Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on , and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 23 books and over 175 scientific journal articles and book chapters on and other social problems. In 2008, the Institute on Violence, and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) and in 2008 the DCC gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015 the DCC’s Division on Victimology gave him the Career Achievement Award.

Martin D. Schwartz, Ph.D. is Visiting Professor at George Washington University, Professor Emeritus at Ohio University, and the author, co-author or editor of 14 books and over 130 refereed articles, chapters and essays. He is the 2008 Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), and has received distinguished scholar awards from an ACJS section (Critical Criminal Justice) and two divisions of the American Society of Criminology (Women and Crime, and Critical Criminology). He has been a visiting scholar at the U.S. Dept. of Justice (studying rape and police investigation) and the British Home Office, and has taught or lectured across the U.S., and in Australia, England, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Spain. At Ohio University he was Graduate Professor of the Year, Best Arts and Sciences Professor, and given the title Presidential Research Scholar. A former co-editor of Criminal Justice, he has served on the editorial boards of 11 other professional journals, while doing hundreds of manuscript reviews for some 65 journals.

The co-author with Walter DeKeseredy of the best-selling Sexual Assault on the College Campus, and Woman Abuse on Campus, and the editor of Researching Sexual Victimization, his most recent monograph (2013) sums up his 25 years of research with Walter S. DeKeseredy into their own theory: Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women. In 2009 they published Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America, and have just signed a contract with the University of California Press to produce a book on post-relationship abuse. He is currently working on the 12th edition of Deviant Behavior, by Thio, Taylor and Schwartz.

Casey Gwinn is the former elected City Attorney of San Diego. He currently serves as the President of Alliance for HOPE International. He is the visionary behind the rapidly developing Family Justice Center movement — bringing together, under one roof, services to victims of , sexual assault, and and their children. He is the founder of the nationally recognized Camp HOPE America, the first camping and mentoring program focused on children exposed to domestic violence. And Casey is an expert in the complex challenges of addressing near-fatal strangulation assaults. Casey has authored or co-authored nine books and hundreds of articles and media commentaries. His newest book, Cheering for the Children: Creating Pathways to HOPE for Children Exposed to Trauma, focuses on the impact of childhood trauma on adult illness, disease, and criminality. He has been profiled on ABC Nightly News, The Early Show on CBS, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Casey is a widely sought after speaker and trainer on issues related to family violence and travels extensively across the United States and around the world.