Phillip Shon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3432931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Shon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Shon |
| SIGNATURE | SHON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ontario Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9841-9261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Scholarly Influence across Major Award Addresses
Although previous citation analyses have examined trends in criminology and criminal justice publications across various journals, an examination of key addresses given at scholarly societies such as the ACJS, the ASC, or the Sutherland Award address have escaped the scrutiny of scholars. This paper examines the citation patterns evidenced in three influential award addresses in CCJ: 1) ACJS presidential addresses, 2) ASC presidential addresses, …
Discerning qualitative changes in offense characteristics across time
A Content Analysis of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Presidential Address, 1993-2022
Prominent sociologists and criminologists have not accorded the respect that criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) deserves. They have questioned CCJ’s standing as an autonomous discipline; they have criticized CCJ for its lack of a “common conceptual language,” a “core theoretical tradition,” and a “methodological commitment.” Consequently, criminologists and criminal justice scholars have been warned not to stray too far from their sociologica…
A Content Analysis of the American Society of Criminology’s Presidential Address, 1988–2022
The number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals, publication in elite journals, inclusion in "classics" reading lists of graduate programs, and citation counts have been used as measures of scholarly influence. The annual addresses given by the presidents of the American Society of Criminology have escaped the attention of scholars in criminology and criminal justice as measures of scholarly influence. This shortcoming is notable for t…
I Clocked You Going 50 In a 25’
The police in the United States typically pull over about 19 million drivers a year for routine violations such as speeding and running a stop sign. The verbal exchanges that occur during traffic encounters embody one of the ideal principles of procedural justice: giving citizens an opportunity to speak (voice) before a decision is made. The accounts and excuses that drivers articulate represent the logical outcome of opportunities provided to dr…
Examining the Role of Culture in Maternal Filicide in Korea, 1948-62
Previous research on maternal filicide has noted a lack of resources and mental illness as important causal factors. Although most scholars accept that filicide should be understood in an appropriate cultural context, the processes by which macro-level structures such as culture and ideology are embodied in the situated behaviors of offenders and victims have been insufficiently explored. This paper explores maternal filicide in Korea from 1948 t…
A Comparative Synthesis of American and Korean Parricidal Mass Murders
Contemporary studies of mass murder have examined attacks carried out by current or former students in educational settings or disgruntled employees at former places of work. Recently conceptualized as “active shooter events,” this type of public mass killing has eclipsed the most pervasive one throughout the twentieth century: mass killings within the family. The dearth of scholarly work on mass killings in the context of parricides in other nat…
Okay sir, I’m gonna ask you to sign here”
The police are more likely to arrest, write citations, and reciprocate with coercive responses that involve warnings and threats when citizens disrespect and resist the police. Warnings in natural discourse are considered to be benevolent and differ from threats only in the intention and attitude of those who issue such speech acts. This article examines how ordinary features of talk-in-interaction are adapted to meet the institutional exigencies…
Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019
Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature…
Why policing the risk society became a footnote in American police studies
Written in 1997, Ericson and Haggerty’s book Policing the Risk Society (PRS) should have had profound effects on police theorizing and research in the United States. In this article, we attempt to explain why this book failed to gain traction within the American policing literature. We argue that PRS was ignored for three reasons: (1) incommensurable theoretical frameworks, (2) timing and aim of the book’s publication, and (3) the intrusiveness o…
Parricide and Violence Against Parents
Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society, and giving a global overview and comparison. The book examines parricide and violence against parents as historically and culturally sensitive phenomena. It offers evidence on a seemingly rare subject from d…
Sources of Conflict
Despite the nominative classification of parricides based on the victim–offender relationship, parricide bears the offense characteristics of many crimes. In prior works, the killing of parents has been framed as a violent reaction of severely abused children against their tormentors, or as the identity demarcating actions of adult sons suffering from mental illness. Aside from these two primary discourses, the reasons parents and their offspring…
Civilising the police
