University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
School of Social Work
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Box 455032
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5032
(702) 895-3311 telephone
(702) 895-4079 facsimile
Brief Vita
Leroy H. Pelton, Professor
Education
Ph.D., Wayne State University
M.S.W., Rutgers University
M.A., New School for Social Research
B.S., Brooklyn College
BOOKS
Pelton, L.H. (1999). Doing Justice:
Liberalism, Group Constructs, and Individual
Realities. Albany, NY: State University
of New York Press.
Pelton, L.H. (1989). For Reasons of Poverty: A Critical Analysis of the Public Child Welfare System in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Pelton, L.H. (Ed.). (1981). The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect. New York: Human Sciences Press. Re-issued in paperback, 1985.
Pelton, L.H. (1974). The Psychology of Nonviolence. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
OTHER
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Pelton, L.H. (2003, in press). Biblical
justice. Journal of the American Academy
of Religion, 71(4).
Pelton, L.H. (2002, February 10). The shame of Las Vegas. Las Vegas Review-Journal, p. 1D.
Pelton, L.H. (2001). Social justice and social work. Journal of Social Work Education, 37(3), 433-439.
Pelton, L.H. (2001, February 25). Blaming Jessica: Drug use, DUI or reckless driving? Las Vegas Review-Journal, p. 1D.
Pelton, L.H. (2000). Misinforming public policy: The illiberal uses of social science. Society, 37(5), 61-69.
Pelton, L.H. (1999). Welfare discrimination and child welfare. Ohio State Law Journal, 60(4), 1479-1492.
Pelton, L.H. (1999). Soziale Gerechtigkeit und erfolgreiche Soziale Arbeit (Social justice and successful social work). In H.-U. Krause (Ed.), Einen Weg finden: Diskurs über erfolgreiche Soziale Arbeit (Finding a Way: Discourse About Successful Social Work) (pp. 73-81). Freiburg, Germany: Lambertus-Verlag.
Pelton, L.H. (1999). Community obligations and the categorization of children. In A.B. Andrews and N.H. Kaufman (Eds.), Implementing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Standard of Living Adequate for Development (pp. 143-148). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Pelton, L.H. (1998). Invited commentary: How we can better protect children from abuse and neglect. The Future of Children (Center for the Future of Children, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation), 8(1), 126-129.
Ueno, K., Pelton, L.H., and Gil, D.G. (1998). Traps seen in measures taken for child abuse and neglect in the U.S.A.: Ignored economic reasons. Social Welfare Studies (Shakai Fukushi Kenkyu), No. 71, 85-91. (In Japanese.)
Pelton, L.H. (1997). Child welfare policy and practice: The myth of family preservation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(4), 545-553.
