Editorial Advisory Board Members

Patricia Brantingham
Paul Brantingham
Meda Chesney-Lind
Todd Clear
Elliott Currie
Nanette Davis
Julius Debro
Edna Erez
Malcolm Feeley
Floyd Feeney
Jack Katz
Leslie Kennedy
Bob Langworthy
Cheryl Maxson
Erik Monkkonen
Ted Palmer
Henry Pontell
Jill Rosenbaum
Jim Short
Austin Turk
Frank Zimring

Patricia Brantingham

Patricia L. Brantingham, A.B. (Barnard College), M.A. (Fordham), M.S. and Ph.D. (Florida State), a mathematician and urban planner by training, is Professor of Criminology, Director of the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies and Co-Director of the Crime Prevention Analysis Laboratory (CPAL) at Simon Fraser University. She served as Director of Programme Evaluation at the Department of Justice Canada from 1985 through 1988. During 1991-92 she was one of the four members of the Government of British Columbia's special Task Force on Public Order.

Dr. Brantingham has conducted fundamental research into the organization and operation of legal aid systems in Canada and elsewhere. Her evaluation of the experimental introduction of a public defender office in British Columbia has had impact throughout the British Commonwealth.

Dr. Brantingham has been involved in the development and application of principles of environmental criminology and situational crime prevention for more than two decades. She worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the development of its standard training course on crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and has recently worked with the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver in development of an environmental criminology course for architects and urban planners. She is internationally known for her work on offender target selection processes and on the geography of crime. Her mathematical work on the distribution of crime in relation to the structure of neighborhoods is fundamental to the field of environmental criminology.

Dr. Brantingham's advanced seminar on crime prevention through environmental design features field projects in which teams of students analyze and recommend solutions for discrete crime problems nominated by police departments and planning agencies throughout British Columbia. Recent projects have included redesign of a municipal downtown core; regulation of problems associated with bars and cabarets; reduction of problems associated with video game establishments; and reduction of problems associated with a major transit system.

In addition to WCR, Dr. Brantingham serves on the editorial boards of many professional and scholarly journals, including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and Criminometrica. She has held many offices in the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Brantingham is the author or editor of two dozen books and scientific monographs and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. Recent books of interest include Environmental Criminology (1991) and Patterns in Crime (1984). Recent research has looked at the patterns of crime at shopping malls and on transit systems, the distribution of crimes on road networks, and the location of crime in complex urban ecologies. She has been particularly interested in the problem of using computerized mapping techniques for crime prevention analysis. Patricia Brantingham is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, and American Men and Women of Science.

Paul Brantingham

Paul J. Brantingham, B.A. and J.D. (Columbia), Dip. Crim. (Cambridge), a lawyer and criminologist by training, is Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary at Simon Fraser during the early 1980's and served as Director of the Simon Fraser Centre for Canadian Studies during 1992. Professor Brantingham was Director of Special Reviews at the Public Service Commission of Canada from 1985 through 1987. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1969.

Professor Brantingham is author or editor of more than 20 books and scientific monographs, and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. His best known books include Juvenile Justice Philosophy (1974, 2d ed. 1978), and Environmental Criminology ( 1981, 2d ed. 1991) and Patterns in Crime (1984) both co-authored with Patricia Brantingham. Professor Brantingham has been involved in crime analysis and crime prevention research for more than 20 years. He is one of the co-developers of the primary/secondary/tertiary model of crime prevention now commonly used by criminologists and crime prevention specialists. He is well known for work on offender decision making and on the ways in which the physical environment shapes both the incidence and the fear of crime. He is an expert on legal aid and has served as a special consultant to the Canadian Department of Justice for more than a decade. Recent research has included study of victimization on university campuses, study of the geography of persistent offending, and study of crime in complex urban ecologies. In 1978 he chaired the national program committee of the American Society of Criminology and has served on that committee several times since. He is currently serving on the executive board of the Western Society of Criminnology. He taught at Florida State University prior to joining the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Paul Brantingham is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the West, and American Men and Women of Science.

Meda Chesney-Lind

Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D., is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has served as Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and President of the Western Society of Criminology. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice which was awarded the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Award for the "outstanding contribution to criminology, 1992" and The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime published in Spring 1997 by Sage. She is currently at work on an edited collection entitled, Girls and Gangs in America, to be published by Lakeview Press. She was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 1996 and has also received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Women and Crime Division of the American Society of Criminology as well as the Herbert Block Award for service to the society and the profession from the American Society of Criminology. She has received the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Paul Tappan Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of criminology" and the Founders award for "significant improvement of the quality of justice" from the Western Society of Criminology, and the University of Hawaii Board of Regent's Medal for "Excellence in Research."

