Thorsten Sellin
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- PhD Sociology University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johan Thorsten Sellin was a Swedish American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, a penologist and one of the pioneers of scientific criminology. Biography Sellin was born in Örnsköldsvik in Västernorrland County, Sweden and came to Canada with his parents when he was 17 years old. He received his bachelor's degree from Augustana College in Illinois when he was 19. He went on to receive a master's degree and doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 until becoming Professor Emeritus in 1967.
Thorsten Sellin's Published Works
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Published Works
- Delinquency in a birth cohort (1972) (1588)
- Culture Conflict and Crime (1938) (567)
- The measurement of delinquency (1965) (425)
- Slavery and the Penal System (1977) (110)
- The Negro Criminal A Statistical Note (1928) (88)
- The Basis of a Crime Index (1931) (78)
- Culture Conflict and Crime. (1939) (68)
- Race Prejudice in the Administration of Justice (1935) (65)
- Organized Crime: A Business Enterprise (1963) (37)
- Delinquency: Selected Studies. (1970) (27)
- Research Memorandum on Crime in the Depression (1939) (24)
- The Penalty of Death (1980) (24)
- Recidivism and Maturation (1958) (21)
- Pioneering in penology : the Amsterdam Houses of correction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1945) (21)
- Culture Conflict and Crime: A Report of the Subcommittee on Delinquency of the Committee on Personality and Culture (1939) (21)
- Capital Punishment: A World View (1963) (14)
- Pioneering in Penology (1945) (14)
- "Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency": A Symposium of Reviews (1951) (12)
- Philadelphia Prisons of the Eighteenth Century (1953) (11)
- The death penalty : a report for the Model penal code project of The American Law Institute (1959) (10)
- Crime and culture;: Essays in honor of Thorsten Sellin (1968) (10)
- The Historical Background of Our Prisons (1931) (8)
- Dom Jean Mabillon--A Prison Reformer of the Seventeenth Century (1927) (7)
- Correction in Historical Perspective (1958) (6)
- The Uniform Criminal Statistics Act (1950) (6)
- Is Murder Increasing in Europe? (1926) (6)
- International Criminal Statistics (1967) (5)
- Child Delinquency (1943) (5)
- The Origin of the "Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline" (1970) (5)
- The Sociological Study of Criminality (1950) (5)
- The art of crime (1932) (4)
- Sweden's Substitute for the Juvenile Court (1949) (4)
- Annual Report. 1940. (1943) (4)
- Pioneers in Criminology XV--Enrico Ferri (1856-1929) (1958) (4)
- Two Myths in the History of Capital Punishment (1959) (4)
- Probation and Delinquency (1927) (4)
- Lionel Fox and the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission (1964) (3)
- Filippo Franci--A Precursor of Modern Penology--A Historical Note (1926) (3)
- Crime and Delinquency in the United States: An Over-All View (1962) (3)
- Recent Penal Legislation in Sweden (1948) (3)
- A New Phase of Criminal Anthropology in Italy (1926) (3)
- CONDLIFFE, J. B. Problems of the Pacific. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 15-29, 1927. Pp. xiv, 630. Price, $3.00. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928 (1929) (3)
- New nations : the problem of poitical development (1965) (3)
- The Criminality of Youth (1941) (3)
- Pioneering in Penology. The Amsterdam Houses of Correction in the Sixteenth Centuries (1975) (3)
- The North Carolina chain gang (1969) (3)
- Prison Reform in Belgium (1926) (2)
- Historical Glimpses of Training for Prison Service (1934) (2)
- Criminal Statistics England and Wales 1928 (1932) (2)
- Schools and Delinquency.@@@Delinquency in a Birth Cohort. (1974) (2)
- The Negro and the problem of law observance and administration in the light of social research (1987) (2)
- Philadelphia Gibbet Iron, The (1955) (2)
- The House of Correction for Boys in the Hospice of Saint Michael in Rome (1930) (2)
- The second Industrial Revolution and its significance (2)
- Briefer Contributions: Paley on the Time Sentence (1931) (2)
- The Police and the crime problem (1931) (2)
- A Brief Guide to Penological Literature (1931) (2)
- Prisons of tomorrow (1974) (1)
- Prohibition : a national experiment (1932) (1)
- Inleiding Tot De Criminologie. [Introduction to Criminology] (1933) (1)
- The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 284: Murder and the Penalty of Death (1954) (1)
- Prisons in Transformation (1955) (1)
- Children in Our Prisons (1933) (1)
- Prison Reform in Europe (1931) (1)
- Book Review:Dynamic Causes of Juvenile Crime. Nathaniel D. M. Hirsch (1939) (1)
- Prison Tendencies in Europe (1931) (1)
- Criminological Research Bulletin No. VI (1936) (1)
- The Penal code of Sweden : Effective January 1, 1965 (1965) (1)
- Handworterbuch der Kriminologie. [Encyclopaedia of Criminology] (1934) (0)
- Foreword (1945) (0)
- Crime as Violation of Conduct Norms (1972) (0)
- Foreword (1932) (0)
- Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work--1930 (1931) (0)
