Letter from the Chair: Kim Cook

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Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a delightful holiday season with good food, good friends, and plenty of time to rest and recuperate!  I can’t tell you how excited and honored I am to be serving the DWC as Chair for the next two years. One of the things that makes it exciting to me is that I’m following in the footsteps of our past DWC Chairs whose vision and effectiveness make this such a great “home” for us when we meet annually and throughout the year as we continue our work.

Since we all left Atlanta, the DWC Executive Council, along with the editorial board of our journal Feminist Criminology has selected Dr. Rosemary  Barberet (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) as the next editor. She will take the helm this coming summer, and between now and then will be working closely with the current editor Dr. Jana Jasinski to transition the editorial offices to New York.  Let’s take a moment to thank Dr. Barberet for her excellent application, and Dr. Jasinski for her years of service as the editor.  I also want to thank members of the DWC Executive Council for working on this during the holiday season: Christina DeJong, Emily Lenning, Stacy Mallicoat, Denise Boots, Tara Richards, Carrie Buist, and Deena Isom.

Moving forward, we have quite a lot to accomplish together. The DWC is celebrating our 30th year with several important events at the conference in San Francisco.  We are grateful to the leadership from Susan Sharp and Amanda Burgess-Proctor for organizing our 30th Anniversary events.  We will have featured speakers and sessions at the ASC conference in San Francisco.  In addition, there will be a special anniversary issue of our journal, Feminist Criminology.  So, please look for announcements about these events so that you can plan to attend.

In addition, the committees established for the DWC are now finalized and the updated committees are posted on the website. Please take a look to make sure you’re on the committee you intended to sign up for and let me know if you have any questions.

If you are able to do so, please consider making a contribution to our 30/30 campaign in order to support the cost of our 30th anniversary celebrations.  You can donate publicly, and designate your contribution in honor or in memoriam to someone whom you admire, you can also donate anonymously if you prefer to do that.  The list is growing daily and we are always grateful for your tax deductible contributions.

Please let me know if you have ideas to contribute to the DWC. We strive to be open and inclusive; your participation in that helps us to achieve our goals.  Thank you all so much!

Warm regards,

Kim

Kimberly J. Cook, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403
910.962.3785 (office)
910.962.7385 (fax)

cookk@uncw.edu
http://www.uncw.edu/soccrm/Cook.html
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The DWC Needs You!

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Hi Everyone,

Hello to all the new, returning, or prospective members of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.  My name is Amy D’Unger and I’m the chair of the DWC through 2013.

I’m emailing to say THANK YOU for your past and continued involvement with the DWC, whether through this listserv, attending events or sessions at the ASC meetings, or through volunteering for a DWC committee.  The fantastic members of the DWC are what makes this division such a vibrant, dedicated, and active group within the ASC.  This year’s ASC meeting was great, and I enjoyed meeting new members and connecting with old friends.  Thanks for your participation in making the meetings such a success.  If you had a great experience too, reach out to someone you know who isn’t a member and ask them to join!  There is strength in numbers, and it makes our voice louder.

Beyond saying THANK YOU (which I’ll say again in caps and bold, which means I’m shouting it at you), I also want to ask for your continued involvement in DWC committees.  Committees are the heart of the DWC and are essential for getting the work of the division done.  If you missed signing up for a committee at the outreach table or one of the breakfast meetings, now is you chance!

We have a wide variety of committees that engage in all kinds of work.  You can see a list of the committees and read a brief description of each one on the DWC website here: https://ascdwc.com/committees.  We do have some specific, pressing needs, particularly with the COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES AND POSITIONS and the NOMINATIONS FOR DWC OFFICERS COMMITTEE.  The CCP helps to get DWC members onto key strategic ASC committees, as well as nominated for ASC executive offices.  We have all the committee members who will be working with Bob Agnew in 2013, but now we need to get people on committees to help Joanne Belknap in 2014.  The NDOC helps to insure the future of the DWC and its Executive Board through running the yearly elections process.  Warning, if folks don’t volunteer, you’ll be stuck with me in perpetuity.  Work for the Committee on Committees and Positions starts soon and runs through about early March.  Work for the Nominations for DWC Officers Committee happens in September through November.

If you’re interested in either of these committees, or ANY DWC committee, please email me!  Take a look at the website to see all the great options.  If you’re willing to chair a committee, please let me know that as well.  I hope to hear from a lot of you who weren’t able to sign up at the ASC meetings.

Thanks and have a wonderful holiday season.

Cheers,
Amy