Spring/Summer 2017 Vol. 45, No. 2 UPDATE

An Online Newsletter for Criminal Justice Educators CJ From Routledge and Anderson

ACJS Holds Successful Conference in KC Annual ACJS Awards from Routledge The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) held its 2017 Routledge joins ACJS in recognizing excellence by sponsoring two annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, March 21–25, at the Kansas City awards: (1) the William L. Simon/Routledge Outstanding Paper Award, Marriott Downtown. The meeting’s theme was “Linking Teaching, Practice, which rewards the best ACJS paper nominated, and (2) the Michael C. and Research.” Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Dissertation Award, given to the highest -rated doctoral dissertation submitted for consideration. Annual awards were conferred on outstanding criminal justice The deadline for nomination for both awards is August 15, 2017. scholars. Angela Gover (University of Colorado, Denver) received the Nominations for the William L. Simon/Routledge Outstanding Paper Founder’s Award for outstanding contributions to criminal justice education Award should be sent to Jon Maskaly, [email protected] (copy nomi- and ACJS. Bonnie Fisher (University of Cincinnati) won the Bruce Smith nation to Wesley Jennings, [email protected]). The award for the paper Sr. Award for outstanding contributions to criminal justice. Cassia Spohn selected will include a $500 stipend. Nominations must include a carefully (Arizona State University) was named Academy Fellow for distinguished edited, electronic copy of the paper. Criteria used for selection include: teaching and scholarly achievement. The Donal MacNamara Award went to conceptual and methodological rigor in the development of the thesis and Kevin A. Wright, Jillian J. Turanovic, and Nancy Rodriguez for “Racial its subsequent empirical or logical documentation; theoretical or pragmatic Inequality, Ethnic Inequality, and the System Involvement of At-Risk Youth: relevance of the thesis and its importance to the developing body of knowl- Implications for the Racial Invariance and Latino Paradox Theses.” The edge for criminal justice; and formal organization of material, flow of ideas, William L. Simon/Routledge Publishing Outstanding Paper Award went to and clarity of narrative. Joshua C. Cochran, Elisa L. Toman, Daniel P. Mears, and William D. Nominations for the Michael C. Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Bales for “Solitary Confinement as Punishment: Applying a Focal Concerns Dissertation Award should be sent to: Joshua Cochran, joshua.cochran@ Perspective to In-Prison Sentencing.” The Michael C. Braswell/Routledge uc.edu (copy nomination to Wesley Jennings, [email protected]). The Publishing Outstanding Dissertation Award was given to Ming-Li Hseih award for the dissertation selected will include a $300 stipend, and the dis- for “Rational Discretionary Risk: The Judicial Risk x Sentence Model (JRS) sertation will be eligible for consideration to be published as a Routledge for Sex Offenders.” The Outstanding Book Award went to Robert Vargas Monograph. Nominations must include a carefully edited, electronic copy for Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. Scott Wolfe of the dissertation. Criteria used for selection include relevancy of research won the 2015 Academy New Scholar Award. Georgios Antonopoulous problem, quality of theoretical orientation, rigor of empirical and/or qualita- (Teesside University), Ed McGarrell (Michigan State University), tive research and documentation, and quality of writing. Dissertations must David Orrick (Norwich University), and Philip Reichel (University of have been completed within two years of nomination. Department chairs Northern Colorado) were named Outstanding Mentors. The ACJS Minority and faculty mentors are invited to encourage doctoral students and begin- Mentorship Award went to Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Mentor, and Joe ning faculty members to submit their dissertations for consideration. Hamm, Mentee. The William L. Simon/Routledge Outstanding Paper Award is The 2017 meeting will be held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in named for William L. (Bill) Simon. From 1951 to 1995, Simon worked New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 13–17, 2018. The theme will be “So for Anderson Publishing Co., a thriving legal publisher that originated in What? Understanding What It All Means.” Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887. He served as Vice President of the company and For more information on ACJS, contact: Cathy L. Barth, Association was founder of the company’s criminal justice textbook division. In 1968, Manager, National Office, P.O. Box 960, Greenbelt, MD 20768-0960. Simon sensed the importance of the budding criminal justice discipline Phone: 301.446.6300. Fax: 301.446.2819. E-mail: [email protected] and published the company’s first criminal justice title. In 1982, through Website: http://www.acjs.org Simon’s contacts at conferences, Pilgrimage Press, a small publishing house based in Tennessee, was acquired by Anderson, further expanding the criminal justice line of products. Pilgrimage owner Michael C. (Mickey) Braswell, now Professor Emeritus, Criminal Justice, East Tennessee State University, took on acquisitions responsibilities for the criminal justice subject area, and is still active as a consultant for the Anderson books at Routledge today. The Michael C. Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Dissertation Award is named for him. The Anderson criminal justice books were united with Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, in 2014. Routledge provides researchers, professionals, lecturers, and students with a Elisa L. Toman, one of the winners Mickey Braswell, left, with Ming-Li of the William L. Simon/Anderson Hseih, right, winner of the Michael diverse array of high-quality books and resources on the subjects of crimi- Publishing Outstanding Paper C. Braswell/Routledge Publishing nology and criminal justice. Award Outstanding Dissertation Award NABCJ Will Hold Training Conference in Cincinnati in July The National Association of Blacks in community leaders. The Association seeks Criminal Justice (NABCJ) will hold the 45th to focus attention on relevant legislation, CJUPDATE Annual Conference and Training Institute on law enforcement, prosecution, and defense- July 23–27, 2017, at the Hilton Cincinnati related needs and practices, with emphasis A Newsletter for Criminal Justice Educators Netherland Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. The on law enforcement, courts, corrections, and conference theme is: “Criminal Justice in the prevention of crime. Among its chief the 21st Century; New Challenges, Old concerns is the general welfare of and to CJ Update is a medium designed to Problems.” Presenters will provide solutions increase influence of African Americans disseminate news and information to criminal to act as a guide for practitioners in effecting and people of color as it relates to the justice educators and interested practitioners. long-term positive/ meaningful change in the administration of justice. NABCJ seeks We encourage readers to submit news, criminal justice system. to serve the needs of African Americans reports of innovation, teaching tips, program Created in 1974, the NABCJ seeks to and people of color at all levels, including developments, faculty changes or openings, achieve equal justice for Blacks and other nonprofessionals, paraprofessionals, and and guest editorials. minorities. Members consist of professionals professionals. Anyone can become a member in law enforcement, institutional and of the Association and support a commitment NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE AUTHORS community corrections, courts, social to equal justice for all. services, academia, religious and other For further information on the Routledge, now joined with Anderson community-based criminal justice interests, association or the conference, go to http:// Publishing, brings to publishing years as well as criminal justice students and nabcj.org/ of experience in books and journals, an ability to stay ahead of the curve technologically, and a significant global Journal Examines Collateral Consequences of Conviction presence to textbooks. The Journal of Collateral Consequences The journal’s Founding and Managing If you have a book idea, please send of Conviction and Reentry (JCCCR) is a Editor is Peter Leasure (University of the following items, indicating the peer-reviewed outlet specifically devoted South Carolina). The Editorial Advisory proposed market, main competitors, to the issues of collateral consequences Board includes: Jacqueline Helfgott and any features that would make and reentry. JCCCR is an academic peer- (Seattle University), Jared Rudolph your text unique in the market: outline, reviewed journal available free of charge (Prisoner Reentry Network), Jenny proposed table of contents, sample to individuals and institutions. The central Roberts (American University), David chapter, and a vita for each author. objective of JCCCR is to strengthen the role Connor (Seattle University), Elaine Visit http://www.routledge.com/info/authors/ of research in the formulation of collateral Gunnison (Seattle University), Tia Stevens consequence and reentry policy. 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• 2 • CJ Update • Spring/Summer 2017 or evaluation project as part of the curriculum. Most courses will be hybrid, involving a combination of in-class and online instruction, and will be offered in the evening. It is intended that students completing Program Development the M.A. in Justice Studies will be able to: make a difference in the development and evaluation of policies and services in the criminal justice field and related agencies; articulate knowledge of the major California State University, Northridge issues facing the justice system locally, nationally, and globally, as well as new research findings in the field; demonstrate an advanced California State University, Northridge, has a new Criminology understanding of classical and contemporary theory in sociology and and Justice Studies (CJS) Department beginning in Fall 2017. criminology and associated policy implications; conduct original The Criminology and Justice Studies Department houses the research and apply research findings to problems with social service B.A. in Criminology and Justice Studies. This program promotes agencies within or related to the justice system; communicate the theoretical, analytical, and practical understanding of crime, professionally and knowledgably in oral and written formats on victimization, and the criminal justice system from a social scientific a variety of academic and justice-related