SECURCIT). I would like to thank Rivke Jaffe for her comments on earlier versions of this introduction and Austin Zeiderman for his conceptual input. Also, in the name of all the authors of this section, I would like to thank the anonymous IJURR reviewers for their invaluable effort in improving this collection of essays. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.