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Call for Nominations Crime, Law, and Deviance CLD Student Paper Runner- 2007-2008 SECTION OFFICERS Up Award was given to two

CHAIR The Section on Crime, Law and individuals: Candace Kruttschnitt Deviance invites nominations for University of Minnesota [email protected] the position of chair-elect and Randol Contreras, Department for two council members. The of , City University of FORMER CHAIR New York, “Damn, Yo-Who’s Robert Bursik deadline for nominations is University of Missouri – St. Louis November 10, 2007. Please That Girl: An Ethnographic [email protected] submit names of nominees to Analysis of in

SECRETARY TREASURER Karen Heimer either by post or Drug Robberies.” Wayne Osgood email. [email protected] Department of Sociology Jooyoung Lee, Department of

COUNCIL MEMBERS University of Iowa Sociology, UCLA, “Rappin’ on Peggy Giordano (2007) W140 Seashore Hall the Corner: Transforming Bowling Green University Provocations of Street Violence [email protected] Iowa City, IA 52242 [email protected] into Play.” Joachim Savelsberg (2007) University of Minnesota [email protected] Nominations for Awards CLD Awards at the August rd Karen F. Parker (2008) 2007 New York ASA 102nd for the ASA 103 Meeting University of Florida [email protected] Meeting The CLD section is seeking Dana L. Haynie (2009) Ohio State University Albert J. Reiss Award for nominations for the James F. [email protected] Distinguished Scholarly Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award. This award, Holly Foster (2009) Publication for 2007 Texas A&M University given every two years, is for a [email protected] Bruce Western (Princeton distinguished article in the area of crime, law, and University) for his 2006 book, EDITOR and Inequality in deviance published in the Jeffrey Ackerman America. New York, NY: Russell preceding two years. For the Texas A&M University 2008 award, papers published [email protected] Sage Foundation. during the calendar years 2006 ASSISTANT EDITOR and 2007 are eligible. Please San Juanita Garcia CLD 2007 Graduate Student Texas A&M University Paper Award send a letter of nomination by [email protected] March 1, 2008 to the committee PhilipGoodman, Criminology, chair, Kenneth C. Land, via e- Law and , University of mail: [email protected] California-Irvine, “It’s Just Black, White, or Hispanic: An Ethnographic Examination of Racializing Moves in California’s Segregated Reception Areas.” Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 2

The CLD section invites of May 31, 2007, the section had United States, increased use of submissions for the 673 members, 405 (60%) regular racial profiling, new forms of 2008 Distinguished Student members, 227 (34%) student incarceration, and fears of Paper Award competition. members, and 41 (6%) low gang warfare. In the face of Papers may be conceptual or income members. Our these theoretical, addressing any topic membership is nearly identical developments, theories and in the sociology of crime, to last year (675), and solidly in methodologies have deviance, law or criminal . the range that allows for four diversified. Submissions may be sole- sessions at the annual meeting or multiple-authored, but all (600-799 members). The paradoxes of race, law, authors must be students. Papers and inequality are at least as should be article length profound as they were at the (approximately 30 double- Call for Conference Papers beginning of the Civil Rights spaced pages) and should follow Movement. The United States the manuscript preparation May 2008 - The Paradoxes of is one site where the salience of guidelines used by the American Race, Law, and Inequality in race to social disparities has Sociological Review. Papers the United States. Co-Sponsored increased even as law has accepted for publication at the by Law & Society Review and become a less robust avenue of time of submission are not Culture at the University of redress. The broad question eligible. The winner will receive California, Irvine before us is: what role can $500 to offset the cost of scholars play in understanding attending the 2008 ASA meeting. Conference Theme: Law has the landscape where race, Please submit papers to: played a role in remedying and ethnicity, inequality, and law Eric Baumer, Department of exacerbating racial and ethnic intersect? Criminology and Criminal inequality in a variety of social Justice, University of Missouri- and historical contexts. In the In January 2007, Law & Society St. Louis, One University Blvd., case of the United Sates, the Review Editor Carroll Seron, St. Louis, MO 63121. Papers Civil Rights Movement of the and Associate Editors Jeannine must be received by April 15, 1950's and 1960's reinvigorated Bell, Laura Gómez, Ruth 2008 to receive consideration. socio-legal scholarship and Peterson, and Jonathan Simon raised new questions about the and Susan Coutin the Director place of law in social, political, of the Center for Law, Society, Newly Elected CLD Officers economic and cultural life. and Culture at the University Today, scholars approach the of California Irvine convened a The results of the CLD council analysis of race, law, and workshop to plan a conference membership elections were inequality in the United Sates in and a symposium of the announced in New York: Sally a very different socio-political review on the topic of race, Simpson was elected as the next climate than that of the 1960s. law, and inequality in the Chair-Elect. Charis Kubrin and There have been dramatic United States. Kitty Calavita Rosemary Gartner were elected changes in immigration law in and David Goldberg served as as the new council members. the 1990s, debates over even commentators at this more restrictive immigration workshop. Students and policies in the 2000s; faculty from across the campus News from the 2007 CLD transformative changes in labor were also in attendance. After Business Meeting markets within the United States a day of brainstorming, a series and overseas; skyrocketing of cross-cutting themes Wayne Osgood presented the concerns over security threats emerged. Secretary-Treasurer’s report. As from outside and within the Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 3

