Dr. Jana Arsovska, a native of Macedonia, is an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York in New York. She teaches International Criminology, Crime & Justice in the Balkans, Sociology of Human Rights, Qualitative Research Methods, and other courses. She holds a PhD degree in Criminology from Leuven University in Belgium where she studied the role of cultural codes in the evolution of ethnic Albanian organized crime groups. Dr. Arsovska has published extensively on Balkan organized crime and human trafficking in scholarly journals and intelligence magazines, and is the co-editor/author of the book Restoring Justice After Large-Scale Conflict: Kosovo, Congo and the Israeli-Palestinian Case [Willan Publishing, 2008]. Dr. Arsovska is involved in qualitative and ethnographic research on organized crime, and has conducted prison studies on related topics in Europe and the United States. Her main research interests include transnational organized crime, including human trafficking, with focus on South East Europe and West Africa.See decodingalbanianorganizedcrime.com