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American political scientist and adviser and sociologist

James Q. Wilson
Born	James Quinn Wilson ()May 27, Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	March 2, () (aged&#;80) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Known&#;for	Broken windows theory
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James Quinn Wilson (May 27, – March 2, ) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (–), and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT.

He was the former president of the American Political Science Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and Human Righ

Crime and Human Nature: Wilson, James Q., Herrnstein, Richard ...

Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime is a book about the causes of crime by the political scientist James Q. Wilson and the psychologist Richard Herrnstein.

Richard J Herrnstein | Department of Psychology

Richard Julius Herrnstein (May 20, 1930 – September 13, 1994) was an American psychologist at Harvard University.

James Q. Wilson - Wikipedia

Herrnstein married his first wife, Barbara Brodo, in May The couple had a daughter together, Julia, before their divorce in February Through his second marriage to Susan Chalk Gouinlock, in November , he fathered two sons named Max and James.

Crime and Human Nature - Claremont Review of Books

James Quinn Wilson (May 27, – March 2, ) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration.

Books - James Q. Wilson

Crime and Human Nature was called "the most important book on crime to appear in a decade" by the law professor John Monahan in [8] Also in , Michael Nietzel and Richard Milich wrote of the book that "Seldom does a book written by two academicians generate the interest and spark the debate that this one has," noting that by February , it had been reviewed by at least

Richard Herrnstein - Wikipedia

Herrnstein himself examined the role of temporal discounting in crime in his 1985 book with James Q. Wilson Crime and Human Nature.

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After the police it was natural to turn to crime, another political topic too hot for political scientists.

Crime Human Nature | Book by Richard J. Herrnstein, James Q ...

Wilson wrote three books on this, one of them, Crime and Human Nature, with his Harvard colleague the psychologist Richard Herrnstein.

James Q. Wilson — Harvard Gazette