To explore these themes in urban infrastructures, greater depth, a conference will How have racialized inequalities transportation systems, cell be held at UCI in spring 2008 in the US been reinforced or phones, identification and a special symposium of the exacerbated in recent decades? documents, computer Review will follow in 2009. The How do discursive shifts in programs, frequent shopper conference will be co-sponsored crime policy and the cards, televisions, medical and by Law & Society Review and unprecedented expansion of consumer products, and much the Center for Law, Society, and since the 1960s more. Whether mobilized by Culture at UCI. We invite paper affect investments in racialized law enforcement, industry, or submissions on the conference forms of governance? others, surveillance modulates themes. Following the How have institutionalized experiences of the world. conference, papers that are inequalities been sharpened even Rather than perceive presented may also be submitted as few admit to being racist? surveillance systems as for inclusion in the symposium. universal in their application All articles will go through the What are the global impacts of or function, this panel seeks to standard peer review process of US racial policies and practices? identify the differential Law & Society Review. To be ______operations of power and considered for participation, September 2008 – Panel on control enabled by them. please submit your paper title Technological Surveillance and Through such inquiry, we with an abstract and a C.V by Power in Everyday Life hope to broaden collective October 31, 2007. Participants understandings of the politics will be selected by November 30, Chair: Torin Monahan engendered by the design, 2007. We anticipate covering the deployment, and travel and other expenses of Event: First International interpretation of surveillance participants at the conference. Sociological Association (ISA) devices. All papers should be submitted Forum of Sociology to [email protected] Date of Conference: September Instructions: Inquiries: You may submit 5-8, 2008. Please send paper titles and inquiries to either Carroll Seron Location: Barcelona, Spain. Due proposals (roughly 500 words) at [email protected] or Susan Date for Submissions: November by email by November 30, 2007 Coutin at [email protected] The 30, 2007 to Torin Monahan Associate Editors of Law & [email protected], Society Review and the Advisory Technological surveillance has Jaime Jiménez Board of the Center for Law, become a charged symbol of [email protected], or Society, and Culture will contemporary life. Broadly Czarina Saloma continue to play an active role in defined, surveillance systems are [email protected]. the development of the those that afford control of conference and the selection of people through the For more information on ISA's participants. identification, tracking, section on the Sociology of monitoring, and/or analysis of Science and Technology: Conference Date: We anticipate individuals, data, or systems. As www.dsa-ateneo.net/rc23 that the conference will be held with all technologies, at the University of California, surveillance functions in For conference information: Irvine on May 2-3, 2008. multiple ways to mediate and www.isa- regulate interactions among sociology.org/barcelona_2008 Proposed Topics people, organizations, and the What is a productive way to built world. Surveillance Contact Information: describe race without reifying it? technologies can be found in Torin Monahan, Ph.D. Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 4

