CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION NEWS SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS SUMMER 2013 Division Chair: Tim Berard, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Kent State University. 303 Merrill Hall, Kent, OH 44242-0001. E-mail: tjberard@alumni.reed.edu; FAX: (330) 672-4724. Editor: Diana Therese M. Veloso, Ph.D., Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Behavioral Sciences Department, De La Salle University. 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines 1004. Email: dmveloso1@gmail.com Inside: Notes from the Chair 1-2 Division Election Results 2 Division Award Recipients 2-3 Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Conference Sessions-August 2013 3-11 Cancellations and Late Opportunities for Conference Presentations 11-12 Division Business Meeting 12 Member News and Accomplishments 12-13 Newsletter Contributions Invited 13 NOTES FROM THE CHAIR I’m very much looking forward to a great conference in New York, as I hope you are as well. I think the program listings do a pretty good job of speaking for themselves, so I’ve organized the division-sponsored and co-sponsored sessions as a resource for you in this newsletter. Due to the high interest in matters of crime and delinquency and a very constructive working relationship with the Law & Society Division, among other contributing factors and patterns of co-sponsorship, we were able to add extra sessions (among those listed below), and there are still many more relevant papers and even many more relevant sessions on the conference program than could be sponsored by our Division- I would encourage you to check out the entire conference schedule and enjoy a Big Tent approach to the annual conference. Please take a look at the offerings and also help SSSP address an organizational challenge- arranging for the meeting of interesting presenters and interested audiences in the same room at the same time. While most of the work associated with conference organizing is to provide the interesting presentations, members have an important role to play in selecting sessions of interest to them and attending some of them. It is much appreciated, and I think rewarding, and perhaps a nice break from the conference hustle to sit back and consider the current work of several colleagues. If the number of presenters is larger than the number in the audience, despite the fact that the presentations touch upon the interests of hundreds of colleagues in town for conferences, that is unfortunate in many ways. Please consider contributing to the conference simply by being a consumer of current scholarship relevant to you. This upcoming conference is also my last conference as Division Chair. It has been an honor to serve as Division Chair for the last two years, and that is because I value our shared or overlapping ambitions and our concerns to act upon them, whether that takes the form of carrying on vital professional discourses, passing on insight to students, or engaging in politics, government or community service. I am very pleased to introduce new division officers in the next section of this newsletter, new figures who will help us benefit from our association with SSSP and who will coordinate the contributions of many of us who participate in one way or another. All the Best to You and Thank You All for What You Do! Tim Tim Berard, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Kent State University www.timberard.info We have an impressive, exciting new leadership team to announce, following our expansion of the Division offices and our Spring Division elections. I am very pleased to announce that Brent Teasdale will be our new Division Chair (2013-15), Kristen Budd will be our first Associate Division Chair (2013-15), providing appropriate additional leadership on issues of communications, outreach, and recruitment, and Arthur Jipson will be our first Chair Elect (2013-15), leading up to his term as Division Chair (2015-17). I trust and expect we will be in very good hands and encourage you all to look for materials such as e-mails from the Division as we continue under new leadership, covering the regular bases of renewing membership, conferenced sessions, annual prize competitions and newsletters etc., but also expanding communication resources and increased levels of membership and presentation proposals. Please join me in welcoming and congratulating our new Division officers. I am very pleased to announce that Professor Jack Levin has been selected to receive the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. Professor Levin is the Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Co-Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. While Professor Levin may be known best for his famous contributions to hate crime scholarship and as a public intellectual in sociology and criminology, his noteworthy scholarly contributions have focused on a variety of other important topics as well, including multiple homicides, and youth violence. Professor