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Louise Shelley

Louise I. Shelley
Professor of Public Policy

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Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Sociology (1977)

Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University (1974-75)

Columbia University, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship used to study in the Sociology Department, Law School and the Russian Institute (1973-74)

M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Criminology (1973)

B.A., Cum Laude, Cornell University, Penology and Russian Literature (1972)

Language
Fluent in French, Russian, and moderate fluency in Spanish and Italian

Publications

Books and Monographs
Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking edited with Shiro Okubo (Under contract Routledge).

Organised Crime and Corruption in Georgia edited with Erik Scott and Anthony Latta, London and New York:Routledge, 2007.

Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives edited with Sally Stoecker Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Izucheniye organizovannoy prestupnosti: rossiisko-amerikanskii dialog, edited with Ninel Kuznetsova and Yu. G. Kozlov, Moscow: Olimp, 1997.

Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control, London: Routledge, 1996.

Social Changes, Crime and the Police, edited with Jozsef Vigh Reading: Harwood Press, 1995.

Crime and Control in Comparative Perspective, edited with H.G. Heiland and H. Katoh. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992.

Crime and Development (edited special issue), 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. Translated into Chinese, published Bejing: Public Publishing House, 1987.

Readings in Comparative Criminology, Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 (edited Collection).

History Without Jews, B'Nai B'rith, 1977.

Articles
“Trafficking in Nuclear Materials: Criminals and Terrorists,” Global Crime Vol. 7 (no.3-4 August-November 2006), pp.544-560.

“Le crime transnational, une menace pour les États?” , Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines, No. 2, mars, avril, mai, 2006, pp. 20-23.

“The Drug Trade in Contemporary Russia.” China and Eurasia Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2006), pp. 15-20.

“The Diversity of the Crime-Terror Interaction,” (with John Picarelli). International Annals of Criminology, Vol 43-1/2, 2005, pp. 51-81.

“Methods and Motives: Exploring Links between Transnational Organized Crime and International Terrorism,” (with John Picarelli) Trends in Organized Crime vol. 9, no.2 (Winter 2005, pp.52-67.

"The Unholy Trinity: Transnational crime, corruption, and terrorism." Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 11, no. 2, Winter/Spring 2005, pp.101-111.

“Unraveling the Criminal Nexus,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Winter/Spring 2005), p.5-13.

“Terrorist Financing”, Annals of International Criminology, Translated into Spanish and published as “El financiamiento del Terrorismo” in No. 4 Newsletter (April 2005) of the Revista de Opinion Juridica.

“The Trade in People in and from the Former Soviet Union,” Contemporary Crises, 2-3, 40, 2003, pp.231-49.

“Global Crime Inc,” (With Chris Corpora and John Picarelli) (in French) Les Cahiers de la Securite Interieure No.52, deuxieme trimester 2003), pp.9-34.

“Trafficking in Women: The Business Model Approach,” Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol.X, Issue I, Summer/Fall 2003, pp. 119-131.

“Crime and Corruption: Enduring Problems of Post-Soviet Development,” Demokratizatsiya Vol.11, No.1, Winter 2003, pp.110-114.

“Torgovliia zhenshchinami, kriminal i korruptsiia,” (Trade in Women, Criminal and Corruption)," Dialog Zhenshchin 18/24, 2002, pp. 13-18.

“Rossia I korruptsiia: Kto kovo,” Chistye Ruki, No. 5, 2002, pp. 21-3.

“The Nexus of Organized Crime and International Criminals and Terrorism,” International Annals of Criminology Volume 40, no.1-2, 2002, 85-92.

“Can Russia Fight Organized Crime and Corruption,” The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville Vol. XXIII, No.2, 2002, pp.37-55.

“Methods Not Motives: Implications of the Convergence of International Organized Crime and Terrorism” (with John Picarelli) in Police Practice and Research:An International Journal, 2002, Vol.3, No.4, pp.305-318.

“Identifying, Counting and Categorizing Transnational Criminal Organizations,” Transnational Organized Crime Vol 5, No.1. (Spring 1999, released in 2002), pp.1-18.

“Post-Communist Transitions and the Illegal Movement of Peoples: Chinese Smuggling and Russian Trafficking in Women,” Annals of Scholarship, Vol.14, No. 2 (Fall 2000, released in 2002), pp. 71-84.

“Transnational Crime: The Case of Russian Organized Crime and the Role of International Cooperation in Law Enforcement,” Demokratizatsiya, Winter Vol.10, No.1, 2002 , pp.49-67.

"Crime as the Defining Problem: Voices of Another Criminology," International Annals of Criminology. Vol. 39, No. 1/2, 2001, pp. 73-88.

"Russia Finally Adopts a Law to Combat Money Laundering: New Law Narrowly Focused; Does Not Include Capital Flight," (with Ethan Berger) Russia/Central Europe Executive Guide. Vol. 11, No. 19, October 2001, pp. 9-12.

