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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.

I graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State University in 2013. I joined the sociology department at Francis Marion University in August of 2013 as a tenure-track assistant professor and earned tenure and promotion one year early in July of 2018. I teach several courses in both traditional and online preparations, including, but not limited to Principles of Sociology, Marriage and Family, Sex and Gender, Health and Illness, Mental Health and Illness, Society and the Individual, Family Violence, and Survey Methodology.

My primary research focus is intimate partner violence and other forms of family violence. However, I am also interested in researching other forms of violence, such as hate crimes committed against interracial couples. My other research areas include issues pertaining to interracial marriage and partnerships, and more recently immigration policy and outcomes. I have presented 23 papers at state, regional, and national conferences since 2013. I have publications in the following journals: Social Sciences; Deviant Behavior; Race, Gender & Class; and Journal of Justice Studies.

Juan Luis Lopez-Aranguren is an Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the School of Law of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and Professor of Social Sciences Research in the Master on Japanese Studies at the same university. His field of study is Globalization, Security, International Law and International Relations. He has completed his Ph.D. titled "Application of Rational Choice Theory on International Communication in East Asia: The case of Senkaku/Diaoyu" (2013). He has also received the Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship (FY 2016/17) for the 12-months Postdoctoral research project at the Graduate School of International Relations at the International University of Japan (IUJ), 国際大学: “Communication, Democracy and Policy-Making in Japan: A Study on the Role of the International Communication in Japanese Social Cohesion and in the Government’s Social Endorsement".

Lopez-Aranguren has published numerous papers on International Relations, Security and Law like "The Communicative Dimension and Security in Asia-Pacific: A communicative-viewing proposal for reform of the Japanese Intelligence Services" (UNISCI, 41, 2016), "Rational Choice Theory and International Communication: A Proposal for a New Interpretation of Article 21 of the Japanese Constitution" (Osaka University Law Review, 64, 2017), and "Geopolitical aspects of the EU’s approach to Indo-Pacific" (Routledge, 2021).