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537 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1995)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0537 and id is 1 raw text is: IN MEMORIAM It is with sadness that we record the passing of Thorsten Sellin, an editor of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for nearly forty years. He died in September 1994 at his home in New Hampshire. The cause was heart failure. He was 97. Professor Sellin began teaching and doing research in criminology in 1926. He was president of the International Society of Criminology from 1958 to 1965 and secretary general of the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, headquartered in Bern, from 1949 to 1951. The Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of Pennsyl- vania is named for him. He was a longtime professor of sociology at the university and served as chairman of the sociology department from 1944 to 1959. He was the editor of The Annals from 1929 to 1968 and was thereby responsible for the publication of 236 issues of The Annals. Professor Sellin was outspoken in his opposition to the death penalty and contended that comparisons of statistical data from jurisdictions with and without the death penalty showed that it was no deterrent to crime. He carried out research on the death penalty at the request of official commis- sions in Canada and Britain as well as various American states. An expert on crime statistics, he advised the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion about statistical matters and was a consultant to the Bureau of the Census on criminal statistics. He also headed or was a member of various United Nations panels of experts on criminological questions. Professor Sellin was a historian of crime and had written on crime in the Great Depression and the relationship between slavery and prisons. He was a visiting professor or lecturer at Princeton, the University of California Berkeley, Oxford, and other universities. The honors and awards he received included medals from France and Sweden. His books include Culture Conflict and Crime (1938), which has been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Chinese; Pioneer- ing in Penology (1944); The Measurement of Delinquency (1964), with Marvin E. Wolfgang; and Slavery and the Penal System (1976). Professor Sellin was born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, emigrated to Canada in 1913, and went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Augustana College in Illinois and master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1920, he married Amy Anderson, who died in 1972. He is survived by three sons, Theodore, David, and Eric, and three grandsons. Copyright © 1994 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission. 8

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