Rimona Afana integrates research, teaching, activism and artwork to document (and counter) state crimes, colonial legacies, violent conflicts, environmental harms, and animal abuse. She is Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Kennesaw State University and formerly a Visiting Scholar with the Vulnerability Initiative at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. Her PhD, completed at the Transitional Justice Institute in Northern Ireland, examined the intersecting crimes shaping the tensions between justice and reconciliation in Palestine/Israel. She convenes the Ecocide/Speciesism symposium and is now working on two book projects: one revisits through vulnerability theory her prior findings on the justice–reconciliation nexus in Palestine/Israel; the other examines how jurisprudence can address the ties between ecocide and speciesism.
Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol, Co-chair of Statewatch EU, Associate Director at Oxford Border Criminologies, and Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice.
Madoka Hammine is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in International Studies at Meio University. Her work focuses on issues around language and power, and how power affects individuals, especially in Indigenous language communities. Her interests include language reclamation process, language endangerment and revitalization, and identity negotiations of language signers/speakers. On Twitter she is @madokahammine.
Jesus Federico C. Hernandez is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include Philippine diachronic linguistics, folklore, culture history, and the documentation of endangered languages in the Philippines. He is also the convener of The Katig Collective, an initiative that seeks to raise awareness about the current linguistic situation of the Philippines. Outside of work, he is a part-time hermit.
Ashrafuzzaman Khan is currently serving as a Research Fellow with Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network Limited, Bangladesh. In his current role, Dr Khan is engaged in conducting ethnographic research to address the mental healthcare needs of underserved communities in Bangladesh. In addition to his work on mental healthcare, Dr Khan has a wide range of research interests that span topics related to land-grabbing, ethnicity, education, gender, political economy, poverty, and social science research methodology.
Jess Kruk is a sociolinguist in Indonesian Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her work focuses on identifying and addressing the exclusion of marginalized people from social, economic, and cultural life in Indonesia and Australia. She is interested in the role of language in constructing identities, belonging, inclusion, and exclusion in diverse settings. On Twitter she is @DrJessKruk.
Jillian LaBranche is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research explores how teachers and parents educate younger generations after mass violence, specifically in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Her work has been supported by the Fern & Bernard Badzin Graduate Fellowship for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the American Sociological Association, the University of Minnesota Travel Research Thesis Grants, the US Fulbright Program, and the National Academy of Education.
Kristian Lasslett is Professor of Criminology at Ulster University. He also sits on the Executive Board of the International State Crime Initiative, is joint Editor-in-Chief of State Crime Journal and Co-Director of UzInvestigations. He has published two books, State Crime on the Margins of Empire (Pluto Press 2014) and Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation (Routledge 2018). Kristian’s investigative work has featured in The Guardian, BBC, Open Democracy, Radio Free Europe, Tages-Anzeiger, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Al Jazeera.
James Martin is a Senior Lecturer and Criminology Program Director at Deakin University. James has a long-standing interest in state crime and cybercrime, and is particularly concerned with how states use both proxy groups and new digital technologies to obfuscate their role in the commission of highly damaging cyber-dependent offences.
Jade Moran is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University. Her teaching and research interests support critical criminology, especially in relation to the North of Ireland, the politics of policing, violent and sexual offending, feminist criminology, and the criminology of war.
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. His latest book, co-authored with Ulrike Vieten, is Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption? (Emerald Publishing 2022).
Gerald Roche is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in politics at La Trobe University, and co-chair of the Global Coalition for Language Rights. His work focuses on issues of power, the state, colonialism, and race, and how these manifest in state-sponsored language oppression. His research aims to aid the social movements and community practices that resist language oppression. On Twitter he is @GJosephRoche.