The three eras in American policing – political, reform, and community – has become the default theoretical framework within the study of criminal justice, explicitly and implicitly shaping the discourse of police studies. Despite historically informed criticisms of this three-era model, no alternative theory has been proffered as a way of critically thinking about the police. This paper draws on Norbert Elias’ civilising thesis and the role of t…
I Was There' and 'It Happened to Me
Various theoretical frameworks have been applied in an attempt to understand the phenomenon of killing. While previous studies have examined killing as an outcome-oriented measure, few have explored killing as a narrative. Using letters written by soldiers, police officers, and security professionals found in the magazine Soldier of Fortune, this study examines the reported behaviors that occur during the killing process and argues that the proce…
Empiricising and Substantiating Alfred Adler’s Theory of Child Molestation
Alfred Adler diagnosed and treated offenders who committed sex crimes against persons and objects. Although he formulated clinical judgments about the causes of sexual deviance and paraphilia (e.g., lack of social interest), he did not elaborate on the variations that exist within the class of adult child molesters and their behavioral characteristics. In this article, we build on the initial observations that Adler made about the personality cha…
Double Parricides in South Korea
Prior parricide research has indicated that most killings of parents involve single offenders and single victims. While studies of one-on-one parricide incidents have revealed notable findings about offender and offense-related characteristics, the study of single offender and multiple victim—double parricides—parricides has escaped the analytical scrutiny of researchers. Such an omission is particularly notable as the temporal sequencing of atta…
An Archival Exploration of 19th-Century American Adult Female Offender Parricides
Social and behavioral scientists have increasingly attended to the contexts and motivational dynamics underlying parricidal events. These efforts notwithstanding, most research has focused on adolescent or adult male offender populations. One largely neglected area of study is that of adult female offender parricide. The present study utilizes archival records to examine the contexts and sources of conflict that gave rise to adult female offender…
Cannibalism and Gang Involvement in the Cinematic Lives of Asian Gangsters
Previous works focusing on Asian organized crime groups have examined the history, structure, function, and the extent of their legal and illegal business enterprises. While credible, such a line of inquiry omits crucial information on the source and reasoning behind membership and affiliation for members in Asian organized crime groups, such as the “Jok-Pok”, Triads, and Yakuza. Due to the secretive nature of those organized crime groups, such a…
Existential Boundary Crossings
Reality-based television and police–citizen encounters
Recent theoretical analyses concerning mental illness argue that persons labeled as such are punished first through discourse, subsequently legitimized, knowingly or not, through social effect. In this framework, punishment is an artifact of unconscious and symbolic forces whose structuration can be positionally, relationally and provisionally decoded through careful textual exegeses. Linked to several strains of postmodern inquiry, a number of a…
I'd grab the S-O-B by his hair and yank him out the window’
In prior research, warnings and threats have been regarded as closely related speech acts, distinguished only by an unobservable state. In this article, I conceptualize warnings and threats as fraternal speech acts because they share the essential genetic trait of their rhetorical parent: force. In this article, I examine the ‘warnings’ that police officers give to motorists during traffic stops, and the threats that police make to citizens and s…
Bringing the Spoken Words Back In
The Sacred and the Profane
L'A. presente un modele d'analyse des motivations des criminels sexuels. Il etudie la fonction du crime sexuel au cours du processus de construction de la subjectivite du criminel et presente un certain nombre d'approches criminologiques de la criminalite sexuelle. L'approche phenomenologique permet de mieux saisir la nature profane de la modernite, ainsi que la signification du sacre, du rituel et du fetichisme. Il souligne que le fetichisme sac…
I'd grab the S-O-B by his hair and yank him out the window’
In prior research, warnings and threats have been regarded as closely related speech acts, distinguished only by an unobservable state. In this article, I conceptualize warnings and threats as fraternal speech acts because they share the essential genetic trait of their rhetorical parent: force. In this article, I examine the ‘warnings’ that police officers give to motorists during traffic stops, and the threats that police make to citizens and s…
Reality-based television and police–citizen encounters
Recent theoretical analyses concerning mental illness argue that persons labeled as such are punished first through discourse, subsequently legitimized, knowingly or not, through social effect. In this framework, punishment is an artifact of unconscious and symbolic forces whose structuration can be positionally, relationally and provisionally decoded through careful textual exegeses. Linked to several strains of postmodern inquiry, a number of a…
Bringing the Spoken Words Back In
Okay sir, I’m gonna ask you to sign here”