topics; and demonstrate perspective. The program provides a foundation for the study of advanced writing and research skills by completing a final project or criminology and criminal justice based in critical thinking and thesis. For further information, go to the college’s website at: http:// application, theory and research methodology, understanding diversity www.ric.edu/sociology/programJSTD_MA.php and global perspectives, writing, and fundamentals of law and ethical practice. The department emphasizes the intersections between the academic and professional in order to provide students a meaningful University of Rhode Island learning environment for application to criminal justice careers. The University of Rhode Island will launch a new interdisciplinary Partnerships between the department, the University community, and major in Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Fall of 2017. The the community at large provide fertile ground for these intersections. new bachelor of arts degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice is the Vickie Jensen is Department Chair. Students who are currently University’s response to growing student demand for a program that “Option 2” Sociology students may elect to complete their degree in prepares undergraduates for careers in corrections, law enforcement, Sociology or transfer to the new CJS department and complete the federal agency work, probation and parole, victims’ assistance, law, degree there. For more information, see the website at: http://www. and research and social services. The university states that since 2006, csun.edu/social-behavioral-sciences/criminology-justice-studies hundreds of URI students have earned bachelor’s degrees in applied sociology with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. The new degree combines courses from six departments: sociology, political Lancaster Bible College science, psychology, gender and women’s studies, economics, and In the Fall of 2017, the Arts & Sciences Department of Lancaster chemistry. These departments will offer courses in sociology, law Bible College will offer a new major: criminal justice. According to and the legal system, behavioral psychology, human trafficking, and the College, the program, headed up by John Churchville, will “teach forensics/criminalistics to help students tailor their major to their areas students the importance of advocacy, law, and justice in the name of of interest. As part of the new major, three new faculty members will Christ.” The program, which focuses on police, courts, and corrections, start in Fall 2017, two assigned to the new program and one to political connects criminal justice to a biblical worldview. Students will also science. Students must earn 30 credits in the major as part of the 120 have the opportunity to pursue internship opportunities in the field, credits needed to graduate. For further information, visit: http://web. giving them a chance to put their skills to the test outside of classroom. uri.edu/ccj/ The program will be available through the College’s traditional undergraduate and accelerated undergraduate degree programs, with University of Tampa the option to earn the degree completely online through the accelerated program. To find out more about studying criminal justice at Lancaster The University of Tampa has announced that it will begin offering Bible College, visit: https://www.lbc.edu/undergraduate/academics/ a master’s degree in criminology and criminal justice starting in Fall majors/criminal-justice/index.html 2017. The M.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice is designed to help students launch or advance a career in law enforcement, corrections, probation and parole, victim advocacy, or criminal justice Rhode Island College management. Students can also earn credentials to pursue doctoral studies or to teach at the college level. The M.S. degree provides a Beginning in Fall 2017, Rhode Island College will offer an M.A. theoretical groundwork along with the research and statistical skills in Justice Studies, a program designed for students interested in earning needed for individuals to design and evaluate effective public safety an advanced degree to support their employment in justice and social policy and practice. Courses also cover the structure of the criminal services fields, including social and human services agencies, law justice system and the nature of successful crime prevention programs enforcement, non-profit organizations, and non-governmental agencies Students may choose between thesis and non-thesis tracks, and can focused on justice issues, as well as to prepare for further advanced conduct research with faculty members. The program caters to working study in criminology, sociology, or related fields. The program will professionals, and students may begin the program during the Fall, provide students with a strong foundation in the writing, research, Spring, or Summer terms. Courses can be taken in any sequence, with and analytical skills required for such careers and give students the degree completion within two years. For undergraduates interested opportunity to develop advanced expertise in their area of focus. All in criminology and criminal justice, an integrated B.S./M.S. option is students will complete a research-based thesis or an applied research available. For more information, see www.ut.edu/mscriminology.