Levin’s previous distinctions include, rather recently, the American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of Sociology Award in 2010. There is quite a lot more to say about Professor Levin’s impacts on relevant literatures, colleagues, and the public understanding of crime, so I hope you will be interested in attending the Division awards session where further details will be addressed in a collegial panel discussion, with time for questions and comments afterwards. I am also very pleased to announce that Liam Martin, a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Boston College, has been selected to receive the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, for his paper: “Prison as Crime School: Towards a Cultural Capital Model of Recidivism.” In addition, we are fortunate to have an honorable mention as well; the prize committee recognizes Colleen Hackett, a sociology Ph.D. student at University of Colorado – Boulder, for her paper: “(Dis)Empowered Rehabilitation: Governing through Alternative Practices and Therapeutic Interventions at a Women’s Reentry Center.” The Division award session (included in the session schedule below) will involve a panel discussion of the distinguished scholarship of Jack Levin, and the presentation of award plaques to both award recipients, as well as announcement of the honorable mention. The award sessions are informative and pleasant experiences, so please feel free to attend even if you’re not familiar with the award recipients. Also please join me in thanking the committee members for the two award committees. The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Committee included Glenn Muschert (Chair), Rebecca Maniglia and Tim Berard. The 2013 Graduate Student Paper Award Committee included Stephani Williams (Chair), Karen Laidler, and Matt Vogel. The following are division-sponsored or co-sponsored sessions in the 2013 annual conference program, with a few other division conference events or division co-sponsored events. I found about seventeen (!) on the program - and hope I got them all. Thanks so much to so many for all the good presentation proposals, session organizing, and cooperation with co-sponsorships across divisions, including the support of the program committee for agreeing to create extra sessions when (in several cases) the number of good proposals was double or even triple what was needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday, August 9 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 4: Teaching the Sociology of Crime & Delinquency Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Teaching Social Problems Organizer & Presider: Rebecca Maniglia, Northern Arizona University Papers: “Alienating Students…On purpose.,” Megan T. Thiele, University of California Merced “Can Teaching Delinquency Prepare Students for the Real World of Juvenile Justice?” Rebecca Maniglia, Northern Arizona University “Learning Outcomes in an Online vs. Traditional Criminological Theory Course,” Steven Stack, Wayne State University “Decommodification and Homicide: A Partial Test of Institutional Anomie Theory,” Amanda Marie Smith, Western Michigan University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday, August 9 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 20: Award Session & Panel Discussion in Honor of Jack Levin - Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Room: Ambassador II Sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Organizers & Presiders: Glenn W. Muschert, Miami University; Eric Madfis, University of Washington, Tacoma Description:  This session will feature Dr. Jack Levin (Northeastern University), winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for the Division of Crime & Juvenile Delinquency. Panelists will comment on the impact/contribution of Dr. Levin's distinguished career, which will be followed by comments from Dr. Levin, after which the award is formally recognized/presented. Panelists: Paul Iganski, Lancaster University (UK) Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center James Alan Fox, Northeastern University Jack Levin, Northeastern University Eric Madfis, University of Washington, Tacoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday, August 9 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 33: Recidivism, Defiance, and Rehabilitation Room: New Amsterdam Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University Presider: Hoan Bui, University of Tennessee Papers: “Gender, Weak-tie Relationships and Reentry Experiences,” Hoan Bui, University of Tennessee and Jennifer R. Scroggins, Montana State University, Billings “Mapping Techniques of Accountability: Audit and Risk Management in Federal Juvenile Justice Law,” Sonya M. Goshe, University of California, Irvine “‘Don’t Tread on Me’: Defiance and Compliance as Supporting American Values,” Amy Cooter, University of Michigan “The Social Logic of Recidivism: Cultural Capital from Prison to the Street,” Liam Martin, Boston College, Winner of