Ron Melchers has been a professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa since 1983, specialised in research, statistics, evaluation, policy analysis and evidence reliability assessment. His research focuses on how information and perception shape criminal justice policy looking at issues such as the production, use and misuse of criminal justice statistics, racial profiling, crime mapping, expert and scientific evidence in the courts, the experience of aboriginal offenders, public confidence in the justice system, surveying public safety, the challenge of measuring organised crime, police performance measurement and policing for sustainability and resiliency in Canada’s North. He is Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Criminology, the academic advisory committee of Statistics Canada’s Centre for Justice Statistics and the research advisory committee of the Police Sector Council. His academic qualifications include a Doctorate in Human Resource Economics from the University of the Mediterranean (Aix-Marseille) in France, where he was a doctoral fellow with the French National Scientific Research Council. He also holds an Advanced Studies Diploma in labour sociology, a graduate degree in social policy and administration and a B.Sc.