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Alejandra Luneke is PhD in Sociology and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Jesuit University Alberto Hurtado in Chile. She has specialized in the study of urban violence and insecurity, neighborhood studies at the urban margins and security practices/policies at the territorial level. Her teaching experience focuses on the teaching of urban sociology, state and non-state violence, and criminality in Chile and Latin America. She is currently a senior researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (www.viodemos.cl), a researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (www.cedeus.cl) and at the Centre for Studies on Conflict and Social Cohesion (www.coes.cl).

Felipe is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark (United States). His research interest are policing strategies, trust in the police, fear of crime, and comparative criminal justice. His work currently centers on the factors that explain the diffusion of policing strategies in Latin America. Before joining Rutgers, Salazar worked in government and academic positions related to public safety and crime prevention in his home country, Chile. He holds a B.A. in Sociology (Alberto Hurtado University, Chile) and an M.A. in Criminal Justice (Rutgers University, United States).