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Many of the books that have been highlighted on this site were written by members of the Division or Section. In some cases links were added at the request of the author. These links were removed in a previous version of this site, and I was encouraged to bring them back, so I want to explain the recent decision to remove the links.

The following article describes the wider issues, but the short version is that I have never been totally comfortable with these advertisements and am reluctant to continue directing sales to this particular company. I am working on alternatives that will allow us to continue the effort to highlight books of interest to critical criminologists.

The following, by David Serota, helps explain the context of this decision:

I wanted to let all of our Division members know that we have at this point renewed our contract with Springer. Springer has have offered to donate 200.00 towards book purchases for the winner of the Critical Criminologist award as well as 100.00 worth of books for the winner of the graduate student paper awards. Additionally, given the overwhelming DCC member vote to support a request for the inclusion of Springer's recognition of the Division's choice of editor and terms of service, Springer has included terms of editorial ship for one term of 3 years with a possible extension of one additional term (not to exceed 6 years). While this is a compromise from the 3/2 we voted on, it is a major accomplishment and a minor compromise given the overall situation. Additionally, as has been pointed out, a 3/3 is a common practice with other Divisions as well as ASC main journals. A copy of the contract can be sent to any member that would like to see it.

For those interested in Critical Crim beyond the US borders...

Monash Criminology is pleased to announce that the 2009 ANZ Critical Criminology Conference Proceedings were published in December.
The proceedings are available from: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/criminology/c3-conference-proceedings

Duties: The Post-Doctoral Scholar will work with USF Criminology Professors, Fridell and Lynch. The Scholar will work on the National Police Research Platform. NIJ has funded a 3-year pilot of this multi-faceted, large-scale, longitudinal "platform" for learning about police and policing. The Scholar will assist with the implementation of multiple methodologies (e.g., survey, interview, focus groups, observation, archival data collection) to research an array of policing topics. S/he will work with the top policing researchers in the nation on this revolutionary project.

The Winter 2009 edition of The Critical Criminologist is now available:
Vol. 19, Issue 3 Winter 2009

Bonnie Berry is editing a new book series. Please see the attached call for proposals.

Ashgate Publishing will produce a new book series, Green Criminology, to promote original scholarlship
contributing to the expanded study of environmental harm, crime, law and justice from a criminological
perspective. Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky will serve as series editors. The series is expected to
publish between three to twelve books per year. See attached annoucement for further details.

The Division of Critical Criminology is currently taking applications for the following position:

Editor(s) of the Critical Criminologist Newsletter

Job Duties:

Keeping it Radical: Exploring Income, Income Inequality and Poverty Data for the US.
 
Michael J. Lynch (Department of Criminology, University of South Florida)
 

 
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN...
 
Justice Studies Association
12th Annual Conference
June 2-5, 2010
Knoxville, Tennessee
 

Dawn Rothe has provided the following information of interest to ASC Division and ACJS Section members.

Bob Bohm has provided the following information of interest to ACJS Section members.

Here I try to make a connection between critical pedagogy and music.
http://musingsbydave.blogspot.com/2009/11/music-and-knowledge-part-i-of-ii-i.html?spref=fb

Let me know what you think!
Dave

I'll be in Philly.  I've started a website, http://pepinsky.blogspot.com.  Here's a forthcoming letter to the editor of The Criminologist:
 
On turning away from the study of crime and criminality, forthcoming as a 2009 letter to the editor in The Criminologist: