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:
                I retired this year after 39 years’ full-time salary as a criminal justice professor, the last 33 at Indiana University.  The final page proofs of my 2006 U of Ottawa book, Peacemaking: Reflections of a Radical Criminologist, is freely available on www.critcrim.org at http://critcrim.org/sites/default/files/Pepinsky_proofs_0.pdf .  My 2001 compilation of prior writings, A Criminologist’s Quest for Peace, is at the same website.
I joined ASC in 1968 when it met in Columbus, Ohio (just after I took the bar exam there).  There were 125 registrants; how ASC has grown since.  Still, now as then, I marvel at how little we pay attention to an issue Edwin Sutherland famously raised: What is crime and what kind of problem is it?
                Struggle as I might, I have not since my earliest attempts in the late sixties been able to define “crime” and “criminality” without being politically arbitrary.  I have, from a 1987 article on a historical field study of crime recording in Sheffield, England on, called for a moratorium on counting crime and criminality.
                Defining “harm” is equally politically arbitrary.  Whether behavior is wrong or right, hurtful or heroic, is eternally socially debatable, a framework for socially splitting people apart rather than for bringing antagonists together.
My own field data, since my 1972 observation of Minneapolis of police decisions whether to report offenses, have led me to propose that the study of crime, criminality, harm, wrong or right is scientifically, practically, morally bankrupt.  Violence, the heating up of our relations, has instead become my problem; peacemaking its antidote.  My study of crime and criminality has turned into a study of how to make peace in the face of violence regardless of what gets defined as “legal.”
                As a 40+-year member of ASC I’m frustrated that the enterprise of explaining crime and criminality remains so robust. What IS our criminological problem?  I welcome dialogue on this fundamental issue.  Love and peace—Hal (pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com)
 
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