John L. Worrall University of Texas at Dallas, USA

John L. Worrall is Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has published articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics ranging from legal issues in policing to community prosecution. He is also the author of Crime Control in America: What Works? (2nd ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2008) and Criminal Procedure: From First Contact to Appeal (3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2010); coauthor of Police Administration (3rd ed., Cengage, forthcoming), Policing Today (Prentice Hall, 2010), and Criminal Evidence: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005); and co-editor of The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor (SUNY, 2009).