C. Ronald Huff is Director and Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, and Director, Criminal Justice Research Center, at the Ohio State University. He has also held faculty positions at the University of California (Irvine) and Purdue University and served as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii. His publications include more than SO journal articles and book chapters and 10 books, the most recent of which, an all-new second edition of Gangs in America, will also be published by Sage in 1996. He has served as a consultant on crime and public policy to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the F.B.I. National Academy, the U.S. Department of Justice, five states, and numerous federal, state, and local organizations. His recent honors include the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (1992), the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology (1993), and the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology (1994).

[Page 180]Arye Rattner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa in Israel. He served until recently as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa and has served also as the Chair of the Israel Criminology Council. He has published several articles on wrongful conviction and eyewitness identification and has recently published a number of articles that have dealt with attitudes toward the legal system and have attempted to construct models of legal disobedience. He is currently involved in a research project examining how both Jews and Arabs are processed in the criminal justice system in Israel.

Edward Sagarin (deceased) was Professor of Sociology at City College and City University of New York and also served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University. Prior to his death in 1986, he enjoyed a highly productive career in criminology which was recognized by his peers, who elected him President of the American Society of Criminology and designated him Editor-in-Chief of Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, the Society's official journal. He was regarded as an intellectual, a prolific author of books and articles in both criminology and the sociology of deviance, and an outspoken advocate of justice and compassion for those who were disvalued by society. His intellect, energy, and dedication helped inspire many younger scholars, including his coauthors on this volume.