Isabella Merzagora is full professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Law (State University of Milan).
She teaches in a lot of academic courses and coordinates a Post-Laurea course of Criminology and Criminal Psychology.
She is President of the Italian Society of Criminology.
She is author of more than 280 papers, and 18 monographs.
She has been appointed by some national and international institutions as an expert in the fields of criminology and forensic psychopathology.
She worked as an expert in some Italian jails and Courts.
She makes expertises about defence of insanity for a lots of Italian Courts, also in very well-known cases.
She has been lectures in more than two hundreds conferences.
She leads a project for the criminological treatment of abusing partners.
Currently her main interest is in the fields of genocides and of bioethical topics (medical tragic choices and disabled people treatment).

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.

Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a senior researcher at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research focuses on police interactions with vulnerable people, police education, and law enforcement and public health. An award-winning policing educator, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, where she heads up the Education Special Interest Group, and sits on the First Responders Mental Health Special Interest Group, as well as the Prosecutors Group. She sits on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the Executive Member for Tasmania, is a member of the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council, and is the Tasmanian representative for the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology.

She consults for the UNODC on vulnerability matters and international curricula. Isabelle sits on various international journal editorial committees, and on international and Australian charitable, professional and research governance boards. To date, she is the author and editor of 6 books focusing on policing and criminal justice.

Jenni Hankel graduated with an MA in International Human Rights from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. As a student, she served as the Associate Director of Research for the Human Trafficking Center where she co-designed a federally funded, global Human Trafficking Index and built research training curricula. Beginning in 2013, Jenni collaborated for five years with the University of Wyoming and a Western nonprofit to collect, analyze, and publish research on the experiences of street-involved women who have histories of trading sex. Research topics included the women’s exposure to trauma, their work histories and aspirations, their experiences and understanding of their past pregnancies while simultaneously using substances and remaining street-involved, and an analysis of transitional housing services available for women exiting sex work within the United States.

Currently, Jenni serves as the Program Evaluation and Development Team Supervisor for Denver Human Services’ Child Welfare division. Since 2017, she has also contracted with the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault as a research assistant for the Colorado Forensic Compliance Evaluation Project which is funded through the Office of Violence Against Women, Department of Justice.