the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division’s Student Paper Competition “Running in Circles: Which State Prison Release Policies Create Recidivism?” Alexandra J. Frank and Robert L. Hawkins, New York University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday, August 9 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 39: Drugs, Crime and Incarceration II Room: Gramercy Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Drinking and Drugs Organizers: Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California; Paul Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn Presider: Paul Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn Papers: “Self-Reported Alcohol/Substance Use and Depression Among Deported Cambodian- American Refugees: A Qualitative Perspective,” Heidi Hoefinger, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. “The Effects of Punitive Drug Policy and Inadequate Social Services on Female Methamphetamine Users*,” Aukje Lamonica, Southern Connecticut State University and Miriam Boeri, Kennesaw State University “Criminalizing Recovery: Formerly Incarcerated Women’s Struggles with Relapse and Reentry,” Cesraea Rumpf, Loyola University Chicago “If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: Bringing Social Capital Theory To Drug Courts,” Miriam Boeri, Kennesaw State University and Aukje Lamonica, Southern Connecticut State University “Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Reintegration of Drug Addicts in Southwestern Nigeria,” Omiyinka Olutola Faloore, Redeemer's University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday, August 9 Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Division Sponsored Reception [sponsored by almost all Divisions, including ours] Room: Broadway Ballroom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Saturday, August 10 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 60: Crime & Delinquency as Socially Constructed Social Problems Room: Broadway III Sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Organizer: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University Presider: Peter Ibarra, University of Illinois-Chicago Papers: “Women’s Perceptions of Policing in Hong Kong: Rule of Law, Political Policing, and Tensions with Mainland China,” Michael Charles Adorjan and Maggy Lee, University of Hong Kong “Policy and Identity: The impact of Stigma on Sex Offenders’ Sense of Self,” Diana Rickard, Queensborough Community College, CUNY “Racial Migration: Moral Panic in America’s Heartland,” Chris C. Barnum and Robert L. Perfetti, St. Ambrose University “Reconsidering the Study of Accounts in Interview-Based Drug and Alcohol Research: Lessons from Active and Ethnographic Interviewing,” Oren M. Gur and Peter Ibarra, University of Illinois-Chicago “Toward a Post-Positivist Criminology,” Louis Kontos, John Jay College ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Saturday, August 10 Time: 12:30 PM – 2:10 PM Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Meeting Room: Gershwin II ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Saturday, August 10 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 68: Drugs, Crime and Incarceration Room: Gramercy Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Drinking and Drugs Organizers: Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California; Paul Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn Presider: A. Kathryn Stout, Manhattan College Papers: “Variations in Mental Health Conditions, Substance Use and Incarceration: Mexican American Young Adult Men with a History of Gang Membership,” Alice Cepeda and Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California and Kathryn Nowotny, University of Colorado at Boulder “An Exploratory Analysis of Incarceration Spells Among at Risk Hispanic Gang Members in San Antonio,” Jeffrey M. Cancino and Jonathan Allen, Texas State University - School of Criminal Justice “Risk Profile and Service Needs of Women in Jail with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders,” Kathryn Nowotny and Joanne Belknap, University of Colorado at Boulder, Shannon Lynch, Idaho State University and Dana DeHart, University of South Carolina “Race Differences in Severity and Type of Drug Use for a Criminal Justice Involved Population: Implications for Diversionary and Recidivism Reduction Interventions,” Alana Rosenberg and Weihai Zhan, Yale University, Gia Badolato, George Washington University and Kim M. Blankenship, American University “Insight, Motivation, and Treatment for Offenders in Drug Treatment Programs: A Review of Current Literature,” Rebecca A. Linn-Walton, NDRI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Saturday, August 10 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 80: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: What's Missing in Studies of Crime & Delinquency? Room: Plymouth Sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Organizer: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University