Todd Clear

Todd R. Clear is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from The University at Albany, and he has been a professor at Ball State University and Rutgers University prior to his current position. Clear has published extensively on topics of correctional policy and justice system reform. His most recent book is Harm in American Penology, published by SUNY Press. Previous books include Controlling the Offender in the Community and American Corrections. Other published research covers the topics of correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional methods, intermediate sanctions and sentencing policy. His current research includes religion and crime, the correctional implications of "place," and the concept of "community justice."

Clear has served as a policy and programming consultant to public agencies in over 40 states and 5 nations, and his work has been recognized through several awards, including awards from the Rockefeller School of Public Policy, the American Probation and Parole Association, and the International Association of Paroling Authorities.

Elliot Currie

Elliott Currie is the author of Confronting Crime: An American Challenge; Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future; Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth; and, most recently, Crime and Punishment in America. He is also the author, with Jerome H. Skolnick, of Crisis in American Institutions and America's Problems: Social Issues and Public Policy. He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches in the Legal Studies Program and is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He is Vice-Chair of the Milton Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC, which develops innovative crime and delinquency prevention programs in the inner cities. He serves on the editorial advisory board of the international journal, Theoretical Criminology, and on the national advisory board of La Bodega de la Familia, a model community-based program for the families of drug addicts in New York City. He has received the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Tappan Award of the Western Society of Criminology.

Nanette Davis

Nanette J. Davis is currently a Visiting Professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, and formerly taught at Portland State University for sixteen years. Her teaching and research interests have focused on deviance and social control, with special emphasis on women and youth. In 1992, Davis earned a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for Australia, where she studied homeless girls in Sydney, New South Wales. She has published extensively in the areas of prostitution, abortion, homeless youth, and battered women, and contributed theoretical pieces on issues of the politics of violence and sexual deviance. Her latest book, Youth Crisis: Growing Up in the High Risk Society (Praeger), will be published in March, 1998.

Julius Debro

Julius Debro is presently Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Washington. He received his Doctorate in Criminology from the University of California Berkeley and his Masters in Sociology from San Jose State University. He has extensive experience as an administrator, having served as Chair of Criminal Justice, Chair of Sociology and Chair of Public Administration at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also served as acting assistant Provost at the University of Washington. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland in the Criminology and Criminal Justice program, a Professor at Clark Atlanta, and an adjunct Professor in American Ethnic Studies and Society and Justice at the University of Washington.
Julius is a life time member in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology, where he received the Herbert Bloch award for outstanding service to the Society and the Profession. He is also a lifetime member of the Western Society of Criminology and has been a fellow in that organization where he presently serves as a Board member. Julius also served two terms as Chair of the Metropolitan Crime Commission.

Edna Erez

Edna Erez is Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice Studies, Kent State University. She has a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Law Faculty, and a Ph.D. in Sociology, specializing in criminology and sociology of law, from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Erez has published extensively on various topics in criminology and the sociology of law, including women and victims in the criminal justice system. She is the recipient of grants from the State of Ohio, National Institute of Justice, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Australian Attorney General's Department and the Australian Criminology Council, and she has taught at universities in the USA, Australia, Poland and Israel. She is the outgoing editor of Justice Quarterly, and she served as the Chair of the American Society of Criminology Task Force on Violence Against Women, which submitted a report on the topic to Attorney General Janet Reno in 1995.

Malcolm Feeley

Malcolm Feeley is Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and has taught at New York University, Yale, Wisconsin. Since 1984 he has taught in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at U C Berkeley. He is the author of numerous articles, and several books, including The Process is the Punishment, Court Reform on Trial, The Policy Dilemma, and most recently, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His current research interests include women and crime in the 18th century, the history of the privatization of corrections, and the emergence of risk management in the criminal process since mid-century.

Floyd F. Feeney

Floyd Feeney is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. From 1968-1987, he served as the director of the UCD Center on Administration of Criminal Justice. He is a graduate of Davidson College and the New York University School of Law. He served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and as assistant director of the 1967 President's Crime Commission. He is a past President of Association for Criminal Justice Research (California), was Director of Vera Instiute of Justice's London office, and was recently a Fulbright scholar in Germany. He has written extensively on pretrial release, police arrest practices, prosecution and case attrition, the crime of robbery, and juvenile diversion.

Jack Katz

Jack Katz, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Poor People's Lawyers in Transition (Rutgers 1982) and Seductions of Crime (Basic Books 1988). Trained as a lawyer at the University of Chicago, Katz received his Ph.D. in sociology at Northwestern, where he studied with Howard S. Becker and John Kitsuse. He has recently completed a series of studies on various emotions (anger, shame, humor and crying) as they are experienced and expressed in recurrent situations of everyday life. He is currently directing an ethnographic research team that is studying fears of crime and disorder as they are embodied in everyday routines, in five ethnically, economically, and organizationally diverse communities in Hollywood.

Leslie Kennedy

Leslie W. Kennedy is Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is a graduate of McGill (BA, 1971); Western (MA, 1972); and Toronto (PhD, 1975). His research interests are in criminal victimization and community attitudes towards crime and safety. He is currently working on research that involves mapping crime trends.

Professor Kennedy is the author of a number of books such as the forthcoming Crime Victims in Context with Vince Sacco (Roxbury); Social Roots of Violence with David Forde (in press SUNY Press) , The Criminal Event with V.F. Sacco (1998 Nelson; 1996 Wadsworth), Deadly Deeds: Homicide in Canada with R.A. Silverman (1994 Nelson), On the Borders of Crime: Conflict Management and Criminology (1990, Longman). He is also the editor (with Vince Sacco) of Crime Counts: A Criminal Event Perspective (1996 Nelson). In addition, he has published over 40 articles and chapters in books. His work appears in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Sociological Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology. His home page is located at http://www.ualberta.ca/~lkennedy/.

Robert Langworthy

Robert Langworthy received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany in 1983 and currently serves as Director/Professor of the Justice Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author or co-author of three books and his articles appear in numerous criminal justice and criminology journals. Professor Langworthy's research interests include police organization, police use of force, evaluation of police practices, and environmental criminology with particular interest in the spatial analysis of crime.

Cheryl Maxson

Cheryl Maxson is an associate research professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Southern California and a research associate at the university's Social Science Research Institute, where she directs the Center for Research on Crime and Social Control. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from USC. Her research interests are in crime and violence, the juvenile justice system, and evaluation research. She has directed more than one dozen sponsored research studies on national, state and local issues. She is co-editor of the Modern Gang Reader (Roxbury Publishing, 1995), co-author of Responding to Troubled Youth (Oxford University PRess, 1997) and has authored more than 30 articles, chapters and reports on street gangs, status offenders, youth violence, juvenile justice legislation, drug sales, and community treatment of juvenile offenders. Current research projects, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice (NIJ, COPS and OJJDP), concern community responses to community policing, homicide, juvenile violence in Los Angeles and the assessment of a law enforcement youth violence and firearms reduction program in Inglewood, California. She is associate editor of Criminology and past President of the Western Society of Criminology.

Erik Monkkonen

Eric H. Monkkonen is a Professor in the Department of History and in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California-Los Angeles, specializing in the history of American cities and urban problems, especially crime and poverty. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1975). Former president of the Social Science History Association, he has written four books (The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1920, Harvard University Press, 1975; Police in Urban America, 1860 to 1920, Cambridge University Press, 1981; America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1790-1980, University of California Press, 1988; The Local State: The Political Economy of the City, Stanford University Press, 1995--winner, 1996 American Political Science Association, best book in Urban Politics); edited others (Engaging the Past: The Uses of History Across the Social Sciences, Duke University Press, 1994; Walking to Work: American Tramps, 1800 To 1930, Nebraska University Press,1984) and published over thirty scholarly articles. He also serves on numerous editorial advisory boards. Professor Monkkonen's current primary research examines long term trends in homicide, comparing New York City, Liverpool and London, from the eighteenth century to the present, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice.

Ted Palmer

Ted Palmer was formerly Research Manager at the California Youth Authority (1963-1994) and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Southern California. He was coinvestigator of California's Community Treatment Project from 1963 to 1967 and its principal investigator from 1967 to 1974. Ted has written several monographs and published numerous articles on treatment effectiveness, worker-client matching, and developmental change or growth in juvenile offenders. He has authored several books on correctional treatment and research. He has also researched group homes and diversion programs, directed a statewide evaluation of juvenile probation camps, and more recently coordinated statewide needs assessments of youth centers, youth shelters, juvenile detention facilities and Native-American youths.

