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Text Box: The Critical Criminologist

Text Box: Welcome to the first newsletter of the new editorial team. We are very excited by a variety of changes being implemented over this year and next year, and all are looking forward to some major improvements in our ability to share the scholarship of discovery, meet with each other, develop strategies for changing our lives and the lives of others, and just plain enjoying ourselves. First of course is the annual meetings. This year the Division on Critical Criminology will be sponsoring 17 sessions in San Francisco, while many more of us will be taking part in sessions not officially sponsored by the Division. Our representative, Ken Mentor, and the Program Committee representative for critical criminology, Richard A. Wright, did an excellent job in bringing this all together. We have ALREADY begun to plan special events for the 2001 annual meetings, including a session made up of journal editors sympathetic to critical criminology. In addition to our annual business meeting, our major event will be a social hour (cash bar) at the Hyatt on Friday night. We hope to see you all there. This has always been an excellent time, well attended, with much fun for all. We give out a few awards, but try to keep the formal part of the program to a bare minimum. Of course, this is the year that we raised our dues. The good news is that most of our members stayed on as members. After much lengthy breath holding, this has allowed us to bring

Text Box: back into production the long-lost Vol. 9 double-issue of Critical Criminology, the official journal of the Division, edited by Brian MacLean. We provided this journal essentially for free for years, mostly by taking it out of Brian and Dawn Currie’s hide. The increased dues has allowed us to put the journal back into production, and it should be in the mail fairly soon. Even better news is that after extensive negotiations Kluwer Academic Publishers (of Holland) tells us that they have agreed to offer us a contract to continue to publish the journal. In simple terms, we will pay them a fee consisting of most of our dues, but they will give us editorial control and will publish at first three and perhaps later four issues a year. I cannot imagine many places where you can pay our small dues and receive a full refereed academic journal. Our steering committee (Jeff Walker, Jeff Ferrell, Becky Tatum, Paul Leighton, Bob Bohm) is very excited by this return to publication of this important outlet for our work. Another piece of work in progress is that under the leadership of Bob Bohm, we have put together a proposal for a Critical Criminology Section in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. We have been approved by the board, and have a few minor wrinkles to work out, but the key point is that the two groups will closely work together, probably

CC Events at ASC	2
A Question of Method and Meaning	4
Call for Papers	3,8
Employment Opportunities	3
The Perp Walk	8
From the Editors	10