Charles F. Abel is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is the coauthor of The Justification of Political Trials and Punishment and Restitution: A Restitutionary Approach to Crime and the Criminal, and Dependency Theory and the Return of High Politics. Arthur J. Sementelli is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University and coauthor of Evolutionary Critical Theory and its Role in Public Affairs.