Notes on Contributors

Kathryn Benier is a criminologist at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her core research areas are hate crime, racial intolerance and prejudice, youth gangs, and the harms of criminal victimization. She holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Queensland, with a dissertation on the neighborhood context and consequences of hate crime.

Scott Wm. Bowman is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. Dr. Bowman earned his PhD in Justice Studies from Arizona State University, with an emphasis on racial and socioeconomic inequalities. His current teaching and research interests include race and crime, socioeconomic status and crime, hip‐hop and positive youth development, and juvenile justice. His recent research appears in various academic journals and books on a variety of criminological and sociological topics, including an edited two‐volume book on race and prisons entitled Color behind Bars: Racism in the US Prison System.

Randall R. Butler is Program Coordinator for the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Strategic Studies at Tarleton State University. He also serves as director of the Advisory Board for the School of Criminology. His PhD is in American History and he holds additional graduate degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice, History, and Library and Information Sciences. Dr. Butler is also a commissioned peace officer in Texas. His research interests include policing history, criminal procedure, Native American policing, and the process of marginalizing Native culture and youths. He has had a long‐term research affiliation with the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety and Dine’ Youth Program. Dr. Butler has published in Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Journal of Gang Research, and Criminal Justice Studies. Before joining TSU, he was Program Coordinator in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to that he was Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Southwestern Adventist University.

Kristin Carbone‐Lopez received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carbone‐Lopez taught at the University of Miami and then, later, the University of Missouri‐St. Louis. Her research primarily focuses on intimate partner and sexual violence, and more specifically on the links between victimization and offending. Dr. Carbone‐Lopez has interviewed dozens of women in correctional institutions about their experiences of victimization and their relationship to their own criminal involvement.

Stacy De Coster is an Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. Her recent research focuses on the family and peer contexts of delinquency and on inequality and crime, with particular emphasis on gender, race, and intersections of gender, race, place, and crime. She currently is conducting research on how reentering women negotiate identities as mothers and daughters.

Kevin Drakulich is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. His research examines neighborhood social processes related to race, crime, and justice, as well as perceptions of race, crime, and justice both within neighborhoods and more broadly. He was named a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow by the National Institute of Justice in 2014, and was also the recipient of the 2014 New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of People of Color and Crime.

Waverly Orlando Duck is an urban ethnographer whose primary research examines the social order of neighborhoods and institutional settings. He received his PhD in Sociology from Wayne State University. Professor Duck then served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and held a postdoctoral appointment at Yale University, in addition to serving as the Associate Director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project, where he is currently a Senior Fellow. Professor Duck has also served as visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison and at the Waisman Center, a research clinic dedicated to examining childhood psychopathology. His academic areas of interest are urban sociology, inequality (race, class, gender, health, and age), qualitative methods, culture, ethnomethodology, and ethnography. His research has appeared in the journals Ethnography, Critical Sociology, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Crime, Law and Social Change, and African American Studies. His recent book, No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing, challenges the common misconception of urban ghettos as chaotic places where drug dealing, street crime, and random violence make daily life dangerous for everyone. No Way Out explores how neighborhood residents make sense of their lives within severe constraints as they choose among very unrewarding prospects.

Robert J. Durán is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University after being an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. His areas of research concern racism in the post–civil rights era and community resistance, from gang evolution and border surveillance to disproportionate minority contact and officer‐involved shootings. He is the author of Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey (2013) and his forthcoming book is The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the US–Mexico Border.

John M. Eason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. In his prior position at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, he received the 2012 Rural Sociological Society Young Scholar Award. After receiving his PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, he also served as the Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. His research interest challenges existing models and develops new theories of community, health, race, punishment, and rural/urban processes in several ways. First, by tracing the emergence of the rural ghetto, he establishes a new conceptual model of rural neighborhoods. Next, by demonstrating the function of the ghetto in rural communities, he extends concentrated disadvantage from urban to rural community process. These relationships are explored through his book Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation.

M. George Eichenberg is a Professor of Criminal Justice with the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies of Tarleton State University. He has a practitioner background in policing and juvenile corrections. His research includes police operations and management in small agencies, as well as social control and criminal justice ethics.

Edna Erez is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA and PhD in Criminology/Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of research include victims in justice proceedings, violence against women, terrorism and transnational crimes, and technology in criminal justice. Professor Erez received over 2 million dollars in research grants from state and federal agencies in the United States and overseas. Her publication record includes over a hundred scholarly articles, book chapters, and research reports. Professor Erez serves as associate editor of Victims and Violence, coeditor of International Review of Victimology, and as an editorial board member of other legal studies and criminology journals.

Suzanna Fay‐Ramirez is a Senior Criminologist at the University of Queensland School of Social Science. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington, where she concentrated on comparative perspectives of crime, immigration, and neighborhood action. Her current work expands this comparative context of crime and considers how different people perceive crime and criminals, particularly in the neighborhood context.

Andrea Gómez Cervantes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Currently she works as the Research Assistant at the Center for Migration Research at the University of Kansas. She received an American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship (2017–2018) and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award (2017–2018). Her BS in Sociology with a minor in French was earned at Grand Valley State University in 2011. Her research investigates immigrants' integration, immigration policy, and social inequality. In her current work, she explores the intersections of legal status and race/ethnicity via the spillover effects of immigration law on the everyday lives of immigrant families and communities in the United States.

Shannon Hankhouse is the Director of Waco Outreach Programs and an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies at Tarleton State University, where she has been a faculty member since 2004. She holds a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida, an MCJ with an emphasis on Corrections from the University of South Carolina, and an EdD in Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. Her research interests are largely focused in three key areas: criminal justice...