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Shelley, Louise Isobel was born on March 13, 1952 in New York City. Daughter of Bertram J. and Ricca Shelley.
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Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime (Science and International Affairs Series)
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In this pioneering analysis of the influence exerted by modernization and socioeconomic evolution on patterns of crime, criminologist Louise I. Shelley asserts, Society gets the type and level of criminality its conditions produce.” Shelley investigates crime patterns in undeveloped capitalist countries, in developed capitalist countries, and in Socialist countries. Her study is unique in that she alone synthesizes historical accounts of crime and civil disorder with the literature of modern urban studies and contemporary criminality. Through her cross-cultural and historical approach she demonstrates that contrary to what seems apparent, the global profile of crime is not that of a maniacal pillaging monster. The monster is sane. Crime patterns are predictable. By analyzing the criminal population, recent crime trends, the impact of the criminal justice system, and the predominant values of society, Shelley makes informed predictions concerning the future state of criminality. Shelley addresses six issues. She considers ways in which modernization has affected rates of crime during the initial and later stages of a society’s development. She asks how modernization affects the rates of occurrence of fundamental forms of crime. Another question is whether development changes the relationship between crimes against property and crimes of violence against people. Does the speed of the transition from undeveloped to developed society alter observable patterns of behavior? And finally, does modernization change the nature of the criminal population? In this book Shelley provides both historical and contemporary perspectives from which to view the impact of the developmental process on levels and forms of criminality. She synthesizes the large body of literature aimed at measuring the extent to which socioeconomic development produces similar changes in culturally distinct and geographically separated nations.
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Louise Isobel Shelley
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Bachelor cum laude, Cornell Univercity, 1972; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1977.
Career
Assistant professor justice, department of justice, law and sociology School International Svc., American U., Washington, 1977-1981; associate professor, American U., Washington, 1981-1986; professor, American U., Washington, since 1986; department chairman, American U., Washington, 1989-1992. Member of advisory council College Arts & Sciences Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1984.
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Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime (Science and International Affairs Series)
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Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime (Science and International Affairs Series)
Membership
Member International Sociological Association (1st vice president crime and social control committee 1986-1990, president since 1990), American Criminology Society, American Association for Advancement Slavic Studies (board directors 1987-1989), Law and Society, Eastern Sociological Society (secretary 1986-1989).
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Married Donald E. Graves, June 26, 1975. Children: Hester, Richard.
