Mahesh K Nalla Editor

Mahesh K. Nalla is a professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University in East Lansing. His research interests include police organizational and work cultures in the developed, emerging, and new democracies; trust and legitimacy of police in the new democracies; and private security in the emerging markets. His research has appeared in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research and Crime and Delinquency, European Journal of Criminology, and Journal of Criminal Justice, among others. One of his major United Nations projects resulted in forming the cornerstone of the United Nations Economic and Social Council draft International Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials, as a supplement to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.


Graeme R. Newman

is a distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, and an associate director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. He has advised the United Nations on crime and justice issues over many years and, in 1990, established the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. His major works include Super Highway Robbery with Ronald V. Clarke, Outsmarting the Terrorists with Ronald V. Clarke, Crime and Immigration with Joshua Freilich, Designing Out Crime from Products and Systems with Ronald V. Clarke, Policing Terrorism: An Executive’s Guide with Ronald V. Clarke, a new translation of Cesare Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments with Pietro Marongiu, Reducing Terrorism through Situational Crime Prevention with Joshua Freilich, and Crime and Punishment around the World in four volumes.