About the author: Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and editor of the journals Crime and Justice--A Review of Research and Overcrowded Times. He is the author or editor of many previous works, including Between Prison and Probation (with Norval Morris, Oxford 1990), Modern Policing (1992), Building a Safer Society--Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention (with David P. Farrington, 1995), and Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America (Oxford, 1995).