The ASC Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) invites nominations for this year’s awards.  This year, the DCC will sponsor six (6) awards:

• The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual's sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.
• The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honors an early-to-mid-career individual’s distinguished accomplishments that have symbolized the spirit of the DCC in some form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in recent years.
• The DCC Praxis Award recognizes an individual whose professional accomplishments have increased the quality of justice for groups that have experienced class, ethnic, gender, racial and sexual disparities in policing and punishment.  The DCC Award for Contribution to Practice honors unique achievements in activism, commitment, persuasion, scholarship, service and teaching in areas that have made a significant impact on the quality of justice for underserved, underrepresented, and otherwise marginalized populations.
• The DCC Practice Award recognizes the activist/practitioner who has participated in publicly promoting and working towards the ideals of equality, justice and rights as they relate to the differential distribution of power in criminal justice and throughout society more generally.  Nominees need not be criminologists or even academics, for that matter. Nominations  should include specific documentation of public service and should describe in detail how this person’s activism has raised awareness and interest in the issues that concern the DCC.
• The Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes and honors outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by a graduate student.
• The Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes and honors outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by an undergraduate student.

Now available for Free Download: The American Indian in the White Man's Prisons: A Story of Genocide, Compiled and edited by Little Rock Reed.

This textbook has been provided by Hal Pepinsky, who scanned his copy and offered to critcrim.org to honor Rock's memory. We hope this important work might be widely read and used. Thank you Hal!

Hal's comments:

"This book is wonderful, POWERFUL! ....

Now available for free download:

Crime and Conflict, by Hal Pepinsky

This textbook has been provided by the author. Thank you Hal!

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Hi Folks:

Our good friend and colleague Henry Brownstein has recently published the first book in the Routledge Series on New Directions in Critical Criminology. Titled Contemporary Drug Policy, this book will generate much critical thinking about drugs and social control. Please check it out. Also, Joseph Donnermeyer and I have a new book in the same series titled Rural Criminology. It should be out in the fall and more information on this project and other books in the series can be found at
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415634380/

Best,

Walter

Now available for free download:

Myths That Cause Crime, by Hal Pepinsky and Paul Jesilow.

This textbook, winner of the 1986 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, has been provided by the authors. Thank you Hal and Paul!

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Due to extraordinary growth, the Department of Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor rank position to begin in August 2013. Fayetteville State University is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina and the second-oldest public institution of higher education in the state. Founded in 1867 as the Howard School for the education of African Americans, today FSU serves a growing student body of approximately 6,000 and ranks among the nation's most diverse campus communities. Fayetteville is located in the scenic Cape Fear River Valley of North Carolina, between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Residents of Fayetteville enjoy mild temperatures, four distinct seasons, a low cost of living, and easy access to beautiful Carolina beaches.

Full program for the 2012 Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology can be found at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asc/asc12/

Division Events on THURSDAY, November 15:

4:30 – 5:50 pm DCC General Business Meeting Adams Room, 6th Floor

6:00 – 10:00 pm DCC Social Adams Room, 6th Floor

Login is not necessary to search the program. See the attached PDF for lists of sessions and individual paper with "critical" in the title or description.

http://www.unijobs.com.au/show.php?title=professor_school_of_justice_69981

Professor - School of Justice

Job Reference: 12451

The School of Justice, Faculty of Law is seeking to recruit a Professor of international criminological standing who can play a key research leadership role in the school and in particular in the new International Journal for Crime and Justice and Centre for Crime and Justice.

Position Title: Professor
Reference 12451
Closes: 1 December 2012
Organisational Area: School of Justice
Faculty of Law
Campus: Gardens Point
Salary/Classification: $AUD149 240 pa (Level E)
Plus Superannuation: 17% employer contribution
Status: Ongoing
Contact: Kerry Carrington
Head, School of Justice
+61 7 3138 7112
HR Contact: Nonie Wall
Senior HR Advisor
+61 7 3138 4192
Open to: Australian and International applicants

When applying for this position we encourage you to upload your response to the selection criteria.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The website for the International Green Criminology Working Group is now online. Membership in the group is free. The purpose of the website is to promote intellectual exchanges between those interested in green crime and justice.

greencriminology.org

In this post I draw upon environmental lessons offered by Dr. Seuss in The Lorax, and James Lovelock, an environmentalist, to explore the intersection of environmental issues, political economy, and criminology. The Lorax, published in 1972 was published two years before Lovelock’s well know Gaia Theory. Both works explore deteriorating environmental conditions in relation to expansion of economic development.

Hi everyone,
The call for papers for the 2nd Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, July 8-11, 2013 is available online at:
http://crimejusticeconference.com/

Papers are invited to be submitted under the general theme or any of the sub-themes listed below.
General Theme: Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

A new team will assume editorial duties for the Division's Journal effective January 2013. David Kauzlarich will become Editor in Chief, Kerry Carrington will serve as the Pacific Rim Editor, and Gregg Barak will become the Book Review Editor. Brief professional biographies of each are attached. There will be more additions to the editorial team within the next few months. We are very excited about the future of the journal and welcome any comments or suggestions.

The messages produced by non-scientific climate change skeptics are changing. These messages were in full display in a recent public statement made by ExxonMobil Chairmen, President and CEO, Rex Tillerson, who insulted the public and the media, excused harms done to people living near hydraulic-fracturing sites, said that global warming was real but not as serious as believed, and mis-represented the support MIT scientists would provide for his position. Its all a few minutes work for the corporation that has long denied that global warming was even happening.

Call for Nominations: ASC Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) Awards

The DCC Awards Committee invites you to consider nominating individuals for one of the following awards:

• The Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an individual's sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.
• The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award, which honors a person for distinguished accomplishments which have symbolized the spirit of the Division in
  some form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in a recent year or years.
• The Undergraduate Student Paper Awards, which recognize and honor outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by undergraduate students.

Please share this position announcement with upcoming and recent PhDs who would like to live and work in a beautiful northern California coastal community:

Criminology and Justice Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA Starting August 2013

The Department of Sociology invites applications for an academic-year, tenure-line position for a new BA in Criminology and Justice Studies (CJS). The hire will also support our existing BA & MA programs in Sociology. The CJS program is designed to provide undergraduates with the skills necessary to become effective agents of social change; the successful candidate should demonstrate research and/or teaching and service that align with this goal.

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

You might have heard that I am editing a series for Routledge titled New Directions in Critical Criminology. Attached is a flier, which includes some forthcoming titles. Please consider submitting a proposal.

Best,

Walter

Criminology and Justice Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

Starting August 2013

The Department of Sociology invites applications for an academic-year, tenure-line position for a new BA in Criminology and Justice Studies (CJS). The hire will also support our existing BA & MA programs in Sociology. The CJS program is designed to provide undergraduates with the skills necessary to become effective agents of social change; the successful candidate should demonstrate research and/or teaching and service that align with this goal.

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Molly Dragiewicz and I are putting together a contribution to the New Routledge Major Works Collection. The anthology is titled Critical Criminology and will included 80 to 100 previously published articles, etc. This book is designed to offer the "greatest hits of critical criminology." Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, folks, please consider submitting book proposals to the Routledge Series New Directions in Critical Criminology. We have some great books in the pipeline. Please send all proposals to me (walter.dekeseredy@uoit.ca) and Tom Sutton (thomas.sutton@tandf.co.uk).

All the best,

Walter