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Jack Katz

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Jack Katz: Seduction, the Street and Emotion

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David Polizzi

Indiana State University, USA

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About the Contributors

Katherine T. Baggaley is a graduate of the Criminology Master's program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her Master's thesis revolved around the social and psychological aspects of killing by soldiers and police officers. Her research interests include mental health, homicide behaviors, and the social and cultural aspects of military officers.

James Hardie-Bick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests include social theory, self-identity, violence, and transgression. He has edited (with R. Lippens) Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments (2011, Palgrave), a Special Issue on “Transcendence and Transgression” for the journal Human Studies: A Journal for the Philosophy of Human Sciences (2012), and a Special Issue on “Existential Dimensions in the Socio-Legal Sphere” for the Oñati Socio-Legal Series (2015). Recent publications include “Idealism, Violence and Censure” (2017) in Social Censure and Critical Criminology: After Sumner and “Identity, Imprisonment and Narrative Configuration” (2018 – New Criminal Law Review).

Keith Hayward is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 12 books, and has written widely in the areas of criminological theory, cultural criminology, space and crime, and terrorism and extremism. Over the years, Professor Hayward has used and attempted to update Jack Katz's sociological analysis of the ‘seductions of crime’ in his own writings on criminal transgression, aetiology, and subcultural violence.

Paul Kaplan is a Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He received his PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. His primary research areas are capital punishment and cultural criminology. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, Crime, Media, Culture, Race and Justice, and Law & Social Inquiry. His book Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment was published in 2012. He is the co-creator of the Art | Crime Archive: http://www.artcrimearchive.net. Dr Kaplan is the former President of the Western Society of Criminology (2013–2014). Prior to entering academics, he worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases.

Anna King is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Anthropology, Sociology and Human Rights at Georgian Court University. Reading Jack Katz's work as an undergraduate has had a lasting impact on her scholarly interests. She has written about the expressive functions of public responses to crime, the phenomenological meaning of punishment, innovative criminologies and cultures of injustice, and ‘doing’ gender in female offending. Her work has appeared in journals such as Punishment, & Society, the British Journal of Criminology, the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. She has been an H. F. Guggenheim Fellow, a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellow. She is the author of The Historical Dictionary of American Criminal Justice (2019, Rowman & Littlefield with Matthew Sheridan).

Suraj Lakhani is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex. His research interests include online extremism, radicalization, and counter-terrorism policy. Suraj is currently working on a number of funded projects including looking at the online ecology and disruption of extremist networks on social media and other online spaces. He has also recently completed a British Academy funded project assessing the effects of Prevent Duty in secondary schools and further education institutions. Recent publications include “Extreme Criminals” (2018) in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and “Mapping the Contemporary Jihadi Online Ecology” (2020) in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Previously, he was the Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (USA), and he has been a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester. His research focuses on desistance from crime and implications for prisoner reintegration. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm (2007; with Tony Ward), Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (2009; with Keith Hayward and Jayne Mooney), and, most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2017; with Alison Liebling and Lesley McAra). His book Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives (2001) was named the Outstanding Contribution to Criminology in 2001. He received the inaugural Research Medal from the Howard League for Penal Reform for his research's impact on real-world practice in the criminal justice system.

David Polizzi is currently a Professor in the School of Criminology and Security Studies at Indiana State University and Editor of the e-publication the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology (jtpcrim.org). He has published Solitary Confinement: Lived Experience & Ethical Implications (2017) and The Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime (2016) and co-authored the text Forensic Psychology Reconsidered: A Critique of Mental Illness and the Courts (2016) along with a variety of journal articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a manuscript focused on the phenomenology of terrorism.

Phillip C. Shon is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute Of Technology. He earned his PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois (Chicago) in 2003. His research interests include parricide and other forms of murder.