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Charles Wellford

Criminal Justice

#218

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#244

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Criminology

#159

World Rank

#175

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Charles Wellford

Sociology

#2389

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#2653

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Charles Wellford's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of Maryland, College Park
Masters Criminology University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors Sociology University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Franklin Wellford is an American criminologist, emeritus professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland–College Park. He previously served as the department's chair. In 1996, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice established the Charles Wellford Fellowship in his honor. He was chair of the University of Maryland's Athletic Council from 1995 to 2008. He was the president of the American Society of Criminology during 1995–96. In addition he was the research director for the National Issues Center at Westinghouse Corporation, director of the Federal Justice Research Program, Director of the Maryland Justice Analysis Center, Director of the Center for Applied Studies, Director of the Office of Academic Computing, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and Dean of Continuing and Extended Education. He twice served as the President of the Atlantic Coast Conference and served on the Championship Cabinet and Management Council of the NCAA.

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Charles Wellford's Published Works

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Published Works

On the Measurement of Delinquency (1975) (252)
Calling the Police: The Evaluation of Police Service (1973) (123)
Factors Associated with Adoption of the Inmate Code: A Study of Normative Socialization (1967) (119)
Labelling Theory and Criminology: An Assessment (1975) (114)
An Analysis of Variables Affecting the Clearance of Homicides: A Multistate Study (1999) (109)
AGE COMPOSITION AND THE INCREASE IN RECORDED CRIME (1973) (60)
Sentence Decisionmaking: The Logic of Sentence Decisions and the Extent and Sources of Sentence Disparity (1981) (54)
Age Composition and Patterns of Change in Criminal Statistics (1968) (50)
Assessing Indicators Of Crime Among International Crime Data Series (1989) (46)
Convenience store robberies in selected metropolitan areas. Risk factors for employee injury. (1997) (28)
Clearing homicides (2019) (23)
Variability of Crime Clearance Among Police Agencies (2018) (22)
SENTENCING RESEARCH FOR SENTENCING REFORM (2007) (19)
Quantitative studies in criminology (1978) (18)
CONTROLLING CRIME AND ACHIEVING JUSTICE‐THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (1997) (16)
Delinquency prevention : theory and practice (1967) (15)
Employee injuries and convenience store robberies in selected metropolitan areas. (1996) (15)
Delinquency Prevention and Labeling (1987) (9)
Crime, Justice and Criminology Education: The Importance of Disciplinary Foundations (2007) (8)
An Examination of Unwarranted Sentencing Disparity Under Maryland’s Voluntary Sentencing Guidelines (2007) (8)
A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns (2017) (7)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON GUN POLICY (2005) (6)
CONTACT AND COMMITMENT IN A CORRECTIONAL COMMUNITY (1973) (6)
Office of the Executive Director (1999) (5)
Multistate Study of Convenience Store Robberies Summary of Findings by (2005) (4)
Victimization rates for domestic travelers (1997) (3)
Probation and parole;: Selected readings (1970) (2)
Solving Homicides: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve (2017) (2)
Sentencing and Social Science: Research for the Formulation of Federal Sentencing Guidelines (1979) (2)
Review Article: Deterrence: Issues and Methodologies in the Analysis of the Impact of Legal Threat in Crime Control (1974) (2)
History and Evolution of Criminology (2009) (2)
A New Era for Hot Spots Policing (2014) (2)
Sentencing Disparity and Sentencing Guidelines (2017) (1)
Criminology: Development and Current Status of the Discipline (2015) (1)
Organizing for Effective Homicide Investigations (2018) (1)
Identifying and Responding to Chronic Juvenile Offenders: The Challenge of the 1980s. (1983) (0)
Improving Our Conceptualization and Measurement of Crime (2017) (0)
Subcultures of Violence and Beyond (2002) (0)
Foreword by Charles F. Wellford (2007) (0)
Robberies in Selected Metropolitan Areas Risk Factors for Emp 1 oyee Injury (2020) (0)
What Kinds of Cases Are More Likely to Be Closed ? (2000) (0)
Title of Dissertation / Thesis: UNDERSTANDING DELINQUENCY AMONG MALTREATED YOUTH IN (2004) (0)
Deterrence and the Criminal Justice System: An Instrumental Analysis (1981) (0)
Criminology (2019) (0)
From the Editors (1999) (0)
Police Contact and Delinquency: A Relevant Evaluation* (1981) (0)
Book Reviews : CRIME AND ITS CORRECTION: An International Survey of Attitudes and Practices. JOHN P. CONRAD. University of California Press, 1965. $7.50 (1966) (0)
THE FEDERAL JUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAM (1980) (0)
Guns and Crime (2011) (0)
Improving the clearance of serious crime: the case of aggravated assault (2021) (0)

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