sheldensays.com

Randall G. Shelden, Criminologist

 

 

   Delinquency & Juvenile Justice

    War On Drugs

  Punishment

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Curriculum Vita

Overview

Biography

Mission Statement

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Speaking And Consulting

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UNLV Student's Page

US Constitution &  Amendments

Declaration of Independence

War in Iraq: What’s the Price Tag?  $513 Billion (As of 4/20/08)
See this video http://www.afsc.org/cost/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Announcements

 

NEW!! Criminal Justice History Resources. Go to Links and UNLV Student's Page.

 

NEW!!  Conservative views on crime.  Scroll down to view.

 

NEW!! A series of reports on fraud in the real estate and mortgage industry.  Scroll down to Corporate and Political Crime page.

 

 

 

In the News  

 

Truancy and street violence are linked.  Click on Delinquency and Juvenile Justice page above.

 

More Stories on the Polygamy case in Texas.  Scroll down to Child Victims page.

 

Here's something new: First Indiana prison nursery

 

Supreme Court rules on lethal injection.  Scroll down to Death Penalty Research.

 

Overdose death rate surges, mostly because of legal drugs.  See War on Drugs above.

 

Another polygamist sect in the news.  Scroll down to Child Victims page.

 

War on drugs a total bust.  See War On Drugs above.

 

Another study refutes the deterrence effect of the death penalty.  Scroll down to Death Penalty Research.

 

 

 

Special Topics

 

 

Anti-War News & Commentaries

 

Child Victims

 

Conservative Views

 

 

Corporate & Political Crime

 

Death Penalty Research

 

Immigration Issues

 

Inequality in America

 

Katrina Updates

 

Malpractice Crisis Myth

 

Racial Injustice

Sex Offender Hysteria

Youth Gangs

 

Special Series on Skid Row in Los Angeles - Series appearing in the Los Angeles Times by reporter Steve Lopez.  For those teaching courses related to crime and deviance, this is an excellent source.  I have little doubt you can generalize to every skid row in every urban area in the country from reading this.

 

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Quotable:

 

 

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”


-- Mark Twain, Speech 11/23/1900

  

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.”


-- Bertrand Russell, Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind

 

“The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.”


-- Sojourner Truth, saying

 

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”


-- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921

 

 

Commentaries:

Do “Liberal” Professors “Indoctrinate” Students? (5/5/08)

War’s Price Tag (3/30/08)

Are Criminals “Sick”?
(3/3/08)

Taboo subjects in the primaries
(2/4/08)

Updating the Drug War (12/17/07)

Denying that Racism Exists (11/30/07)

Providing a Balance – the Conservative View of Crime and Criminal Justice (11/1/07)

 

A punishing god (9/17/07)

 

 

Archives

Collected Essays

Research Articles:
 

Girls and Juvenile Justice Reform (4/7/08)

Reforming Nevada’s Prison System (4/7/08)

Guest writer Donna Point:
Debating the USA PATRIOT Act
(2/5/08)


Imprisonment and Crime Rates (3/12/07)