Presider: Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine Papers: “Making ‘What Works’ Workable: An Assessment of the ‘Evidence-Based’ Movement in Crime Policy,” Tiffany Bergin, University of Cambridge & Kent State University “Voices of The Youth: What Is Missing in Our Knowledge?” Kristine Artello, Pennsylvania State University New Kensington “Extermination and Elimination in the Gendered Process of Genocide,” Joshua Kaiser and John Hagan, Northwestern University “Measurement Matters: An Examination of Offense Types and Alternative Measures,” Tamara Nerlien and Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, University of Calgary “Psychosocial Criminology and Youth Street Gangs,” Kevin Moran, Graduate Center CUNY “The Missing Case of Masculinity in Criminological Research,” Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine and Michael Rocque, Maine Department of Corrections ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 113: Moving the Conversation Forward on Trauma, Life Course Development, Delinquency & Crime Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Society and Mental Health Organizer & Presider: Kristine Artello, Pennsylvania State University New Kensington Papers: “Body Size, Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence: A Cross-Sectional Analysis,” Jennifer L. Graves, HCCS and Kathryn Nowotny, University of Colorado at Boulder “If You Really Knew Me: YouTube and Adolescent Self-Injury,” Amanda B. Tyler, University of Colorado Boulder “Witnessing Violence and Fear of Violence: The Impact of Collective Efficacy for Juveniles in Chicago Neighborhoods,” Candace L. Smith and Maria-Elena Diaz, University of Oklahoma “Narrative Reconstruction and Trauma Survivors’ Development of Posttraumatic Growth,” Sarah L. Jirek, University of Tampa “Examining the Role of Mental Health Values and Beliefs in Field Formation among Child-Serving Public Sector Agencies,” Thomas I. Mackie, Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 118: Life After Death Row by Saundra Westervelt and Kim Cook: A Discussion of Wrongful Conviction Room: Gramercy Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer & Presider: Kimberly Richman, University of San Francisco Critics: Valerie West, John Jay College/CUNY Lynn Chancer, Hunter College Jayne Mooney, John Jay College/CUNY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 126: Crime, Delinquency and Law Enforcement Room: Minskoff Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizers: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University; Patrick K. O'Brien, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Presider: Paul D. Steele, Morehead State University Papers: “The rationalities of governance and community policing,” Timothy McCorry, Medaille College and Paul Fuller, Bloomsburg University “Formal, Bounded, and ‘Hyper’ Rationality in Police Processing of Sexual Assault Claims: Case Dispositions and UCR Reporting,” Brooke M. Wagner, Wittenberg University “Commodification of police power: A study of police/business posters in Guangzhou, China,” Jianhua Xu, University of Hong Kong “A Spatial Analysis of Gang Residence and Crime Locations, with Implications for Law Enforcement,” Paul Steele, Morehead State University “The Homeland Security Era: Policing the Workfare State,” Brendan McQuade, Binghamton University and Jackie Hayes, University at Albany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 129: Violence and the Law II: The Courts and Punishment Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer: Stephen Morewitz, California State University Presider: Lloyd Klein, York College, CUNY Papers: “The role of NGOs in Europe in capital punishment and actuarial justice,” Gaëtan Cliquennois and Brice Champetier, FRS-FNRS and University of Louvain “The Irredeemable Self: Constructing Executable Subjects,” Paul Colomy and Scott Phillips, University of Denver “Method to the Madness: Gendered Discrepancies in Punitive Judgments of Murderers,” Nicholas Armenti, New York University “Encampment Protest and the Occupation of Space: Examining the Zuccotti Park Eviction of Occupy Wall Street,” Joshua Teeter and Thomas Ratliff, Arkansas State University “The Steubenville Rape Case: Sexual Assault, Social Media, and Injustice,” Nickie Phillips and Emily B. Horowitz, St. Francis College ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 141: Rethinking Distinctions between Crime, Deviance and Delinquency Room: Minskoff Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer: Patrick K. O'Brien, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Presider: Colleen Hackett, University of Colorado at Boulder Papers: “Deviance All the Way Down: The Deviance Process in Crime and Delinquency,” Leon Anderson, Utah State University “Deviance from Another Perspective: Examining the Life of Timothy Leary through Yaqui Constructs of Substance Use,” Matt Reid, Western Michigan University “Fighting while Intoxicated: Investigating Linkages between Fights and Intoxication at College,” Karen G. Weiss, Joshua Woods and Hannah Liebreich, West Virginia University “The Social Deviance of Atheism: Negotiating Cultural Membership with a Stigmatized Identity,” Jesse M. Smith, Western Michigan University “The Use of Focus Groups among Criminalized Women,” Colleen Hackett, University of Colorado at Boulder ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 144: Violence and the Law III: Need for Legislation or Legislative Changes? Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer: Stephen Morewitz, California State University Presider: Lloyd Klein, York College, CUNY Papers: “Policy to legislate on violence against women,” Adenike Titilayo-Ayotunde, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos, Nigeria “An Exploratory Qualitative Study on Asylum Seekers’ Challenges of Becoming Displaced,” Babak Mohassel, Bloomsburg University “Pro-Gun Politics and Gun Violence in the United States: The Relevance of Neoliberalism,” Luigi Esposito and Laura L. Finley, Barry University “Belonging with/out Violence: An Agambian Analysis of Hate Crimes Legislation,” Hamad Sindhi, The Graduate Center, CUNY “Ignorance Might Be Blissful but It Can Also Be Expensive: A Review of the Clery Act,” Abigail M. Malick, University of Central Florida ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 159: Delinquency, Deviance, Schools, and Socialization Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizers: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University; Patrick K. O'Brien, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Presider: Colleen Hackett, University of Colorado at Boulder Papers: “Determinants of Violence in Schools,” Daniel M. Kimmel, University of Chicago “Averting School Rampage: Student Intervention amid a Persistent Code of Silence,” Eric Madfis, University of Washington, Tacoma “Child Killers in a Killing Culture,” Peg Bortner, Arizona State University “The Efficacy of Laws Prohibiting Juvenile Access to Tobacco: Violation Rates, Cigarette Sales and Youth Smoking,” Andrew L. Spivak, UNLV and Shannon M. Monnat, Pennsylvania State University “The Preventionists: Towards an Institutional Ethnography of Anti-Violence,” Max A. Greenberg, University of Southern California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sunday, August 11 Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 174: Violence and Law I: Police and State Room: Palace Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Society Organizer: Stephen Morewitz, California State University Presider: Lloyd Klein, York College, CUNY Papers: “Policing Plural Coercion: The State, Police and Appropriate Death in Sao Paulo, Brazil,” Graham Denyer Willis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning “Korean Policing: Understanding Satisfaction and Motivation,” Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University “Gender Policing in the Toilet: Hate Violence, Bathroom Bills, and the Built Environment,” Kyla Bender-Baird, CUNY Graduate Center “Age Differences in the Classification of Foul Play in Missing-Persons Reports,” Stephen Morewitz, California State University “Insurgency Control: Grand Juries as Tools of Police Repression,” Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A GENERAL NOTE ON PRESENTATION TIMING Please note that the Critical Dialogues session is a new format; it should feature eight five-minute presentations and greater time for dialogue between presenters and with the audience. In most cases presenters will hear directly from session organizers, but in the absence of guidance to the contrary, please prepare to deliver papers of 15 minutes length (standard session) or 5 minutes length (Critical Dialogues sessions). Unless the number of presenters is under the prescribed number (which happens with some frequency), additional time may not be possible, or if it is tolerated, it may come at the expense of other participants or and/or audience participation. Audience members- please know that your time and attention to mutual interests are very much appreciated, and that it is often possible to contribute to discussion; please make a point of attending some sessions and contributing with questions or comments. As we head to print, there are two known open slots in division-sponsored sessions, and possibly more that we haven’t heard of yet. Please contact Tim Berard (tjberard@alumni.reed.edu) at your earliest convenience if you have yet to inform SSSP of a cancellation, or if you are potentially interested in presenting during one of the open slots. Two available openings are for five minute presentations (Critical Dialogue Format) contributing to the session theme of “What’s Missing in Studies of Crime and Delinquency?” (Session #80, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2:30-4:10 pm). Thank you for your consideration. Saturday, 12:30-2:10 in Gershwin II. All division members and prospective division members are very welcome to come and to participate. Some items on the agenda for 2013 include introducing new division officers (Brent Teasdale, incoming Chair; Kristen