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Danijela V. Spasić graduated from the College of the Ministry of Interior and Faculty of Security Studies. She received her PhD with a thesis titled The Community Policing and Domestic Violence. She teaches Police and Society, Human Security and Criminology as an Associate Professor at the University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Belgrade.

Her research fields include community policing, gender based violence, criminology, women’s human rights, and the status of women in the policing and security sectors. She is a member of The Victimology Society of Serbia and The American Society of Criminology - Division of Policing.

Associate professor Elspeth McInnes is a sociologist with Education Futures Unit of the University of South Australia where she researches family violence, child abuse and education responses supporting child and family wellbeing. Elspeth has recently published books on children’s harmful sexual behaviours, trauma and meaning making, and trauma and conflict. Elspeth’s teaching focus is on developing educator trauma informed pedagogy.

Diana Janušauskienė, PhD, is currently a principal researcher and head of the doctoral school at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. In 2020, she was elected president of the Lithuanian Sociological Association. Dr. Janušauskienė holds BA (1994) in Sociology from the Vilnius University, MA (1996) in Society and Politics from the Central European University / Lancaster University and PhD (2002) in Sociology from the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests cover human security, democratization, national minorities, and discrimination. She has over 30 publications in English, Lithuanian, and Polish. Her most recent research has focused on the social implications of the COVID-19.

Georgi Petrunov is professor of Sociology of deviant behavior and crime at University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria. He is specialized in studying crime in the Balkan region and the Eastern Europe. His research interests are in the field of study of organized crime, money laundering, human trafficking, prostitution. Authored by articles in journals like The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, European Journal of Sociology, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Trends in Organized Crime. Chair of Bulgarian Sociological Association (2017-2018).