IJCS
Editor in Chief- Profile

Dr. Mitchel Roth is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University. His areas of interest include the global organized crime and gangs, history of crime and punishment, mass murder and serial homicide and mass murder. He has written more than 20 books on a variety of topics. His most recent books include, Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs (2020) Fire in the Big House: The Worst Prison Disaster in American History (2019), The Illicit Economy in Turkey (with Mahmut Cengiz) (2019), A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System (2018), An Eye for An Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment (2015) and Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo (2016). He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology. His books have been translated into Chinese, Persian, Croatian and Turkish. He has been an instructor at the Zhejiang Police College from 2009 to 2019 and at the International Law Enforcement Academy (Roswell) from 2001-2009. Roth has appeared on or been featured on the Travel Channel, CNN, FOX, Al Jazeera, the History Channel, PBS and other media programs. In 2020 Dr. Roth was awarded the Frederic Milton Thrasher for excellence in gang research.
Editor’s Choice | International Journal of Criminology and Sociology
The below articles have been selected by the Editor in Chief to be the top articles published in the journal. The topic, scientific quality and importance in the field where collectively considered while making this selection
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Gambling Addiction Defence on Trial: Canadian Expert Witness Perspectives - Pages 319-326 Garry Smith and Rob Simpson DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2014.03.27 The Role of Gender Dynamics in the Relationship between Parental Maltreatment and Juvenile Theft in South Korea - Pages 309-318 Social Disorganization and Neighborhood Crime in Argentine Shantytowns - Pages 300-308 Community Policing, Workplace Structure and Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men and their Civil Liberties - Pages 284-299 Mafia Women: A Study on Language and Mental Representations of Women Engaged with Mafia Members - Pages 267-274 Thinking Differently about ‘False Allegations’ in Cases of Rape: The Search for Truth - Pages 239-248 Micro-Place Disorder, Subjective Powerlessness and Violent Youth Group Involvement: Testing an Integrative Control Theory - Pages 200-221 |
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The Center Holds Quite Well: An Ethnographic Study of Social Structure and Control in Jehovah’s Witness Religious Organization - Pages 1-9 Inmate Tattoos and In-Prison and Post-Prison Violent Behavior - Pages 20-31 Why do they Keep Going Back? Exploring Women’s Discursive Experiences of Intimate Partner Abuse - Pages 57-71 Estimating the Benefits of a Faith-Based Correctional Program - Pages 227-239 Aging Prisoners: A Brief Report of Key Legal and Policy Dilemmas - Pages 322-327 |
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Mitchel P. Roth
(Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Huntsville, TX, USA) View Profile
Associate Editor:
Dieter Bogenhold
(Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria) View Profile
Editorial Board Members:
Francis D. Boateng (University of Mississippi, University, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8411-271X
Sampson Lee Blair (State University of New York, NY, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5039-7139
Philip J. Levchak (University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5036-9007
Pamela Black (The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8921-7729
Youngki Woo (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, South Korea)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7600-7693
Matt Clement (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-3599
Michelle Sereno (Everglades University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0860-5819
Ai Suzuki (Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9131-1880
Yoav Mehozay (The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9453-0787
Jared R. Dmello (The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-1061
Mahmut Cengiz (George Mason University (GMU), USA)
Yumi E. Suzuki (Wichita State University, Kansas, USA)
Daniel K. Pryce (Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5859-6116
Katalin Parti (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-3237
Gang Li (Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0465-9892
Holger NITSCH (Bavarian Police University, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2091-0274
Emily R. Strohacker (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mary S. Jackson (East Carolina University, Carolina, USA)
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Mitchel P. Roth (Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Huntsville, TX, USA) Editor's Profile
Editorial Board Members:
Ety Elisha (Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Jezreel Valley, Israel)
Donato Castronuovo (University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
Danijela V. Spasic (University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Belgrade, Serbia)
Elspeth McInnes (University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia)
Diana Janušauskienė (Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Georgi Petrunov (University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Eunyoung Kim (Catholic Kwandong University, Gangneung, South Korea)
Edlyne E. Anugwom (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria)
Deborah Smith Arthur, JD (Portland State University, Portland, USA)
Hua-Lun Huang (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA)
Fahid Qurashi (Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, England)
Jennifer Hankel (Denver, Colorado, USA)
Edlyne E. Anugwom - Profile
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.