What Makes a Better Policeman

James Q. Wilson, "What Makes a Better Policeman," Atlantic Monthly, (March 1969), pp. 129-134. This essay also appeared in Stephen M. David and Paul E. Peterson, editors, Urban Politics and Public Policy: The City in Crisis (Praeger, 1976).

Crime and Law Enforcement

James Q. Wilson, "Crime and Law Enforcement," in Kermit Gordon, editor, Agenda for the Nation (Brookings Institution, 1969).

Why We Are Having a Wave of Violence

James Q. Wilson, "Why We Are Having a Wave of Violence," New York Times Magazine, May 19, 1968, pp. 23-24. This essay also appeared in Nathan Glazer, editor, Cities in Trouble (Quadrangle, 1970), pp. 55-66.