Budd, Associate Chair, and Arthur Jipson, Chair Elect) and providing an overview of the new division of labor for division business; brainstorming ideas for 2014 sessions; soliciting volunteers for session organizing and for prize committee service; and discussing the prospects and directions of increased technology use for division business including outreach/recruitment and posting/distributing more documents than is allowed with our standard SSSP-sponsored web page. Other suggestions are certainly welcome. Michael Adorjan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Hong Kong, has a new publication (2013): “Colonial Response to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship,” Theoretical Criminology 17(2): 159-177. Kristine Artello has accepted a new position as an Assistant Professor at the Criminal Justice Department of Virginia Commonwealth University. She will be starting this fall. Steven Barkan, Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, announces his forthcoming book (co-authored with George J. Bryjak): Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know, 2nd edition (Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2014). The book provides an overview of criminal behavior, crime, and the criminal justice system in the United States. The authors examine key topics, such as: serial killers and mass murders, gun violence, criminal victimization, identity theft, policing and police corruption, plea bargaining, jury nullification, wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and the “CSI Effect,” and present up-to-date social science research to debunk many widely-held beliefs among Americans about the issue of crime. Steven Morewitz, a lecturer at the Department of Nursing and Health Sciences of California State University East Bay, announces his forthcoming publication (co-edited with Mark L. Goldstein): the first Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (August 2013, Springer). The book gives sociologists and psychologists detailed information on how to apply theory and research methods as expert witnesses and consultants in the fields of civil, criminal, immigration, and military law. The Handbook also shows lawyers, law firms, and the general public how litigation can effectively draw on sociological and psychological concepts, theories, and methods. By delving into fields of litigation concerning personal injury, malpractice, human factors, toxic tort, product liability, employment discrimination, school violence, premises liability, gang violence, abuse, asylum petitions, and courts-martial, the Handbook gives sociology departments both theoretical and empirical information that would be essential in designing new undergraduate and graduate specialty concentrations in forensic sociology. Angus Nurse has moved to Middlesex University. In his new role as Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dr. Nurse will coordinate a new course on Environmental Justice and Green Criminology and actively encourages applications from research students interested in applying a green perspective to criminal justice issues or wishing to research environmental or animal abuse issues by way of doctoral research.  Contact Angus via email at: a.nurse@mdx.ac.uk. In addition, he has a chapter in Emerging Issues in Green Criminology, edited by Reece Walters, Diane Westerhuis, and Tanya Wyatt, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2013.  This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, justice and harm. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from North America, Europe and Australia that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice discourses about environmental harm. Dr. Nurse’s book chapter focuses on offender types within wildlife crime. Diana Veloso is now an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the Behavioral Sciences Department of De La Salle University in the Philippines. She recently delivered two lectures on group relations and conflict management at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. She presented a paper, titled “Subaltern Voices from Prison: The Stories of Women Formerly on Death Row in the Philippines,” at the South African Sociological Association Annual Congress in Pretoria, South Africa, on July 1, 2013. She also chaired two sessions relating to Crime, Violence, and Security and Gender Studies at the said conference, on July 2, 2013. We encourage members to submit news such as publications, new appointments, and other professional accomplishments for inclusion in a future newsletter. Please contact our editor Diana Veloso, at: dmveloso1@gmail.com. Suggestions and inquiries about less conventional content are also welcome—consider editorials, book reviews, teaching notes, department/program profiles, calls for contributions to journals and edited books, obituaries…Please direct such inquiries to the incoming Division Chair Brent Teasdale (bteasdale@gsu.edu), as well as the newsletter editor, Diana Veloso, at: dmveloso1@gmail.com. 12