Hello Fellow DWC Members,
Below is the collected news from a variety of DWC members, showing what an amazing organization we have! Please keep sending updates to tricha11@gmail.com.
Best Regards,
Tara Richards
Please join us in congratulating Susan Sharp for her election to the ASC board.
We would also like to congratulate Joann Della Giustina for her 2010 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Massachusetts state prisons for her involvement of criminal justice students in service learning projects inside the prison as well as her Inside-Out class, which focused on masculinity and violence. Joann also received tenure in the spring!
Kudos to Natalie Sokoloff for her new grant! Her new project, “Collateral Consequences of Incarceration for Women and Men: Challenges to Obtain a College Education” investigate structural barriers to higher education in Maryland colleges. The grant is from PSC-CUNY, which is the union that sponsors this research grant through City University of New York. The project’s goals are two-fold: 1) to provide reports of the findings to all the correctional facilities in MD so they will be able to help men and women in their prisons know more about the barriers to college education and how to deal with them when they leave prison and want to continue their higher education and 2) to bring together representatives from colleges that not only do not penalize people with a criminal record, but actually provide moral and other support to those people.
We would also like to announce several new publications:
From Saundra Westervelt and Kimberly Cook: “Framing innocents: The wrongly convicted as victims of state harm. Crime, Law, and Social Change,” 53(3), 259-275. (Also adapted and reprinted as: Westervelt, S. D. & Cook, K. J. (2010b). “Framing innocents: The wrongly convicted as victims of state harm.” In W. Chambliss & R. Michalowski (Eds.), State Crime in the Global Age, Portland, OR: Willan Publications.)
Natalie Sokoloff and Amanda Burgess-Proctor also have some exciting new work, “Remembering criminology’s ‘forgotten them’: Seeking justice in U.S. crime policy using a race/class/gender intersectional approach.” In M. Bosworth and C. Hoyle (Eds.), What is Criminology?, published by Oxford University Press.
Also from Natalie: Sokoloff (with Vanfossen, Brown, Kellam, Doering). (2010). “Neighborhood Context and the Development of Aggression in Boys and Girls,” Journal of Community Psychology, 38(3), 329-349.
Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz have a chapter titled “Theoretical and Definitional Issues in Violence Against Women” in the Sourcebook on Violence Against Women (2nd ed.) edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen. More information on this new anthology is available at www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book233215.
Walter has also published a chapter titled “Epilogue: Moral Panics and the Policing of Girls: Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium” in Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence, edited by Meda Chesney Lind and Nikki Jones. More information on this collection of readings is available at www.sunypress.edu/p-5053-fighting-for-girls.aspx.
We would also like to announce the first three titles from Nicole Rafter’s Compact Criminology series. It is a Sage (England) project; the new books will be on display at the Sage booth at the ASC meetings. There will also be a panel at ASC to introduce future authors in the series.
Nicole has also co-authored a new book with Michelle Brown, Criminology goes to the movies: Crime theory and public media, published by NYU Press.
Jo-Ann Della Giustina also has a new book entitled, Why women are beaten and killed, published by Mellen Press.
Editor’s Note: Though she was too modest to report it herself, I’m happy to add that Tara Richards successfully completed her comprehensive exams. Congrats Tara!