Associate Editors
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Michael Adorjan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Univertsity of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and a Fellow of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching focus on youth crime and cyber-risk, fear of crime, and perceptions of police. He is currently a Principal Investigator (with Rose Ricciardelli, Memorial University) on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded Insight Development Grant examining youth and cyber-risk in Canada. His first book, co-authored with Wing Hong (Eric) Chui, Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship, was published in 2014. His second book, co-edited with Rose Ricciardelli and also with Routledge, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research, was published in 2016. Michael has published popular articles with CrimeTalk, such as "Cage homes in Hong Kong" in 2011.
Steve Bittle is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research focuses broadly on crimes of the powerful and corporate crime, with particular interest in corporate criminal liability/corporate manslaughter. He held various research and management positions in the Federal Government, including the Department of Justice Canada, the Law Commission of Canada, and the Security Intelligence Review Committee. BA and MA in Criminology from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and PhD in Sociology from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His books include Still Dying for a Living: Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Disaster (2012) and more recently, as co-editor, Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, crime and deviance (2018), a book that discusses the legacy of Frank Pearce, that early supporter of CrimeTalk.
Karen Joe Laidler is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre of Criminology in the University of Hong Kong. In her native San Francisco and in Hong Kong for the last 30 years, she has worked on a variety of primary and policy related research including: evaluation of drug intervention programmes; juvenile court intervention; inmate grievance processes; bail reform; sentencing guidelines; risk assessment for juvenile detention; prison planning and classification systems for adult prisons; and drug use problems among methamphetamine users. On the editorial boards of Contemporary Drug Problems and Feminist Criminology, Karen has published widely on topics such as crime and control in China, drug sales, gender and youth, sex work, punishment, domestic violence and border traading.
Ronnie Lippens is Honorary Professor of Criminology at Keele University. His doctorate in Belgium was a critical assessment of critical criminology and he has published several edited books of a philosophical nature in that area: Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity: Explorations in Visual Criminology (2019 with E. Murray), What is Criminology about? (2015 with D.Crewe), Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments (2011 with J.Hardie-Bick), New Directions in Criminology (2010 with Van Calster, Existentialist Criminology (2009 with D. Crewe), and Imaginary Boundaries of Justice (2004). Ronnie's concern for students, and their lack of exposure to philosophy, is reflected in his Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Criminology (2009). Guest Editorial roles for journals such as Social Justice (2005), Crime, Law and Social Change (2004 and 2006), International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2004, 2007, 2013), Human Studies: International Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences (2012), and the Onati Series of Socio-Legal Studies (2015). His interests include organizational theory, late modern global culture, art history and public art, and restorative justice.
Valeria Vegh Weis is Argentinean/German and teaches Criminology and Transitional Justice in Argentina. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin working on resistance and transitional justice. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History where she focuses on transnational criminal law. She holds a permanent position at the Argentinean Public Defender agency. She has fifteen years of experience working in criminal courts and international organizations. Her book Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity received awards by the American Library Association and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
