Brian Forst is Professor Emeritus of Justice, Law and Criminology at the American University's School of Public Affairs, in Washington, DC. He joined the American University faculty in 1992, after serving as director of research at the Institute for Law and Social Research (1974-85) and the Police Foundation (1985-89) -- and as a faculty member at the George Washington University (1989-92). In 2006, Professor Forst's book, "Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and Remedies" (Cambridge University Press), won Book of the Year award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The Cambridge University Press released his book, "Terrorism, Crime and Public Policy" in 2008 and his anthology, "Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security" (co-edited with James Lynch and Jack Greene), in 2011. In 2005 he co-edited (with American University colleague Akbar Ahmed) "After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations", an anthology of original essays by Kofi Annan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bernard Lewis, Queen Noor of Jordan, Joseph Nye Jr., Sir Ravi Shankar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Edward O. Wilson, and 20 distinguished others. His other books include "The Privatization of Policing: Two Views" (Georgetown University Press, 1999), with Peter Manning, "The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice" (M.E. Sharpe, 1993), "Power in Numbers" (John Wiley & Sons, 1987), and "What Happens After Arrest?" (U.S. Department of Justice, 1977). His most recent book is "Life on the Other Side: Fifty Things Learned in Retirement" (Balboa Press, 2020). He was a voting member of the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission from 2004 through 2010. His PhD degree is from the George Washington University, and he has MBA and BS degrees in statistics from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is married to Judith Forst (since 1964), has a son (Eric), a daughter (Laura), and two grandsons (Sam & Graham). In 1998 he played cello with the American University Orchestra.

Peter K. Manning holds the Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has taught at Michigan State, MIT, Oxford, and the University of Michigan, and was a Fellow of the National Institute of Justice, Balliol and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, the American Bar Foundation, the Rockefeller Villa (Bellagio), and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Listed in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World, he has been awarded many contracts and grants, the Bruce W. Smith and the O.W. Wilson Awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Michigan Sociological Association. The author and editor of some 15 books, including Privatization of Policing: Two Views (with Brian Forst) (Georgetown University Press, 2000), his research interests includes the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing, democratic policing, crime mapping and crime analysis, uses of information technology, and qualitative methods.

My Works:

Youth and Sociology

Youth: Divergent Perspectives

The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing

Policing: A View from the Street

Police Narcotics Control: Patterns and Strategies

The Narcs' Game: Organizational and Informational Limits on Drug Law Enforcement

Handbook of Social Science Methods, Volume II, Qualitative Methods

Semiotics and Fieldwork

Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response

Organizational Communication

The Privatization of Policing: Two Views

Policing Contingencies

The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology and the Rationality of Crime Control