• 3 • CJ Update • Spring/Summer 2017 Youth Link Initiative Builds Positive Relationships Youth Link is an innovative prevention initiative from the North American Family Institute (NAFI), a human service agency established in 1974, with a long track record of impacting youths and families at risk. Youth Link programs have as their goal the desire to build lasting trust and positive relationships between youths and the community of adults in their lives. NAFI works with each community to adapt the Youth Link model to Focus on Faculty maximize its strengths and resources to strengthen neighborhood relationships. The Youth Link Mission is to engage youths and families in positive social change to reduce violence John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor and gang involvement by creating sustainable positive relationships among teens and adults and Founder of the Regulatory Institutions of authority—especially police, school personnel and civic leaders—replacing animosity Network (RegNet) at the Australian National and distrust with mutual respect and understanding. In recognition that adolescents have University, and Routledge author, has been a need to belong, Youth Link staff help youths form a positive community that honors a awarded the Law and Society Association central mission and pro-social values that provide a genuine alternative to gang recruitment. International Prize for significant contributions to the advancement of Youth Link programs train community partners to establish: trust in the law and law keepers knowledge in the field of law and society. through its Youth & Police Initiative (YPI) program; the capacity to train adults to sustain YPI trainings through a train-the-trainer program that monitors and supports long-term LeAnn Beeler Cabage has accepted a youth development; skills that develop young people’s voices to lead through the Youth full-time Criminal Justice lecturer position Leadership Academy program; and experiences that provide the opportunity to develop at Kennesaw State University. She received competence and self-confidence through the arts, service, vocational skills, and other topics. her Ph.D. in Sociology from Iowa State University. Team members include: Jay Paris, Director; Taylor & Francis author Jim Isenberg, in Development and Marketing; Paul Lewis, Director of Training; David Peters, Master Joshua Cochran has accepted a position Trainer; and Matthew Swartz, in Vocational Training and Development. Youth Link as Assistant Professor at the University also has an expanding body of trainers who are certified to lead Youth & Police Initiative of Cincinnati. He formerly taught in the Department of Criminology at the University trainings. These part-time staff must pass complete rigorous coaching and internship phases, of South Florida. and then demonstrate an ability to facilitate moving and powerful communication between police officers and youth at-risk. Kevin Minor, Professor of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, has been For more information, go to: http://youthlinkusa.org/ named a Foundation Professor by the University. The Foundation Professor award ASC Board Issues Statement on Trump Policy recognizes the creative, self-motivated exemplars of the ideal college professor. The American Society of Criminology (ASC) executive board recently issued a statement declaring that the Trump administration’s early actions and assertions on Megan M. Parry has accepted the position criminal justice “demonstrate an incongruity between administrative policy efforts of Assistant Professor of Criminology and and well-established science about the causes and consequences of crime.” The board Criminal Justice in the new program at the University of Rhode Island, beginning in Fall said it is “concerned by the actions of the Trump administration in its dissemination of 2017. misinformation and development of uninformed policy initiatives. Not only are these initiatives unscientific, they are likely to engender further cynicism about and discontent Natalie A. Pifer has accepted the position with the criminal justice system that is harmful to citizens, to members of law enforcement, of Assistant Professor of Criminology and and to other sources of social control.” The statement cites and elaborates on four main Criminal Justice in the new program at the points: (1) immigrants do not commit the majority of crime in the United States; University of Rhode Island, beginning in Fall 2017. (2) the proposed travel ban is not empirically justified and targets the wrong countries; (3) the United States is not in the midst of a national crime wave; and (4) the United States Doris Provine, Professor Emerita in government plays an important role in police reform. the School of Justice and Social Inquiry The ASC board is composed of 17 criminologists and is led by ASC President at Arizona State University, was awarded the Law and Society Association’s Ronald James Lynch (University of Maryland), a former director of the Justice Department’s Pipkin Service Award for sustained and Bureau of Justice Statistics. Additional signatories include: Karen Heimer (University of extraordinary service to the Association. Iowa); Ruth D. Peterson (The Ohio State University); Jody Miller (Rutgers University); Christina DeJong (Michigan State University); Gaylene Armstrong (University of Rita Shah is leaving Elizabethtown College Nebraska); Delores Jones-Brown (John Jay College of Criminal Justice); Natasha Frost to accept a position at Eastern Michigan (Northeastern University); Charis Kubrin (University of California, Irvine); Cynthia Lum University. Shah is the author of Routledge’s The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its (George Mason University); Ineke Marshall (Northeastern University); Hillary Potter Impact on Parole: There and Back Again in (University of Colorado); Claire Renzetti (University of Kentucky); María B. Vélez California. (University of New Mexico); Chris Eskridge (University of Nebraska); Bonnie Fisher (University of Cincinnati); Amanda Burgess-Proctor (Oakland University); Gary LaFree Forrest Stuart, Assistant Professor in the (University of Maryland); and Sheldon X. Zhang (University of Massachusetts, Lowell). Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Law and Society The complete statement can be viewed at: http://www.asc41.com/policies/ASC_ Association Article Prize for exceptional Executive_Board_Statement_on_Trump_Administration_Crime_and_Justice_Policies.pdf scholarship in socio-legal studies published Earlier in the year, 25 former ASC presidents drafted a letter to the President and Attorney as an article. General entitled “Keep Science in the Department of Justice.”

