1950s
Frances Heidensohn has been the General Editor of the BJS since 2008. She is Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research studies and publications have been in the areas of crime, gender, law and society and comparative studies.
1960s
Richard Wright is Curators’ Professor of Criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Primarily an ethnographer, he has a longstanding interest in how urban street criminals contemplate and carry out their crimes in real world settings and circumstances, with most of his recent work focusing on the interplay of predation and social control in illicit drug markets. He joined the BJS as North American-based Editor in 2007 and assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief a year later.
1970s and 2000s
Fran Tonkiss is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been a member of the BJS editorial board since 2005, and Editor since 2007. Her research specialisms are in economic and urban sociology.
1980s
Gillian Stevens is Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Population Research Laboratory at the University of Alberta. Originally trained as a social demographer, her research interests have broadened to include social inequality, immigrant studies and the sociology of language. She joined the editorial team as the North American based editor in 2008.
1990s
Claire Moon is Lecturer in the Sociology of Human Rights in the Department of Sociology and Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Sociology since May 2007. Claire has published on the topics of transitional justice, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, post-conflict reconciliation, political apologies, reparations, war trauma and its therapeutic management, and discourse and narrative theories. She is the author of Narrating Political Reconciliation: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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