What is Louise I. Shelley?
{{Orphan|date=March 2012}} '''Louise I. Shelley''' is a [[professor]] at [[George Mason University]] in [[Virginia]]. She is also founder and director of the [[Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center]] (TraCCC). She graduated from [[Cornell University]] ''[[cum laude]]'' in [[Penology]] and [[Russian literature]] in 1972. While there, she co-founded the [[Risley Residential College]]. She served on the Cornell Board of Trustees. She got a M.A. from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in Criminology in 1973. In 1973/74, she held a [[Columbia University]], International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship used to study in the [[Sociology]] Department, Law School and the Russian Institute. In 1977, Shelley earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the [[American University]] as an Assistant Professor in 1977. She became a full professor in 1986. In 2007, she moved to George Mason University. Shelley has studied at [[Moscow State University]] as a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow. She studied the [[prison]] system of [[Russia]] and other nations. She studies how [[criminal]]s make their money hard to trace ([[money laundering]]). ==Books== * ''Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking'' edited with Shiro Okubo New York and London, Routledge, 2011. * ''Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective'' New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. * ''Organised Crime and Corruption in Georgia'' edited with Erik R. 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.