James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson is a professor emeritus at UCLA. He has a Ph.D. (1959) from the University of Chicago. He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime[?] (1966), of the National Advisor Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention[?] (1972-73), of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime[?] (1981), and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board[?] (1985-90). He is a former president of the American Political Science Association[?]. He currently serves on the board of directors for the New England Electric System[?], Protection One[?], RAND, and State Farm Mutual Insurance[?]. He is the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute[?]. Wilson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[?] and the American Philosophical Society[?].

Writings by James Q. Wilson

• American Government[?]
• Bureaucracy[?]
• Crime and Human Nature[?]
• The Moral Sense[?]
• Political Organizations[?]
• Thinking About Crime[?]
• Varieties of Police Behavior[?]

Quotes

• "It may turn out that a free society cannot really prevent crime. Perhaps...coping is the best that we can hope for..."