Catarina Frois is an Anthropology PhD, FCT Researcher at CRIA and Invited Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL. She is the Director of the Summer Course in Anthropology of Crime, and the Specialization Course in Criminality and Deviance. Amongst her most recent works are included: The Anthropology of Security. Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (with M. Maguire and N. Zurawski, 2014 Pluto Press), Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology and Surveillance (2013, Berghahn), Vigilância e Poder (2011, Mundos Sociais), and A Sociedade Vigilante: Ensaios sobre Identificação, Vigilância e Privacidade (2008, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais). In 2015 Catarina Frois was awarded with a Gerda-Henkel (GER) research project grant, under the Special Programme Security, Society and the State, with the “Human Security in Prison: Perspectives, Subjectivities and Experiences. A Contribution to the Anthropology of Security”.