Notes on Contributors

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...