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College of Natural and Social
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Department of Sociology
Delos H. Kelly
Chair and Professor of
Sociology
Office: King Hall A3093
Phone:
323-343-2200
FAX: 323-343-5155
Email: dkelly@calstatela.edu
INTRODUCTION
My main interests can be found in the areas of crime, delinquency,
deviance, education, and methods of social research. I have
published numerous articles and books in these areas. I have been a
faculty member at Cal State LA for close to twenty six years, and taught
for five years at the State University of New York-Geneseo before coming
here. I have also served as Chair of the Sociology Department
at Cal State LA (1987 to 1993) and Interim Chair of Department of
Criminal Justice at Cal State LA (1993 to 1994). I am currently the
Chair of Sociology at Cal State LA, having been appointed in the Fall of
1999.
TEACHING INTERESTS
I have strong teaching and research interests in the area of crime and
deviance, and particularly youth deviance and delinquency.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am currently in the process of revising a couple of my books (e.g.,
Deviant Behavior, and How the School Manufactures Misfits).
Representative Professional Activities
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Books: 2002 Deviant Behavior, Sixth Edition (Worth
Publishers); 1980 and 1990 Criminal Behavior (St. Martin's Press); 1978
Delinquent Behavior (Dickenson); 1980 Critical Issues in
Juvenile Delinquency (with D. Shichor). Other books: How
the School Manufactures "Misfits;" Creating School Failure,
Youth Crime, and Deviance; and The Organizational Creation of
Deviance. Some representative articles include:
"Seriousness of Delinquent Behavior: An Alternative
Perspective," The British Journal of Criminology (1970); "School
Failure, Academic Self-Evaluation, and School Avoidance and Deviant
Behavior," Youth and Society (1971); "Social Origins and School
Failure: A Re-examination of Cohen's Theory of Working-Class
Delinquency," Pacific Sociological Review (1971) (With R. Balch);
"School Commitment and Student Career Flows," Youth and Society
(1971); "Social Origins and Adolescent Success Patterns," Education
and Urban Society (1972); "Academic Failure, Social Involvement, and
High School Dropout," Youth and Society (1972) (With W. Pink);
"Social Origins, School Status, and the Learning Experience: A
Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Two Competing Viewpoints,"
Pacific Sociological Review (1972) (With W. Pink); "School
Commitment, Youth Rebellion, and Delinquency," Criminology (1973)
(W. Pink); "Track Assignment and Student Mobility Patterns as
Barriers to Equality of Educational Opportunity: A Review of
Recent Research," Contemporary Education (1973); "High School
Dropout: A Longitudinal Analysis of Post-School Career Flows,"
Contemporary Education (1974) (With W. Pink); "Reactions to Deviance
in a Junior High School: Student Views of the Labeling
Process," Instructional Psychology (1974) (With R. Balch); "Track
Position and Delinquent Involvement: A Preliminary Analysis,"
Sociology and Social Research (1974); "Student Perceptions,
Self-Concept, and Curriculum Assignment," Urban Education (1974);
"Status Origins, Track Position, and Delinquent Involvement: A
Self-Report Analysis," The Sociological Quarterly (1975); "Tracking
and Its Impact Upon Self-Esteem: A Neglected Dimension,"
Education (1975); "Status Origins, Youth Rebellion, and
Delinquency: A Re-examination of the Class Issue," Journal of
Youth and Adolescence (1975) (With W. Pink); "Track Position, School
Misconduct, and Youth Deviance: A Test of the Interpretive
Effect of School Commitment," Urban Education (1976); "Analysis of
the Expected Correlates of Curriculum Assignment Patterns in a High
School," Contemporary Education (1976); "Comparing College-Bound and
Non-College-Bound Students in Terms of Deviant Behavior," College
Student Journal (1976); "The Role of Teachers' Nominations in the
Perpetuation of Deviant Adolescent Patterns," Education (1976); "The
Effectiveness of a Rural Group Home for Boys: A Descriptive
Analysis," Juvenile Justice (1977); "Labeling and the Consequences
of Wearing a Delinquent Label in a School Setting," Education
(1977); "Conceptions, Diagnostic Stereotypes and the Processing of
Delinquents," National Council of Crime and Delinquency's Volume on
School Crime (1977); "Conceptions, Definitions, and the Measurement
of Delinquency and Delinquent Involvement," in Delinquent
Behavior (1978); "Track Position, Peer Affiliation, and Youth
Crime," Urban Education (1978); "School Failure and
Delinquency: Which Causes Which," Criminology (1979) (With J.
Phillips); and "The Educational Experience and Evolving Delinquent
Careers: A Neglected Institutional Link," in Critical Issues
in Juvenile Delinquency (1978). |
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
PhD Sociology 1970, University of Oregon-Eugene
MA Sociology 1968, San Diego State
College
BA Social Sciences, Minor Psychology, 1967, San Diego State College
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