• 4 • CJ Update • Spring/Summer 2017 In Memoriam Jacqueline R. Kanovitz Travis Hirschi Long-time Anderson (now Routledge) author Jacqueline Rothschild Kanovitz Travis W. Hirschi, Regents’ Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Arizona, passed away in January 2017. Kanovitz died in January 2017. A leading criminologist, Hirschi earned a B.S. in sociology and received a Juris Doctorate (Summa Cum history and an M.S. in sociology and educational psychology from the University Laude) from the University of Louisville of Utah, and after his military service, a Ph.D. in sociology from the University School of Law, from which she graduated with of California, Berkeley. After graduate school, Hirschi joined the Department of highest honors in 1967, with the highest grade Sociology at the University of Washington, at which time he published his famed point average in the history of the law school. book Causes of Delinquency, which established him as one of the most significant After graduating, she practiced with the Legal figures in criminology. Later he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Aid Society for two years. She then joined the Sociology at the University of California at Davis and then moved to the School of University of Louisville law faculty as its first Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, where he collaborated with Michael female member and became the first woman Hindelang. He joined the University of Arizona in 1981, where he remained to be tenured there. She began as co-author, through his retirement in 1997. In 1990, he published A General Theory of Crime with John C. Klotter, of Anderson Publishing’s with Michael Gottfredson; the theory at the center of the book (often referred to (now Routledge) leading book, Constitutional as self-control theory) is a focus of great attention in criminology and criminal Law for Criminal Justice, as a third-year law justice. Throughout his career, Travis was highly honored for his many significant student, and continued on with it alone after contributions to criminology. He served as President of the American Society his death. The fourteenth edition was published of Criminology and was also the recipient of the Society’s Edwin H. Sutherland in February of 2015. Award. Kanovitz taught contracts, Uniform This obituary is based on a more thorough essay by Michael Gottfredson and Commercial Code, property, decedents’ John Laub, which is posted on the American Society of Criminology web site (www. estates, and psychiatry and the law. She asc41.com), Many thanks to Gottfredson and Laub, who noted “No criminologist served as the associate dean for student is as responsible as is Travis for describing the influential role of the family in affairs from 1989 to 1990. She has been the the causation of delinquency and crime—from Causes of Delinquency through A recipient of numerous awards for teaching General Theory of Crime. His exploration of the significance of the interactions and writing excellence, including receiving between parents and children for the life-chances of children helped fill a void in the the 1995 Community Service Award from the field.” Travis Hirschi is survived by his wife Anna Hirschi; their children Kendall, University of Louisville and being named the Nathan, and Justine (Van Nimwegen), their spouses Mary, Jan, and Phil, and nine 1996 University of Louisville Outstanding grandchildren Quinn, Owen, Candace, Layton, Faith, Sydney, Celeste, Travis, and Professor in Post Graduate Professional Jack. Hirschi’s books with Routledge include Causes of Delinquency; The Craft Education. She retired in 1998 after teaching of Criminology: Selected Papers; Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic hundreds of students and serving as a role Methods (with Hanan C. Selvin); and The Generality of Deviance. model for many. Kanovitz’s role in setting the milestone for women at the law school is Raymond Paternoster included in the “Women’s History Classroom” at the University of Louisville, dedicated in Raymond Paternoster, Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal 2003. Jacqueline Kanovitz is survived by her Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park, died in March 2017. Paternoster husband, Bob Kanovitz; her children, Michael earned a BA from the , an M.S. in criminal justice at Southern Kanovitz and Elana Levitz (Darren); her sister, Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in criminology from . Barbette Loevy (Arthur); and grandchildren, Paternoster wrote several books and more than 200 articles and chapters during Anya Kanovitz, Simon Kanovitz, and Jacob his career. He was an internationally renowned scholar in the area of deterrence/ Levitz. rational choice theory and offender decisionmaking, and at the forefront of more rigorous empirical testing of theory in general. He was the principal investigator on a Maryland state-commissioned study of the role of race and geography in the application of the death penalty that demonstrated the differential likelihood of receiving a death sentence for white and African-American defendants and across jurisdictions. He performed many statistical analyses and provided expert testimony in court cases across the United States on the effects of race and jurisdiction in capital cases. He also taught and mentored many students. Raymond Paternoster is survived by his wife Ronet Bachman, and son, John Bachman-Paternoster. He is also survived by three siblings, Carole Gaughan, Anthony Paternoster, and Kim Paternoster. A celebration of his life is planned for the Summer of 2017. Donations in his honor can be made to the Delaware Food Bank, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, or the American Civil Liberties Foundation.

