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Michelle L. Malkin, JD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Carolina University. Dr. Malkin’s research interests include a focus on gambling-related harms, gambling-motivated crime, LGBTQ+ and Gambling Disorder, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in the carceral system. In 2018, she received a research fellowship for her scholarship on women and gambling-motivated crime from the Center for Gaming Studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research on the Problem Gambling, General Strain Theory and Gender received the 2022 Dr. Durand Jacobs Dissertation Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling. She is currently conducting several research studies relevant to further understanding of gambling and gambling-related harms, including projects on college-student gambling risk and behavior, gambling behavior and risk among LGBTQ+ individuals, the national landscape of self-exclusion based on jurisdictional legality, and an evaluation of the Clark County Gambling Treatment Diversion Court.

Alison Cox, PhD is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. Her research interests include prison visitation, the impact of incarceration on families, critical criminology (e.g. convict, feminist, queer, and rural), and qualitative methods. Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies and Critical Criminology. She is also a contributing author to Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua).