Menard is professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University. He received his AB from Cornell University and his PhD from the University of Colorado, both in sociology. His teaching and research interests and his publications are primarily in the areas of statistics and quantitative methods, criminological theory testing, and longitudinal research on delinquent and criminal behavior and victimization.

Thomas J. Mowen is assistant professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wyoming. His recent work has explored the impact of school discipline and policy on families and youth, inequalities in school punishment, and the role of family in the process of reentry. His recent work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed outlets including Justice Quarterly, Criminology & Public Policy, British Journal of Criminology, and Youth & Society.

Maranda Quillen is currently a graduate student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She will graduate with her Master’s degree in May 2016. Her research interests include criminogenic thinking; factors lead offenders to engage in crime as well as factors that influence successful desistance from criminal activity.

Steven M. Radil is assistant professor of geography at the University of Idaho. His work, situated within political and urban geography, focuses on power, territoriality, and violence and bridges the often separate domains of spatial analysis, geographic information science, and social theory. He has published widely on these and related themes in a range of journals, including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Jeff Rojek is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. His primary research interests are in the area of police officer and organizational behavior. He has conducted the annual analysis for the Missouri Attorney General’s Vehicle Stop Report since 2002, and has published multiple articles on racial bias in traffic stops.

Jason Rydberg is assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His research interests include prisoner reentry, community supervision, sex offenders and offenses, and the evaluation of criminal justice programs, particularly as it concerns community corrections and crime prevention. His research has appeared in a variety of outlets, including Criminology and Public Policy, Homicide Studies, Police Quarterly, and Justice Quarterly.

Joseph A. Schafer is professor and chair in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research focuses on policing, organizational change, leadership, citizen perceptions of police, the diffusion of innovation, critical incident response, and futures research in policing.

Lee Ann Slocum is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She is interested in within-individual stability and change in offending and substance use and has published several manuscripts that examine this issue.

Jamie A. Snyder, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of West Florida. She received her PhD in criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Her current research interests include the victimization of college students, victimization in the military, criminological theory, and problem-oriented policing. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence against Women, and Women & Criminal Justice.

Christina D. Stewart is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Her research interests involve various aspects of courts and sentencing, including court actor decision-making under sentencing guidelines, extralegal disparity in court outcomes, and the role of case-processing attributes in punishment. She is the recipient of the 2014 American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Corrections and Sentencing (DCS) student paper award

Faye S. Taxman, PhD, is university professor in the Criminology, Law and Society department and director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University. She is recognized for her work in probation and community corrections, including the RNR Simulation Tool and the development of seamless systems of care models that link the criminal justice system with other service delivery systems.

Sean P. Varano, PhD, is associate professor in the School of Justice Studies at Roger Williams University (Bristol, Rhode Island). Dr. Varano earned his doctorate from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. His areas of research include youth violence and gangs, policing, and community-based responses to youth violence. His recent publications include the role of collective efficacy in promoting healthy places in Miami neighborhoods.

Yi-Fen Lu, PhD, received her PhD from the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University in 2015. Her areas of interest are varied, but include testing criminological theories, biosocial criminology, gene–environment interactions, and quantitative methodology. Her research emphasizes the interplay of biology and environment in the explanation of criminal behavior. Her recent work has examined genetic variation in relation to variation in criminal behavior, as well as the interrelationship between heritability, intelligence, self-regulation, and antisocial behavior.

Julie Yingling received her PhD from Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Rural Studies at South Dakota State University. Her research interests are drug and methamphetamine markets, gender, domestic violence, and qualitative methods.