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Gerardo Pastore is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Pisa, where he is Lecturer of Sociology of Social Control and Deviance; Sociology of Health; Sociology of Globalization. He earned his Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Modernity. Dr. Pastore is the director of KAIROS (together with Prof. Andrea Borghini), International Research Group on Social Control, Prisons’ Life, Social Inclusion Processes.

He has conducted extensive research on social change particularly inequalities and social inclusion processes, paradoxes of the knowledge society, university education in prison. His recent scientific publications include: (2021) University education in prison and Convict Criminology: reflections from a field research study (together with A. Borghini), in Ross J.I. and Vianello F. (Eds), Convict Criminology for the future, Routledge, New York; (2020) Carcere e scienze sociali (Borghini A. and Pastore G. Eds), Maggioli, Milano; (2019) The Dark Side of Knowledge Society: Elements for a Critical Reading of Change Processes in Contemporary Societies, in RTSA; (2018) Inclusion and social exclusion issues in university education in prison: considerations based on the Italian and Spanish experiences, in International Journal of Inclusive Education; (2018) Découvrir la culture en prison: l’expérience italienne des centres universitaires pénitentiaires”, in F. Albertini (editor) Performances de la Culture et Invariants, Sammarcelli, Bastia-Francia; (2017) Carceral Society; Labelling Theory, in Bryan S. Turner (editor), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-Blackwell; (2017) Paradoxes of the Knowledge Society. Some Considerations on the Italian Situation, in Athens Journal of Social Sciences.

Johnson Ayodele is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, I have been actively involved in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels, research, and community service for over one and a half decades. In 2019, I edited Global Perspectives on Victimisation Analysis and Prevention. Scopus (56366879400), Google Scholar, Researchgate, and others anchor evidence of my scholarship online. Having risen through the ranks, I have been a level advisor, at different times for different sets of undergraduates, Departmental Secretary of Board of Studies and Examiners, Faculty Chief Whip, member of different Departmental, Faculty, and University Committees for good university governance.
I promise to make a positive difference with my presence in the editorial quality of the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology.

Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a senior researcher at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research focuses on police interactions with vulnerable people, police education, and law enforcement and public health. An award-winning policing educator, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, where she heads up the Education Special Interest Group, and sits on the First Responders Mental Health Special Interest Group, as well as the Prosecutors Group. She sits on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the Executive Member for Tasmania, is a member of the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council, and is the Tasmanian representative for the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology.

She consults for the UNODC on vulnerability matters and international curricula. Isabelle sits on various international journal editorial committees, and on international and Australian charitable, professional and research governance boards. To date, she is the author and editor of 6 books focusing on policing and criminal justice.

Dr. Caputo-Levine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology at Idaho State University, a post she has held since 2016. She received her doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2015. Dr. Caputo-Levine has an interest in the construction of knowledge surrounding race and ethnicity with higher education. With Dr. Vanessa Lynn, she has researched the ways in which urban Black communities are portrayed in urban sociology courses. Dr. Caputo-Levine also conducted a study of prisoner reentry and extended the concept of the carceral habitus. She is currently investigating reentry and reintegration in Idaho. She has published articles in Ethnography, Critical Criminology, Dialectical Anthropology, and the Contemporary Justice Review.