James Q. Wilson, an emeritus professor at UCLA, is now Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a distinguished fellow at the Clough Center at Boston College.

Joan Petersilia is Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and co-director for the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.

James P. Lynch, Distinguished Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
William Alex Pridemore, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
Terrie E. Moffitt, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Stephen Ross, Duke University
Adrian Raine, University Professor; Richard Perry Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Greenwood, President and CEO, Greenwood & Associates; Executive Director, Association for Advancement of Evidence Based Practice
Susan Turner, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
David P. Farrington, Professor of Psychological Criminology, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University
Cheryl Maxson, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
Shawn Bushway, Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY
Robert J. Sampson, Chairman, Department of Sociology; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Randall Kennedy, Professor, Harvard Law School
Philip J. Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics, Sociology at Duke University
Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate; Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Mark H. Moore, Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations; Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University; Visiting Professor, Harvard Business School
Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology, University of Cincinnati
Cheryl Lero Jonson, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Northern Kentucky University
Eric Beauregard, Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University; Co-Director, Centre for Research on Sexual Violence
Roxanne Lieb, Director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy
David A. Boyum, Senior Research Analyst, Botec Analysis Corporation
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Apel, Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany
Daniel S. Nagin, Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Forst, Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University
Kevin Reitz, James Annenberg Levee Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
Anne Morrison Piehl, Associate Professor of Economics; Director of the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Bert Useem, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
Richard Rosenfeld, Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Lawrence W. Sherman, Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania; Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

"Wilson and Petersilia have done it again with their latest book, Crime and Public Policy. They continue to inform the debate about crime, its causes, and potential solutions, leaving it to readers to draw their own conclusions, because there is no consensus, uniformity, or 'silver bullet.' The great crime reduction debate remains unresolved but better understood because of this must-read analysis."--William Bratton, former Chief, Los Angeles Police Department and former Commissioner, New York Police Department

"Once again, Wilson and Petersilia have produced THE indispensable volume on crime and public policy. Taken together, these chapters underscore the rapid growth in our knowledge base about crime and the effectiveness of our response to crime. Yet the book also serves as an insistent reminder of the great divide between knowledge and practice. In the right hands, this book can help us bridge that divide."--Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

"Wilson and Petersilia, outstanding scholars on their own, have outdone themselves. The fourth version of their series on crime and public policy brings together twenty-one very strong chapters on current knowledge and recent developments about crime and about the responses of the criminal justice system, each written by acknowledged experts who are at the top of their field."--Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University

"This edition of Crime and Public Policy is the latest and best in the series. There is something worth reading in each chapter, most especially those on policing and prisons, and the concluding summary by Wilson. For any crime scholar, policymaker, criminal justice practitioner, or interested citizen to miss this volume would be a crime."--John DiIulio, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

"...A worthwhile purchase for any sociologist interested in summaries of work in other disciplines on the current state of criminal justice policy." --Contemporary Sociology