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Advisory Editor: William J. Chambliss Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections at the George Washington University. He is the author and editor of over twenty books, including Power, Politics and Crime; Making Law (with Marjorie Zatz, 1999), Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman, 1971), On the Take (1988), and Organizing Crime (with Alan A. Block, 1981). Alexis A. Aronowitz works at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute in Rome and Turin, Italy, where she coordinates research activities for projects within the framework of the UN Global Programme Against Trafficking in Human Beings. Alexis received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany. She has held research positions in the Netherlands at the International Police Institute at the University of Twente and the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice. Mary Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research, which has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review , focuses on sexuality, social movements, and the law. She recently published Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State (ed. with Renate Reimann, 2001). Currently, she is completing a book on lesbian, gay, ... log in or subscribe to read full text