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

We are pleased to announce that Venezia Michalsen and her husband Jorge welcomed a son, Bowie Leif Fernandez, into the world on 7/14/2011. Congrats to the new parents!

Dorothy Moses Schulz delivered a keynote address at the 7th Australasian Women and Policing Conference in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in August. In her address entitled, “Strategies for Personal Success,” she discussed whether and how aspects of tokenism continue to affect women’s decisions pertaining to upward mobility.

Dorothy also recently completed Women and Policing in America: Classic and Contemporary Readings (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2011) with Kimberly D. Hassell and Carol A. Archbold. The book collects both classic and contemporary peer-reviewed journal articles about women in law enforcement. Chapters, each of which begins with an detailed introduction, include the history of women in policing; hiring, training, retention and promotion; police roles and the acceptance of women; workplace experiences of women in policing, women on patrol, and the future of women in policing. Student exercises as well as further reading lists accompany each chapter.

Dorothy also contributed two chapters on transportation terrorism in Frank Bolz, Jr., Kenneth J. Dudonis, and David P. Schulz, The Counterterrorism Handbook: Tactics, Procedures, and Techniques, 4th ed. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011), and recently completed (with Susan Gilbert) Video Surveillance Uses by Rail Transit Agencies (Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board) based on findings of a year-long project funded by the Transit Cooperative Research Program.

Several DWCers also have newly released books:

Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown have just published Criminology Goes to the Movies, a book designed to make the study of criminological theory fun as well as memorable. In addition, the book makes its own contribution to theory by discussing the relationships of popular culture to formal criminology.

Jessica Hodge released a new book this past summer by Northeastern University Press, and is titled, Gendered Hate: Exploring Gender in Hate Crime Law. There will be information about the book at Sage’s booth at ASC and it will be available for spring 2012 course adoptions.

We also join Stacy Mallicoat in announcing the release of her new book, Women and Crime: A Text/Reader by Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Information on the book is available here

In addition, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy & Molly Dragiewicz will be published in November. The book is a collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the world. Special attention is devoted to new theoretical directions in the field, such as cultural criminology, masculinities studies, and feminist criminologies.  For more information, visit http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415779678/. Congratulations to Walter and Molly!

Several DWC members also have new articles in press:

Tara Richards, Kathryn Branch, and Rebecca Hayes would like to announce a new article, “An Exploratory Examination of College Student to Professor Disclosures of Crime Victimization,” in press at Violence Against Women.

Natalie J. Sokoloff and Susan C. Pearce have a new article coming out, “Intersections, Immigration, and Partner Violence: A View from a New Gateway–Baltimore, Mayland”, in Women and Criminal Justice, 21(3), 250-266.

Natalie Sokoloff and Amanda Burgess-Proctor. “Remembering Criminology’s ‘Forgotten Theme:’ Seeking Justice in U.S. Crime Policy Using a Race/Class/Gender Intersectional Approach.”  In Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle, Eds. What Is Criminology? Oxford University Press.

Natalie Sokoloff and Susan Pearce. 2011. “Far from Charmed in ‘Charm City:’ Intimate Partner Violence and Immigration in Baltimore,  MD.” Women and Criminal Justice.

B. Vanfossen, Ch.H.Brown, S. Kellam, N.J. Sokoloff and S. Doering. “Neighborhood Context and the Development of Aggression in Boys and Girls.” Journal of Community Psychology , 2010, 38(3): 329-349.

Natalie also reports that she has just retired after teaching at John Jay College for the past 40 years!  She loved teaching there and is happy to report that she is now doing new work with women in Maryland prisons and returning to their communities, mostly in Baltimore. Her current projects include:

1. A research study on “Structural Barriers to Higher Education for Women and Men Coming out of Prison in Maryland”

2. Developing a library and book reading group for women who are now out of prison and don’t have regular access to books.