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Johannes Wheeldon has more than 20 years of experience in criminal justice, including teaching in prisons, working with those deemed at high risk to re-offend, and designing, conducting, and managing justice reform projects worldwide. He has worked with the American Bar Association, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Open Society Foundations, and the World Bank. Wheeldon has published six books and more than 30 peer-reviewed papers on criminal justice, restorative justice, organizational change, and evaluation. He is an adjunct professor at Norwich University. In 2022, he edited: Visual Criminology: From History and Methods to Critique and Policy, published by Routledge.

Jon Heidt is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. He received his BA in sociology from the University of Montana and his Ph.D. in criminology from Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, in 2012. Dr. Heidt has studied criminological theories for over 20 years and has taught various courses at different academic institutions in British Columbia. He co-authored the textbook Introducing Criminological Thinking: Maps, Theories, and Understanding and contributed to the best-selling textbook Understanding Crime in Canada (edited by Professor Neil Boyd). His work has appeared in The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Critical Criminology, and The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.