Biographical note

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, and Distinguished Professor of Administration of Justice at George Mason University.  He is an elected  Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.  He is also Co-Chair of the steering committee of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, a member of the Harvard University/National Institute of Justice Executive Session in Policing, and of the National Research Council Committee on Crime, Law and Justice.  Professor Weisburd has a long interest in Crime and Place studies beginning with his involvement in a series of experimental studies of police interventions at crime places, including the Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment, the Jersey City Drug Market Analysis Experiment and the Jersey City Violent Crime Hot Spots Experiment.  Professor Weisburd is presently working on a book with Liz Groff and SueMing Yang that explores the varying factors that explain variation in developmental trends of crime at micro places over time that will be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Weisburd is author or editor of fifteen books and more than eighty scientific articles.

Gerben Bruinsma, born in The Hague, studied sociology and criminology at Utrecht University. After his graduation in 1975 he became lecturer of criminology and penology at the Criminological Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 1981 he left for the Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy at Twente University at Enschede. In 1985 he was appointed as associate professor in methodology and research methods. In the same year he finished his doctoral dissertation ‘Crime as a social process. A test of the differential association theory in the version of K-D. Opp’. He was co-founder and director of the International Police Institute at the University of Twente and in 1995 he became professor of criminology at that university. From 1999 he has been director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), a national research institute of the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). From that year till 2009 he also was professor of criminology of the faculty of Law of Leiden University. Bruinsma established and developed a bachelor and master program in criminology at Leiden University in the early 2000s. From September 2009 he has become professor of environmental criminology at the Vrije University of Amsterdam. He has been editor of various journals and had a great number of advisory and board positions in the field. He published many articles and books on criminological issues like criminological theory, juvenile delinquency, policing, organized crime and, geographic and historic criminology. In November 2009 he received the first Freda Adler Distinguished International Scholar Award van de Division of International Criminology van de American Society of Criminology.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND AREAS:
Karen Amendola, Police Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Psychology of Law

Arjan Blokland, NSCR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands &
Daniel S. Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Data, Methods, and Statistics

Martin Killias, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland &
Gwladys Gillieron, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany
Social Interventions and Prevention

Cynthia Lum, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Crime Places and Situations

Doris Mackenzie, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Corrections and Criminal Justice Supervision in the Community

Stephen Mastrofski, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Police and Law Enforcement

Peter Neyroud CBE QPM, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Forensic Sciences

Alex R. Piquero, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Crimes, Criminals, and Victims

Leslie Sebba, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Courts, Sentencing, and the Judicial System

Sally S. Simpson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Explanations for Criminal Behavior