Helen Taylor Greene is Professor and Interim Chair of the Administration of Justice Department in the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. She authored two of the earliest compilations of contributions by Black authors to the study of criminology and criminal justice. Dr. Greene has also authored and coauthored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Black perspectives on crime and criminal justice, delinquency prevention, police brutality, police use of deadly force, community policing, and women in policing. She has coauthored and coedited several books, including African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2002), Race and Crime (2005, 2009), and Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader (2005). Dr. Greene was the corecipient of the Coramae Richey Mann Award for outstanding scholarship in the area of race, ethnicity, and crime in 2005 and recipient of the Coramae Richey Mann Leadership Award in 2007.

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. In addition to having authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, he is the author or editor of seven books. His most recent books are Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2007), W. E. B. Du Bois on Crime and Justice: Laying the Foundations of Sociological Criminology (2007), and the newly published Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma (2010). Dr. Gabbidon also serves as editor of the State University of New York (SUNY) Press's Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice book series and as coeditor of Routledge's Criminology and Justice Studies series. In 2005, he was the corecipient of the Coramae Richey Mann Award for outstanding scholarship in the area of race, ethnicity, and crime, and in 2007 he was the recipient of Penn State Harrisburg's Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity.