Kelly, Robert J. 1938-

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KELLY, Robert J. 1938-

PERSONAL: Born September 30, 1938; married, September, 1959; wife's name Nancy; children: Roseann, Wayne Eric. Ethnicity: "Irish-American." Education: Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Ph.D., 1977. Politics: Independent.

ADDRESSES: Home—2469 Joseph Ct., Bellmore, NY 11710-4416. Office—Department of Educational Services, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889; fax: 718-951-4812. E-mail—rkelly@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

CAREER: Educator and author. Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, professor of social science, 1968—, and emeritus Broeklundian Professor. Graduate Center of the City University of New York, professor of sociology and criminology; consultant to New York Police Department, Pennsylvania Crime Commission, and New Jersey State Police.

MEMBER: International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (past president), Edward Sagarin Institute for the Study of Social Problems and Deviance (president).

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Organized Crime: A Global Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ), 1986.

(Editor, with Donal E. J. MacNamara) Perspectives on Deviance: Domination, Degradation, and Denigration, Anderson Publishing Co. (Cincinnati, OH), 1991.

(Editor) Bias Crime: American Law Enforcement and Legal Responses, 2nd edition, Office of International Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL), 1993.

(Editor, with others) Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994.

(With Rufus Schatzberg) African-American Organized Crime: A Social History, Garland (New York, NY), 1996.

(Editor, with Jess Maghan) Hate Crime: The Global Politics of Polarization, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1998.

The Upperworld and the Underworld: Case Studies of Racketeering and Business Infiltrations in the United States, Plenum (New York, NY), 1999.

Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States: From Capone's Chicago to the New Urban Underworld, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2000.

Notorious: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2002.

Terrorism, Organized Crime, and Social Distress: The New World Order, Psycke-Logo Press (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Illicit Trafficking, for American Bibliographic Center-Clio Press (Santa Barbara, CA); a book on responsibility, for Plenum/Kluwer (New York, NY).

SIDELIGHTS: Robert J. Kelly once told CA: "I work in the areas of terrorism, organized crime, and extremist politics. Recently my efforts have concentrated on the area of minority students' access to higher education and methodologies to improve their basic academic skills. I have published numerous essays and articles on these topics and on deviant behavior, prisons, AIDS, homosexuality, and hate crimes.

More recently Kelly added: "My writing style has changed primarily because I no longer write exclusively for professional journals and a professional audience."

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