Arizona State University however, candidates should northwest of historic School of Justice & Social Inquiry submit complete applications by Savannah, and 200 miles phone: 1.480.965.4522 October 5, 2007 for full southeast of Atlanta. [email protected] consideration. This is an "open Position Description. www.torinmonahan.com search": once the search Responsibilities include committee has identified semi- teaching introductory and finalists, departmental faculty advanced courses in sociology Jobs of CLD Interest will have access to those files. of criminology and criminal Interested candidates should justice, working closely with Colorado State University The send (1) letter of interest out- individual sociology majors, Sociology Department from lining research agenda and and participating in Colorado State University invites teaching interests, (2) a departmental and university applications for an entry-level Curriculum Vitae, (3) if affairs. The position is a 9- tenure-track Assistant Professor available, evidence of teaching month, tenure track (nine-month position) to begin effectiveness (e.g., syllabi and appointment, and the salary is August 15, 2008. Completion of teaching ), and (4) competitive and Ph.D. in Sociology is required by three letters of reference to: commensurate with time of appointment. The Michael Carolan, Search qualifications and experience. Department is seeking a Committee Chair, Department of Required Qualifications: A candidate who will teach Sociology, B237 Clark, Colorado Ph.D. in Sociology, classical and contemporary State University, Fort Collins, Criminology, or Criminal theory. The candidate must be CO 80523-1784. CSU is an Justice by August 1, 2008. willing to teach either EO/AA employer. Academic background and introductory sociology or social ******************************* expertise to teach the following problems and fulfill other Georgia State University The courses: Introductory departmental teaching needs in Department of Sociology and Sociology, Criminology, his/her areas of interest. The in the College of Deviant Behavior, Department offers B.A., M.A., Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Delinquency, and Crime and and Ph.D. degrees and consists invites applications for the Justice. of sixteen tenured and tenure- position of Assistant Professor of Preferred Qualifications: track faculty members. The Sociology. Georgia Southern College teaching experience. focus of the graduate program is University, a member with three areas of of the University System of Screening of Applications strength in environment/natural Georgia, is the largest and most begins September 17, 2007 and resources, agriculture and food, comprehensive center of higher continues until the position is and social justice and in the southern half of filled. The position starting governance. Faculty members Georgia, and is classified by the date is August 1, 2008. A are expected to participate in Carnegie Foundation for the complete application consists instruction, to develop a Advancement of Teaching as a of a letter addressing the program of research and Doctoral/Research institution. qualifications cited above; a publication, be engaged in the Founded in 1906, the University curriculum vita; and the graduate program, and to be offers 123 degree programs at names, addresses, telephone active in service. The the baccalaureate, master’s, and numbers, and email addresses Department particularly doctoral levels through eight of at least three professional welcomes applications from colleges. The 675-acre campus is references. Other minorities and women. located in Statesboro, a documentation may be Applications will be considered community of approximately requested. Finalists will be until the position is filled; 30,000 residents, 50 miles required to submit to Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 5 background investigation. commensurate with experience. Tower, University of Georgia Southern University Applicants should forward an Kentucky, Lexington, KY seeks to recruit individuals who introductory letter, vita, research 40506-0027. Applicants should are committed to working in portfolio, and the names of 4-6 arrange for at least three letters diverse academic and references to: Ralph Cherry, of recommendation to be sent professional communities. Faculty Search Chair, Behavioral to the same address. Review of Applications and nominations Sciences Department, Purdue applications will begin on should be sent to: University Calumet, 2200 169th September 1, 2007 and Dr. Nancy Malcom, Search Street, Hammond, IN 46323- continue until the position is Chair, Search #53853 2094. For more position and filled. Women and minorities Department of Sociology and department information, please are especially encouraged to Anthropology visit calumet.purdue.edu apply. Georgia Southern University ****************************** ****************************** P.O. Box 8051 The University of Kentucky Colgate University The Statesboro, GA 30460-8051 Department of Sociology invites Department of Sociology and Email: applications for two tenure track Anthropology invites [email protected] Assistant Professor positions in applications for a tenure- Telephone: 912-681-5168 the broad area of “Children at stream position at the rank of ****************************** Risk.” A cross-disciplinary Assistant Professor in Purdue University Calumet is cluster hire will involve five new Sociology, to begin July 2008. accepting applications for a faculty members, including two We seek candidates who have tenure track assistant professor to be appointed in the teaching and research interests of sociology beginning fall 2008. Department of Sociology and in one or more of the following Candidates must have a PHD in three to be appointed in the areas: immigrant communities, sociology (by fall, 2008) with at Department of . transnational migration, least two of the following areas Areas of specialization are