Vincenzo Scalia is Associate Professor of Sociology of Deviance at the University of Florence. He was Reader in Criminology at the University of Winchester (UK) from 2015 to 2021. He has been active in the field of criminology for 25 years since he collaborated on the Città Sicure project of the Emilia-Romagna Region. He mainly deals with prisons, organized crime, police brutalities. He has taught and carried out research in Italy (Bologna, Macerata, Padua, Palermo, Rome III), Mexico (Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, UNAM), and Argentina (Universidad del Museo Social). His works are published in English, Spanish, and Turkish. He is a member of the Editorial Board of both Italian and international criminology journals. His recent works include Crime, Networks and Power: Structural Transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra (Palgrave 2016), “Deadly Dialogues: The Magherini Case and Police Brutalities in Italy” (Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2021), “The Stench of Canteen Culture: The Death of Federico Aldrovandi and the Italian Police Culture” (Social Justice Journal 2021).
Martin D. Schwartz, besides currently working as a Professorial Lecturer (whatever that is) and a visiting professor at George Washington University for the past decade, he is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. Over the course of a long career he has taught about 40 different courses but his teaching and research centered on criminology theory and violence against women.
He is the 2008 Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), the main international Criminal Justice organization, and was also named ACJS Outstanding Mentor. He has received awards for distinguished scholarship from two different divisions of the American Society of Criminology: the Division on Feminist Criminology, and the Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, and was interviewed as part of the Oral History Project to interview the world’s outstanding criminologists. Other awards include the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Section on Critical Criminal Justice of ACJS, and a two-year term as visiting research fellow at the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. At Ohio University, Schwartz won a variety of awards, including University Graduate Professor of the Year and Best Arts and Sciences Professor, and was the first social scientist to win that university’s research achievement award, and the title of Presidential Research Scholar.
Schwartz has written or edited (often with Walter DeKeseredy) 27 editions of 17 books, over 80 refereed journal articles and another 80 book chapters, government reports, and essays. In recent publishing, the University of Toronto Press will publish in 2023 Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture and Violence Against Women, with Walter DeKeseredy and Stu Cowan. The University of California Press published Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence Against Women (2017), by DeKeseredy, Schwartz and Molly Dragiewicz, which won the Robert Jerin Book of the Year Award from the Division on Victimology, American Society of criminology. The 13th edition of Thio’s Deviant Behavior (with Jim Taylor) is scheduled for 2023 release by Pearson. Before that, DeKeseredy and Schwartz published Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women: The History and Verification of a Theory (2013), with Northeastern University Press, and, based on interviews with Appalachian women who were sexually abused while trying to leave a relationship, Rutgers University Press published in 2009 Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America.
Schwartz has been co-editor of Criminal Justice: The International Journal of Policy and Practice, and has served on the editorial boards of 11 other professional journals, while doing manuscript reviews for some 75 journals. His Ph.D. is from the University of Kentucky, where he was later awarded the Thomas R. Ford Distinguished Alumni Award. He has never been arrested for a major felony, a feat that seems more impressive after living in Washington, D.C.
Valeria Vegh Weis, LL.M, PhD., is Argentinean and teaches Criminology and Transitional Justice at Buenos Aires University (UBA) and National Quilmes University (Argentina). She is currently a Research Fellow at Universität Konstanz Zukunftskolleg, where she researches on the role of human rights and victims’ organizations in the confrontation of state crimes. From 2019 to 2021, Vegh Weis was an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, where she still teaches state crime criminology.
She holds a Ph.D. in Law and an LL.M. in Criminal Law from UBA and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University. She has held different fellowships including the Fulbright and the Hauser Global Scholarships. Her book Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity (BRILL 2017; Haymarket Books 2018) was awarded the Choice Award by the American Library Association and the Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. She is also the co-author of Bienvenidos al Lawfare with Raúl Zaffaroni and Cristina Caamaño (in Spanish, Capital Intelectual 2020; in Portuguese, Tirant Le Blanch 2021; in English, Brill 2023) and Criminalization of Activism (Routledge 2021), as well as many articles and book chapters in the topics of criminology, transitional justice and criminal law. She has fifteen years of experience working in criminal courts and international organizations, and is the winner of the American Society of Criminology DCCSJ Critical Criminology of the Year Award (2021).
Chad Whelan is Professor of Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust, Deakin University. He conducts research on organized crime, terrorism, cybercrime and cyber security, and multi-agency responses to such problems across organizational boundaries and professional disciplines. Dr Whelan is particularly focused on the structures and dynamics of cyber-criminal groups using network analysis and other perspectives.