Michael Flynn is associate director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and associate professor of psychology at York College, The City University of New York. He is the coeditor of Genocide, War, and Human Survival and Trauma and Self, and he is the editor of The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives.David C. Brotherton is professor and chair of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is a coauthor of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang and a coeditor of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives and Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today. Michael Flynn, PhD, is associate director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York, and an assistant professor of Psychology at York College and CUNY. He is the co-editor (with Charles B. Strozier) of "Genocide, War and Human Survival," "Trauma and Self," and "The Year 2000: Essays on the End." He is the editor of "The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives." His research interests include the psychological and political economy of urban violence; the psychological effects of living in a nuclearized world; literary, autobiographical, and psychohistorical approaches to the self and trauma; and the public and media role of the psychologist. David Brotherton, PhD, is the Chair of the Sociology Department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Dr. Brotherton has been researching youth subcultures for more than a dozen years and co-founded the Street Organization Project in 1997. For the last few years he has been organizing annual international academic/practitioner/community conferences on street youth and is currently focusing on youth gangs and delinquency. He is the co-editor of Gangs and Society, The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (both from Columbia), and the upcoming Keeping Out the Other (Columbia).