Notes on Contributors

Erik Alda is a PhD candidate in justice, law, and criminology at American University, Washington, DC. Erik has conducted extensive research and published peer‐reviewed articles on Latin America, the Caribbean and sub‐Saharan Africa on issues related to crime and violence, policing, and related issues. Erik’s main interest lies in the measurement of efficiency of criminal justice institutions and differences in crime and security in developing countries.

Thomas S. Alexander is Lieutenant of Police with the Hagerstown, MD, police department and the Director of Grants and Research. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the University of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and in the graduate Criminal Justice Management program. His current research interests are in homicide clearance, race and policing, and evidence‐based policing strategies. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland.

Olivia R. Allen is a graduate student at the University of Missouri‐Kansas City, where she graduated with her bachelor’s degree. She is currently the principal investigator of an evaluation of a summer jobs and life‐skills program designed to prevent gang membership and violence among high‐risk youth in Kansas City, Missouri. Her research interests include juvenile justice, gangs, and pretrial services.

Cheryl Allsop is Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales, UK. In 2012 she completed a PhD on cold case investigations, looking at how the police seek to solve long‐term unsolved major crimes, drawing on eight months spent with a major crime review team and interviews with UK Home Office, policing officials, and experts frequently involved in the investigation of hard to solve crimes.

Andy Aydın‐Aitchison is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Postgraduate Research Director at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. He researches and writes on the criminology of atrocity, with a primary focus on the former Yugoslavia, and on criminal justice reform in states in transition. He directed the MSc program in global crime, justice and security from 2009 to 2016 and he continues to teach and supervise on this program.

Alfred Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems. He has had extensive experience in both research and policy with the criminal justice system since serving as Director of Science and Technology for the President’s Crime Commission (1966–1967). He was Chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and was a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. He was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2007.

Patrick Q. Brady is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University. His research interests focus on campus crime, burnout, and decision‐making practices among investigators of interpersonal violence. His work has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Anthony A. Braga is Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Dr. Braga’s research involves collaborating with criminal justice, social service, and community‐based organizations to address illegal access to firearms, reduce gang and group‐involved violence, and control crime hot spots.

Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales (UK) and Chair of the Criminal Investigation Research Network (CIRN) that she established in 2011. She received her PhD from Cardiff University in 2000. Fiona’s research focuses on various aspects of violence and homicide and she is currently leading a British ethnographic study (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) exploring the role of science and technology in homicide investigation.

Timothy S. Bynum, PhD, is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. His research focuses on public policy evaluation in the area of crime and justice. He directed numerous projects evaluating criminal justice interventions and was a member of the evaluation team for the Weed and Seed Program, the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative, the Transition from Prison to Community Initiative, School Resource Officer Programs, and the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program.

Liqun Cao is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research essays have appeared in numerous professional journals. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004) and the lead author of Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (2014). He is also the lead editor of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014).

Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Criminology at City University of Hong Kong. His academic background is in criminology and forensic psychology. Oliver’s research focuses on sexual homicide, offender profiling, sex offending, homicide, stalking behavior, and criminological issues related to the Asian population. He has published extensively in the area of sexual homicide, with his most recent research monograph, Understanding Sexual Homicide Offenders: An Integrated Approach, being published by Palgrave Macmillan (2015).

Mark Cooney is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, USA. His work addresses various aspects of conflict and its management including the role of third parties in homicide, the long‐term decline of lethal conflict among elites, and, most recently, family honor killing. His publications include a theoretical study of responses to homicide in human societies, Is Killing Wrong? A Study in Pure Sociology (University of Virginia Press, 2009).

Deborah Davis is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College. She has published widely in the areas of witness memory, police interrogation and confessions, and communicating and understanding sexual intentions. She worked for more than 20 years as a trial consultant, has testified as an expert witness in close to 150 trials, and is a frequent speaker at CLE seminars across the country.

Myrna Dawson is Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, University of Guelph, Canada. Her current research examines intimacy, violence, and law as well as the rise and impact of domestic violence death review committees. Recent articles appear in Trauma Violence & Abuse, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash (Emeritus Professors) Criminology, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK, have conducted groundbreaking research on violence against women and published award‐winning publications including: Violence Against Wives (Free Press, 1979); Women, Violence and Social Change (Routledge, 1992); Rethinking Violence Against Women (Sage, 1998); Changing Violent Men (Sage, 2000); and When Men Murder Women (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Tom Ellis is Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published extensively on Japanese criminal justice, often with Koichi Hamai, and also in a number of other areas, including gambling in Japan. His current research interests and activities are comparative youth justice, police use of body worn video cameras, and combat sports.

Li Eriksson is Lecturer with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. Her research forms part of the Australian Homicide Project, which is a national ARC Discovery project examining developmental and situational pathways to homicide. Her research interests include violence, intimate partner homicide, filicide, and criminological theory. Before joining Griffith University, Li worked as a research analyst for the Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention.

Andrew M. Fox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at California State University, Fresno. He received his PhD from Arizona State University in criminology and criminal justice. His research interests include social network analysis, gangs, crime prevention, mental health, and communities. His work has been published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health, Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and the American Sociological Review.

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. With specializations in homicide and statistical methods, he has written 18 books, including Extreme Killing, The Will to Kill, and Violence and Security on Campus. He has published widely in both scholarly and popular outlets, and, as a member of its board of contributors, his column appears regularly in USA Today.

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