IJCS

Deborah Smith Arthur, M.A., J.D. worked as a criminal defense and juvenile law attorney for ten years. She has taught at Portland State University for 18 years, where she is an Associate Professor in the University Studies interdisciplinary general education program. In 2019 she received the Campus Compact Western Region Engaged Scholar Award for her extensive work to bring college education and support to incarcerated individuals. She was a member of the 2018-19 cohort of Child Defender Fellows selected by the Children’s Defense Fund. As an advocate for under-served and justice-involved people for over 25 years, she has partnered successfully for over a decade with organizations including The Beat Within and the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice. She teaches courses at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn and at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. She has worked on numerous successful clemency petitions, is a long-time volunteer with the Oregon Youth Authority, and serves on a statewide task force charged by the Oregon legislature to study and recommend state and local governmental actions addressing prison education. She organized and is an active member of the Oregon Coalition of Higher Education in Prison. Deb is a co-founder and directs PSU’s Higher Education in Prison Program. She holds a master’s degree in Black Studies from The Ohio State University and earned her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Hua-Lun Huang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His writings focus on Chinese gangs, Chinese secret societies, delinquent cults, human trafficking, and maritime security.

Dr Fahid Qurashi is a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Staffordshire University. He lectures and conducts research in the areas of Islamophobia, racism and crime, counter-terrorism, political Islam, and radicalisation. His recent work has focussed on the UK’s Prevent counter-terrorism strategy with a specific focus on the institutionalisation of Islamophobia.

Jenni Hankel graduated with an MA in International Human Rights from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. As a student, she served as the Associate Director of Research for the Human Trafficking Center where she co-designed a federally funded, global Human Trafficking Index and built research training curricula. Beginning in 2013, Jenni collaborated for five years with the University of Wyoming and a Western nonprofit to collect, analyze, and publish research on the experiences of street-involved women who have histories of trading sex. Research topics included the women’s exposure to trauma, their work histories and aspirations, their experiences and understanding of their past pregnancies while simultaneously using substances and remaining street-involved, and an analysis of transitional housing services available for women exiting sex work within the United States.

Currently, Jenni serves as the Program Evaluation and Development Team Supervisor for Denver Human Services’ Child Welfare division. Since 2017, she has also contracted with the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault as a research assistant for the Colorado Forensic Compliance Evaluation Project which is funded through the Office of Violence Against Women, Department of Justice.