“Corruption and Organized Crime in Mexico and the Post-PRI Transition,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice,” Vol. 17, No.3, August 2001, pp. 213-231.

“Corruption in the Post-Yeltsin Era: Why a corrupt state can’t be a strong state,” East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 and 2, 2000, pp.70-74.

Book Chapters
“Trafficking in Nuclear Materials: Criminals and Terrorists,” Criminal-States and Crime-Soldiers ed. Robert J. Bunker, London and New York: Routledge, 2008, pp.216-232.

“Organized Crime and Terrorism,” (with John T. Picarelli) in Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, eds. Terrorism Financing and State Responses A Comparative Perspective Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007, 39-55.

“Georgian Organized Crime,” in Organised Crime and Corruption in Georgia edited by Louise Shelley with Erik R. Scott and Anthony Latta , London and New York:Routledge, 2007, pp. 50-68.

“Human Trafficking as A Form of Transnational Crime,” in Maggy Lee, Human Trafficking, Devon and Oregon:Willan Publishing, 2007, pp. 116-37.

“The Unholy Trinity: Transnational Crime, Corruption and Terrorism,” in Umberto Gori and Ivo Paparela Invisible Threats: Financial and Information Technology Crimes and National Security Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, D.C. (NATO series): IOS Press, 2007, pp. 100-107.

“The Government Bureaucracy, Corruption and Organized Crime: Impact on the Business Community,” in Kathryn Hendley, Remaking the Role of Law: Commercial Law in Russia and the CIS, Huntington, N.Y. Juris, 2007, pp. 41-61.

“Countering Terrorism in the US: The Fallacy of Ignoring the Crime-Terror Nexus,”  in Robert W. Orttung and Andrey Makarychev, eds. , National Counter-Terrorism Strategies Legal, Institutional and Public Policy Dimensions in the US, Uk, France, Turkey and Russia. Amsterdam:IOS Press, 2006, pp.203-212.

Louise I. Shelley (with Svante E. Cornell), "The Drug Trade in Russia," in Andreas Wenger, Jeronim Perovic, and Robert W. Orttung, eds., Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 196-216.

“Crime and Terrorism in the Black Sea Region,” in Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security.  Ankara Turkey: ONCU Press, 2006, pp. 182-185.

“Organized Crime and Terrorism” (with John Picarelli) in Terrorist Financing.  Stanford University Press, pp. 85-104 (forthcoming).

“Organized Crime Groups: ‘Uncivil Society’” in Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment eds. Alfred B. Evans, Jr., Laura A. Henry, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.  Armonk, N.Y.:  M.E. Sharpe, 2006, pp.95-109.

“Border Issues: Transnational Crime and Terrorism” in Borders and Security Governance Managing Borders in a Globalised World eds. Marina Caparini and Otwin Marenin Zurich: Lit Verlag, 2006, pp. 255-69.

“The Globalization of Crime,” in Introduction to International Criminal Justice, ed. Mangai Natarajan.  Boston:  McGraw Hill, 2005, pp.3-10.

“Russia's Law against Trade in People:  A Response to International Pressure and Domestic Coalitions," in Public Policy and Law in Russia: In Search of a Unified Legal and Political Space, eds. Ferdinand Feldbrugge and Robert Sharlet eds. Leiden: Netherlands, Koninklijke Brill, 2005, pp.291-305.

“Russia's efforts to combat human trafficking: Efficient crime groups versus irresolute societies and uncoordinated states” (with Robert Orttung) in Ruling Russia: Law, Crime and Justice in a Changing Society ed. William Alex Pridemore  Lanham:Md.:Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, pp.167-82.

“Crime, Violence and Political Conflict in Russia,” (with Yuri Andrienko) in Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis ed. Nicholas Sambanis, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2005, pp. 87-117.

“Civil Society Mobilized Against Corruption:  Russia and Ukraine,” in Civil Society and Corruption: Mobilizing for Reform, Michael Johnston ed. University Press of America, 2005, 3-21.

“The Nexus between Terrorism and Organized Crime,” Confronting Terrorist Financing  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2005, 29-33.

“Contemporary Russian Organised Crime: Embedded in Russian Society.” in Organised Crime in Europe: Patterns and Policies in the European Union and Beyond eds. Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli  Dordrecht: Springer, 2004, pp.563-84.

Other Writings
“Criminal Acts,” (with Robert Orttung) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist Sept.-Oct. 2006, pp.22-23.

“The Globalization of Crime and Terrorism,” in The Challenges of Globalization, an Electronic Journal of the US State Department, February, 2006.  http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0206/ijge/
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“The Price of Sex,” Moscow News, September 17-23, 2004, p.4.

