Louise Shelley

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Louise Isobel Shelley (* 1952 ) is an American crime and terrorism researcher . Since 1998 she has been the director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center research center , which is now part of George Mason University . There she has also been Professor of Public Policy since 2007 . Prior to that, she worked at American University for 30 years .

Career

Shelley studied from 1968 at Cornell University penology and Russian literature , where she graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts . She then studied criminology at the University of Pennsylvania , earned a Master of Arts in 1973 , where she took up a doctoral degree in sociology . As part of an exchange program, Louise Shelley also stayed at Columbia University from 1973 to 1974 at the departments of sociology, law and the Russian Institute, and from 1974 to 1975 studied at the department of criminal law at Lomonosov University, Moscow , for which she received a Fulbright Scholarship received. In 1977 she received her PhD with her thesis Soviet Criminology: Its Birth and Demise 1917-1936 .

Shelley then went to the American University in Washington, DC , where she became an assistant professor at the School of Justice in 1977 and an associate professor in 1981. For her work, she received the Guggenheim grant from 1984 to 1985 . In 1986 she was given a full professorship in the Department of Justice, Law and Society. In 1989 Shelley became chair of the department for three years. For a visiting professorship at the Institute for Penal Sciences in Mexico City from 1993 to 1994, she received a second grant from the Fulbright program . In 2004 she changed to a professorship at the School of International Service within the American University .

In 2007, Louise Shelley moved to George Mason University , where she became a professor at the School of Public Policy .

In 1998 she founded the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at the American University as a research center for the investigation of transnational crime, terrorism and corruption, and has been director of it ever since. When Shelley's move to George Mason University, the research center was also attached to the GMU.

Louise Shelley was a member of the Cosmos Club from 2006 to 2014 . Since 2008 she has been a participant and several times co-leader of several research groups of the World Economic Forum ( Global Agenda Councils ) on black market trafficking , organized crime and human trafficking . She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2012 .

From 1975 she was married to the diplomat and Kremlin analyst at the US State Department Donald Graves , with whom she had two children before the marriage was divorced.

Publications (selection)

  • Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking . With Shiro Okubo. Routledge, New York and London, 2011.
  • Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective . Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, 2010.
  • Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia . With Erik Scott and Anthony Latta: Routledge, London and New York, 2007.
  • Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives With Sally Stoecker Lanham. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
  • Izucheniye organizovannoy prestupnosti: rossiisko-amerikanskii dialog . With Ninel Kuznetsova and Yu. G. Kozlov, Olimp, Moscow, 1997.
  • Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control . Routledge, London, 1996.
  • Social Changes, Crime and the Police . With Jozsef Vigh Reading. Harwood Press, 1995.
  • Crime and Control in Comparative Perspective . With HG Heiland and H. Katoh. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1992.
  • Crime and Development (Special Edition), International Annals of Criminology, 1986, Vol. 24, Nos. 1 and 2.
  • Lawyers in Soviet Work Life, Law, Crime and Deviance Series , Rutgers University Press, 1984.
  • Crime and Modernization, The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime , Southern Illinois University Press, first printing March 1981, second printing March 1982.
  • Readings in Comparative Criminology , Southern Illinois University Press, 1981
  • History Without Jews , B'nai B'rith , 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Cress. Remembering Mr. X , The Sentinental, Carlisle, PA, August 18, 2008. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ See "Donald Edward" Mr. X "Graves" , findagrave.com, May 1, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Shelley, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shelley, Louise Isobel; Shelley, Louise I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime and terrorism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1952