Clayton Mosherreceived his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto, and is currently a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the author of several books and articles in the areas of inequality in criminal justice system processing, drugs and drug policies, and the impact of prison construction on employment. Besides co-authoring the Second Edition of Drugs and Drug Policy, he co-authored the Second Edition of The Mismeasure of Crime(SAGE, 2012) with Terance Miethe and Timothy Hart. Terance Miethe received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University, and is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

He is the author of several books and research articles in the areas of criminal victimization, theories of crime, and criminal processing. Dretha M. Phillips is Senior Research Associate in the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University, Vancouver. Her criminal justice/criminology research experience is wide-ranging. It includes conducting face-to-face interviews with arrestees in jails, evaluating in-prison substance abuse treatment programs and community diversion initiatives for convicted offenders, and designing and analyzing data from public surveys on sex offender community notification laws.