2008 August Vollmer Award
- Vollmer Award Address: Bootlegging: A career caught between fantasy and reality, Malcolm W. Klein
- Vollmer Award Commentary: An essay in tribute to Malcolm Klein on his recognition as the August Vollmer Award winner, Scott H. Decker
- Vollmer Award Commentary: Malcolm W. Klein: August Vollmer Award winner, 2008, Delbert S. Elliott
Explaining the Prison Boom
- Editorial Introduction: Explaining the imprisonment epidemic, Philip J. Cook
- Crime, cash, and limited options: Explaining the prison boom, William Spelman
- Policy Essay: Modern time-series methods and the dynamics of prison populations, Michael P. Murray
- Policy Essay: Explaining the rise in U.S. incarceration rates, Steven Raphael
- Policy Essay: Money and mass incarceration: The bad, the mad, and penal reform, Marie Gottschalk
Perceptual Distortions and Police Use of Force
- Editorial Introduction: Interpreting police use of force and the construction of reality, Geoffrey P. Alpert
- Police officers’ perceptual distortions during lethal force situations: Informing the reasonableness standard, David A. Klinger and Rod K. Brunson
- Policy Essay: Perceptual distortion and reasonableness during police shootings: Law, legitimacy, and future research, Robin S. Engel and Michael R. Smith
- Policy Essay: Reasonable officers, public perceptions, and policy challenges, Kenneth J. Novak
- Policy Essay: The elusive nature of reasonableness, William Terrill
Gender and Risk Assessment
- Editorial Introduction: A great debate over using the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) with women offenders, Merry Morash
- Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta-analysis of the LSI-R and recidivism for female offenders, Paula Smith, Francis T. Cullen, and Edward J. Latessa
- Policy Essay: Gridlock or mutability: Reconsidering “gender” and risk assessment, Kelly Hannah-Moffat
- Policy Essay: The women are not wrong: It is the approach that is debatable, Kelly N. Taylor and Kelley Blanchette