Robert Elias





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Academic Essays

"Violence and American Culture" in Lester Kurtz (ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Conflict & Peace(San Diego: Academic Press, 1999)(Revised: forthcoming, 2007)

“Academic Mysteries” Mystery Readers International Magazine (forthcoming, 2006)

"Human Rights and Global Change," in Joyce Apsel, ed., Teaching Human Rights (New York: New York University Press, 2005)

“Field of Dreams” Mystery Scene Magazine 89 (Spring 2005), 42-43.

“The Law of Personhood” Buffalo Law Review (Winter 2004), 52:1, 225-256.

“The Progressive Interview: Dan Perkins,” The Progressive (March 2003), 36-42

“Terrorism and American Foreign Policy” Tanbou: Journal of Haitian Political Studies (Fall 2001) reprinted in:The Pacific Ecologist (Spring 2002)

“The Utopian Tradition” in The Utopian Impulse (San Francisco: University of San Francisco, 2002)

“Who Learns from Service Learning?” (coauthored) American Behavioral Scientist 43:5 (2000), 839-48

“Victim Treatment in Criminal Justice System,” in Nicole Hahn Rafter (ed.), Encyclopedia on Women
and Crime
(New York: Oryx Press, 2000)

"Victims of Violence" in Ronald Gottesman & Mauricio Mazon (eds.), Encyclopedia of Violence in the
U.S.
(New York: Charles Scribner's, 2000)

"Student Contributions to Public Life," (coauthored), in Kathleen Weigert & Robin Crews, eds. Teaching for Justice (Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1999)
Reprinted in: American Sociological Association, Teaching the Sociology of Peace and War (Washington, DC: Author, 1999)

"Human Rights and Global Change" in Amnesty International, Human Rights Education Resources
(Minneapolis: Human Rights USA, 1998)

"Scenes from Absurdistan" in Phyllis Carey & Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (eds.), Critical Essays on
Vaclav Havel
(New York: G.K. Hall, 1998)

"A Culture of Violent Solutions: Crime Wars & Gulf Wars" in Jennifer Turpin & Lester Kurtz (eds.) The
Web of Violence
(Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996)

"Criminologists Must Promote Human Rights" in Ron Boostrom (ed.), Enduring Issues in Criminology
(San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1995)

"Media Coverage of American Crime Policy" in Kristan Cavina (ed.), Critical Thinking and Writing
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1995)

"Violence Is the Answer" Peace Review (Fall/Winter 1995)

"Ronald Reaganism Ended the Cold War--In the 1960s" in Ralph Summy and Michael Salla (eds.), Why the Cold War Ended (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995)

"Has Victimology Outlived Its Usefulness?" Journal of Human Justice (Fall 1994)

"Victimology: Paradigms and Perspectives." in Chris Sumner (ed.) Violence and Victimization.
Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Victimology. Adelaide, Australia: University of South Australia Press, 1994.

"Declaring Peace on Crime" The Humanist(March/April 1994)

"Thinking About Peace." in Robert Elias and Jennifer Turpin (eds.), Rethinking Peace (Boulder, CO:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994).

"Official Stories: Media Coverage of American Crime Policy" The Humanist (January/February 1994)

"Taking Crime Seriously." Peace Review (Summer 1994).

"A Peace Movement Against Crime." Peace Review(Summer 1994).

"Crime Wars Forgotten" Peace Review (Spring 1993)

"Wars on Drugs As Wars on Victims" in Emilio Viano (ed.), Victim Rights and Reforms (Onati, Spain: International Institute for Sociology of Law, 1993)

"Victim-Based Sentencing: Who Gets What?" in Leslie Samuelson (ed.), Sentencing Policy and Reform (Toronto: Garamund Press, 1993)

"The Conflicting Politics of Victim Movements" in Emilio Viano (ed.), Victims and Human Rights
(London: Taylor & Francis, 1993)

"Drug Wars as Victimization & Social Control" New Political Science (Summer 1993)

"Who Gets What from Victim Policy?" in Ezzat Fattah, (ed.), Towards A Critical Victimology (London:
Macmillan, 1993)

"Scenes from Absurdistan: Lessons for Us" The Humanist (Jan/Feb 1992)

