About the Authors

J. I. (Hans) Bakker is the Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandon University, in Brandon, Manitoba, having taught at the University of Guelph for 33 years. His publications include five edited books, a single authored book on Gandhi, and over a hundred journal articles and book reviews. He is particularly keen on the use of Peirce’s triadic epistemology for the application of a semiotic approach to Neo-Weberian Comparative Historical Sociology.

Danielle Chevalier is a PhD Candidate working on a dissertation jointly sponsored by the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research and the Bonger Institute for Criminology, both University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the juridification of social norms in shared spaces of everyday life and the dialectic relationship between the legal and the spatial.

Caroline De Man is a PhD Candidate in the Criminological Research Center at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is ending her dissertation on how police officers and the population are engaged in their interactions on public space, the title is Interactions entre policiers et population dans l'espace public. Des ajustements du cadre de l'expérience policière aux routines d'interactions ordinaires. Her other research interests revolve around the treatment of juvenile delinquency.

Christine Leuenberger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. Currently she is a Fulbright Specialist and a recipient of a National Science Foundation Scholar’s award to investigate the history and sociology of mapping practices in Israel/Palestine. Her work has been published in various historical, geographical, sociological, Science Studies, as well as law journals, including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Social Studies of Science, Social Problems, Theory & Society; Law & Ethics of Human Rights, amongst others.

Philip Lewin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. His current research examines the dynamics of persistent poverty, political participation and environmental exploitation in Central Appalachia. His work on authenticity, subculture, and youth resistance can be found in Authenticity in Self, Culture and Society (Ashgate, 2009), The Art of Social Critique (Lexington Books, 2012), and Symbolic Interaction (volume 36, 2013).

Thaddeus Müller is a faculty member at the School of Law of the Rotterdam Erasmus University (criminology) and an Associate Lecturer at the School of Law of Lancaster University (criminology). His PhD dissertation, ‘The warm city’ (2002), is based on a micro-sociological study of the (positive) meanings of fleeting interactions among strangers in the public realm. His main areas of interest are qualitative methods, safety in public spaces of multicultural neighborhoods, violent encounters, rock-music, and drugs, especially cannabis. He is also interested in academic fraud.

Roel Pieterman is associate professor of sociology of law at Erasmus School of Law (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). His research interests focus on the social construction of threats to the environment and to human health and welfare. More specifically he is interested in the role of (scientific) uncertainty in legal and regulatory processes for the analysis of which he has suggested the ideal type of a ‘precautionary culture’. After first focusing specifically on the regulation of uncertain environmental threats, his research topic more recently includes the construction and regulation of lifestyle risks.

Diana van Dijk (PhD) completed doctoral research on resilience of child-headed households in South Africa in 2008. She is currently employed for the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) and works as an independent policy researcher and teacher.