James W. Osterburg has long been involved in the criminal investigation process, actively engaged in the functions of teaching, research, and public service. For 20 years, Osterburg served as a sworn member of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), where he assisted in the investigation of thousands of serious crimes. He has testified in municipal, state, and federal courts on numerous occasions, and taught at the NYPD Police Academy. His academic affiliations include professorships at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University, the University of California--Berkeley, the Baruch School of Public Administration at the City College of New York, and Sam Houston State University (as Beto Professor of Criminal Justice). A frequent participant in educational symposia, he has discussed criminal investigation, criminalistics, fingerprint characteristics, and scientific evidence. The author of two books on criminalistics and scientific investigations, Osterburg is a regular contributor of chapters, sections, articles, and book reviews. His articles have been published in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science; the Journal of the Forensic Sciences; the Journal of the American Statistical Association; and the Journal of Police Science and Administration. A fellow and past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Osterburg served on the ad hoc committee appointed by the President of the Academy to review the homicide of Robert F. Kennedy and to help resolve the controversy that arose subsequent to the conviction of Sirhan B. Sirhan regarding some of the firearms evidence. Osterburg has been a consultant to the State Department, the Department of Justice, and the Stanford Research Institute. Richard H. Ward is Dean and Director of the Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University. Prior to this appointment, Ward was Vice Chancellor for Administration and on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously he served as Vice President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He began his criminal justice career following four years in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a detective with the New York City Police Department. Ward is the author of many books and articles--primarily on the subjects of terrorism, police corruption, and criminal investigation. He was a founder of Law Enforcement News and Crime and Justice International. Ward has lectured at the FBI Academy and has been a visiting lecturer on crime and the media in Columbia University's School of Journalism and at Baylor University. He has been a consultant to numerous police departments in the United States and to numerous international law enforcement and criminal justice organizations. In addition to his expertise in transnational crime and international and domestic terrorism, he has directed major research projects for the federal government on police administration, counter-terrorism, and police corruption. For many years, Ward served as Executive Director of the Office of International Criminal Justice, an internationally recognized center that promotes humane and democratic service on the part of justice-related agencies throughout the world.