JAY S. ALBANESE is professor and chair of the Department of Political Sci-
ence and Criminal Justice at Niagara University. He has recently been elected
president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is author of several
books on issues of crime and justice, including Organized Crime in America
( 1989), Crime: A Dozen of America's Existing and Emerging Problems (with
Robert Pursley, 1993), and Dealing with Delinquency ( 1993).

JOSEPH L. ALBINI is visiting professor of Criminal Justice at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written extensively on organized crime, including
his seminal work, The American Mafia: Genesis of a Legend.

G. ROBERT BLAKEY is professor of Law in the Notre Dame University Law
School. In his distinguished career, he served as chief counsel and staff director
of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. His scholarly work on the
1967 President's Task Force on Organized Crime led to the foundation and
passage of the federal RICO statute.

ALAN A. BLOCK is professor of the Administration of Justice at Pennsylvania
State University. His many studies on organized crime include The Business of
Crime: A Documentary Study of Organized Crime in the American Industrial
Economy, War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Policy, and East Side--
West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-1950.

KO-LIN CHIN is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthro-
pology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark. He has conducted
research on college students' drug use, alcoholism among Chinese immigrants,

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