Long time distinguished University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) professor and Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) Senior Research Fellow, Randall Shelden retired after nearly 5 decades as one of the nation’s leading criminologists. Dr. Shelden received his master’s degree in sociology at Memphis State University and doctoral degree in sociology at Southern Illinois University. He authored or co-authored over 20 books, including: Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society (second edition, co-authored with William B. Brown, Randal Fritzler and Karen Miller); Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (4th edition), with Meda Chesney-Lind (which received the Hindelang Award for outstanding contribution to Criminology in 1992); Youth Gangs in American Society 4th edition.), with Sharon Tracy and William B. Brown; Controlling the Dangerous Classes: The History of Criminal Justice, co-authored with Pavel Vasiliev (3rd edition); Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society, co-authored with Emily Troshynski (3rd edition); Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects (co-edited with Daniel Macallair) and Our Punitive Society. He also authored more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on the subject of crime and justice. In addition, he wrote more than 100 commentaries in local and regional newspapers.
He was the recipient of the UNLV Alumni Award for Outstanding Teacher in 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1992, and 1993 and received the Outstanding Research Award for the College of Urban Affairs in 2006. He was also the co-editor of the Justice Policy Journal with CJCJ.
