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Shea Cronin is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and a Program Coordinator at the Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Shea received his PhD in Justice, Law, and Society from the American University, School of Public Affairs. His research interests include the administration of criminal justice, communities and crime, policing, and issues of democratic accountability. His research has been published in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and other academic journals. He teaches in the graduate and undergraduate criminal justice programs at the BU, including courses in criminology, criminal justice, policing, communities and crime, and analytic methods.

Jack McDevitt is an Associate Dean for Research for the College of Social Science and Humanities at the Northeastern University. Jack also directs the Institute on Race and Justice and the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research. Jack is the Co-author of three books Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Hate Crime Revisited: American War on those Who are Different (both with Jack Levin) and Victimology (with Judy Sgarzy). He has also co-authored a number of publications and reports on hate crime, racial profiling and human trafficking. He was part of a group who conducted a security audit for the Salt Lake City Olympics, the first post 9/11 Olympics. In 2014, he was appointed by the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to Chair a Gun Violence Commission. He has spoken on hate crime, racial profiling human trafficking and security both nationally and internationally, has testified as an expert witness before the Judiciary Committees of the US House of Representatives and as invited expert at the White House.

Gary Cordner is a Professor Emeritus at the Kutztown University and the Eastern Kentucky University, where he also served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety and directed Kentucky’s Regional Community Policing Institute. He recently completed nine years as a Commissioner with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and served as Co-PI on the National Police Research Platform. He worked as a Police Officer and police Chief in Maryland and received his PhD from the Michigan State University. He is a recipient of the Fellow and Bruce Smith Sr awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the ACJS Police Section’s O.W. Wilson award.