The police are more likely to arrest, write citations, and reciprocate with coercive responses that involve warnings and threats when citizens disrespect and resist the police. Warnings in natural discourse are considered to be benevolent and differ from threats only in the intention and attitude of those who issue such speech acts. This article examines how ordinary features of talk-in-interaction are adapted to meet the institutional exigencies…
Civilising the police
The three eras in American policing – political, reform, and community – has become the default theoretical framework within the study of criminal justice, explicitly and implicitly shaping the discourse of police studies. Despite historically informed criticisms of this three-era model, no alternative theory has been proffered as a way of critically thinking about the police. This paper draws on Norbert Elias’ civilising thesis and the role of t…
I Was There' and 'It Happened to Me
Various theoretical frameworks have been applied in an attempt to understand the phenomenon of killing. While previous studies have examined killing as an outcome-oriented measure, few have explored killing as a narrative. Using letters written by soldiers, police officers, and security professionals found in the magazine Soldier of Fortune, this study examines the reported behaviors that occur during the killing process and argues that the proce…
The Sacred and the Profane
L'A. presente un modele d'analyse des motivations des criminels sexuels. Il etudie la fonction du crime sexuel au cours du processus de construction de la subjectivite du criminel et presente un certain nombre d'approches criminologiques de la criminalite sexuelle. L'approche phenomenologique permet de mieux saisir la nature profane de la modernite, ainsi que la signification du sacre, du rituel et du fetichisme. Il souligne que le fetichisme sac…
Bringing the Spoken Words Back In
Reality-based television and police–citizen encounters
Recent theoretical analyses concerning mental illness argue that persons labeled as such are punished first through discourse, subsequently legitimized, knowingly or not, through social effect. In this framework, punishment is an artifact of unconscious and symbolic forces whose structuration can be positionally, relationally and provisionally decoded through careful textual exegeses. Linked to several strains of postmodern inquiry, a number of a…
I'd grab the S-O-B by his hair and yank him out the window’
In prior research, warnings and threats have been regarded as closely related speech acts, distinguished only by an unobservable state. In this article, I conceptualize warnings and threats as fraternal speech acts because they share the essential genetic trait of their rhetorical parent: force. In this article, I examine the ‘warnings’ that police officers give to motorists during traffic stops, and the threats that police make to citizens and s…
Cannibalism and Gang Involvement in the Cinematic Lives of Asian Gangsters
Previous works focusing on Asian organized crime groups have examined the history, structure, function, and the extent of their legal and illegal business enterprises. While credible, such a line of inquiry omits crucial information on the source and reasoning behind membership and affiliation for members in Asian organized crime groups, such as the “Jok-Pok”, Triads, and Yakuza. Due to the secretive nature of those organized crime groups, such a…
Existential Boundary Crossings
An Archival Exploration of 19th-Century American Adult Female Offender Parricides
Social and behavioral scientists have increasingly attended to the contexts and motivational dynamics underlying parricidal events. These efforts notwithstanding, most research has focused on adolescent or adult male offender populations. One largely neglected area of study is that of adult female offender parricide. The present study utilizes archival records to examine the contexts and sources of conflict that gave rise to adult female offender…
Double Parricides in South Korea
Prior parricide research has indicated that most killings of parents involve single offenders and single victims. While studies of one-on-one parricide incidents have revealed notable findings about offender and offense-related characteristics, the study of single offender and multiple victim—double parricides—parricides has escaped the analytical scrutiny of researchers. Such an omission is particularly notable as the temporal sequencing of atta…
Empiricising and Substantiating Alfred Adler’s Theory of Child Molestation
Alfred Adler diagnosed and treated offenders who committed sex crimes against persons and objects. Although he formulated clinical judgments about the causes of sexual deviance and paraphilia (e.g., lack of social interest), he did not elaborate on the variations that exist within the class of adult child molesters and their behavioral characteristics. In this article, we build on the initial observations that Adler made about the personality cha…
Civilising the police
The three eras in American policing – political, reform, and community – has become the default theoretical framework within the study of criminal justice, explicitly and implicitly shaping the discourse of police studies. Despite historically informed criticisms of this three-era model, no alternative theory has been proffered as a way of critically thinking about the police. This paper draws on Norbert Elias’ civilising thesis and the role of t…
I Was There' and 'It Happened to Me
