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Randall G. Shelden, Criminologist

 

 

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UNLV Student's Page

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War in Iraq and Afghanistan: What’s the Price Tag?  Over $1.43 Trillion (As of 2/14/13)
 

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Anti-War News & Commentaries

Child Victims

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Corporate Crime

Death Penalty Research

The Economy

Gangs

Girls and Juvenile Justice

Inequality in America

Racial Injustice

Veterans Issues

 

 

 

 

 

Special Announcements

 

A Conservative Case for Prison Reform

 

This is why we need peer review: Austerity: Planned Poverty

 

A must see - Why Washington is corrupt. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

 

Incredible data on inequality: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

 

Updated reports of abuse inside juvenile facilities: http://nospank.net/rcntnews.htm

 

   

Crime Mapping in Los Angeles: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/

Within South L.A.'s killing zone, a haven from violence

   See also this interactive map of homicides:   http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/blog/page/1/

 

In the News

 

New study reveals that rich kids make huge progress in educational attainment which poor kids fall further behind: No Rich Child Left Behind

 

Registry tallies over 2,000 wrongful convictions since 1989

 

Report highlights abuse in for-profit prisons for kids.  Click on "Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" above

 

 

Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in the Schools? An American Psychological Association report.

 

 

Mentally challenged man freed 14 years after false confession

 

To all who watch CSI programs, read this: The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living At Risk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commentaries:

 

War on Drugs and Race (6/10/13)

 

 

America is Ranked 29th in Child Well-Being

(4/24/13)

 

 

The Boston Bombings (4/23/13)

 

 

Meanness and Violence (4/18/13)

 

 

The rich get richer while everyone else struggles (3/4/13)

 

 

Debtor's Prisons Alive and Well (2/4/13)

 

 

Gun Nuts Run Amok (12/15/12)

 

Legalized Pot and Easing of ‘Three Strikes’ Law Mark Unique Election

(11/8/12)

 

 

Romney, the 47% and Juvenile Justice (10/2/12)

 

Jails and the Bail Industry (9/25/12)

 

Race and Pot (7/24/12)

 

The Gateway Myth (7/17/12)

 

Slavery’s Legacy Alive and Well in Louisiana (6/24/12)

 

America the Unequal (5/23/12)

 

Class Counts (5/6/12)
 

The Trayvon Martin Case is Nothing New (3/23/12)

 

School Discipline and the Prison Pipeline (3/15/12)

 

And the Rich Get Richer (3/8/12)

 

Cops in Schools (2/12/12)

 

Archives

Research Articles:

The American Legislative Exchange Council (11/16/11)

Punishment for Sale (11/7/10)

From Poorhouses to Jails: Same Function, Different Time (4/27/10)

Our Punitive Society (11/11/09)

Exit Exams, the Prison Pipeline and Getting Tough Anyway (11/9/09)

Conservative, Liberal and Radical Views of Crime (9/17/09) - revised and updated on 2/20/11