The DWC is calling for nominations for the eight professional awards that it gives yearly, at the annual meeting in November. Use the links below for more information.
DWC Professional Awards
2019 Call for Award Nominations
Online Nomination Form
The Division on Women and Crime is an active participant in this year’s meeting of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63), taking place from March 11 – 22, 2019 in New York City.
In planning for the activities, DWC partnered with World Society of Victimology (WSV); Criminologists Without Borders (CWB), and the International Sociological Association (ISA). A CSW63 committee was formed which included the following members: Sheetal Ranjan (Chair, DWC), Elaine Arnull (Vice-Chair, DWC), Dawn Beichner (UN Representative for WSV) and Rosemary Barberet (UN Representative for both ISA & CWB).
Thanks to efforts led by Jay Albanese, ASC Representative to the United Nations, the ASC renewed its lapsed accreditation to be a non-governmental organization (NGOs) in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council in June 2018. This allowed DWC to submit panels for inclusion in the Parallel Events organized by NGO CSW. The committee worked to submit panels on four different topic areas and all of them were accepted. Details of the four Parallel Events and panelists are below.
Additionally, we secured partnerships with the United Nations Police and the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations to hold two side events at the UNHQ. Side Events at CSW must be sponsored in partnership with member states or UN Entities. These are very prestigious partnerships; however, the choice of topics and panelists are limited to the intersecting interests of the sponsoring partners. Details of VIP’s, scholars, practitioners and policy makers in attendance at both events are below.
The panelists were drawn from the DWC expert database (please make sure you submit your information if you haven’t already) and recommendations by WSV, ISA, and CWB. As you may note, many panelists are DWC members. We paid attention to include a diverse range of scholars and invited practitioners who offer interesting perspectives. We are very excited that one of our panelists is a DWC student member.
Church Centre Panels:
#1: Empowering Girls and Women Facing Violence in Family Settings; The Safety of Women and Girls in Educational Settings
#2 Women, Re-Entry, and Social Protection; Access to Justice for Women and Girls: The Role of Women in Law Enforcement and Peacekeeping
The Safety of Women: Penal Mediation in Greek Domestic Violence Legislation
The Status of Women: The Policing of Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas
Check out these videos of the event on YouTube!
Scholars, researchers, and advocates spoke at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Public Briefing on Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars. The event was held on February 20, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
VIEW THE PRESS RELEASE FOR THE EVENT
VIDEOS OF THE BRIEFING (note the informative Q&A sessions at the 50 minute mark for the first panel and at 2:42 minute mark for the second panel)
The ASC’s Oral History Project is a rich repository of interviews of prominent criminologists. The most recent contribution to the project features Helen Eigenberg interviewing Joanne Belknap at the ASC meeting in Atlanta in 2018.
With news of Dr. Eigenberg’s passing, DWC chair Sheetal Ranjan reached out to Jay Albanese and Brendan Dooley to inquire about the status of the video, as she wanted to share it with the DWC membership. Both Brendan and Jay were very gracious and worked very hard to get this video completed ahead of schedule. The production of these videos takes innumerable hours of volunteer work – at this time they are still working on videos from almost a year ago. The DWC Executive Board is very grateful to Brendan and Jay for accommodating the request.
ASC Oral History Project Webpage
Direct link to Joanne & Helen’s video
