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Biko Agozino is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. He has published several books: Essays on Education and Popular Culture, 2019; Critical, Creative and Centered Scholar-Activism (2016, FDP); ADAM: Africana Drug-Free Alternative Medicine, 2006; Counter-Colonial Criminology, 2003; Pan African Issues in Crime and Justice (co-edited), 2004; Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society, (co-authored) 2001; Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research (ed.), 2000; and Black Women and the Criminal Justice System, 1997. Also Director-Producer-Editor of Reparative Justice, 30 minutes, color, African Independent Television, Lagos, Nigeria, 2002; Director-Producer of CLR James: The Black Jacobins Sociology Series, 2008; Director-Producer, Shouters and the Control Freak Empire, Winner of the Best International Short Documentary, Columbia Gorge Film Festival, USA, 2011. Editor-In-Chief of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, and Series Editor, Ashgate Publishers, Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations. Ph.D. (Edinburgh); MPhil. (Cambridge); B.Sc. First Class Hons (Calabar).
Alexis A. Aronowitz is a senior lecturer at University College Utrecht in the Netherlands. For 3 years Alexis conducted and coordinated research on human trafficking at the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and continued to serve as a consultant on projects on human trafficking for the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime. She as an independent consultant and has contributed to projects on human trafficking for the UNODC, the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, the International Organization for Migration, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (University of Tilburg), Human Rights First, Management Systems International and Winrock International. She has served as a visiting professor teaching a course on human trafficking at universities in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands and been invited to speak at the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (UNODC), the Vatican and the European Parliament. Alexis has published extensively with 2 books: Human Trafficking, Human Misery The Global Trade in Human Beings (2009) and Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook (2017). She has a Bachelor of Criminal Justice from Loyola University, New Orleans, and her Masters and PhD in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany.
Eleni Dimou is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. She has BA (Sociology, Panteion U., Athens) and MA & PhD in Criminology from Kent. Her doctoral thesis was an ethnographic study of rap and reggaeton subcultures in Havana. Her research explores issues around power and resistance and how these affect configurations of crime, harm and processes of criminalization but also cultural and social change. She particularly focuses on colonialism and its impact today. In terms of resistance, she focuses on subcultures, countercultures and social movements. Overall, Eleni’s research interests lie in the areas of: Social Justice, Coloniality/Decoloniality, Migration, Subcultures, Countercultures, Social Movements, Drugs and Culture, Cultural and Critical Criminology, Latin America and the Caribbean, State Crimes and Harm. Her latest project for BBC is: ‘Is it time to reassess our relationship with nature?’ Her published articles are on the tensions, deviance, power and resistance, inside Cuban underground rap.
Penny Green is Head of the School of Law and Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary College, University of London. She has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, Turkish criminal justice and politics, ‘natural’ disasters, genocide, mass forced evictions, and resistance to state violence. Penny is the Founder and Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) - a multi-disciplinary international initiative to deliver research-based knowledge on criminal state practices and resistance to them. ISCI is based at QMUL and partnered with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Ulster University and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Penny’s most recent projects include a comparative study of civil society resistance to state crime in Turkey, Tunisia, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Kenya and Myanmar; Myanmar’s genocide against its Muslim ethnic Rohingya population; and forced evictions in Palestine/Israel. Her seminal work, with ISCI colleagues, on the Rohingya genocide (Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar 2015; and Genocide Achieved, Genocide Continues: Myanmar’s Annihilation Of The Rohingya 2018) has drawn widespread global attention.
Trevor James got a BA Politics Hull in 1976, and became Research Assistant in the Institute for Health Studies there. This post included teaching on the MA in Health Administration. He worked as a welfare rights advocate and manager until he re-entered higher education from 1993-6, taking the LLM at Lancaster, the MPhil from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology., and the PGCE at Bolton Institute. His return to working in education began by teaching GCSE (16 yr olds) and A-Level (18) Sociology, Law and Criminology from 1996-2004 and acting as a mental health support worker in the college. His final job was as Head of Sociology in a very large comprehensive school, teaching A-Level Sociology across a consortium of three schools. He retired from teaching in 2017 but continued to work as one of the quality assurance agency AQA’s ‘most accurate’ GCSE/A Level examiners.
