*I appreciate the comments of Natalie Lacerino-Paquet, Susan Mundry, Claire Morgan, Sarah Guckenburg and Janet Phlegar on this draft. Paul and Hal were colleagues at Indiana University. The one metaphor that consistently comes to mind when trying to grasp the enormous diversity of Tony Peters work in criminology is that of a builder of bridges. This certainly set the stage for much after-hours discussions that veered into the wee hours of the morning. He was 97. Her work has appeared in such prestigious outlets as Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminology & Public Policy, The Prison Journal, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Crime & Delinquency, and the Journal of Criminal Justice. For 11 years (1972-1983), Rita, a clinical psychologist, was a popular professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. Between 1941-1945 he worked as Chief Criminal Statistician for the US Census Bureau and in the enforcement department of the Office of Price Administration. Several of her Ph.D. students received dissertation awards from the National Science Foundation or the National Institute of Justice, and her Ph.D. students have gone on to obtain faculty positions at prestigious universities and have themselves made important contributions to the discipline. Upon his return, he enrolled at the University of Mississippi, where he was awarded an M.A. Both in his academic and personal life his Leitmotiv was respect and tolerance for all persons, ideas and practices, except the ones that are intolerant and disrespectful themselves; and being a wise man he was always able to make that distinction. But his impact on me professionally is only part of the story. She also served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review, Law and Society Review, and Law and Social Inquiry. William lived large and was a proud veteran, passionate teacher, amazing sharp shooter, great guitar player, karate black belt and avid biker who enjoyed life more in one day than many people do in a lifetime. He treated everyone respectfully. Mike grew up in and cherished his home town, Milwaukee. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Jackie Schneider at
[email protected] or on 309-438-2002. You can contact him at [emailprotected]. In the course of numerous TV interviews and newspaper reports, he became a familiar figure for the Finnish audience as a criminologist who had the ability to place problems into their appropriate scale and to do so in a language that everyone could understand. Michael J. Leibers (1956-2020) friends and colleagues are sad to announce his untimely passing. in Sociology at the University of Illinois. Their study of the conditions and effects of long-term imprisonment in H Wing in Durham Prison, Psychological Survival (1972), significantly heightened prison policy concerns in the Home Office. Following a short stint as a Deputy Probation Officer with the Contra Costa County Probation Department in El Cerrito, CA, Dale worked through a sequence of applied research positions. One of his favorite courses was the graduate class in criminological theory where he used a Socratic method to encourage students to think about the implications of each paradigm. For example, in 1976, when he instituted training to improve methods for dealing with rape victims, it was often the first time that police detectives, emergency room doctors, prosecutors, and mayors representatives had been at the same table to work on the problem. He maintained a pristine early 1970s Alfa Romeo Spider. Al was born in Boston on June 15, 1918. He devoted much of his later career to the study of spanking and corporal punishment, accumulating evidence that spanking was associated with increased subsequent aggression among children and reduced warmth between them and their parents, among other negative side effects. Drawing upon the legacy of Orwell as much as Foucault, Stans Visions of Social Control (1985) analyzed the ever-widening social control reach of the state into everyday life, employing such metaphors as net-widening, mesh-thinning, exclusion and inclusion. They dated for nearly 30 years before marrying in August 2011 at a ceremony in New York City, attended only by their closest friends and family. He has short gray hair and brown eyes, is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) tall, and weighs around 150lbs (68kgs). No one in the history of social ecology or criminology at Irvine has completed two advanced degrees this quickly; nor published a number of major articles while doing so. In 2020, the department named a graduate student paper award in his honor to recognize his many contributions. In 1955, he went to Florida State University where helped establish a Corrections degree program. In that respect, he was the best faculty mentor I could ever ask for. He also supported his alma mater, Silliman University in the Philippines, with student scholarships, faculty fellowships and grants to broaden and sustain quality education. It was the last one granted by Bill Clinton (2000). Dr. McCord joined the University of Louisville faculty in fall 2010 and recently was awarded promotion (associate professor) and tenure. He later received his doctorate degree in psychology from the University of Southern California. Submitted by Todd Clear, Rutgers University. His 12 books reflect his theoretic contributions to the social psychological and forensic analysis of human behavior. In 1994, she made the leap to an academic employment, beginning her 14 year career in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach. At the same time, he also fashioned life-long colleagueship with fellow students such as Rodney Stark and John Lofland. Gilbert Geis was not only a giant in the field whose keen sense of justice and humanity was evident in everything he wrote, but an ideal mentor, colleague and dear friend to many. Questions regarding the Fund may be sent to Barbara Owen at
