Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect

Boran Ali Mercan

Ankara University

Turkey

Boran Ali Mercan, PhD is Assoc. Prof. in the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University. His research spans social and political theory, psychoanalysis, and discourse theory, and he publishes widely in theoretical criminology, policing, and criminal justice 

ORDIC iD: 0000-0002-1125-7528

Brad Tripp

Winthrop University

United States of America

Brad Tripp is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Winthrop University.  His research combines these disciplines, examining juvenile diversion and family processes such as communication.  He is also examining decision-making processes among School Resource Officers.  His prior research utilized longitudinal data, investigating desistance from crime via social bonds.

ORCID iD: 0009-0009-4982-6173

Jennifer K. Wesely, Ph.D.

University of North Florida

United States of America

Jennifer K. Wesely is professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of North Florida. Her research focuses on marginalized and at-risk populations, including formerly incarcerated women, sex workers, and homeless women. Currently she works with adults in prison-dog programs, and youth in detention or diversion who participate in humane education.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7941-449X

Viviana Andreescu

University of Louisville

United States of America

Viviana Andreescu is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. Her research interests cluster around four areas that often overlap: empirical testing of criminological theory; violent crime and fear of crime; policing; and human rights and social justice issues related to social minorities, in national and international contexts.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2733-437X

Danielle Fernandes

Research Center for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

Danielle Fernandes is a doctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Her work focuses on sexual wellbeing, sexual violence prevention, and health equity. An impact-oriented scholar-practitioner, she uses creative, participatory methods to co-create knowledge and design community-centred interventions for sexual wellbeing. In collaboration with Brussels NGOs and youth, she co-created City Confessions, a serious board game that trains bystanders to respond to sexual harassment and sparks community dialogue. Her doctoral research applies an intersectional lens to examine how migrant and minority women experience and navigate sexual harassment in public spaces, with the aim of informing survivor-centered, community-led prevention and policy.

ORDIC iD:0000-0002-8640-0448

Leonard C. Feldman

Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

United States of America

Leonard Feldman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.  He is the author of the book Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy and Political Exclusion as well as numerous articles in political theory and socio-legal studies.

ORCID iD: 0009-0001-0778-478X

Leticia Barrera
Universidad Nacional de San Martín   
Argentina

Leticia Barrera is a full-time researcher at CONICET affiliated with the Interdisciplinary School for Advanced Social Studies at the National University of San Martin and part-time professor of Legal Theory at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. Her research focuses on courts and legal knowledge-making practices from a sociocultural perspective.

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7001-9378

Dawn Beichner-Thomas

Illinois State University

United States of America

Brief professional biography:

Dawn Beichner-Thomas, Ph.D., is a professor in the Criminal Justice Sciences Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Illinois State University. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Society of Victimology and represents the organization at the United Nations.

ORCiD 0000-0001-8849-1673

Anna Carline

University of Liverpool

England

Anna Carline is a law professor at the University of Liverpool. Her main areas of expertise are criminal law and criminal justice (in particular violence against women and sexual offences) and feminist/gender theory. She has published extensively on the issues of rape and sexual assault, prostitution and trafficking and domestic homicide.

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9350-3501

Clare Gunby

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)

England

Clare Gunby is a senior lecturer in gender-based violence (GBV) at MMU. Her research interests focus on sexual and domestic abuse, emotion, gender, and justice. Her work has examined legal, voluntary sector and public health responses to GBV and how these can be used to reduce and ‘recover’ from victimisation.

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8428-6621

Lisa Flower

Lund University

Sweden

Lisa Flower is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lund University. She currently leads the ERC-funded project VIRTUTRIALS (2025-2029), exploring physicality and participation in trials. Her most recent book, “The Digital Courtroom,” examines how digitalization reshapes judicial processes and participation and she is an expert in courtroom ethnography.

Tove Gustavsson

Lund University

Sweden

Tove Gustavsson is a doctoral student of Sociology at Lund University. She is currently working on her dissertation (2021–2026), examining social interactions and mechanisms of control in cryptoforums.. She has previously conducted courtroom ethnographic fieldwork for the projects E-ViVi and VIRTUTRIALS

Tiantian Zheng

State University of New York, Cortland

United States of America

Tiantian Zheng is SUNY Distinguished Professor with a PhD from Yale University. She is the author/coauthor of 11 academic books, including Red Lights (2009), Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China (2009), Tongzhi Living (2015), and Violent Intimacy (2022), which received four national book awards: the 2010 Sara Whaley Book Award, the 2011 Research Publication Book Award, the 2022 Research Publication Book Award, and the Choice award for “Outstanding Academic Title.”

