IJCS

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).

Professor Boehringer obtained degrees in Social Science (Cornell, 1955), and Law (University of California, Hastings College of Law,1959 and University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1967}. He has held academic appointments in sociology and law at the University of Maryland (Overseas Program, London), University of East Africa (Dar es Salaam), Queens University and the Open University (Belfast), and Macquarie University (Sydney}.

He has published more than 200 articles, reviews, and reports including on law; legal education; customary law; crime, policing, penal practice, "alternative lawyering for social justice and alternative justice systems" and the judicial system; many aspects of Philippine society; corporate degradation of the environment. His current research is focused on 1) murderous attacks on lawyers around the globe with special regard to the Philippines and 2) the “anti-illegal drug war” of Philippine President Duterte. He is Co-Chair of the Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers of the International Association of People’s Lawyers, and a member of the panel of Judges of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (Rome), and the Rights of Nature Tribunal (Brisbane) and has co-edited a dozen reports including on violence and state repression in Mexico; working conditions in Asian garment industries; the negative impacts of “fracking” across the world; the negative impact of corporate power and government mismanagement on the Darling River Basin in Australia.

Her research activities is especially addressed to: the criminal treatment of the subjects crime - perpetrator, adults and minors, with specific reference to the evolution of the alternative punishments and new models of justice, among which the restorative justice; the violent behaviours as the ones against women and minors, in a victimological perspective oriented to the individualization of care, protection and defense devices for victims.