Dr. Garth den Heyer is a Professor with Arizona State University and Senior Research Fellow with the US National Police Foundation. He is also a contributing faculty member at Walden University and an Associate with the Scottish Institute of Policing Research. He served with the New Zealand Police for 38 years, retiring as an Inspector. His main research interests are policing, counter-terrorism and homeland security, militarization, service delivery effectiveness, strategic thinking, organizational reform and transnational gangs.

Ishmael Mugari holds a Doctorate in Police Science and is a lecturer in the Department of Intelligence Studies at Bindura University of Science Education in the Republic of Zimbabwe. His research focuses on criminology, police accountability, police strategy and national security issues. He has authored several journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has also published a book entitled: “An Introduction to Criminological Theory, Penology and Crime Prevention” with NOVA Science Publishers. Apart from teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses, he also serves as an external examiner for several South African universities.

Joshua D. Freilich (Ph.D., Criminal Justice, SUNY-Albany) is a Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College, CUNY. Freilich is a past Chair of ASC’s Division on Terrorism and Bias Crimes, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Terrorism Database, and is affiliated with DHS COEs at Arizona State U., and the U. of Nebraska, Omaha, and the Emeritus COE, START at U. Maryland. Importantly, with Chermak and Connell he conceptualized, and created The American School Shooting Study (TASSS)  and with Chermak conceptualized and created the ECDB, one of the premiere open-source U.S. terrorism databases and with Chermak and Holt created the Extremist Cyber Crime Database (ECCD). He has published in high visibility journals like the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Annual Review of Criminology; Law & Human Behavior, Justice Quarterly, and been funded by DHS and NIJ.

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.