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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..."
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