CONTRIBUTORS

BRUNO AUBUSSON DE CAVARLAY, statistician and sociologist, is Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He works at the CESDIP (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales), the main French research center on crime and penal institutions. He studies the French criminal justice system, using statistical surveys and European comparisons. E-mail: [email protected]

JEAN DANET is a legal scholar and lawyer. He teaches criminal law at the University of Nantes. He wrote, among other books, Justice pénale, le tour- nant (Criminal Justice, the turning point), published by Gallimard in 2007. He was chairman for one of the main French lawyer associations (Syndicat des Avocats de France). E-mail: [email protected]

BERNARD HARCOURT is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press, 2001). E-mail: [email protected]

ERIC HEILMANN is professor at the University of Burgundy, in Dijon, France. His research focuses on the police uses of information technologies, espe- cially on CCTV systems (impact on crimes, prevention effects, perception by the population and so on). His works are available on line : http://www.netvibes.com/cctv-eh E-mail : [email protected]

CHRISTINE LAZERGES is professor of criminal law at the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (law school), where she is director of the graduate school of comparative law. She publishes mainly in juvenile justice and criminal comparative law. E-mail: [email protected]

PHILIP MILBURN is professor of sociology at the University of Versailles St-Quentin (France). He is specialized in the analysis of the criminal system, its processes, categories and professional practices. He published recently Quelle justice pour les mineurs (Erès editions, 2009) about juvenile justice. E-mail: [email protected]

171 LAURENT MOUHANNA, sociologist, is Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He works at the CESDIP on penal institu- tions (police, justice, prison) and French security policies. E-mail: [email protected]

LAURENT MUCCHIELLI, sociologist, is Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He works at the CESDIP. He has published extensively on juvenile delinquency, homicide, police and justice in France, but also on riots and the history of social sciences. Web site: www.laurent-mucchielli.org E-mail: [email protected]

PIERRE PIAZZA is lecturer in political science at Cergy-Pontoise University near Paris. He is a specialist of the social history of state identification systems and techniques. He has published several papers and books on the Bertillon system (anthropometry), finger printing (dactyloscopy), identity cards, and biometrics. E-mail: [email protected]

MATHIEU RIGOUSTE is a research fellow in social sciences at the University of Paris 8-Saint-Denis. He has published L’ennemi intérieur. La généalogie colo- niale et militaire de l’ordre sécuritaire dans la France contemporaine, La Découverte, 2009. E-mail: [email protected]

SERGE SLAMA is a senior lecturer in public law at the University of Evry-Val- d’Essonne, and a researcher for the Center of Research on Fundamental and Human Rights (CREDOF). His main areas of research are human rights litigation, immigration law, and discrimination law. He is also in charge of the blog “Combats pour les droits de l’homme” (“Struggles for Human Rights”). E-mail: [email protected]

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