Various theoretical frameworks have been applied in an attempt to understand the phenomenon of killing. While previous studies have examined killing as an outcome-oriented measure, few have explored killing as a narrative. Using letters written by soldiers, police officers, and security professionals found in the magazine Soldier of Fortune, this study examines the reported behaviors that occur during the killing process and argues that the proce…
Parricide and Violence Against Parents
Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society, and giving a global overview and comparison. The book examines parricide and violence against parents as historically and culturally sensitive phenomena. It offers evidence on a seemingly rare subject from d…
Sources of Conflict
Despite the nominative classification of parricides based on the victim–offender relationship, parricide bears the offense characteristics of many crimes. In prior works, the killing of parents has been framed as a violent reaction of severely abused children against their tormentors, or as the identity demarcating actions of adult sons suffering from mental illness. Aside from these two primary discourses, the reasons parents and their offspring…
Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019
Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature…
Why policing the risk society became a footnote in American police studies
Written in 1997, Ericson and Haggerty’s book Policing the Risk Society (PRS) should have had profound effects on police theorizing and research in the United States. In this article, we attempt to explain why this book failed to gain traction within the American policing literature. We argue that PRS was ignored for three reasons: (1) incommensurable theoretical frameworks, (2) timing and aim of the book’s publication, and (3) the intrusiveness o…
A Comparative Synthesis of American and Korean Parricidal Mass Murders
Contemporary studies of mass murder have examined attacks carried out by current or former students in educational settings or disgruntled employees at former places of work. Recently conceptualized as “active shooter events,” this type of public mass killing has eclipsed the most pervasive one throughout the twentieth century: mass killings within the family. The dearth of scholarly work on mass killings in the context of parricides in other nat…
Okay sir, I’m gonna ask you to sign here”
The police are more likely to arrest, write citations, and reciprocate with coercive responses that involve warnings and threats when citizens disrespect and resist the police. Warnings in natural discourse are considered to be benevolent and differ from threats only in the intention and attitude of those who issue such speech acts. This article examines how ordinary features of talk-in-interaction are adapted to meet the institutional exigencies…
Examining the Role of Culture in Maternal Filicide in Korea, 1948-62
Previous research on maternal filicide has noted a lack of resources and mental illness as important causal factors. Although most scholars accept that filicide should be understood in an appropriate cultural context, the processes by which macro-level structures such as culture and ideology are embodied in the situated behaviors of offenders and victims have been insufficiently explored. This paper explores maternal filicide in Korea from 1948 t…
A Content Analysis of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Presidential Address, 1993-2022
Prominent sociologists and criminologists have not accorded the respect that criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) deserves. They have questioned CCJ’s standing as an autonomous discipline; they have criticized CCJ for its lack of a “common conceptual language,” a “core theoretical tradition,” and a “methodological commitment.” Consequently, criminologists and criminal justice scholars have been warned not to stray too far from their sociologica…
A Content Analysis of the American Society of Criminology’s Presidential Address, 1988–2022
The number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals, publication in elite journals, inclusion in "classics" reading lists of graduate programs, and citation counts have been used as measures of scholarly influence. The annual addresses given by the presidents of the American Society of Criminology have escaped the attention of scholars in criminology and criminal justice as measures of scholarly influence. This shortcoming is notable for t…
I Clocked You Going 50 In a 25’
The police in the United States typically pull over about 19 million drivers a year for routine violations such as speeding and running a stop sign. The verbal exchanges that occur during traffic encounters embody one of the ideal principles of procedural justice: giving citizens an opportunity to speak (voice) before a decision is made. The accounts and excuses that drivers articulate represent the logical outcome of opportunities provided to dr…
Discerning qualitative changes in offense characteristics across time
Scholarly Influence across Major Award Addresses
Although previous citation analyses have examined trends in criminology and criminal justice publications across various journals, an examination of key addresses given at scholarly societies such as the ACJS, the ASC, or the Sutherland Award address have escaped the scrutiny of scholars. This paper examines the citation patterns evidenced in three influential award addresses in CCJ: 1) ACJS presidential addresses, 2) ASC presidential addresses, …
Criminology (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (8 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (6 works)