This is old - 1995 old - but looks good. Wilson is one of those figures I see all the time in my own research, since I try to do some things in economics of crime when the opportunities arise. Wilson is considered generally to be a leading criminologist, if not the leading American criminologist. I think it's right that he is considered one of the architects of the "broken window" hypothesis, utilized aggressively by Giuliani when he was mayor of New York. Wilson is also one of those people who I wish I was an expert in. I just don't have the time to read his writings, and I honestly don't know how other people are able to do so. Teaching a crime class would, though, probably rectify that problem. I'm hoping to teach an economics of crime and vice class here in the next few years that would force me to fill in a lot of these glaring gaps in my knowledge of my own discipline.
Update: Very cool. This syllabus is based on Levitt's course at Chicago.
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