"Crime Control As Human Rights Enforcement" in Richard Quinney & Hal Pepinsky (eds.) Criminology as Peacemaking (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991)

"Which Victim Movement? The Politics of Victim Policy" in Wesley Skogan, et al.(eds.), Victims & Criminal Justice (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990)

"University Peace Studies: Strategies for Program Development" Peace & Change 15 (July 1990)

"Is the Victim's Movement Succeeding?" in Richard Monk (ed.), Clashing Views on Controversial
Issues in Crime & Criminology
(Guilford, CT: Duchin Publ., 1989; second edition, 1990)

"Global Human Rights" in Daniel C. Thomas & Michael T. Klare (eds.), Peace & World Order Studies: A Curriculum Guide (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989)

"Alternative Development in Central America: A Role for Oxfam?" in George Lopez and Michael Stohl (eds.), Development, Dependence & State Repression (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989)

"Community Control, Criminal Justice and Victim Services" in Ezzat A. Fattah (ed.), Reorienting the Justice System: From Crime Policy to Victim Policy (London: Macmillan Co., 1986)

"Victims and Crime Prevention: A Basis for Social Change?" and "A New Citizen Agenda for Crime
Prevention" Citizen Participation (Summer 1985)

"Transcending Our Social Reality of Victimization" Victimology: An International Journal, 10(1985)

"Alienating the Victim: Compensation and Victim Attitudes" Journal of Social Issues (Winter 1984)

"International Human Rights" and "Toward A Just World Order" in Barbara Wien (ed.), Peace and World Order Studies: A Curriculum Guide (New York: World Policy Institute, 1984)

"The Symbolic Politics of Victim Compensation" Victimology: An International Journal, 8 (1983)

"Progressives & Crime: Debate Continues" Social Policy, 13(Winter 1983)

"Citizen Participation in Criminal Justice: A Critique" Citizen Participation (July/August 1982)

"Crimes That Don't Count" The Progressive (September 1981)
Reprinted in: David Bender (ed.) Crime and Criminals (St. Paul,Greenhaven, 1984)


NEWS ARTICLES, REVIEWS & EDITORIALS

"Alchemists of Revolution, by Richard Rubinstein," in Peace Review (Fall 1994)

"Conflict and Power" Peace Review (Winter 1993)

"Peace, War and the Media" Peace Review(Spring 1993)

"Euphoria" New Oxford Review (April 1991)

"The War's Immorality" San Francisco Foghorn (6 February 1991)

"Moral Views on the War" Monday Bulletin (11 March 1991)

"Patriotism is Stopping the War" San Francisco Foghorn (31 January 1991)

"Victims of the Drug Wars" San Francisco Foghorn (23 October 1990)

"Human Rights & Peace" Peace Review (Spring 1990)

"Alchemists of Revolution" Peace Review (Winter 1989)

"Non-Governmental Peacemaking" Peace Review (Summer 1989)

"Non-Governmental Organizations & Human Rights: Futility or Hope?" Amnesty International News
(Summer 1989)

"Peace Studies: Hardly Inappropriate" Christian Science Monitor, 31 Januuary 1986

"A New Student Movement?" Defense & Disarmament News (May/June 1985)

"Up Against the Wall: The Peace Movement" Defense & Disarmament News (March/April 1985)

"Redevelopment and Neighborhood Control" Citizen Participation (July/August 1983)

"Constitution, Then Wisdom, Test Death Penalty" Daily Collegian, 28 January 1978


Selected Works

Author Events
Book Readings
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances
Mystery Fiction
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church
Non-Fiction
Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests.
Rethinking Peace
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era.
The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victomology & Human Rights
American criminal justice from a victim perspective.
The Peace Resource Book
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature
The Utopian Impulse
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century
American Democracy Debated
Introduction to American government instructor's manual
Non-Fiction Journal
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development
Other Writings
"Field of Dreams"
Writing my debut mystery novel
Academic Essays
Listing of academic essays and articles
Baseball Essays
Short works on baseball
Recommended
Good Books
Fiction and non-fiction books I recommend
Short Story
"The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky"
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary
Works in Progress
Books in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball

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