Stefan Treffers Editor

Randy K. Lippert is Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada, where he specializes in socio-legal studies, urban governance, and security/surveillance. He is author or co-author of some 90 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is co-author (with K. Walby) of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context (Routledge 2015) and co-editor (with K. Walby) of Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World (Routledge 2013). He is also co-editor with others of Sanctuary Practices in International Perspective (Routledge 2012), and Eyes Everywhere: Global Growth of Camera Surveillance (Routledge, 2012). He has been visiting professor at the Centre of Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto (2006), and Thinker-in-Residence, Deakin University in Australia (2015).

Stefan Treffers is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, with interests in urban governance. His doctoral work is on austerity and urban revitalization projects in Detroit, USA following its unprecedented bankruptcy. He is a member of the CITY Institute at York University and has recently co-authored two articles and one book chapter on condominium governance and law. He has conducted research on a range of topics related to housing governance, policing, social ordering, and surveillance and has published broadly on these topics, most recently in Social & Legal Studies and Housing Studies.