• 5 • CJ Update • Spring/Summer 2017 POSITION OPENINGS

Institution: Institution: Institution: American University Texas A&M International University of Pikeville University Department: Department: Justice, Law and Criminology Department: Criminal Justice Position: Social Sciences Position: multiple positions, rank dependent on Position: full-time, 9-month, “regular” faculty experience and stature in field; begin tenure-track associate professor of criminal appointment in the field of criminal justice; August 28, 2017 justice /Director; begin August 2017 begin August 2017 [In lieu of a tenure Submissions: system, the University uses a “regular Submissions: faculty appointment” system consisting application, including letter of interest cover letter; curriculum vitae; names and indicating qualifications for the position; of up to 4 years of 1-year renewable contact information for 3 professional probationary appointments followed vitae; recent teaching evaluations (when references possible); writing sample; letters of by a series of regular 3-year rolling recommendation; apply via: http://apply. Review Date: appointments] interfolio.com/41758 Until position filled Submissions: Review Date: Contact: online application; letter of interest; current Until position filled Thomas Zawisza, Search Committee Chair résumé; contact information for 3 to 5 E-mail: [email protected] professional references Contact: Phone: 956.326.2476 Review Date: Sarah Adler Until position filled Assistant to the Department Chair Department of Justice, Law and Institution: Contact: Criminology http://jobs.upike.ed E-mail: [email protected] University of Baltimore Department: Institution: Institution: School of Criminal Justice University of South Dakota Marshall University Position: Director of the Graduate Forensic Science Department: Department: Program; begin August 2017 Criminal Justice Studies Criminal Justice and Criminology Submissions: Position: Position: vitae; letter of interest; names and contact tenure-track position, assistant/associate full-time, tenure-track position, assistant information for 3 references professor level; begin January or August professor level; begin August 2018 Review Date: 2018 Submissions: May 10, 2017, until position filled Submissions: online application form at: https://marshall. Contact: letter of application; current résumé; peopleadmin.com Apply online at: http://www.ubalt.edu/about- unofficial graduate transcripts; 3 letters Review Date: ub/offices-and-services/human-resources/jobs- of reference; teaching portfolio (course October 1, 2017, until position filled at-ub.cfm?&posting=1222 evaluations, philosophy of teaching statement, and/or sample syllabi); at least Contact: one article-length writing sample Apply online at: https://marshall. peopleadmin.com Review Date: September 30, 2017, until position filled Contact: Criminal Justice Search Committee Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice University of South Dakota 414 East Clark Street Vermillion, SD 57069-2390 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 605.677.5242

• 6 • CJ Update • Spring/Summer 2017 CALLS FOR PAPERS

Meeting: Midwestern Criminal Justice Association (MCJA)

