Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez Editor

Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She conducts research on police–civilian relations on the margins with interests in hotspot policing, police recruitment and training, as well as many other areas specific to policing in developing-country contexts.

Sara N. Amin is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. Her research focuses on the areas of migration dynamics, identity politics, gender relations, religion, and education. She is also engaged in the scholarship of transformative pedagogy.

Wendell C. Wallace is an English-trained Barrister, Certified Mediator with the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago, and a Criminologist who lectures on the Criminology and Criminal Justice programme at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His research interests include policing, gangs, violence (domestic and school) and education-related issues.

Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northumbria University, UK. He has a PhD in criminology and criminal justice from Griffith University in Australia and an MPhil in criminological research from the University of Cambridge, UK. Michael’s research explores police–citizen relations in the Global South.

Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez is Professor in the Faculty of International Political and Urban Studies at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. His research revolves around citizen security and policing in transitional societies in Latin America. He has served as an instructor on policing the regional training programme funded by the Inter-American Bank of Development.