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Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research

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SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW AND DEVIANCE

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SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW AND DEVIANCE VOLUME 24

METHODS OF CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH

EDITED BY

MATHIEU DEFLEM

University of South Carolina, USA

and

DEREK M.D. SILVA

King’s University College, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

About the Contributors

Valerie R. Anderson, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, USA, conducts research in the areas of human trafficking and juvenile justice. She recently served as the principal investigator on a statewide human trafficking prevalence study funded by the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.

Barak Ariel, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK and Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in experimental criminology and evidence-based policy, particularly in respect of technology in policing, place-based interventions, deterrence, legitimacy, and counter terrorism.

Nawal Ammar, Professor and Dean, Rowan University, USA, is an expert on violence against immigrant women. She is the author of over 100 research manuscripts. Her recent work concerns promoting access to justice for immigrant crime victims and children in the US justice system in National Center for State Courts and American Civil Liberties (2018).

Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK, specializes in quantitative and experimental analyses of police-related issues, particularly domestic abuse and the use of algorithms in policing.

Thomas G. Blomberg, Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, USA. His research interests include elderly victimization, the impact of education on delinquency, life course theory, and methods for advancing research in criminal justice.

Julie Brancale, Teaching Faculty Member, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, USA. Dr Brancale’s research interests include the study of elderly victimization, life course theory, and adult and juvenile correctional policies.

Garth Davies, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada, specializes in evaluating programs for countering violent extremism, the social psychology of radicalization, and the statistical modeling and projection of violent right-wing extremism. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society.

Mathieu Deflem, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, USA, specializes in the sociology of social control, terrorism, policing, sociology of law, and sociological theory. He is the author of four books, including The Policing of Terrorism (Routledge, 2010) and Sociology of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, West Virginia University, USA, specializes in the areas of violence against women and rural criminology. He received awards for his research from divisions of the American Society of Criminology and sections of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Finn-Aage Esbensen is E. Desmond Lee Professor, Youth Crime and Violence, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA. He has served as the Principal Investigator of numerous evaluations of school-based prevention programs and is currently PI on the NIJ funded UMSL CSSI project.

Richard Frank, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada, specializes in cybercrime, with an interest in hackers and security issues, such as online terrorism and warfare. He is the Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Security Informatics.

Tiana Gaudette, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada, specializes in extremists’ use of fringe online platforms, the alt-right, and right-wing extremism. She is a Research Assistant on a Public Safety Canada-funded project on right-wing extremism in Canada. She is also a Research Assistant at the International CyberCrime Research Centre.

Sadaf Hashimi, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University – Newark, USA, is a Doctoral student. Her primary research interests include networks and crime, collective behavior, illicit markets, and criminal justice policy.

Teresa C. Kulig, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, specializes in the study of the nature and prevalence of human trafficking, theories of victimization, rape myth acceptance in India, public perceptions on justice-related topics, and laws named after crime victims.

Navin Kumar, Department of Sociology, Yale University, USA, works in the area of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Drug Use. Current projects include the effects of social networks on treatment retention among people receiving medication for opioid use disorder, and the use of sexual history in routine health screening to identify targets for behavioral interventions.

Alex Luscombe, candidate, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include policing, corruption, secrecy, and freedom of information law. He has published in a number of academic journals, including Social Forces, British Journal of Criminology, and International Political Sociology.

Timothy McCuddy, Assistant Research Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA. His research focuses on how technology affects social processes related to crime. He is currently the Project Director of the UMSL Comprehensive School Safety Initiative.

Jennifer O’Neill is a Doctoral student at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA. She conducts school-based research and her work focuses on schools and deviance, as well as identity and delinquency.

Marie Ouellet, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University, USA, is interested in how delinquent groups emerge and evolve, and the role of networks in shaping these dynamics. Her research has been published in Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, and Social Networks.

Ryan Scrivens, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA, specializes in terrorists’ and extremists’ use of the Internet, right-wing extremism, and computational social science. He is a Research Associate at the International CyberCrime Research Centre, a Visiting Researcher at VOX-Pol, and an Associate Editor of Perspectives on Terrorism.

Derek M. D. Silva, Department of Sociology, King’s University College at Western University, Canada, specializes in radicalization and violent extremism, policing, sport, and social control. His most recent work can be found in peer-reviewed journals Sociological Forum, Race & Class, and the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Christopher J. Sullivan, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, USA, works in the areas of developmental and life-course criminology, juvenile justice, and research methodology and analytic methods.

Sarah Turnbull, Department of Criminology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, works in the areas of immigration detention and deportation, gender, race, and punishment, reentry, and border criminology. She is the author of Parole in Canada: Gender and Diversity in the Federal System (UBC Press, 2016).

Kevin Walby, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice and Chancellor’s Research Chair, University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons as well as book review editor for Surveillance & Society and Security Journal.

Arshia U. Zaidi, Associate Professor Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Criminology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, she works in the areas of intimate partner violence, issues of immigration, ethnic identity, race, gender, sexuality and family generational issues, survivors of elderly abuse, immigrant youth, information technology/social media, and also specializes in qualitative and quantitative methodology.