MICHAEL A. HALLETT is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Middle Tennessee State University. He has published a number of articles in journals on subjects ranging from news media coverage of the HIV/AIDS crisis to the politics of criminal justice program evaluation. DENNIS J. PALUMBO is Professor in the School of Justice Studies and Director of the Ph.D. Program at Arizona State University. He has written at length on criminal justice, public policy, and public administration. His books include Contemporary Public Administration (1991), Implementation and the Policy Process: Opening Up the Black Box (Greenwood, 1990), and Criminal Justice in American Law in Action (1986).