Rebecca Jackson Author & Editor

Rebecca Jackson, PhD, is the Clinical Director of the Florida Civil Commitment Center, a 720-bed sex
offender civil commitment facility. Previously she was associate professor and director of the Forensic
Certification Program in Psychology and Law at Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, CA.

Ronald Roesch, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Director, Mental
Health, Law, and Policy Institute, SFU, and Past President of the International Association of Forensic
Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) and the American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 APA). He serves as
editor of the International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health Books Series.