Understanding Social Problems, Policies, and Programs, fourth edition

Leon Ginsberg is a Carolina Distinguished Professor and the former dean of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. The author of numerous books, he has served as dean of the School of Social Work at West Virginia University and associate professor of social work at the University of Oklahoma. Ginsberg is the past president of what is now the American Public Human Services Association, and has been social policy chair of the Child Welfare League of America and an officer of the National Association of Social Workers.

Julie Miller-Cribbs is an assistant professor in the College of Social Work and an affiliated faculty member of the Women's Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Washington University. Particularly interested in urban and rural poverty and welfare reform, Miller-Cribbs has published in such journals as African American Research Perspectives, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Urban Education.