Henry Pontell

Henry N. Pontell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of numerous books and articles on white-collar crime, criminal deterrence, social deviance, financial institution fraud and medical crime. His most recent (co-authored) books include Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (University of California Press, 1997); and Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America (Prentice Hall, 1998).

Jill Rosenbaum

Jill Leslie Rosenbaum is a Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University. She received her Ph.D. at SUNY-Albany. Her research has focused on female crime and delinquency, issues of social control, popular culture and crime, and juvenile justice. She recently completed an evaluation of the Weed and Seed Program in Santa Ana, California and is currently working with the Office of Criminal Justice Planning (California) in their transition to outcomes based accountability.

Jim Short

Jim Short is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Washington State University. The current Past-President of the American Society of Criminology, Jim is a Fellow of the Society and recipient of its Edwin Sutherland Award. He has also received the Paul Tappan Award of the Western Society of Criminology and the Bruce Smith Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He has served as President of the Pacific Sociological Association, and as President, and Secretary, of the American Sociological Association, and as Editor of the American Sociological Review. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institute of Criminology (Cambridge University), the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford), and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio. His most recent book is Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime (Westview, 1997).

Austin Turk

Austin T. Turk is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, formerly department chair and interim director of the Robert B. Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies. A Fellow and former President of the American Society of Criminology, as well as a former Trustee of the Law and Society Association, he has written extensively on the linkages among law, power, and social conflict. He is the author of Criminality and Legal Order (1969), Legal Sanctioning and Social Control (1972), and Political Criminality: The Defiance and Defense of Authority (1982). Current research interests include community policing, inequality and sociolegal control, political violence, and sociolegal development in South Africa.

Frank Zimring

Franklin Zimring has for more than two decades been a leading figure in empirical research relating to legal policy and legal institutions. Among his many empirical studies are a sequence of eight analyses of violent assaults and robberies that is widely regarded as the factual foundation for modern firearms control, as well as empirical studies of sentencing behavior in homicide cases, studies of the selection process and impact of pretrial diversion programs in New York City, and a series of "sound-ings" in deterrence that range from bad check behavior in Nebraska to the influence of criminal prohibition on abortions in Hawaii.

Zimring's work was first based at the University of Chicago where he directed the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice from 1973 to 1985. He came to Berkeley in 1985 as the Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute and its program in criminal justice. Prior to moving to Berkeley, Zimring held the Llewellyn Chair in Jurisprudence at Chicago. His major books prior to Berkeley included Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control (with Gordon Hawkins) and The Changing World of Adolescence.

Since coming to Berkeley, Zimring's major scholarly focus has been a series of studies of the relationship between social change and changes in the criminal law. Capital Punishment and the American Agenda, the first of these volumes, was a portrait of the process of abolition in Western industrial democracies with special emphasis on the implications of that process for constitutional law and policy in the United States. The capital punishment volume, like five of the six books Zimring has completed at Berkeley, was co-authored by Gordon Hawkins. The Citizen's Guide to Gun Control, published in 1987, is a comprehensive statement of policy research on the relationship between firearms and violence and the impact of gun control measures on gun violence. Social Control of the Drinking Driver, published in 1988, is an analysis of changes in law and practice relating to drinking and driving in ten Western nations. This book was co-edited with Michael Laurence, the first Young Scholar at the Earl Warren Legal Institute, and John Snortum, a psychologist from Claremont College. Pornography in a Free Society, published in 1989, examines the role of governmental commissions (there have been at least five) on the decriminalization of sexually explicit erotic communication. The special interest of this topic is the sweeping tendency toward decriminalization of pornography in industrial nations. The Scale of Imprisonment, published in 1991, was an attempt by Zimring and Hawkins to create as a topic of scholarly importance in American legal studies the examination of what factors determine how many persons a governmental unit chooses to imprison. The book pays special attention to the sharp increase in rates of imprisonment in the United States since 1975. Finally, The Search for Rational Drug Control, published in 1992, is a scholarly analysis of drug control policy process at a time when drug control has assumed central importance in American criminal law.

Professor Zimring's major administrative responsibility at Berkeley is directing the Earl Warren Legal Institute, building it into a major laboratory for fact research on law. His teaching responsibilities are split between Boalt Hall, where he teaches family law and criminal law, and the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program, where he has created a course in juvenile justice and teaches a policy analysis course on the criminal justice system.