James Q. Wilson was born in Denver, Colorado. In 1952, he received a B.A. degree from the University of Redlands. In 1957 he received a M.A. degree in political science from the University of Chicago, followed by a Ph.D. degree in 1959. In 1961, he became the Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. During this time, he contributed to several government policy bodies, including the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972, the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1990.
In 1987, he relocated and became the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at UCLA. In 1998, he became the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy. He is currently a professor and senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College.
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American Government
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Negro politics: the search for leadership
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The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families
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Varieties of police behavior: the management of law and order in eight communities
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The metropolitan enigma: inquiries into the nature and dimensions of America's 'Urban crisis'
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Physics Lab Experiments
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Crime and human nature
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Urban renewal: the record and the controversy
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Thinking about crime
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The amateur Democrat: club politics in three cities
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Bureaucracy: what government agencies do and why they do it
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Political organizations
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City politics and public policy
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Moral Judgement: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?
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State and Local Government Supplement
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American Government the Essentials: The Essentials
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On character: essays
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Moral judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?
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American Government With Cd Ninth Edition And State And Local Supplement And Lasser
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American Government Ninth Edition With Cd And State And Local Supplement And American Politics
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American Government Tenth Edition Plus Cigler American Politics
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American Government Brief Sixth Edition And
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American Government 2002 Election Supplement Brief
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American Government Essentials Tenth Edition Plus Two Thousand Four Electoral Supplement Plus Cigler American Politics
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American Government, Brief
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American Government Case
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City people and public policy
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The strategy of protest: problems of negro civic action
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The 1994 election
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Essentials Revised And Up Cd-rom, Eighth Edition And Election Magazine
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American Government Brief, Fifth Edition And Int Guide
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American Government 2001 Election Supplement Magazine
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Crime and Public Policy (Kritikos Lecture in the Humanities, 2000-1)
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American Government Brief 6th Edition Plus Cigler American Politics 6th Edition
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American Brief With Election, Fifth Edition And Dickens Supplement
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Against the legalization of drugs
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Bureaucracy Problem
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State and Local Government
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Basic Spanish Grammar Plus Audio Cd Program 7th Edition Plus Getting Along In Spanish Plus Audio Cd Program 6th Edition
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Student Handbook to Accompany American Government: Institution and Policies
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The 1988 election
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American Government Brief, Fifth Edition With 01 Election Magazine
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Student handbook to accompany "American Government - sixth edition"
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American Government 10 Edition Plus Study Guide Plus State And Local Supplementplus Barbour American Government Reader
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Government Revised With Upgrade Cd-rom, Eighth Edition And Election Magazine
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Just a Piece of Paper?: Divorce Reform & the Undermining of Marriage (Choice in Welfare Series, No 24)
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Wilson, American Government, Brief, 7th Edition Plus Janda, Challenges Of Democracry 2004 Election Supplement, 8th Edition
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American Government Brief And Study Guide Brief
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Crime/Twenty-Eight Leading Experts Look at the Most Pressing Problem of Our Time
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American Government Brief, Fifth Edition And Wayne Anyway To Run An Election
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American Government Brief 7th Edition Plus California Government 4th Edition Plus Politics In Action
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American politics, then & now and other essays
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American Government 10th Edition Plus California Government 4th Edition
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American Government Essentials 10th Edition Plus American Politics 6th Edition Plus Terrorism Reader
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American Government/Value-Pack
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Instructor's guide with lecture notes to accompany American government: Institutions and policies
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American Governement Dolphin Ed
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American Government With Upgrade Cd-rom And Study Guide And State And Local Government Supplement
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Two nations
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American Government Essentials With Cd-rom, Ninth Edition And Perspectives On American Polititcs
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American Government Brief Sixth Edition And State And Local Supplement
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Broken windows
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Liberalism, modernism, and the good life
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The 1980 election
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American Government Brief, Fifth Edition And World Atlas 98
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Thinking about reorganization
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Wilson Applied Calculus And Finite Math Plus Eduspace
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American Government Post September Eleventh Update
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From Children to Citizens: Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention (Springer Series in Microbiology)
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Varieties of police behaviour: the management of law and order in eight communities
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American Government State And Local Supplement
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Finite Math: Student Solutions Manual
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American Government Brief, Fifth Edition And Election Supplement
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