Ken Peak is professor emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named "Teacher of the Year" by the university's Honor Society. After serving as a municipal police officer in Kansas, he subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner; director of a four-state Technical Assistance Institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; chief of university police at Pittsburg State University (Kansas); acting chief, department of public safety, University of Nevada, Reno; and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University. He has published more than 40 textbooks (on general and community policing, criminal justice administration, police supervision and management, introductory criminal justice, and women in law enforcement), two historical books (on Kansas bootlegging and temperance), and more than 60 additional journal articles and invited book chapters. He served as chairman of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; president of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators; and two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas. Larry K. Gaines retired as the chair and professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at California State University at San Bernardino. He received his doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. He has police experience with the Kentucky State Police and the Lexington, Kentucky Police Department. Additionally, he served for 14 years as the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police. He is also a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. His research centers on a variety of criminal justice related topics. In addition to numerous articles, he has co-authored several books in the field: Police Operations; Police Administration; Managing the Police Organization; Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective; Policing Perspectives: An Anthology; Policing in America; Drugs, Crime, and Justice; Criminal Justice in Action; Homeland Security and Terrorism; and Readings in White Collar Crime. His current research agenda involves the evaluation of police tactics in terms of their effectiveness in reducing problems and fitting within the community policing paradigm. Ronald W. Glensor is uniquely qualified in the domain of police leadership. A retired Assistant Chief of the Reno Police Department (RPD; Nevada) after more than 35 years of experience, he commanded the patrol, administration, and detective divisions. He is internationally renowned for his work in community policing and problem-solving, providing training and technical support to agencies across the U.S., Canada, Australia, Great Britain Ukraine, and Armenia. He has conducted numerous management and leadership studies of police agencies throughout the U.S. and has extensive teaching experience at major universities. He was granted a Research Fellowship at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C., received an Atlantic Fellowship to examine repeat victimization with the Home Office in London, England, and was awarded the prestigious Gary P. Hayes Leadership Award by PERF. He has co-authored several leadership and community policing textbooks and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno.
