Phillip Shon, Ph.D.

EDUCATION:

2003                                        Ph.D., Criminal Justice

                                               University of Illinois at Chicago

2000 (Fall)                               Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

                                                Traveling Scholar

                                                Department of Sociology

                                                University of Wisconsin (Madison)

1999                                        M.A., Criminal Justice

                                                University of Illinois at Chicago

                                                Chicago, Illinois

1996                                        M.A., Linguistics

                                               Northeastern Illinois University

                                               Chicago, Illinois

1995                                        B.A., Philosophy

                                                Northeastern Illinois University

                                                Chicago, Illinois

 

AREAS OF INTEREST:       Policing, Law and Society, Criminology, Police-Citizen Encounters, Homicide and Psychoanalysis, Qualitative Methods, Discourse Analysis, Sociology of Language, Language and Law

 

COURSES TAUGHT:           Introduction to Criminal Justice, Introduction to Law Enforcement, Theories of Criminal Behavior, Offender and Society, Management of Criminal Justice Organizations, Murder in America, Introduction to Humanities, Individuals, Societies & Justice.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

Discourse Analysis & Police Studies

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (forthcoming). Language and Demeanor in Police-Citizen Encounters. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2006). “’Let me see your hands’: The grammar of physical control in police directives.” Pp. 205-227 in Images in Law. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

Shon, Phillip. C. H., & Arrigo, Bruce. (2006). “Reality-based TV and police-citizen encounters: The intertextual construction and situated meaning of mental illness-as-punishment.” Punishment & Society 8(1): 59-85.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2005). "I'd grab the S-O-B by his hair and yank him out the window: The fraternal order of warnings and threats in police-citizen encounters." Discourse & Society 16(6): 829-845.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2005). "Legal semiotics: The semiotic nature of police-citizen encounters.” Pp. 20-26 in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Elsevier.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2003). "Rorschach-in-action: Some further observations on the semiotic summons in police-citizen encounters." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 16: 101-112.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2003). “Bringing the spoken words back in: Conversationalizing (postmodernizing) police-citizen encounter research.” Critical Criminology: An International Journal 11 (2): 151-172.

Maghan, Jess, O'Reily, Gregory W., & Shon, Phillip.C.H. (2002). "Technology, policing, and implications of in-car-videos." Police Quarterly 5(1): 25-42.

 

Homicide, Psychoanalytic, and Criminological Studies

Shon, Phillip. C. H. & Milovanovic, Dragan. (2006). Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murders. (eds). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. & Milovanovic, Dragan. (2006e). “Crime, subjectivity and edgework: The case of lust homicide.” Pp.169-191 in Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murders. (eds). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

--------------. (with C. Ponce, G. Salfati, and S. Barton). (2007). “Homicide solvability factors in El Salvador: An initial exploration.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 7(1): 151-172.

Shon, Phillip. C.H., & Targonski, Joseph. (2003c). "Declining trends in U.S. parricides 1976-1998."  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 26(4): 387-402.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2002). “The role of the Other in mass murder.” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.  7 (1): 54-60.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (1999). "Parricide: Desire, dedifferentiation, and the emergence of an ironic hero." Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 4(2): 91-97.

Shon, Phillip.C.H., & Woods, Devere. (2004b). “Criminal Interrogations: A Lacanian perspective.” Pp. 432-439 in Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial International Criminal Justice Conference, Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Ljubljana, Slovenia: College of Police and Securities Studies.

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2006). “How college students cheat on in-class examinations: Creativity, strain, and techniques of innovation.” Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification 1(10): 1-20. 

Shon, Phillip. C. H. (2005). “Cheating through passing: The paradox of gender performance during in-class examinations.” Criminology & Social Integration 13(1): 21-34.