Oleksii Serdiuk Editor

Yuliya Zabyelina is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, United States. She has consulted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), serves as the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' representative to the United Nations, and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of International Criminology. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Oleksii Serdiuk is Head of the Research Laboratory for Social and Psychological Support and Rehabilitation at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine, and serves as Ukraine's National Contact Point for Horizon Europe's Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society. A Lieutenant Colonel in the Ukrainian police, he holds a PhD equivalent in Sociology from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs and degrees in Psychology and Economics. In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Michigan's Addiction Research Center. His research focuses on criminology, psychology, policing, and the well-being and professional development of law enforcement personnel.

Anna Markovska is Associate Professor at the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI), Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on post-Soviet crime, policing, and criminal justice reform, with particular expertise in corruption, organized crime, and transitional justice in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She has published extensively on the intersection of criminology and post-communist transitions and has contributed to numerous international research projects examining law enforcement, crime prevention, and the effects of political transformation on justice institutions.