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Short, James Franklin was born on June 22, 1924 in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Son of James Franklin and Ruth L. (Walbaum) Short.
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Increasingly, people's lives are being defined by large-scale organizational decision processes involving governments, businesses and other institutions. This book examines the nature of decision making by organizations confronted with various risks, focusing on choices in which technology and scientific advances play major roles, and looks at the regulatory agencies that set and enforce standards of health and safety. Included are such organizations as manufacturing and communications firms, neonatal intensive care units of hospitals and a major US governmental operating agency (NASA).
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This thoughtful collection of original work by eminent sociologists and criminologists was compiled to honor Henry D. McKay, the pioneer investigator and collaborator with Clifford R. Shaw. Among the traditions most basic to both continuity and change in criminological research and theory, one of the most important is that associated with Shaw and McKay and the "Chicago school" of urban sociology. So great has been its impact that even the most recent theoretical formulations draw upon it for support or in criticism. Reassessing the "Shaw and McKay tradition," the contributors to this volume pursue critical and emerging issues in the study of crime and delinquency.
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Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses.
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Short, James Franklin was born on June 22, 1924 in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Son of James Franklin and Ruth L. (Walbaum) Short.
Student, Shurtleff College, Alton, Illinois, 1942-1943; Bachelor of Arts, Denison U., 1947; honorary degree, Denison U., 1975; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1951.
Instructor, Illinois Institute Technology, 1950;
Instructor, Indiana U., South Bend extension, 1950-1951;
member of faculty, Washington State University, Pullman, since 1951;
professor sociology, Washington State University, 1963-1994;
professor emeritus, Washington State University, since 1994;
director, Sociological Research Laboratory, 1962-1965;
dean, Graduate School, 1964-1968;
director, Social Research Center, 1970-1985. Visiting associate research professor University of Chicago, 1959-1962. Visiting professor law and sociology Stanford, 1975.
Visiting scholar Institute of Criminology, Cambridge U., 1976. Distinguished visiting professor U. Colorado, summer 1986. Distinguished visiting professor (Hooker professor) McMaster U., fall 1987, Beto chair professor Criminal Justice Center Sam Houston State University, spring, 1990.
Company-director research National Commision on Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1968-1969. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1969-1970. Consultant National Institute of Mental Health, 1961-1976, member behavioral science fellowship review panel, 1963-1966, member behavior science review panel, training grant branch, 1967-1971, chairman, 1970-1971.
Member assembly behavioral and social science National Research Council, 1973-1975, member commission on research on law enforcement and administration of justice Commision on Behavioral Sciences and Education, 1984-1989, member panel on understanding violence, 1989-1992. American Sociological Association representative to NAS, 1970-1972. Consultant National Science Foundation, since 1970, member social advising committee, 1971-1972, research advising committee, 1973.
Consultant Ford Foundation, 1962-1964.
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Chairman national peer review committee Clark County (Nevada) Nuclear Waste Division, 1991-1995. Member technical review committee State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office, since 1995. Second lieutenant United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1943-1946, PTO. Fellow Japan Society for Promotion of Science, American Society Criminology (president-elect 1995-1996, president 1996-1997), Edwin Sutherland award 1979), American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member Western Society Criminology (Paul Tappan award 1977), member American Sociological Association (chairman research committee 1963, member of council 1967-1970, 76-80, commission on executive office and budget 1971, 76-80, chairman 1977-1980, member publications committee 1972-1974, 76-80, secretary 1977-1980, president-elect 1982-1983, president 1983-1984, Foundation board of trustees 1985-1989, president 1989, chair advising committee 1990-1996, section on environmental and technical Outstanding Achievement award 1990), Pacific Sociological Association (president 1966-1967), Society Study Problems (Executive Committee 1965-1966), Western Association Graduate Schools (Executive Committee 1965-1967), Sociologists for Women in Society, Law and Society Association (trustee 1978-1980), Sociological ResearchAssn. (secretary-treasurer 1982, president 1983), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary), Phi Kappa Phi (honorary).
Married Kelma E. Hegberg, Dec.27, 1947. Children: Susan Elizabeth, James Michael.