- Book Review: Charity and Correction in New Jersey: A History of State Welfare Institutions. By James Leiby (1968) (0)
- GILCHRIST, DONALD B. (Ed.). Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Uni versities: 1936-37. Pp. xvii, 105. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1937. $2.00 (1938) (0)
- III. Plans and Proposals (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1942) (0)
- SMITH, BRUCE. Police Systems in the United States. Revised ed. Pp. xiii, 351. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. $5.00 (1950) (0)
- GAY, H. NELSON. Strenuous Italy. Pp. xii, 217. Price, $3.00. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927 (1928) (0)
- CRITICAL NOTICESLAW AND MORALS (1964) (0)
- Foreword (1948) (0)
- Book Review: Crime and Punishment in Early Massachusetts, 1620-1692. A Documentray History, by Edwin Powers (1967) (0)
- The Criminality of Youth.@@@Handbook of American Institutions for Delinquent Juveniles. Volume III: Pacific Coast States, 1940. (1941) (0)
- Foreword (1941) (0)
- BONGER, W. A. Ras en Misdaad. Pp. viii, 110. Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink en Zoon, 1939. Fl. 1.75 (1941) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1947 (1948) (0)
- Opportunities for Social Research in the Public Welfare Field (1932) (0)
- V. The Prisoners (1944) (0)
- Introduction (1950) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1961 (1962) (0)
- Crime and punishment in Germany (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1959 (1943) (0)
- IV. The Rasphuis and Its Administration (1944) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1962 (1963) (0)
- The penal code of Sweden : as amended January 1st, 1972 (1972) (0)
- Issued Quarterly By the Pennsylvania Prison Society Editorial Committee (1929) (0)
- X. The Spinhuis (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1944) (0)
- Book Review: From Newgate to Dannemora. The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848, by David Lewis (1966) (0)
- TOMPKINS, DOROTHY C. Materials for the Study of Federal Government. Pp. ix, 338. Chicago, Illinois: Public Adminis tration Service, 1948. $5.00 (1949) (0)
- Criminological Research Bulletin (1937) (0)
- Methoden der Kriminalbiologie. [The Methods of Crimino-Biology] (1933) (0)
- Foreword (1934) (0)
- The Eighty-Sixth Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York,... 1930 (0)
- Proceedings : 12th International Penal and Penitentiary Congress, The Hague, August 14-19, 1950 (1951) (0)
- Introduction To the Fortieth Anniversary Index (1932) (0)
- McKENZIE, R. D. Oriental Exclusion. Pp. viii, 200. Price, $2.00. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928 (1929) (0)
- HOFFER, FRANK W., DELBERT M. MANN, and FLOYD N. HousE. The Jails of Virginia. Pp. xv, 453. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. $5.00 (1934) (0)
- Hunderterster Jahresbericht der Rheinish - Westfalischen Gefangnisgesellschaft uber das Jahr 1929 (The 101st Annual Report of the Rhine-Westphalian Prison Society for 1929) (1931) (0)
- Social work Vocational Bureau (1952) (0)
- THE DENIS CARROLL PRIZE (1961) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1951 (1952) (0)
- Foreword (1956) (0)
- WARNER, FLORENCE M. Juvenile Detention in the United States. Pp. ix, 227. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933. $2.50 (1934) (0)
- VIII. The Rasphuis and Its Visitors (1944) (0)
- David J. Rothman. The Discovery of Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. Pp. xx, 376. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971. $12.50 (1972) (0)
- Foreword (1949) (0)
- Studies in the Social Aspects of the Depression: Crime in the Depression.@@@Education in the Depression.@@@The Family in the Depression.@@@Internal Migration in the Depression.@@@Minority Peoples in the Depression.@@@Recreation in the Depression.@@@Religion in the Depression.@@@Rural Life in the Dep (1938) (0)
- PAUL SAVEY-CASARD. La Peine de Mort. Pp. xi, 179. Geneva: Libr. Droz, 1968. No price (1968) (0)
- The Annual Report Of The Inspectors Of The Philadelphia County Prison for 1940 by (1942) (0)
- Ideology and Crime: A Study of Crime in Its Social and Historical Context. By Leon Radzinowicz. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1966. 152 pp. 21s (1967) (0)
- Causes of Delinquency.@@@Delinquency, Crime and Social Process.@@@Our Criminal Society: The Social and Legal Sources of Crime in America.@@@Delinquency: Selected Studies.@@@Prevention of Delinquency: Problems and Programs. (1971) (0)
- Foreword (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1931) (0)
- An Introduction to Criminology.W. A. Bonger (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Case Studies in the Psychopathology of Crime: A Reference Source for Research in Criminal Material. Ben Karpman (1949) (0)
- The Police and the crime problem : the annals (1975) (0)
- The Child Welfare Act of Sweden : effective January 1, 1961 (1965) (0)
- Philadelphia County Prisons Then and Now (1941) (0)
- La Lutte Moderne Contre le Crime (The Modern Battle against Crime) (1931) (0)
- Foreword (1946) (0)
- Foreword (1937) (0)
- Foreword (1946) (0)