Contracts and Grants
United States Department of Energy: The Threat to Russia’s Nuclear Materials: Case Study of Novosibirsk, $350,850 (12/07/05-12/31/06)

United States Department of State: Human Trafficking Awareness for Local Government Officials and Law Enforcement, 250,000 (9/01/05-2/28/07)

International Research and Exchange Board: Smuggling Links between Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in Eurasia, $30,000 (8/01/2005-7/30/2006)

Ploughshares Fund: Nuclear Smuggling Links between Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in Eurasia, $25,000 (10/17/05-10/17/06)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $65,285 (7/1/05-12/31/05)

United States Department of Energy: Organized Crime, Corruption and Nuclear Proliferation in Dagestan and Chelyabinsk, $260,000 (9/1/04-6/30/05)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Russian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $3,000,000 (ongoing 1997-2006)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Ukrainian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $1,000,000 (1997-2005)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Georgian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $1,000,000 (ongoing 2002-2006)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Research on Money Laundering in Georgia, approx. $350,000 (ongoing 2002-2005)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $90,024 (5/1/04-12/31/04)

National Institute of Justice: Links Between Organized Crime and Terrorism, $235,810 (9/1/03-2/28/05)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $160,338 (6/1/03-12/31/03)

IREX/Starr Family Foundation: Black Sea Grant, Corruption in Higher Education, 2002-2003

U.S. Library of Congress Open World Russian Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $119,915 (7/1/02-11/30/02)

U.S. Border Patrol Academy (Vertex Solutions): Curriculum Design and Technical Implementation, $140,000 (10/1/02-12/31/04)

McCormick Tribune Foundation: Cantigny Conference on Transnational Organized Crime and
Peacekeeping; $10,000 (9/1/01-10/20/01)

World Bank: Russian Case Study of Project of Criminal and Civil Violence, $20,000

U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Grant: To Develop a Model Course Curricula for Use in Law Enforcement Training in the Prevention, Enforcement, and Prosecution of Human Trafficking Crimes, and Protection and Rehabilitation of Victims, $347,000 (1999-2000)

U.S. State Department (former USIA) Grant for Trafficking in Human Beings Research in Russia and Ukraine, approx. $120,000 (1999-2000)

U.S. Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grant: Research on Money Laundering in Russia, $247,000 (1997-2002)

MacArthur Foundation: Organized Crime Study Centers in Russia, approx. $100,000 (1995-1997)

National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1992-93 (The Soviet Coup Trial), 1986-87 (Policing Soviet Society) and 1980-81 (Lawyers in Soviet Work Life)

American Bar Association Commission on Undergraduate Legal Studies: Grant to develop a General Education Course on Western Legal Tradition (7 out of 80 proposals funded), 1992

Employment History
The American University:

2004 – 2007 Professor, School of International Service (primary appointment)
Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs

1997-present Director, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

1986-2004 Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs
(primary appointment)
Professor, School of International Service

1989-1992 Chair, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs
Professor, School of International Service

1982-1986 Associate Professor, School of Justice and School of International Service

1981-1982 Associate Professor, School of Justice

1977-1981 Assistant Professor, School of Justice

June 1978- IPA Social Science Program Specialist. Helped to formulate LEAA's correctional January1979 policy and review its funding in the area. Office of Planning and Management, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration

Visiting Professorships
Institute of Sociology, University of Oaxaca, Fall 1993, (lecturing in Spanish)

Law Faculty, University of Trento, Spring 1993 (lecturing in Italian)

Institute of Penal Sciences, Mexico City, Spring 1993 (lecturing in Spanish)

Honors and Awards (Not University)
U.S. Department of State, Speaker and Specialist Grant, Human trafficking, smuggling and border issues, Tajikistan, September 2006

U.S. Department of State, (ECA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Honduras, April 2001

U.S. Department of State, (USIA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Argentina, September 2000

USIA Academic Specialist Grants to work with Mahidol University, Thailand on Ph.D. in Criminology, 1992 and 1995, Established curriculum for PHD and served on advisory board of doctoral program

Fulbright Lecturing Fellowship to Mexico, 1993-1994

IREX U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1988-89

IREX Development Fellowship, 1987-88

IREX Short-Term USSR Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1987-88

Kennan Institute Research Grant, Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1986

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1984

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to Poland and Bulgaria, Grant for Summer 1982 (withdrew because of Polish political situation)

American Sociological Association grant to present paper at World Congress of Sociology, 1978

Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, 1974-75, for Study at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, in France and at the Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University, USSR

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to the USSR, 1974-75

Slavic Honor Society

American Criminology Society Student Writing Competition Award, 1975
International Fellows Program, Columbia University, 1973-74

IREX Preparatory Fellowship, 1973-74

Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-73

University Awards
American University School of Public Affairs: Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Other Professional Contributions, 1999

The American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, 1991-92

American University Scholar of the Year Award, 1985

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

School of Justice Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

University Summer Research Grant, 1984

School of Justice Outstanding Service Award, 1984

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1982

School of Justice Outstanding Scholar Award, 1982

Professional Memberships
Professional Societies:
American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, International Society of Criminology, Mexican Society of Criminology (Honorary Member).