Abiodun Raufu, PhD, a gender violence scholar, is assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Southern University and A & M College, USA and a Doctoral Summit Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Raufu is an academic, journalist, and public affairs analyst with an extensive background in media and higher education. Dr. Raufu is a prodigious writer and a relentless researcher whose major research interests include violent victimization, policing, terrorism, and juvenile justice. His works have appeared in high-impact journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, The Journal of Black Studies, International Journal of Law, Crime, and Justice, Theory in Action, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, The Journal of Education and Social Policy, Caleb Journal of Social and Management Sciences, The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies, and Guns, Gun Violence, and Gun Homicides: Perspectives from the Global South, among others. He has also worked in the U.S. prison system as a Correctional Officer and later as a Parole Officer.

Godwyns Agbude is assistant professor at the Federal Univerisity Oye-Ekiti and Claremont Graduate University in the Department of Organizational Leadership.

Edidiong Mendie is lecturer/adjunct professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento, and Texas Southern University.