John Dombrink is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research assistant on Jerome Skolnick’s landmark House of Cards: Legalization and Control of Casino Gambling (1978). He is the author of several articles on gambling in America, and co-author of a book about gambling legalization, The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos (1990, with William N. Thompson). With Daniel Hillyard, he is the author of Dying Right: The Death With Dignity Movement (2001), a study of the legal reform of physician assisted suicide. With Daniel Hillyard, he is also the author of a new book, Sin No More: From Abortion to Stem Cells – Crime , Law and Morality in America. (NYU Press, 2007), in which the authors examine current “morality contests” in American culture, assess the status of American laws and attitudes toward the sphere of personal morality, and address the issues of the “values voters,” polarization, religion, ambivalence, and framing strategies.