Randall G Shelden
Biographic Data
| ID | 266232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall G Shelden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall G |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelden |
| SIGNATURE | SHELDEN R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Imprisonment Crisis in America
This article provides an overview of recent trends in imprisonment rates in America and introduces the articles in this issue of The Review of Policy Research. Incarceration rates have increased by more than 500 percent since the early 1970s and have now reached a rate of almost 700, higher than anywhere else in the world. The impact has been particularly hard on racial minorities, especially women (whose incarceration rate went from around 8 in …
Controlling the Dangerous Classes
One of the Guys
The crime control industry and the management of the surplus population
Chopra's “Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” and Crime
Cet article tente d'effectuer un rapprochement entre le domaine de la spiritualite et celui de la criminologie a travers l'ouvrage de Depak Chopra Les sept lois spirituelles du succes. Potentialite, echange, causalite constituent respectivement les elements essentiels des trois premieres lois. La quatrieme, dite du moindre effort, comporte trois volets : acceptation des choses (illustree par l'attente dans un embouteillage), responsabilite (etre …
Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
Devoted solely to the topic of female delinquency and the treatment of young girls by the juvenile justice system. This text reveals the special problems of delinquent girls by considering the impact that growing up female in a patriarchal society has had on their development. It explores the relevance of classic theories of delinquency as applied to female juveniles, and discusses the contemporary reality of the juvenile justice system
For Their Own Good”
This paper addresses the question of whether the “child saving” movement, a precursor of the modern juvenile justice system. was a benevolent movement to “save” delinquent youths or, as Platt (1977) contends, a class‐based movement to extend social control to the children of the poor. Analysis of the child saving movement in Memphis, Tennessee, using historical data, provides support for the thesis advanced by Platt. The evidence collected here s…
Crime and Penal Policy
The Imprisonment Crisis in America
This article provides an overview of recent trends in imprisonment rates in America and introduces the articles in this issue of The Review of Policy Research. Incarceration rates have increased by more than 500 percent since the early 1970s and have now reached a rate of almost 700, higher than anywhere else in the world. The impact has been particularly hard on racial minorities, especially women (whose incarceration rate went from around 8 in …
The crime control industry and the management of the surplus population
For Their Own Good”
This paper addresses the question of whether the “child saving” movement, a precursor of the modern juvenile justice system. was a benevolent movement to “save” delinquent youths or, as Platt (1977) contends, a class‐based movement to extend social control to the children of the poor. Analysis of the child saving movement in Memphis, Tennessee, using historical data, provides support for the thesis advanced by Platt. The evidence collected here s…
Crime and Penal Policy
For Their Own Good”
This paper addresses the question of whether the “child saving” movement, a precursor of the modern juvenile justice system. was a benevolent movement to “save” delinquent youths or, as Platt (1977) contends, a class‐based movement to extend social control to the children of the poor. Analysis of the child saving movement in Memphis, Tennessee, using historical data, provides support for the thesis advanced by Platt. The evidence collected here s…
Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
Devoted solely to the topic of female delinquency and the treatment of young girls by the juvenile justice system. This text reveals the special problems of delinquent girls by considering the impact that growing up female in a patriarchal society has had on their development. It explores the relevance of classic theories of delinquency as applied to female juveniles, and discusses the contemporary reality of the juvenile justice system
Chopra's “Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” and Crime
Cet article tente d'effectuer un rapprochement entre le domaine de la spiritualite et celui de la criminologie a travers l'ouvrage de Depak Chopra Les sept lois spirituelles du succes. Potentialite, echange, causalite constituent respectivement les elements essentiels des trois premieres lois. La quatrieme, dite du moindre effort, comporte trois volets : acceptation des choses (illustree par l'attente dans un embouteillage), responsabilite (etre …
The crime control industry and the management of the surplus population
Controlling the Dangerous Classes
One of the Guys
The Imprisonment Crisis in America
This article provides an overview of recent trends in imprisonment rates in America and introduces the articles in this issue of The Review of Policy Research. Incarceration rates have increased by more than 500 percent since the early 1970s and have now reached a rate of almost 700, higher than anywhere else in the world. The impact has been particularly hard on racial minorities, especially women (whose incarceration rate went from around 8 in …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works)