Contact: Journal: Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research (CPPR) http://www.mcja.org/abstract-submission.html Comments: Contact: Papers and presentations are invited for the annual meeting of the Editor: Wes Johnson Midwestern Criminal Justice Association at the Hilton Garden Inn E-mail: [email protected] Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, on September 28–29, 2017. The deadline Associate Editor: Cathy Marcum for submissions is August 1, 2017. E-mail: [email protected] Comments: Meeting: Published by Taylor & Francis, Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA) Research (CPPR) is currently soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on “Offender Reentry and Reintegration.” Manuscripts considered Contact: for publication in this special issue can focus on a variety of topics, Marv Krohn, University of Florida including but not limited to: (1) recent trends in prison populations E-mail: [email protected] and community-based supervision; (2) policies on offender reentry and reintegration; (3) barriers to effective reentry and reintegration; Comments: (4) evaluation and impact of reentry and reintegration programs; Papers and presentations are invited for the SCJA annual meeting, to and (5) recidivism of released offenders. Qualitative or quantitative be held at the Astor Crown, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September methodologies, or policy analysis and evaluation strategies, should be 27–30, 2017. The conference will focus on the theme, “The Criminal utilized for considered manuscript. CPPR is a peer-reviewed journal Justice Milieu in the South.” Interested parties should submit a proposal with a broad correctional focus encompassing a wide range of relevant for a paper presentation, a full panel, roundtable discussion, or a poster topics and innovative approaches from new theoretical perspectives and presentation. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2017. research findings to their implications for improving policy and practice. Both national and international in scope, the journal addresses these issues and challenges as they relate to sentencing, prisons, jails, and Meeting: community corrections. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice (SWACJ) to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cppr. The submission deadline is June 15, 2017. Contact: http://www.swacj.org/Conference%202017/2017_annual_meeting_ information.htm Journal: Journal of Knowledge and Best Practices in Juvenile Justice & Comments: Psychology Papers and presentations are invited for the SWACJ annual meeting, to Contact: be held in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 12–14, 2017. The conference will focus on the theme, “Working Together for Justice: The Need for Sesha Kethineni, Special Issue Editor Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration” Interested parties should submit a E-mail: [email protected] proposal for a paper presentation, a full panel, roundtable discussion, or a Comments: poster presentation. The College of Juvenile Justice and Psychology at Prairie View A&M The deadline for the submissions is September 8, 2017 University invites papers for publication in the special issue of Journal of Knowledge and Best Practices in Juvenile Justice & Psychology. Meeting: The journal seeks relevant research for the academic and practitioner communities of juvenile justice, psychology, and criminal justice relating Western Association of Criminal Justice (WACJ) to the policies and practices that push at-risk school children out of Contact: classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Both qualitative and quantitative articles on minority youth and school-to- http://www.wacj.org/2016-annual-conference prison pipeline, zero-tolerance policies in schools, path to jail, school Comments: resource officers and the link to school-to-prison-pipeline, racial Papers and presentations are invited for the WACJ annual meeting, to be inequality in schools and school-to-prison-pipeline, intervention and held at the Hotel RL Spokane at the Park, in Spokane, Washington, on prevention to stop the trend, and other related topics are invited. The October 4–6, 2017. The conference will focus on the theme, “What’s Past deadline for submission is July 15, 2017. is Prologue: Trends in Criminal Justice.” The deadline for the submissions is August 25, 2017.

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June 7–10, 2017 August 11–13, 2017 October 4–6, 2017 Northeastern Association of Criminal Society for the Study of Social Problems Western Association of Criminal Justice Justice Sciences (NEACJS) (SSSP) (WACJ) Roger Williams University (Baypoint Conference Montreal Bonaventure Hotel Hotel RL Spokane at the Park Center) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Spokane, Washington Portsmouth, Rhode Island “Narratives in the World of Social Problems: “What’s Past is Prologue: Trends in Criminal Justice” “Forensic Mental Health: Contemporary Issues and Power, Resistance, Transformation” http://www.wacj.org/ Interactions Involving Justice-Involved Persons with http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/23/Annual_Meetings/ Mental Illness (PwMI)” http://neacjs.org/ October 12–14, 2017 September 13–16, 2017 Southwestern Association of Criminal Society for Police and Criminal Psychology Justice (SWACJ) June 19–21, 2017 (SPCP) Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown Hotel Stockholm Criminology Symposium Doubletree by Hilton San Diego Downtown Fort Worth, Texas City Conference Centre San Diego, California “Working Together for Justice: The Need for Inter- Stockholm, Sweden “Expanding Roles in Police Psychology” Disciplinary Collaboration” http://www.criminologysymposium.com/ http://www.policepsychology.org/page-18100 http://swacj.org/

July 23–27, 2017 September 27–30, 2017 November 15–18, 2017 National Association of Blacks in Criminal Southern Criminal Justice Association American Society of Criminology (ASC) Justice (SCJA) Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel The Astor Crowne Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cincinnati, Ohio New Orleans, Louisiana “Crime, Legitimacy and Reform: Fifty Years after the http://www.nabcj.org/ “The Criminal Justice Milieu in the South” President’s Commission” http://www.scja.net/conference.html http://www.asc41.com

September 28–29, 2017 Midwestern Criminal Justice Association (MCJA) Hilton Garden Inn Chicago Chicago, Illinois http://www.mcja.org/annual-meeting.html

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