open sociology of the family, of specialization: Family; Social but candidates are required to deviance, criminology. Along Policy; Statistics and address social and behavioral with elective courses in his or Methodology; Deviance/Social risks affecting children and her specialties, the successful Problems; Organizational youth. Preference will be given candidate is expected to teach Sociology. The successful to those candidates whose a required methods course candidate is expected to substantive areas of interest (quantitative and demonstrate strong interests in complement those of the current qualitative) on a regular basis. scholarship, undergraduate and Sociology faculty. The successful Contributions to other graduate teaching, and course candidates will be expected to departmental courses and curriculum development. assume their positions on (introduction to sociology, Besides teaching, responsibilities August 15, 2008. Candidates sociology senior seminar) and, will include conducting research should have completed a Ph.D. periodically, to Colgate's all- in field of expertise and in Sociology by the time of university programs, are also providing service as required for appointment. Interested expected. PhD expected by tenure and promotion. This candidates should send a current time of hire. Review of position is in a department Curriculum Vita, a statement applications will begin October characterized by addressing research and 25, 2007. Please submit an interdisciplinary opportunities. teaching interests and application letter and Screening of applicants will accomplishments to: Personnel supporting materials (CV, begin October, 2007, and will Committee, c/o Ms. Agnes article-length writing sample, continue until suitable Palmgreen, Department of sample syllabus, brief candidates are found. Salary is Sociology, 1500 Patterson Office statement of teaching Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 6 , and three letters of submit a letter of application, a a letter of interest, curriculum reference) to: Chair, Sociology curriculum vitae, a writing vitae, statement of research Search, Department of Sociology sample, and three letters of and teaching interests, and and Anthropology, Colgate reference. These materials samples of written work (other University, 13 Oak Drive, should be sent to: Jomills than books) must be completed Hamilton, NY 13346-9778. Braddock, Chair of the Faculty on-line. Please reference job Colgate is committed to Search Committee, Department number 38393 at developing and sustaining a of Sociology, University of www.uacareertrack.com/appli diverse faculty and staff to Miami, P.O. Box 248162, Coral cants/Central?quickFind=1881 further the university's academic Gables, FL 33124-2208. Review 63 mission for our increasingly of applications will begin Please include the name diverse student body. Colgate is September 15, 2007 and continue /address of three references on an AA/EOE. Women and until the positions are filled. your CV. Applicants should minorities are encouraged to Women and minorities are send any additional materials apply. especially encouraged to apply. to Professor Ronald Breiger, ****************************** The University of Miami is an Chair of the Faculty Search University of Miami The equal opportunity/affirmative Committee, Department of Department of Sociology is action employer. Sociology, University of seeking applications from new ****************************** Arizona, PO Box 210027, or recent Ph.D.s for two tenure- University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 track positions at the rank of The Department of Sociology ****************************** Assistant Professor to begin invites applications at the senior University of Massachusetts August 15, 2008. One position is tenured level (associate or full The Department of Sociology in Race/Ethnic Relations and professor) to join our faculty in at the University of one is in Criminology, with the Fall 2008, contingent upon Massachusetts Boston invites possibility of a second position availability of position funding. applications for a tenure track for each area. The ideal We welcome applicants in all position as assistant professor candidates for each position will areas of specialization. Areas of beginning September 1, 2008. also be able to make interest include , Teaching will be at both the contributions to overlapping including race, ethnic, and undergraduate (Sociology, programmatic areas, which gender inequality, and social , and Social include in organization or majors) and addition to Race and at the micro, macro graduate (MA in Applied Criminology. The successful or global levels. We are also Sociology) levels and includes candidates will be expected to interested in candidates who courses in Police and Society, sustain an active research and could contribute to graduate and related publication agenda, teach in our training in quantitative or areas. Successful candidates undergraduate and graduate qualitative methods. The will demonstrate experience programs, and show promise for Department is seeking and potential in both research obtaining external funding for individuals able to work with and teaching. PhD in their research. The ability to diverse students and colleagues, Sociology, Criminology or teach core courses at the and who have experience with a related field is required. graduate level (e.g., theory variety of teaching methods and Candidates must have PhD in and/or statistics/methods) is curricular perspectives. Review hand by August 31, 2008. The desirable. Applicants must have of applications will begin search will remain open until a Ph.D. in Sociology or a closely September 15, 2007 and will the position is filled; for related field at the time of continue until the position is optimal consideration, please appointment. Applicants should filled. An application, including submit your application by Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 7

