Jayne Mooney is Professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is on the doctoral faculties of women’s studies and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. She is also Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a Broad Member of the Solroutes Project at the University of Genoa. Jayne has extensive research experience and has published thirty papers in books and peer-reviewed journals, and numerous research monographs and reports. She is the author of the Theoretical Foundations of Criminology. Place, Time and Context (Routledge, 2nd edition is in progress), which presents the core theories of criminology and the sociology of deviance as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture, writing in particular historical moments, Gender, Violence and the Social Order (Palgrave/ Macmillan), and co-author, with Keith Hayward and Shadd Maruna, of fifty key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge). Jayne is currently completing the co-authored Drilling Down the Patriarchy Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women and the sole authored The Road To Rikers A Social History of the Other New York City. She was the vice-chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division's official archivist. Jayne id currently co-editor in chief of Critical Criminology. An International Journal, a Board Member of the British Journal of Criminology and Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, and Criminal Justice, responsible for the Critical Criminology section. In 2021 she received the Life-Time Achievement Award from the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division of the American Society of Criminology , and in 2023 the Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the Division of Feminist Criminology.

Albert de la Tierra is a Co-Director of The Critical Social History Project and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. A critical ethnographer by training, his work aims to understand how lived experiences are involved with broader, historically-rooted relations of power. His current project, Preserving Justice: Historic Texts and the Foundations of Critical Criminology, documents the history of critical criminology in a manner that brings attention to the paradigm's global, intersectional, and activist qualities. He is receiving his PhD in Sociology from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where he has also completed advanced certificate programs in Critical Theory and Women and Gender Studies. His most recent publications can be found in Feminist Criminology and Critical Issues in Justice and Politics. He teaches a range of undergraduate courses related to his areas of expertise: sociological and criminological theory, qualitative research design, and gender studies. He enjoys working out in public parks, hiking through forested areas, and spending time with his son.