[email protected]. He was born into a second-generation coal-mining family in McDowell County, West Virginia. Contributed by (alphabetically) M. Kay Harris, Phil Harris, Alan Harland, Jerry Ratcliffe, Ralph Taylor. At Dons invitation, Marvin D. Krohn became a co-author of the 4th and 5th editions of Delinquent Behavior. Jean-Paul was a member of the American Society of Criminology since 1987. National Academy, and the American Bar Association committee on wrongful convictions. Memorial donations in memory of Bob can be made to Tenth Life Cat Rescue, P.O. In addition to his career, Anthony was a devoted husband and father who was proud of his family and kept everyone laughing with his puns and joyous humor. Dick Ward, you will never be forgotten. Don is survived by his children, Diane Irwin (Craig) and Michael Gibbons, three grandchildren, Katie Cooper, Austin Gibbons, and Jonathan Irwin, and sister, Beverly Bergau. His exploration of the significance of the interactions between parents and children for the life-chances of children helped fill a void in the field. Steve was a gifted child and a voracious reader. program, that she pushed us to write a proposal together, and we eventually were funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study it. Likewise, Professor Petersilias work has been recognized by a plethora of research and service awards from diverse audiences, including academic societies, community groups, practitioner organizations, and government agencies. His expertise and interest covered a broad field of major issues of criminological interest; an increasingly rare feature, when research seems ever more to know more and more about less and less. After enrolling at UCI as an undergraduate, he served as a teaching assistant for a prisons course taught by Professor Gilbert Geis, who later became his mentor, close colleague and friend. - Connie Wozny. Eric was a police officer in California with the City of Stanton for three years then with the City of Chino for 23 years. Jo Dixon, 70, passed away unexpectedly, on March 7, 2020, at her home in Estero, FL. A professor of sociology at New York University until her retirement last year, Jo received a BA in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensborough in 1972, her MA in sociology at Emory University in 1981, and her PhD in sociology at Indiana University in 1989. The Many Faces of Youth Crime: Comparing and Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives on Youth Crime is now in press (Springer). He started a program to collect books from people to build libraries in prisons throughout Arkansas. Ed was a high-level scholar who saw the value of translational work long before it was trendy. She launched another show on 4 September 2012 entitled Joy Behar: Say Anything! which ended after a year. In 1985, Paul moved to be close to family and taught at Northeastern for 7 years, leaving to help establish a crime and justice program at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he worked for 19 years, before returning to his favorite part of the country and joining the Lowell faculty. Im really just giving back the blessings I have received throughout all these years at Sam Houston, said Dr. del Carmen. He served as the President of the American Society of Criminology in 1975. The family will receive friends in celebration of Richards life at Humenik Funeral Chap Elmar was a widely recognized victimologist and was a member of the World Victimology Conference. Online donations: https://account.asc41.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3352 He had been attracted by the advertised interdisciplinary environment and the strange name of the degree. He was subsequently discharged as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. They were founding members of the National Deviancy Conference in 1968, which challenged criminological orthodoxy. Rons scholarship has stimulated an extensive amount of academic and policy work on theory and research about gangs. Pauls long and successful career also included serving on the faculties and impacting the lives of many students at the University of Texas at Dallas, Northeastern University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Within four years of receiving his doctorate, he would publish two of the works that would help to establish him as one of the 20th centurys most notable figures in sociological criminology. Mr. Cascarano created the Institutes training and dissemination programs to help criminal justice agencies apply research findings and promising approaches, such as the first police street crime units and the first rape crisis centers. He carried out Executive Training for Security Directors at Sandals Resort in Jamaica. Jim was one of Americas most prolific, wide-ranging, and important criminal law scholars. By citation count or virtually any other measure, this book quickly emerged and remains a landmark statement of a conflict theory of crime. He received the greatest joy in helping people in the field. He was a member of the American Sociological Society and was the President of the Society of Social Problems, among others. Winterfield came to Washington in April 1997 to work for the U.S. Department of Justice where she was Division Chief for Justice Systems Research at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In fact, Carol once wrote, in her beautiful prose, that the effort put into finding such examples was protracted and painful. Instead, Carol wrote that the more common outcome of research was to affect the way people asked questions or thought about the issues, which she termed conceptual use. This impact often occurred over a long term through a mechanism she described as the circuitry of enlightenment., My personal contact with Carol began in 1997.