Mwenda Kailemiais a lecturer in Liverpool University's Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. before that he taught for 6 years at Keele and Glasgow Caledonian universities for 9 years. He took a first in politics from the University of Nairobi before his MSc in Research at Edinburgh. His PhD was a comparative examination of policing initiatives in Glasgow and Bratislava in Slovakia on transnational crime involving or affecting immigrants who has relocated to Scotland. His forthcoming book with MacMillan, on Neoliberalism and global environmental crimes, will look at our ability to understand, prosecute and redress ecological victimizations. His body of journal articles focus on justice in the global South, peace-building and the international criminal court, environmental crime and refugee rights.
Blazej Kaucz is an early career researcher in criminology and socio-legal studies. His PhD from University College Cork, Ireland, focused on the process of militarisation of behaviours and its historical roots in Poland. Current research interests revolve around topics related to critical criminology, organised crime, sociology of professions (inclusive of notions of professionalisation, guilty knowledge, hidden curriculum, the role of textbooks in one's education, and sociology of community), and militarisation (including concepts of militarism, securitisation, and social control).
Clare Leon completed her M.Phil (Criminology) in Cambridge before going on to become a Law Lecturer at Leeds University. Her PhD was on Special Constables, and she still remains involved in the area, most recently as a Research Associate for the Centre for Citizens in Policing at Northampton University. Clare moved to Ireland in the 1990s and, as well as continuing her teaching career, worked at the Garda Research Unit conducting research on sexual offences. The work was so stressful that Clare decided to shift her focus away from criminal justice and to work with the healing power of horses instead. Clare now runs an ethical pony trekking business. She spends her days outdoors on a horse, appreciating the beauty of the natural world and sharing it with others. Recently she has taught aspects of green criminology, with a particular focus on animals and crime.
Katie Lowe is an early career researcher in criminology and sociology. Her PhD from the University of Hong Kong, focused on cocaine use amongst privileged expatriates from an edgework perspective. Current research interests revolve around the topics related to drug use and supply, risk and gender. She is currently holds a Post-Fellow Doctoral position at the University of Hong Kong. Her works focuses on drug use and supply during the global pandemic.
David Moxon holds a degree in law, an MA in international political economy, and a PhD in Marxian legal theory, all awarded by the University of Sheffield. He was formerly senior lecturer in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. No longer employed in academia, he continues to research and write on criminology in an independent capacity. He is the author of Illegal Drug Use through the Lifecourse (with Jaime Waters, 2017, Routledge) and Colin Sumner: Criminology through the looking glass (2020, Palgrave Macmillan).
Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the Law School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has a PhD on social work with young offenders from the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, and for many years was involved in training probation officers at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on probation services and electronic monitoring (EM), including Electronically Monitored Punishment: international and critical perspectives, (2013) co-edited with Kristel Beyens and Dan Kaminski. He has served on two government working parties on EM in Britain (one in Scotland), was long associated with the CEP’s (European) EM conferences and has co-advised the Council of Europe on the ethics of EM. He participated in the Pew Centre’s EM Advisory Group in Washington, USA in 2018, and was briefly international editor for the Journal of Offender Monitoring.
Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. An early supporter of and contributor to CrimeTalk, Steve has authored several books including Social protection after the Crisis (2015), The Corporate Criminal (2015), Bhopal: Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power (2012 with Frank Pearce, CrimeTalk Books), Regulatory Surrender (2010), Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm matters more than Crime (2008) and Toxic Capitalism (re-issued 2019, with Frank Pearce). He is a co-editor of Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful (2018 with Bittle, Snyder and Whyte) and State, Power, Crime (2009, with Coleman,Snyder and White). His many articles cover toxic capitalism, Grenfell Towers, health and safety at work, social harm, and corporate crime.
Jaime Waters is a senior lecturer in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. A Canadian, she holds a degree in sociology from the University of Western Ontario, an MA in international criminology from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in illegal drug use among older adults, also from the University of Sheffield. Her research work focusses on illegal drug use, gambling, research methods, and emotional labour. She is the author of Illegal Drug Use through the lifecourse (with David Moxon, 2017, Routledge), Mixed Methods in Criminology (with Vicky Heap, 2019, Routledge), and the co-editor of Emotional labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology (with Phillips, Westerby and Fowler, 2020, Routledge).
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