Dr. Edna Erez has a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and MA in Criminology and PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has received over two million dollars in state and federal grants in the U.S. and overseas to study victims in the criminal justice system, the use of technology in criminal justice, and terrorism related topics. Prof. Erez has been a visiting professor or research fellow in universities and research centers in Australia, Germany, Poland, India, and Israel. Her publication record includes over 100 articles, book chapters and research reports. She is past editor of Justice Quarterly and is currently Co-Editor of the International Review of Victimology and Associate Editor of Victims and Violence. She also serves on editorial boards of several other scholarly journals in criminology and legal studies. Her current research interests include victim participation in justice, violence against women, the use of technology in domestic violence cases, and gender and terrorism.
   
Dr. Peter R. Ibarra is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and was as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. His areas of interest include the social construction of deviance and social problems, qualitative and ethnographic methods, practices of surveillance and "people processing," victim-centric initiatives, and relations between marginalized communities and the police. His research has been funded by state and federal agencies, including the National Institute of Justice (U.S.), and his writings have been translated from English into several languages, including Hebrew, Russian, Japanese, and Italian.
   
   
Contributors:
Ray Abrahams, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Churchill College
Michael Adorjan, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Arturo Alvarado Mendoza, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de Mexico
Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Independent Scholar
Thalia Anthony, Department of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Alexis A. Aronowitz, Criminology, University College Utrecht
Matthew Ball, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Daniela Bandelli, Department of Human Studies, Libera Università degli Studi Maria Ss. Assunta di Roma (LUMSA University)
Julie Barkworth, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Nicholas Barnes, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews
Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar, Consultant, and Educator
Harry Blagg, Law School, University of Western Australia
Jason A. Brown, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
Brooke B. Chambers, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Meda Chesney-Lind, Department of Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Mounia Chmaitilly, Independent Scholar
Wing Hong Chui, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
Consuelo Corradi, Department of Human Studies, Libera Università degli Studi Maria Ss. Assunta di Roma (LUMSA University)
Jacques de Maillard, Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP); University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
Walter S. DeKeseredy, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University
Susan Dewey, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Alabama
Eleni Dimou, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, Open University
Ety Elisha, Department of Criminology, The Max Stern Yzreel Valley College
Maria Escobar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Andreas E. Feldmann, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Department of Political
Bianca Fileborn, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
Mark Findlay, Law School, Singapore Management University
Daniel J. Flannery, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Case Western Reserve University
Arie Freiberg, Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University
Narayanan Ganapathy, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Monica M. Gerber, Centre for the Study of Conflict and Cohesion, Diego Portales University
Ekaterina Gladkova, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle
Tanya Golash-Boza, Department of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Jonathan Grossman, The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and the University of Texas at Austin
Keith Guzik, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver
Syeda Tonima Hadi, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John's University
Julie Ham, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
Keiran Hardy, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Shannon B. Harper, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University
Badi Hasisi, Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hennessey Hayes, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Gergely Hideg, Independent Scholar
Annette Hintenach, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University
Leslie Holmes, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
Charles E. Hounmenou, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Andreas Hövermann, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York; Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, University of Bielefeld
Gregory J. Howard, Department of Criminology, Western Michigan University
Alison Hutchinson, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle
Helga Ihm, Investigative Department, State Bureau of Investigation
Beverley Jacobs, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
Valerie Jenness, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
Aleksandra Jordanoska, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Adriana Kaye, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University
Ronald C. Kramer, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University
Julie Anne Laser-Maira, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
Nathaniel L. Lawshe, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Travis Linnemann, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University
Rachel Loney-Howes, School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong
Nicholas Lord, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Stefan Machura, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University
Natasha S. Madon, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Marie Manikis, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Jorge Mantilla, Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kayla M. Martensen, Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Susanne Martin, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno
Gary T. Marx, Department of Sociology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tina Maschi, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University
Rick A. Matthews, Department of Sociology, Carthage College
Jack McDevitt, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Steven F. Messner, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Silke Meyer, Gender and Family Violence Prevention Center, Monash University
Keith Morgen, Psychology and Graduate Counseling Programs, Centenary University
Sophia Moskalenko, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START)
Mahesh K. Nalla, Department of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
Katharina Neissl, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde
Graeme R. Newman, Department of Criminal Justice, University at Albany
Ivette Noriega, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Case Western Reserve University
Craig Paterson, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University
Donna Peach, School of Health and Society, University of Salford
Ami Pedahzur, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Simon Perry, Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lois Presser, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Dana Pugach, Law Faculty, Ono Academic College
Ellen Reeves, Gender and Family Violence Prevention Center, Monash University
Beth E. Richie, Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Rodríguez Goyes, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo; Antonio Nariño University, Colombia
Natti Ronel, Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University
Lee E. Ross, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida
Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Crime and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Elise Sargeant, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Joachim J. Savelsberg, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota; Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study
Casey James Schotter, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University
Clifford Shearing, Professor at the Universities of Cape Town, Griffith, and Montreal
Keller G. Sheppard, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Simon S. Singer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Laura Sjoberg, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
Dick Sobsey, Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta
Ragnhild Sollund, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
Daniel L. Stageman, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Richard Staring, Criminology Department, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Philip Stenning, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Nigel Stobbs, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Alexandra Stupperich, Criminalistics, Police Academy of Lower Saxony
Michal Tamir, School of Law, The Academic Center for Law and Science
Imtashal Tariq, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Juan Marcellus Tauri, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Waikato
Gabriel Tenenbaum Ewig, Department of Sociology, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Jan Terpstra, Professor Emeritus of Criminal Law and Criminology, Radboud University Nijmegen
Jane Timmons-Mitchell, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Case Western Reserve University
Valmaine Toki, Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Max Travers, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Stonehill College
René van Swaaningen, Criminology Department, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Nicholas Walrath, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University
Aimee Wodda, Department of Criminal Justice, Law, and Society, Pacific University
Michael Wolfowicz, Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tanya Wyatt, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle
Yongyu Zeng, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Serena Yunran Zhang, Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hua Zhong, Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong