James Q. Wilson

27 May 1931

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 Int

• American Government
• Bureaucracy
• Crime and Human Nature/the Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime
• Thinking about crime
• American Government: Institutions and Policies
• Crime
• Political organizations
• The moral sense
• Varieties of police behavior
• American government
• Crime
• Crime and human nature