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Kyle C. Ward, Ph.D is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Northern Colorado. His research interests generally include Jail and prison reentry, risk assessment, rural crime, the impact of marijuana legalization, and evidence-based crime prevention programs and policies. 

Jessica Rene' Peterson completed her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University and received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Indiana University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Southern Oregon University, as well as an Honorary Adjunct Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of New England in Australia. Dr. Peterson's primary research interests include policing, discretionary decision-making, and rural crime and justice. 

Joseph F. Donnermeyer is a professor emeritus in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Rural Criminology and editor of the new Routledge monograph series on Rural Criminology. Dr. Donnermeyer is the author/co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books on issues related to rural crime, and was the editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology in 2016. To be published soon, Dr. Donnermeyer is preparing a monograph titled The Criminology of Food and Agriculture. He currently serves as the chair of the Division of Rural Criminology in the American Society of Criminology, and president of the newly founded International Society for the Study of Rural Crime.