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Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1949-1988.
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View onlineKislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 694 Folders 513-546
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- International Society of Criminology.
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- 595 items (1361 leaves, 2 booklets)
- Contained In:
- Johan Thorsten Sellin Papers. Folders 513-546
- Place of Publication:
- 1949-1988.
- Language Note:
- 349 items in French, 2 items in German, 1 item in Danish, and 1 item in Italian.
- Summary:
- Much of the correspondence relates to Sellin's work as society president (1956-1965). The primary correspondents are society secretary-generals Jean Pinatel (who later became president of the society), Georges Fully and J. E. Hall Williams. Other notable correspondents include fellow criminologists Francisco Canestri, Paul Cornil, Benigno di Tullio (who became president when Sellin stepped down), Sheldon Glueck, Jean Graven, Yvonne Marx, V. V. Stanciu, and Gregory Zilboorg. Other documents relating to Sellin's participation in the society were lost in the 1968 fire at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law.
- Notes:
- Contains 148 items (183 leaves) from Thorsten Sellin.
- OCLC:
- 243849806
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