Jayne Mooney is Professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is on the doctoral faculties of women’s studies and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. She is also Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Jayne has extensive research experience and has published thirty papers in books and peer-reviewed journals, and numerous research monographs and reports. She has recently completed The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology: Place, Time and Context for Routledge, which presents the core theories of criminology and the sociology of deviance as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture, writing in particular historical moments. Jayne is also the author of Gender, Violence and the Social order (Palgrave/ Macmillan) and co-author of Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge). She is vice-chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division of the American Society of Criminology and is (with Albert de la Tierra) the Division’s official archivist. Previously she was European book review editor for the journal Critical Criminology and is a board member of the British Journal of Criminology. Jayne is Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, jointly responsible (with David Brotherton) for the Critical Criminology section.