Steven Janowitz obituaries Rather than attempt to summarize his views on criminology and sociology, we encourage you to watch his interview for the ASC Oral History project at: https://www.asc41.com/videos/Oral_History/Robert_Bursik.html. He certainly didnt believe in one big thing. He was a painstaking empiricist and a hard-headed realist who abjured all forms of dogma and who was allergic to any kind of grand theory. A beloved teacher of courses at all levels, he served on or directed nearly 40 dissertations. Devoted brother to Roni (Chuck). It was at Penn that Elmar developed a life-long professional interest in cross-national and longitudinal studies, thanks to the mentorship of Marvin Wolfgang and Thorsten Sellin. A subject which particularly intrigued him in the 1990s was the criminality in Finlands neighbouring countriesboth Russia and the Baltic countries. Her compassion for others knew no bounds; it motivated her dogged work ethic and insatiable desire to get it right. Likewise, she took great pleasure and pride in cultivating this passion and commitment in others, including her many law students and Ph.D. students over the decades. He devoted his whole life to this place. After retiring in 1979, he and Ruth lived in Santa Fe for 10 years and then in Santa Barbara, CA. This work was recognized by the New York Times Year in Ideas (2002), Popular Science, and by the Guggenheim Foundation. Allen was a key advocate for the passage of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act. Ed was school head for nearly 40 years. A charter member of UGAs Teaching Academy, Talarico was known for her innovative approach to teaching and mentoring and for her contributions to curriculum development at the universityserving as the driving force in the creation of the interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in criminal justice. He was passionate about his work as a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and truly enjoyed the students there. Her work helped to stimulate far greater African engagement at the 14th World Congress than at the 12th. Bens professional and personal life had great meaning and he will be deeply missed by all those who knew him. Her talent for articulating transparent models to link programs to outcomes made her a valued and trusted colleague in many research ventures, especially those in the area of corrections and community supervision of offenders. Dales dedication to supporting the scholarly development of students and faculty will be honored with the Dale Sechrest Memorial Fund and a research lab named in his honor. He was of the opinion that spanking, even when used in moderation, taught that hitting and violence were appropriate and even necessary responses when a person believed someone elses misbehavior needed correction. Simpson trial and the Rodney King trial and the role of racism in contemporary criminal justice. At the University of Oklahoma, Harold was recognized for his achievements with several awards, including the David Ross Boyd Professorship, a Presidential Professorship, and the Kinney-Sugg Award for Outstanding Professor. Several generations of young students, researchers and professors have been given the opportunity through his work to broaden their horizons and develop a truly comparative perspective on crime, criminology and criminal justice. Ed was an accomplished researcher and writer and authored many research papers including DNA Analysis for Minor Crimes: A Major Benefit for Law Enforcement, (2006, with Mary B. Murphy); Why Prisons Matter, (1997); Private Security and Controlling Crime, (1990); The Economics of Disincarceration, (1984); Space Flight, Street Crime, and Methodological Juxtaposition, (1984); and Performance Measurement in Public Agencies: The Law Enforcement Evolution, (1979). He continued to produce impressive scholarship and undertake innovative teaching (such as creating an online course that quickly became a favorite). To her, even more importantly, she was a loving wife, mother, and sister; a good friend; an engaged community member; and consummate public servant committed to positioning social science analyses front and center when it comes to doing all we can to ensure criminal justice systems better peoples lives, including by delivering justice. I was honored to know and work with her.. He published many articles on Africa and the United States in refereed journals as well as more than 28 book- chapters in different books. In more recent years, she and her esteemed CTP colleague, Ted Palmer, established an award in their names that is given through the Division of Corrections and Sentencing. And, Bills reputation spread well beyond the academy. Jodi Lane, University of Florida. Subscribe Sign In Try for a limited time! In his 70s and 80s, Ted pursued a rigorous travel agenda, which included long trips to such exotic places as the South Pacific Islands, the Great Wall of China, Mongolia, Antarctica, India, Nepal, and Tibet. WebSteven Jonowifz, D.D.S. Dr. Roslyn (Roz) Muraskin, ACJS Secretary and professor of criminal justice, passed away on Saturday, April 21 after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. As a person, Jeff was modest and humble, even somewhat reserved. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to ovarian cancer research. Authored by Until shortly before her death, former students and colleagues continued their relationship with Rita through visits to her retirement home and correspondence. On behalf of the Rural Criminology community, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, See https://www.jenningscalvey.com/obituaries/david-friedrichs. Second, Professor Weitekamps contributions to the restorative justice literature are both broad and deep, including multiple presentations at the Word Symposium of Victimology, the World Congress of Criminology, and similar multinational conferences, as well as journal articles and book chapters. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. (Jo put on 8 poundstrue story.) He became President of the American Society of Criminology and he was given its treasured Sutherland Award for contributions to the discipline. Instead, he took his media responsibility seriously and was always willing to comment and consult with the media. Dear brother of Lynn (Michael) Mancini, Diane (Steven) Moffitt, John (Trish) Janowitz and Robert (deceased). Stan understood that it is not a matter of committed scholars becoming embroiled in public policy debates by supporting a particular policy. Advertisement. He returned to Germany to finish his secondary education after what he described as a heated disagreement with priests at the school. Mail a check, payable to George Washington University and Sociology in memory of Bill Chambliss in the memo line, to 2100 M Street NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20052 Ted helped to insure the legacy or rigorous research and instilled in many the value of research in action settings and collaboration with front line agencies. At that point he already had garnered international acclaim for his work in military sociology and his studies of street gang activities, which later expanded into a focus on youth violence in general. Paul Cascarano, 76, a retired Federal official who served in the Department of Justices National Institute of Justice, died August 8, 2007 of a heart attack at Reston Hospital, VA. Mr. Cascarano joined the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, later named the National Institute of Justice, in 1968. He touched the early academic lives of many people who are now lawyers and professors, including offering an adjunct teaching position to a young Bill Clinton. August 15, 2014. Camping, driving trips, trout fishing, and gardening were his life-long interests. On behalf of myself and Colonial Opticians (Potomac Village) I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Dr. Janowitz.