Critical Mentors
This mentoring network is intended to provide students, activists, and faculty interested in critical criminology with connections to critical criminologists in order to help support critical research, teaching, service, and activism endeavors. Our process is relatively simple. The following Division members have agreed to serve as mentors and can be contacted directly. Due to problems with e-mail harvesters (spammers) the links are not active. Please cut-and-paste the address of the individual you would like to contact, replacing " at " with @.
This is a great list of scholars and we hope you will take advantage of their generosity. Each volunteer has listed a few area of expertise. You are also encouraged to use Google, or the search tool on the critcrim.org site, to learn more about these scholars. Of course, you can also learn about these mentors through a review of scholarly literature.
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
Shahid Alvi |
violence against women, poverty and crime, youth and crime, left realism |
shahid.alvi at uoit.ca |
Meda Chesney-Lind |
girls, women | meda at hawaii.edu |
| Keith Crew | interpersonal violence, sentencing, corrections, media constructions | bk.crew at uni.edu |
| Walter DeKeseredy | woman abuse, poverty and crime, critical criminological theory | Walter.DeKeseredy at uoit.ca |
| Jeff Ferrell | cultural criminology, media, ethnography | ferrelltdts at earthlink.net |
| Mark Israel | research ethics, state crime, teaching and learning, Australian criminology | mark.israel at flinders.edu.au |
| David Kauzlarich | state crime, peace studies, theory | dkauzla at siue.edu |
| Lloyd Klein | hate crime, state and corporate crime | lklein at bemidjistate.edu |
| Ronald C. Kramer | state and corporate crime, peace studies, social problems | ronald.kramer at wmich.edu |
| Paul S. Leighton | rape, hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, capital punishment,prisons | paul at stopviolence.com |
| Shadd Maruna | prisoner reentry & reintegration, psychology of punitive attitudes | shadd.maruna at crim.cam.ac.uk |
| Ken Mentor | education, internet, media, teaching and learning, law and society | mentor at critcrim.org |
| Raymond J. Michalowski | state crime, globalization, political economy of crime | raymond.michalowski at nau.edu |
| Christopher W. Mullins | gender, corporate and state crime | christopher.mullins at uni.edu |
| Stephen L. Muzzatti | media, youth, white-collar crime | muzzatti at ryerson.ca |
| Hal Pepinsky | peacemaking criminology | pepinsky at indiana.edu |
| Barbara Perry | hate crime, race and justice, citizenship & crime | barbara.perry at uoit.ca |
| Randall G. Sheldon | delinquency, juvenile justice, gangs, prisons, the crime control industry | profrgs at cox.net |
| Jim Thomas | social justice, prison culture, incarceration effecs | jthomas at sun.soci.niu.edu |
| L.A. Visano | media and youth | lavisano at yorku.ca |
| Matt Yeager | convict criminology | myeager at cyberus.ca |
Critical Mentors
Paralegal certification
Having employed a few paralegals in my time, I don't think it's worth the money.
You are hired for skills, not credentials. The main thing I want in a paralegal is an intelligent self-starter. If you are that, you can gain the skills with a combination of the library and hanging around a law office.
Judge Steve Russell
Indiana University