- CLANK, CHARLES L., and EUBANK, EARLE EDWARD. Lockstep and Corridor . Thirty-five years of prison life. Pp. xiv, 177. Cincinnati: The University of Cincinnati Press, 1927 (1929) (0)
- ROBINSON, LOUIS N. Should Prisoners Work? Pp. xii, 355. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1931. $2.50 (1932) (0)
- Foreword (1929) (0)
- Book Review: Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Muder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Roger Lane (1980) (0)
- IX. The “Private” Section (1944) (0)
- I. Punishments in Old Amsterdam (1944) (0)
- WARNER, SAM BASS. Crime and Criminal Statistics in Boston. Pp. x, 147. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press, 1934. $3.00 (1934) (0)
- MANNHEIM, HERMANN. War and Crime. Pp. x, 208. London: C. A. Watts & Co., Ltd., 1941. 10/6 (1941) (0)
- Foreword (1949) (0)
- Foreword (1938) (0)
- Hopkins, Alfred. Prisons and Prison Building. Pp. xii, 140. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1930. $5.00 (1931) (0)
- American Family Laws. Vol. I. Introductory Survey and Marriage (1932) (0)
- Criminal History of Released Prisoners (1945) (0)
- The Sociology of Punishment and Correction.@@@The Sociology of Crime and Delinquency. (1963) (0)
- VI. The Labor Program (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1954) (0)
- Foreword (1953) (0)
- RADZINOWICZ, L., and J. W. CECIL TURNER (Eds.). Penal Reform in England. Pp. 177. London: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1940. 10/6 (1941) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Study of the Criminal in Europe (1931) (0)
- Juvenile Delinquency.@@@Juvenile Delinquency in Modern Society. (1949) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Membership of The American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1942 (1943) (0)
- Foreword (1943) (0)
- Best, Harry. Crime and the Criminal Law in the United States. Pp. xvii, 615. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. $6.50 (1931) (0)
- Kriminologi. (On Scandinavian Criminology) (1958) (0)
- Les Systemes Penitentiaires En Vigeur Dans Divers Pays. [The Penal Systems in Force in Various Countries] (1935) (0)
- Foreword (1938) (0)
- Africa and the western world (1957) (0)
- Adult Probation and the Conditional Sentence (1959) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1964 (1965) (0)
- Youth and Crime (1942) (0)
- Handworterbuch der Psychischen Hygiene und der Psychiatrischen Fursorge [Dictionary Manual of Mental Hygiene and Psychiatric Social Welfare] (1932) (0)
- COX, WILLIAM B., F. LOVELL BIXBY and WILLIAM T. ROOT (Editors). Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories. Pp. lii, 1076. New York: The Osborne Association, Inc., 1933 (1934) (0)
- Foreword (1936) (0)
- Quarter Century's Progress in Penal Institutions for Adults in the United States, A (1933) (0)
- De Straftoemeting [The Imposition of Punishment] (0)
- An outline of the Japanese judiciary (1935) (0)
- Reports: Fifth International Congress of Social Defens (1958) (0)
- GLUECK, SHELDON and ELEANOR. Five Hundred Delinquent Women. Pp. xxiv, 539. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. $5.00. BEARD, BELLE BOONE. Juvenile Probation. Pp. xiv, 219. New York: American Book Co., 1934. $2.25 (1936) (0)
- MEARS, ELIOT GRINNELL. Resident Orientals on the American Pacific Coast. Their Legal and Economic Status. Pp. xvi, 545. Price, $3.00. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928 (1929) (0)
- The Criminality of Youth. (1941) (0)
- Foreword (1935) (0)
- Social Welfare Laws of the Forty-eight States. Des Moines: Wendell Huston Co., 1930 (1931) (0)
- Crime (1942) (0)
- MOONEY, MARTIN. Crime Incorporated. Pp. 278. New York: Whittlesey House, 1935. $2.50 (1936) (0)
- VII. Welfare and Discipline (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1952) (0)
- Ohio Criminal Statistics, 1931.Associated Group from the Institute of Law and the Ohio InstituteComparative Judicial Criminal Statistics: Six States, 1931.Leon C. Marshall (1933) (0)
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Congress of the American Prison Association, Louisville, Kentucky, October 10th to 16th, 1930 (1932) (0)
- Sociology (1988) (0)
- The Presidency of the Academy (1953) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1965 (1966) (0)
- Report of the Board of Directors to the Members of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for the Year 1967 (1968) (0)
- XI. The Imitators (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1935) (0)
- Training the Prison Staff in Prussia (1932) (0)
- II. The Wellsprings of Reform (1944) (0)
- Foreword (1955) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1937) (0)
- Crimes et Chatiments au XVIIIe siecle (Crimes and Punishments during the 18th Century) (0)
- Actes du Congres Penal et Penitentiaire Internationale de Prague, Aout 1930 [Proceedings of the International Penal and Prison Congress in Prague, August, 1930] (1932) (0)
- ROBERT S. STAROBIN. Industrial Slavery in the Old South. Pp. xiii, 320. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. $7.95 (1971) (0)
- Sociology (1989) (0)
- Foreword (1946) (0)
- Foreword (1939) (0)
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