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CURRICULUM VITAE PROFESSOR J YOUNG BSc; MSc; PhD; FRSA Post: Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York 899 10th Avenue, New York, NY10019 e-mail: [email protected] website: jockyoung.org.uk Qualifications: 1965 BSc Sociology, 2.1, London School of Economics 1966 MSc Sociology, London School of Economics 1972 PhD Sociology, London School of Economics Awards: Sellin-Glueck Award for Distinguished International Scholar, American Society of Criminology, 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award, Critical Criminology Division, American Society of Criminology, 2003 Distinguished Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology for Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, (co- authored with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward ), 2009. Professional Appointments: 1978-83 Member of Sociological Studies Board, Council for National Academic Awards 1980-84 Member of Legal Studies Board, CNAA 1982-84 Honorary Professor of Sociology, Polytechnic of Central London 1996-date Honorary Fellow, Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester 1996-date Patron, Safer Islington Trust 1998-date Advisor, Vauxhall Centre for Crime and the Community, University of Luton 2000-2002 Advisor on Crime and Policing, All-Party Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group 2000-date Fellow, Royal Society of Arts 2001-2003 Advisor, Metropolitan Police Authority 2009 - date Honorary Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, U.K. -2- Curriculum Vitae, Professor Jock Young, October 2009 Professional Membership: British Sociological Association British Society of Criminology American Society of Criminology American Sociological Association Principal Teaching Sociology of Deviancy Specialisations: Criminology Mass Media Studies Recent Employment: 1986-2002 Professor of Sociology, Middlesex University and Head of The Centre for Criminology 2002 to 2003 Distinguished Professor of Sociology , PhD Program, John Jay College, City University of New York 2004 to date Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Graduate Center, City University of New York 2005- 2007 Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury Administrative Role: CUNY Criminal Justice PhD Executive Committee Organizer, City University of New York, Participation in an European Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology Programme Co-ordinator: SOCRATES founded Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice in Middlesex, Rotterdam, Bologna, Barcelona, Komotini, Athens, Hamburg, Saarbrucken and Ghent. Twice yearly, are week common study sessions rotating around sister institutions together with staff and student interchanges. Recent Teaching: PhD Program, CUNY -Survey of Criminological Theory , CJ John Jay -Sociology of Social Exclusion, GC -The Vertigo of Late Modernity, John Jay -3- Curriculum Vitae, Professor Jock Young, October 2009 -Advanced Criminological Theory, John Jay -The Criminological Imagination, GC -Issues in Criminological Theory, John Jay -The Sociology of Transgression, GC -PhD Committee – 4 students Publications: 1969 'Student Culture and Youth Culture', Twentieth Century 1970 'The Zookeepers of Deviancy', Catalyst 5, pp.38-46 Reproduced 1987, Spanish translation 1975. 1971 The Drugtakers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use, (McGibbon and Kee; Paladin, London). Sections reproduced 1972, 1976, 1977, 1997, 2004,2009, 2010.. 1971 'The Role of the Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy, Negotiators of Reality and Translators of Fantasy' in Images of Deviance, ed. S Cohen, (Penguin, London). Reproduced 1972, 1973, 1975, 1982, Italian translation 1972, German translation 1973 1971 'Drugs and the Media', Drugs and Society, 1, pp.14 -18 Reproduced 1973, 1974, 1988 1971 Student Culture: A Panel Study of Deviant and Non-Deviant Student Cultures (with J Crutchley and J Gregory) (Middlesex Polytechnic) SSRC funded 1972 'Student Drug Use', Drugs and Society, p.2.pp.11-15 1972 Reprint of 'The Role of the Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy...' in Social Problems of Modern Britain, eds. E Butterworth and D Weir, (Fontana, London). 1972 Italian Translation of above: "Poliziotti e Drogati', Communita, 168 1972 ‘It’s the Poor that gets the Blame’ OZ 41 (April) 1972 Profile. J.Young: Interviewed by Neil Lyndon Time Out, 198 (March 10th) pp.12-13 -4- Curriculum Vitae, Professor Jock Young, October 2009 1972 ‘Watney’s Hash’ Comments on the Normalization of Drug Use’ OZ 25 (November) 1972 Review article: 'The Legislation of Morality', T Duster, British Journal of Criminology, July pp 300-4. 