James Q. Wilson
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Image:Jamesqwilson.JPG James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952). 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). Wilson is also a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. 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.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2003.
Writings by James Q. Wilson
- American Government
- Bureaucracy
- Crime and Human Nature (1985)
- The Moral Sense (1993)
- Political Organizations
- Thinking About Crime
- Varieties of Police Behavior
- The Marriage Problem (2002)