Gloria Jean Ladson-Billings FBA is an American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator known for her work in the fields of culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory,and the pernicious effects of systemic racism and economic inequality on educational opportunities. Her book The Dreamkeepers:Successful Teachers of African-American Children is a significant text in the field of education. Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and formerly the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The Watts College of Public Service &Community Solutions is one of the 24 independent school units of Arizona State University. It is located at ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus in Arizona. Founded in 1979,the college awards bachelors,masters,and doctoral degrees and is organized into four schools and 17 research centers. The programs are divided amongst the School of Social Work,the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,the School of Public Affairs and the School of Community Resources and Development.
Nicole Hahn Rafter was a feminist criminology professor at Northeastern University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,achieved her Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University,and obtained a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from State University of New York in Albany. She began her career as a high school and college English professor and switched to criminal justice in her mid-thirties.
Jody Miller is a feminist criminology professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the Rutgers University (Newark). Her education includes:B.S. in journalism from Ohio University,1989;M.A. in sociology from Ohio University,1990;M.A. in women's studies at Ohio State University,1991;and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California in 1996. She specializes in feminist theory and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on gender,crime and victimization,in the context of urban communities,the commercial sex industry,sex tourism,and youth gangs. Miller has also been elected as the vice president of the American Society of Criminology for 2015,the executive counselor of the American Society of Criminology for 2009–2011,as well as received the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Service in 2007.
Nicole Westmarland is a British academic and activist in the area of violence against women. She is currently a professor at the University of Durham,where she researches rape,domestic violence and prostitution. With Geetanjali Gangoli,she has edited two books:International Approaches to Rape,and International Approaches to Prostitution:Law and Policy in Europe and Asia. Originally a taxi driver,Westmarland’s first publication focused upon security issues for female taxi drivers,following her finding that female drivers were significantly more likely to face sexual harassment from customers than their male counterparts.
Elizabeth Stokoe is a British social scientist and conversation analyst. Since January 2023,she has been Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University (2002-2022) in the Discourse and Rhetoric Group,where she remains an Honorary Professor. She has been Professor II at University of South-Eastern Norway since 2016.
Clare Mary Smith McGlynn is a Professor of Law at Durham University in the UK. She specialises in the legal regulation of pornography,image-based sexual abuse,cyberflashing,online abuse,violence against women,and gender equality in the legal profession. In 2020,she was appointed an Honorary KC in recognition of her work on women's equality in the legal profession and shaping new criminal laws on extreme pornography and image-based sexual abuse. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University,Sweden,in 2018 in recognition of the international impact of her research on sexual violence and she is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is a member of the UK Parliament's Independent Expert Panel hearing appeals in cases of sexual misconduct,bullying and harassment against MPs. She has given evidence before Scottish,Northern Irish and UK Parliaments on how to reform laws on sexual violence and online abuse,as well as speaking to policy audiences across Europe,Asia and Australia. In November 2019,she was invited to South Korea to share international best practice in supporting victims of image-based sexual abuse and she has worked with Facebook,TikTok and Google to support their policies on non-consensual intimate images.
The Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (TJI),is a law-led multidisciplinary research institute of Ulster University which is physically located at the Jordanstown,and Magee campuses. It was created in 2003,making it the first and longest-established university research centre on this theme. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Law at Ulster University was ranked 4th overall in the UK. Ulster was ranked first for impact in law with 100% of impact rated as world-leading,the only University to achieve this in law.
Valerie Jenness is an author,researcher,public policy advisor,and professor in the Department of Criminology,Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California,Irvine (UCI). Jenness is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California,Santa Barbara (UCSB) and prior to that,was a senior visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Jenness served as dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and chair of the Department of Criminology,Law and Society from 2001-2006. Jenness is credited with conducting the first systemic study of transgender women in men's prisons.
Christopher J. Schneider is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Brandon University.
Lorraine Green Mazerolle is an Australian criminologist and professor at the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland,where she is also an affiliate professor at the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course,as well as a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. She is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Academy of Experimental Criminology. She served as president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Her research interests include problem-oriented policing,civil remedies,and third-party policing.
Maxine Kamari Clarke is a Canadian-American scholar with family roots in Jamaica. As of 2020,she is a distinguished professor at the Centre for Criminology &Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora &Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021,she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Frances Mary Heidensohn is an academic sociologist and criminologist at the London School of Economics,who is acknowledged as a pioneer in feminist criminology. Her 1968 article The Deviance of Women:A Critique and An Enquiry was the first critique of conventional criminology from a feminist perspective.
Nikki Jeanette Jones is an American sociologist. She is an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California,Berkeley.
Sue Lees was an English academic,activist,feminist and writer. She was a lecturer on social work at the Middlesex Polytechnic and the University of York in the 1960s before working as professor of women's studies at the Polytechnic of North London from 1976 to 1993. Lees helped co-establish the Women's Studies Network (UK) Association and the first undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree course in women's studies in the United Kingdom. She was Polytechnic of North London's centre for research in ethnicity and gender between 1993 and 1997. Lees authored five books between 1986 and 1997 and influenced the 1997 New Labour government to change how women were treated at rape trials. She consulted the Channel 4 television series Dispatches on programmes on rape.
Lesley McMillan,FRSE,professor of Criminology and Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU),associate director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research,and associate director of the Centre for Research in Families and Relationships based at the University of Edinburgh,researches gender-based violence and criminal justice systems. She influenced reforms in police training for best practice when dealing with traumatised rape or sexual violence survivors,and was behind a multimedia campaign "Erase the Grey" which challenges traditional views on gender-based violence.
Joanna Phoenix is an academic author and professor of criminology in the United Kingdom. Phoenix writes about the policies and laws which surround various sexual activities and the social conditions which underpin them.
The Reindorf Review was a 2021 article published by the University of Essex and authored by barrister Akua Reindorf surrounding concerns of a suppression of academic freedom due to the de-platforming and blacklisting of academics Jo Phoenix and Rosa Freedman who had expressed "gender critical" views.
Vicky Conway was an Irish academic and activist for police reform. She was an associate professor at Dublin City University. She was a member of the board of the Policing Authority and the Commission on the Future of Policing.
Betsy Stanko is an American criminologist academic and researcher living and working in the UK. Stanko was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Queens Birthday Honours for her services to policing.