1972 The Student Drugtaker: A Study of the Subculture of Drug Use, PhD, London University 1973 The New Criminology (with I Taylor and P Walton), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London). Sections reproduced 1974, 1974 (German translation), 1977, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1994, 1996a, 1996b, 2002a, 2002b,2005, 2006, 2008. American edition 1974, Italian translation 1975, Spanish translation 1975, Portuguese translation 1977 1973 'Review Symposium on the New Criminology' (with I Taylor and P Walton), British Journal of Criminology, Winter. 1973 The Manufacture of News (with S Cohen) (Constable: London) American edition 1976 1973 Articles in The Manufacture of News: 'The Process of Selection of News' (co-author, with S. Cohen); 'Models of the Media' (co-author, with S.Cohen); 'The Myth of the Drugtaker in the Mass Media'(author); 1988 'Effects and Consequences of the Media' (co-author, with S. Cohen); 'The Media and Amplification' (author) 'Do-it-Yourself Media Sociology' (co-author, with S.Cohen) 1973 Contemporary Social Problems in Britain (with R Bailey), DC Heath, Farnborough. 1973 'The Explanation of Student Drug Use' in Contemporary Social Problems in Britain 1973 'Interview with I Taylor, P Walton and J Young', Issues in Criminology Vol.9, No. 1. 1973 'Drugs and Deviancy' in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine: Anglo-American Conference on Drug Abuse 1973 'The Hippie Solution: An Essay in the Politics of Leisure' in I Taylor and L Taylor (eds), Politics and Deviance. Penguin, London -5- Curriculum Vitae, Professor Jock Young, October 2009 1973 German Translation of 'Police as Amplifiers of Deviance...' in Symbolische Interaktion, ed. H Steinert, Verlag, Stuttgart. 1974 American edition of The New Criminology. Harper and Row, New York 1974 'New Directions in Subcultural Theory' in Approaches to Sociology, (ed) J Rex. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1974 'Critical Criminology in Britain: Review and Prospects' (with I Taylor and P Walton), Theory and Society, 1,4 (1974) 1974 'Aussichten fur eine radikale kriminologische Theorie und Praxis' (with I Taylor and P Walton), Kritische Kriminologie, ed. K Schuman. Juventa, Hamburg 1974 'The Consensual Myth in the Mass Media' in P Rock and M McIntosh (eds) Deviance and Social Control. Tavistock, London 1975 Critical Criminology. (co-editor with I Taylor and P Walton). Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Spanish translation 1977, Portuguese translation 1980 1975 Articles in Critical Criminology: - 'Critical Criminology in Britain' (co-author with I.Taylor and P.Walton); - 'Working Class Criminology' (author), reproduced 1980. 1975 Italian translation of New Criminology: Criminologia Sotto Accusa. Guaraldi, Firenze 1975 Italian translation of 'Critical Criminology in Britain', La Questione Criminale, 1,1 1975 Spanish translation of 'Zookeepers of Deviancy' in Estigmatizacion Y Conducta Desviada, ed. R Olmo (Venezuela) 1975 American edition of 'Police as Amplifiers of Deviance...' in Perception in Criminology, ed. R Henshel and R Silverman. Columbia University Press, New York 1975 Spanish translation of The New Criminology (trans. A. Crosa ,Buenos Aires: Amorrorto) 1976 Abortion in Demand, (co-author with V Greenwood) Pluto, London 1976 American publication of The Manufacture of News (Sage Publications, California) 1976 Introduction to Crimes of the Powerful, F Pearce (Pluto, London) -6- Curriculum Vitae, Professor Jock Young, October 2009 1976 'The Absolutist Monolith' in Drugs and Politics, ed. P Rock. (Transaction, San Francisco) 1977 Portugese translation of The New Criminology (Rio de Janeiro) 1977 Spanish translation of Critical Criminology (trans. N.Grab, Mexico: Siglo) 1977 'May Day Madness: A Study of the Media Representation of the lst May 1972 Strike Against the Industrial Relations Act', with J Crutchley in Trade Unions and the Media, ed. P Beharall (Macmillan, London) 1977 Reprint of Chapter 4 of The Drugtakers and Chapter 3 of The New Criminology in The New Criminologies, ed. P Wiles. Martin Robertson, London 1978 'The Early Sociologies of Crime' in P Worsley (ed) Problems in Modern Society (London: Penguin) 2nd ed. 1978 Reprint of Chapter 5 of The Drugtakers and Chapter 3 of The New Criminology in Problems of Modern Society, (ed) P Worsley. Penguin, London 1978 'Towards a New Criminology' in L Radzinowicz and M Wolfgang (eds) The Criminal in Society. Basic Books, New York 1979 Capitalism and the Rule of Law (co-editor with R.Fine, R. Kinsey). Hutchinsons, London 1979 'Idealism, Reformism and Marxist Theories of Crime and the State', in Capitalism and the Rule of Law 1979 Student Culture: 1968-1978, with J Crutchley and N South,(Middlesex Polytechnic), SSRC funded 1979 'Fabian Criminology' in R Dale, G Esland and M McDonald (eds) Schooling and Capitalism. London:RKP 1980 Permissiveness and Control, co-editor. Macmillan, London 1980 'Ghettos of Freedom: An Analysis of Sixties Legislation', co-author with V Greenwood, in Permissiveness
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