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Dr. Heeuk “Dennis” Lee earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice from Washington State University and he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Weber State University. His research focuses on citizens’ perceptions of the police, community policing, and fear of crime. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Police Practice and Research, and International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.

Dr. Garth den Heyer is a Professor with Arizona State University and Senior Research Fellow with the US National Police Foundation. He is also a contributing faculty member at Walden University and an Associate with the Scottish Institute of Policing Research. He served with the New Zealand Police for 38 years, retiring as an Inspector. His main research interests are policing, counter-terrorism and homeland security, militarization, service delivery effectiveness, strategic thinking, organizational reform and transnational gangs.

Joshua D. Freilich (Ph.D., Criminal Justice, SUNY-Albany) is a Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College, CUNY. Freilich is a past Chair of ASC’s Division on Terrorism and Bias Crimes, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Terrorism Database, and is affiliated with DHS COEs at Arizona State U., and the U. of Nebraska, Omaha, and the Emeritus COE, START at U. Maryland. Importantly, with Chermak and Connell he conceptualized, and created The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) and with Chermak conceptualized and created the ECDB, one of the premiere open-source U.S. terrorism databases and with Chermak and Holt created the Extremist Cyber Crime Database (ECCD). He has published in high visibility journals like the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Annual Review of Criminology; Law & Human Behavior, Justice Quarterly, and been funded by DHS and NIJ.

Ishmael Mugari holds a Doctorate in Police Science and is a lecturer in the Department of Intelligence Studies at Bindura University of Science Education in the Republic of Zimbabwe. His research focuses on criminology, police accountability, police strategy and national security issues. He has authored several journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has also published a book entitled: “An Introduction to Criminological Theory, Penology and Crime Prevention” with NOVA Science Publishers. Apart from teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses, he also serves as an external examiner for several South African universities.