Dec. 1. Refer to search number community psychology, or 660e in your cover letter and human development & family Web Sites of CLD Interest send a letter of application, vitae, studies, or related field is samples of writing and preferred. Preference will be American Sociological published work, teaching given to candidates with a Association portfolio, research statement and philosophy of scholarship www.asanet.org three letters of recommendation oriented toward issues of social to Search Committee, c/o justice. Responsibilities include Crime, Law, and Deviance Section Professor Susan Gore, Chair, teaching at the undergraduate www2.asanet.org/sectioncld Department of Sociology, level, and graduate level if University of Massachusetts candidate has an earned Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., doctorate. The School offers The American Society of Boston, MA 02125-3393. UMass baccalaureate programs in Criminology Boston is an Affirmative Action, Applied Behavioral Science and www.asc41.com Equal Opportunity, employer. Sociology and an M.A. program Women and minorities are in Community Psychology & Academy of Criminal Justice encouraged to apply. Social Change. The candidate Sciences www.acjs.org ****************************** should be prepared to teach

Penn State Harrisburg courses in two or more of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Instructor/Assistant Professor of following areas: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs Social Sciences (Fixed Term) criminology/deviance, School of Behavioral Sciences race/ethnicity, stratification, National Criminal Justice and Education. Penn State quantitative and qualitative Reference Service Harrisburg seeks applications for methods, environment, and www.ncjrs.gov a fixed-term, non-tenure-track . To apply, position in Social Sciences please submit a letter of National Archive of Criminal beginning Fall Semester 2008. application specifically Justice Data www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd Teaching responsibilities include addressing the position four courses per semester and responsibilities and National Institute of Justice support for the College's qualifications, a current www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij student-centered approach to curriculum vitae; copies of education. The School of graduate transcripts; and a list of Federal Bureau of Investigation Behavioral Sciences and three professional references, www.fbi.gov Education is the largest school including names, mail and e- within Penn State Harrisburg, mail addresses, and telephone ICPSR (Inter-University with approximately 60 full-time numbers. Application deadline is Consortium for Political and ) faculty members, several faculty November 12, 2007, however, www.icpsr.umich.edu members are actively involved in review will continue until the the University's Children, Youth position is filled. Send all U.S Census Bureau and Families Consortium. materials to: Chair, Behavioral http:\\www.census.gov Additional information about Sciences Fixed Term Search the College and the School can Committee, c/o Mrs. Dorothy J. be found at www.hbg.psu.edu Guy, Director of Human and at www.hbg.psu.edu/bsed . Resources, Penn State Harrisburg, Box #LS-ASA-CLD, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Qualifications: An earned Middletown, PA 17057-4898. doctorate in sociology, Crime, Law, and Deviance Fall 2007 page 8

New CLD Newsletter Editor

Jeffrey Ackerman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University is the CLD section’s new Editor. His research interests include juvenile and intimate partner violence.

New CLD Newsletter Assistant Editor

San Juanita Garcia, Graduate student in the Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University is the CLD section’s new Assistant Editor. San Juanita’s research interests include , race/ethnicity, social inequality, and immigration.

Thanks to the Prior Editors

The new editor and assistant editor join with the rest of the section members in thanking William Smith and Olena Antonaccio for contributing their valuable time and energy to the editing and publishing of the CLD newsletter for the past several years.

Please submit material for the Spring 2008 issue of CLD Newsletter to [email protected] by March 15, 2008