Text Box: ANNOUNCEMENTS Barkan, Steven E., and Steven F. Cohn. 2005. “On Reducing White Support for the Death Penalty: A Pessimistic Appraisal.” Criminology & Public Policy 4:39-44. Barkan, Steven E., and Steven F. Cohn. 2005. “Why Whites Favor Spending More Money to Fight Crime: The Role of Racial Prejudice.” Social Problems 52:300-314. Mary Bosworth recently took up the Katzenbach Research Fellowship at the Centre of Socio-Legal studies at the University of Oxford, ending 9 years of living state-side. Art Jipson has assumed the directorship of the Criminal Justice Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Mike Presdee has moved to the University of Kent where he is Programme Director of Criminology. Donna Selman-Killingbeck recently completed her PhD at Western Michigan University and is a new assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Text Box: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Author Meets Critics : Gregg Barak's Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding (Sage, 2003). Wednesday, November 16th, 5:00 to 6:30 PM, Session # 174 in the Quebec Room. The critics are Lynn Chancer, Peter Iadicola, and John Wozniak Convict Criminology sessions: Convict Criminology Session I (079) is Wednesday November 16, 11:00 am-12:20 pm, Salon B Convict Criminology Session II (263) is Thursday November 17, 11:00 am-12:20 pm, Salon A Convict Criminology Session III (438) is Friday November 18, 11:00 am-12:20 pm, Quebec Cultural Criminology sessions: Session 026, Cultural Criminology: Theatres of Everyday Life, Wed, 9:30-10:50 {Alberta] Session 140, Cultural Criminology: Borderlands of Crime, Death, and Justice, Wed, 3:30-4:50 [Confederation] Session 339, Cultural Criminology: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Qualitative Research, Thur, 3:30-4:50 [Nova Scotia] Session 501, Cultural Criminology: Currents Directions and Challenges in Qualitative Research, Fri, 3:30-4:50 [Alberta]