Hannah Nario-Lopez

University of the Philippines - Diliman; State University of New York - University at Buffalo

Philippines; United States

Hannah Glimpse Nario-Lopez is a Ph.D. Sociology student at The State University of New York, University at Buffalo (UB) under the Fulbright scholarship. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines - Diliman. Her research focused on relational coping strategies of officers toward material deprivations, emotions in carceral facilities, and rehabilitative penal cultures.

ORDIC iD: 0000-0002-2401-6854

Yael Granot

Smith College

United States of America

Luke Bennett

Sheffield Hallam University

United Kingdom

Formerly an environmental lawyer in corporate practice, Luke moved to Sheffield Hallam University to teach and research in 2007. Luke’s PhD (2015) examined cultures of lay interpretation of place-based legal requirements, and he has been thinking and writing about legal geography ever since. Luke's work is chronicled on his blogsite: https://lukebennett13.wordpress.com/.

Kreseda Smith

Harper Adams University

United Kingdom

Dr Kreseda Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Rural Criminology and Social Science at Harper Adams University. Her research includes agricultural crime, farmer mental health, impacts of rural crime, and crime prevention decision-making. She is the Chair of the European Rural Criminology Working Group, and Director of HAU’s Rural Resilience Research Group (3RG).

ORDIC iD: 0000-0002-3683-6550

Hadar Aviram

University of California Law, San Francisco

United States of America

Hadar Aviram is the Thomas E. Miller '73 Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco. She is the former President of the Western Society of Criminology and the author of four books about punishment, incarceration, and correctional conditions.

ORDIC iD: 0000-0002-5674-7555

Hannah Dickinson

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

Hannah Dickinson is a Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Manchester, UK. Her research explores the commodification and (illegal) trade in marine species, the Blue Economy, and the role of ocean governance in shaping marine biodiversity conservation in Europe and the United States.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5945-1397

Emily Greberman

Rutgers University

United States of America

Emily Greberman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice. Her work focuses on corrections and carceral relationships, comparative justice, and public health/drug policy. Her dissertation explores different utilities of storytelling and the creation and sharing of personal narratives in relation to the criminal-legal system

ORDIC iD: 0000-0002-9272-9338

Colleen M. Berryessa

Rutgers University

United States of America

Colleen M. Berryessa is an Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice. Her research, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, examines how psychological processes, perceptions, attitudes, and social contexts influence the criminal justice system, particularly in relation to courts, sentencing, and forms of punishment broadly defined.

ORDIC iD: 0000-0003-1670-7484

Yuliya Zabyelina

The University of Alabama

United States of America

Yuliya Zabyelina is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama. Her research focuses on transnational organized crime and corruption. She is the author of award-winning Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She has published widely, advised international organizations, and contributed to global policy initiatives on organized crime and anti-corruption.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3255-4553

Heidi Rademacher

State University of New York, Brockport

United States of America

Heidi Rademacher is an associate professor of sociology whose research investigates the intersections of gender, law, and development. Dr. Rademacher has published in both sociology and interdisciplinary journals, including Sociology of Development, Environmental Sociology, Social Compass, College Teaching, and the International Journal of Sociology. She has co-edited two special issues of Sociology of Development with Enrique S. Pumar. From 2020-2025, she worked as a program evaluator for the New York State Unified Court System.

Rosemary L. Gido

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

United States of America

Rosemary L. Gido, PhD, has a 40+-year career in research, public policy, and university teaching. The author of Turnstile Justice: Issues in American Corrections and Women’s Mental Health Issues across the Criminal Justice System, her current research on cumulative disadvantage has led to her scholarship endowments for Pennsylvania rural young women and mothers attending college with their children.

Robin Conley Riner

Marshall University

United States of America

Dr. Robin Conley Riner is professor of anthropology at Marshall University. Her research investigates the intersections between language, morality, and institutional violence. Her work investigates the language of US criminal trials and she is currently engaged in multiple projects that seek to understand the experiences of military veterans.

