Phillip Shon, PhD
Professor
Criminology and Justice
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Criminology and Justice
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Full biography
Dr. Phillip C. Shon received his Master of Arts (MA) and PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois (Chicago); he also holds an MA in Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy from Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago). He is currently a Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in homicide and criminological theory. He is the author of: Dr. Shon has completely forgotten Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series. He is patiently awaiting for the Chicago Bears to return once more to the Promised Land. How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2015. Language and Demeanor in Police-Citizen Encounters. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity: Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899. New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
Areas of expertise
Courses
- CRMN 4000UAdvanced Justice StudiesThis capstone course will provide an opportunity for critical analysis of specific justice topics. Students will be expected to synthesize material from previous courses and apply it to a social justice issue, demonstrating significant mastery of justice concepts, theory and research.
- CRMN 4099UCriminology and Justice Integrating ProjectThis course is designed to allow students to develop a project in criminology and justice, which pulls together the key themes of the program, namely, theory, research and policy. Emphasis will be placed on independent scholarly inquiry reflective of a qualitative, quantitative, theoretical, or policy approach. Throughout this process, students will be expected to demonstrate an advanced level of understanding based on their previous course work in this program. The integrating project provides students with the opportunity, under the guidance of a faculty member, to synthesize and apply knowledge gained throughout their program of study. The students will set topics and approaches based on their areas of interest.
- SSCI 5020GCriminological TheoryThis seminar provides students with an in-depth overview of major criminological theories of the past and present. Students engage with psychological and sociological approaches to the study of crime. Emphasis is given to the pre-theoretical assumptions of each theory, its major contributions in criminology, key empirical findings generated by the theory and contemporary debates around each theory. In addition to reading theories in their original formulation, students are encouraged to examine new extensions of present paradigmatic theoretical structures.
Education
- PhD - Criminal JusticeUniversity of Illinois, USA
- MA, Criminal JusticeUniversity of Illinois, USA
- MA, LinguisticsNortheastern Illinois University, USA