John E. Thiel is a professor of religious studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., and the author of God, Evil and Innocent Suffering: A Theological Reflection.

Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflictat Northeastern University in Boston, has written about domestic terrorism, hate crimes, youth violence, ethnic conflict and mass and serial murder.

The National Association of Black Social Workers is one of the foremost advocacy groups that addresses social issues and concerns of the Black community. Melanie Bryant is the National Office Director.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is a national voice for American Indian children and families. They are a comprehensive source of information on American Indian child welfare and the only national American Indian organization focused specifically on the tribal capacity to prevent child abuse and neglect. Sarah Kastelic is the executive director.

Article posted on the Adoption History Project site about federal efforts to place American Indian children in non-Indian homes.

January 2007 paper written by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack of American University that concludes that Black children spend more time as legal orphans than children of other races and that transracial placement speeds their adoptions.

Dr. Michael Stone, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, has been called “the Einstein of Evil.” Stone developed a “Gradations of Evil Scale” for ranking homicides and was host of the Discovery Channel’s series Most Evil from 2006 to 2008. His books include The Anatomy of Evil (2009).

Ervin Staub is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and founding director emeritus of its doctoral program on the psychology of peace and the prevention of violence. He has written several books about evil, including The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others and Overcoming Evil: Genocide, […]

Ruth Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. She was formerly New Hampshire’s deputy commissioner of health and welfare and the former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire legislature.