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Professor Eunyoung Kim received her Ph.D in crime, law, and society from the Department of Sociology, Criminology and Law & Society at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of Police Administration and Criminology at Catholic Kwandong University, South Korea.

She is specialized on various issues including criminological theories, investigative psychology, corrections, victimology, terrorism, and immigrant and refugee issues. She has published a number of books, and book chapters, and articles in world renowned journals. Her latest books include Handbook for applied investigative psychology, Handbook for corrections and its relevant issues, and Understanding international crime, multi-dimensional security integrated security. The latest studies are “Torture Experiences and Mental Health Problems among Refugees: The Impact of Repatriation to North Korea on Mental Disorders” (2021), Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma; and “Gender difference in the association between alcohol consumption and depressive symptoms among the elderly in rural areas”(2020), Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.

Edlyne E. Anugwom (PhD) is Professor of Sociology and African Development currently with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His research interests include political sociology of African development; industrial/labour sociology; social conflict; terrorism and the social dimensions of climate change.

Edlyne is also the current Secretary-General of the Pan African Anthropologists Association (PAAA). Apart from being a reviewer for several reputable journals, he is also the current Editor of the journal “African Anthropologist” published by CODESRIA. He has held fellowship/teaching positions in Leiden, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Wassenaar, Mainz, Cape Town, and Bridgewater U.S.A, among others.

Deborah Smith Arthur, M.A., J.D. worked as a criminal defense and juvenile law attorney for ten years. She has taught at Portland State University for 18 years, where she is an Associate Professor in the University Studies interdisciplinary general education program. In 2019 she received the Campus Compact Western Region Engaged Scholar Award for her extensive work to bring college education and support to incarcerated individuals. She was a member of the 2018-19 cohort of Child Defender Fellows selected by the Children’s Defense Fund. As an advocate for under-served and justice-involved people for over 25 years, she has partnered successfully for over a decade with organizations including The Beat Within and the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice. She teaches courses at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn and at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. She has worked on numerous successful clemency petitions, is a long-time volunteer with the Oregon Youth Authority, and serves on a statewide task force charged by the Oregon legislature to study and recommend state and local governmental actions addressing prison education. She organized and is an active member of the Oregon Coalition of Higher Education in Prison. Deb is a co-founder and directs PSU’s Higher Education in Prison Program. She holds a master’s degree in Black Studies from The Ohio State University and earned her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Hua-Lun Huang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His writings focus on Chinese gangs, Chinese secret societies, delinquent cults, human trafficking, and maritime security.