Isabel Crowhurst

University of Essex

United Kingdom

Isabel is Reader (Associate Professor) in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her work explores how social norms are mobilized to exclude individuals from full citizenship, focusing on the governance of commercial sex and intimate and personal lives.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8125-7147

Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette

Programa de Antropologia social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Thaddeus Blanchette is a social anthropologist who has written extensively on sex work and human trafficking in Brazil, on migration studies, and on the history indigenous administration. He is a member of the Puta da Vida Collective in Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Rio de Janeiro state anti-trafficking committee.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8828-3943

Natânia Lopes

Universidade Federal Fluminense,

Brasil

Natânia Lopes is a writer and researcher. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a postdoctoral degree in Literature from the Fluminense Federal University. She is an activist with the Brazilian Prostitutes Network and the Puta Davida Collective, and a psychoanalyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Rio de Janeiro.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3326-4814

Naara Maritza

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Naara Maritza has Master's degree in Basic Education. She is a researcher and activist for the rights of sex workers in the Puta Davida Collective and member of the Brazilian Network of Prostitutes (RBP). She is also currently a literacy teacher in the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro.

ORCID: 0000-0003-6819-338X

Laura Rebecca Murray

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Laura is a professor in the Núcleo de Estudos de Políticas Públicas em Direitos Humanos (Center for Research on Public Policy in Human Rights) and member of the Coletivo Puta Davida in Rio de Janeiro. Her work, which incorporates ethnographic, visual and archival methods, focuses on activism, sexual rights, State violence, public health and knowledge production processes in the context of prostitution.

Orcid:0000-0002-6245-2227

Yael Granot

Smith College

United States of America

Yael Granot is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Smith College. Her research intersects psychology and law, exploring how processes related to attention and identity predict legal judgments. Using eyetracking and other experimental techniques she examines how people ‘see’ the same information in visual evidence yet come to starkly different conclusions.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2264-6219

Neal Feigenson

Quinnipiac University School of Law

United States of America

Neal Feigenson is Lynne L. Pantalena Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University. He studies the psychology of juror decision-making and the effects of visual evidence and communication in the law. His books include Law on Display: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment and Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom.

ORCID: 0000-0002-3118-0978

Marielle Maple

Smith College

United States of America

Marielle Maple is a social psychology researcher specializing in perception, bias, legal decision-making, and emotion in the criminal justice system. Marielle received their B.A. in Psychology from Smith College.

Jessie Zhou

Smith College

United States of America

Jessie Zhou is a senior at Smith College, double-majoring in Psychology and Philosophy. Jessie's academic interests center on the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and law, with a focus on how cognitive, emotional, and ethical frameworks shape justice-oriented decision-making and contentious moral issues.

Brittany VandeBerg

University of Alabama

United States of America

Brittany VandeBerg is a professor of criminology and criminal justice and a former consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Her research examines offender and victimization experiences in the context of piracy off the coast of Somalia, domestic violence, gun violence, and prison reform in the southern United States.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2033-4609

Susan Dewey

University of Alabama

United States of America

Susan Dewey is a professor of criminology and criminal justice and author or lead editor of over 20 books, including (with Brittany VandeBerg, Liz Kilgo, and Austin Lee) the forthcoming Showing Out: The Work of Emotions in Southern Women’s Prisons. In her forensic practice, Susan serves the community both as a therapeutic mediator in contentious child custody cases and as a case investigator for criminal defense attorneys representing capital murder defendants facing the death penalty.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6479-3674

Biography

Susan Dewey is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama who uses immersive, community-based participatory research methods to understand violence, vulnerability, and criminal justice institutions. She is the author/editor of 16 book-length works and over 100 articles and reports, with this research supported by the National Science Foundation, Census Bureau, Department of Justice, Fulbright-Hays, UN Women, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Microsoft Philanthropies, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, the Correctional Education Association, and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.

Brittany VandeBerg is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama, where she researches violence and resilience with a particular focus on gender. VandeBerg is a special assistant to the United Nations International Law Commission Special Rapporteur for Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea and a former consultant with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Counter Piracy Programme and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Somalia Fisheries Sector.

Crime often produces strong reactions and emotions, both as a personal experience and area for policy. This is a well-known and debated topic in criminology. This handbook offers a new and exciting take on this as it sheds light on these reactions and emotions with chapters on an impressive range of criminological issues exploring different aspects and effects of affect. With this handbook the editors Dewey and VandeBerg together with authors from several continents and disciplines offer valuable contributions both to criminology and affect studies. 

May-Len Skilbrei, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway

The editors present culturally and geographically wide-ranging case studies which examine crime and justice processes through the analytical lens of affect theory. Contributors to this volume make a strong case for why affect theory should be central to both criminological theorizing and criminal justice practice. The important findings presented in this publication make it a must read for criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, gender studies specialists, critical theorists, and political scientists. In sum, anyone wishing to effectively deal with offenders as well as those involved in the challenging work of criminal justice practice will find this work useful.

Richard J. Chacon, Professor of Anthropology at Winthrop University