Call for abstracts for the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2012 ends May 11 (Australia time which is essentially May 10 for those of us in the U.S. and Canada)

http://www.events.utas.edu.au/2012/july/the-australian-and-new-zealand-c...

Don't miss this opportunity to attend a fabulous conference in Tasmania during the summer while you are not teaching! Rob White has been hard at work on the critical criminology circuit this past year planning an excellent conference.

Summary

Changing the Way We Think about Change: Shifting Boundaries, Changing Lives
Start Date
12th Jul 2012 8:30am

End Date
13th Jul 2012 5:00pm

Venue

Faculty of Arts, Sandy Bay campus

RSVP / Contact Information

Conference Convenor: Professor Rob White, School of Sociology & Social Work - Email: R.D.White@utas.edu.au; Telephone: +61 3 6226 2877
Changing the Way We Think about Change: Shifting Boundaries, Changing Lives

Intelligence Report, Spring 2012, Issue Number: 145
Leader’s Suicide Brings Attention to Men’s Rights Movement
By Arthur Goldwag
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-iss...

Our eBook they can download (without cost) from our website--homelandfascism101.com.
The eBook is a political treatise but it may be interesting academically because of its analytic constructs. It employs our "Janus model" of governance and category entitled "customary repression" which refers to the century-old repression of left-wing ideas and policies. It chronicles the qualitative changes in customary repression from the 1970s and--to realistically evaluate neofascist developments in the USA--it employs "parallels" (with the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy, Chile, etc.). It points out that "bullshit" is the modus operandi of individuals reviving McCarthyism in universities. Among other things, it takes note of the "Miami model" of police brutality and Occupy Wall Street. It also indicts Bush, Cheney and Obama's war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Herman and Julia Schwendinger have published a new book, BIG BROTHER IS LOOKING AT YOU, KID! IS HOMELAND FASCISM POSSIBLE which thay are making available free of charge.

The book is a political treatise but it may be interesting academically
because of its analytic constructs. It employs their "Janus model" of
governance and a category entitled "customary repression," referring to the
normalized century-old repression of left-wing ideas and policies. It
chronicles the qualitative changes in customary repression from the 1970s
and employs "parallels" (with the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy, Chile,
etc.) to realistically evaluate neofascist developments in the USA. It
points out that "bullshit" is the modus operandi of archconservatives
reviving McCarthyism in American universities. It describes, among other
things, the astonishing expansion of surveillance technology, the "Miami
model" of police brutality, the rise of Occupy Wall Street, and Obama's

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Tom Sutton, Commissioning Editor for Criminology at Routledge (Thomans.sutton@tandf.co.uk) and I would like to give you an update on the Routledge New Directions in Critical Criminology Series. We are pleased to announce that we have a critical mass of dynamic books in the pipeline that are being crafted by an international group of scholars.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal then please contact me (walter.dekeseredy@uoit.ca) or Tom.

Also, please keep your eyes out for for the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology. Molly Dragiewicz and I extend a special thanks to the contributors to this anthology.

All the best for the new year!

Cheers,

Walter

In September of 2011, Lisa Jackson, head of the US EPA, released a statement on enhancing the ozone pollution requirements in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (http://www.epa.gov/glo/actions.html) to better protect public health. In that statement, she noted that the under the Obama Administration, the EPA has worked to enhance environmental protection. And while Lisa Jackson may be working hard to protect the public's health, President Obama hasn’t been cooperating. In a meeting with Jackson on November 16th, Obama told Jackson that the Administration could not afford to support a stricter ozone pollution standard at this time because of its potential effect on the President in the upcoming election. Obama said that the rule, set for reconsideration in 2013, would be on the table if he were re-elected. For more details see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/science/earth/policy-and-politics-coll...

See the attached announcement for information about the first text in the Solving Social Problems series, edited by Bonnie Berry (Ashgate Publishing).

In this post I examine the recent data on carbon dioxide pollution, the meaning of that data, and discuss the issue of global warming and environmental pollution from a critical criminological perspective.....

"In early November, 2011, the United State Deportment of Energy . . .released its most recent data and survey updates on world carbon dioxide emissions . . . .The news contained in that report isn’t good: carbon dioxide pollution emissions jumped 6% in 2010 compared to 2009. About 50% of those emission increases can be linked to emissions in the US and China. The graphs at the end of this article depict the trend in carbon emissions since the 1950s, and show a current map (2010) of carbon emission levels by nation."

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Routledge has a new book series titled New Directions in Critical Criminology. I am the Series Editor and Tom Sutton is Routledge's Commissioning Editor for Criminology. We will both be at the ASC conference and look forward to talking to you about any book projects you might have on the go.

Attached is some information on the Series, as well as the new Routledge Handbook on Critical Criminology.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Walter DeKeseredy

The elections committee would like to congratulate our new Division on Critical Criminology Officers for 2012

Past Chair:
Dawn Rothe

Chair:
Donna Selman (formerly Donna Killingbeck)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Eastern Michigan University

Vice Chair:
Kerry Carrington
Professor and Head of School of Justice
Queensland University of Technology

Secretary/Treasurer:
Rita Shah
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Elizabethtown College

Executive Officers:
Joe Donnermeyer
Professor
Environmental Science Program
The Ohio State University

Jennifer Gibbs
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
West Chester University

Jeffrey Ian Ross
Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
University of Baltimore

Sincerely,
The elections committee
Molly Dragiewicz
Avi Brisman
Stephen Muzzatti

NEW YORK CRIME STATS ARE CONCOCTIONS
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com
October 22, 2011
Today on “This American Life,” most of the program was about how from roll call to the very top of the NYPD, since its inception in 1994, the much touted crime reporting system known as COMPSTAT is bogus. The TAL segment is essentially an interview with former officer Adrian Schoolcraft and playing of clips of the recordings he made from when he was first ordered at roll call to make numbers on summonses to how senior commanders have him taken away to a psychiatric ward. It’s quite a drama.
I googled Adrian Schoolcraft and found this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10quotas.html?pagewanted=all

Hello everyone,
The Conference Proceedings for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: An International Conference held last month at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia are now posted at http://www.crimejusticeconference.com/attach/CJSD_Conference_Proceedings...
Best,
Molly Dragiewicz
Assistant Professor of Criminology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
molly.dragiewicz@uoit.ca

Hello Division on Critical Criminology members,

I am emailing on behalf of the DCC’s election committee which consists of Stephen Muzzatti, Avi Brisman and myself.

The ballots for the upcoming election will be posted early next week. Please note that we will be using Survey Monkey for the elections again this year and the link to the ballot will be sent to the email address on file with ASC. I will post a notice to this site when the emails for voting have gone out.

Best,
Dr. Molly Dragiewicz
Assistant Professor of Criminology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
molly.dragiewicz@uoit.ca

Dear Colleagues:

It is that time again. We need to elect a new DCC Executive Board. However, Dawn Rothe will remain on the Board in the capacity of Past Chair. We need to elect people for the following positions: Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary/Treasurer, and three Executive Officers.

Martin Schwartz and I constitute the Nominations Committee and please send all nominations to us at walter.dekeseredy@uoit.ca and schwartz@ohio.edu.

The Elections Committee consists of Molly Dragiewicz, Avi Brisman, and Stephen Muzzatti. They will tabulate the results.

The election is likely to take place either late September or mid October.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Walter

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Oshawa, Ontario
Canada L1H 7K4
walter.dekeseredy@uoit.ca
http://socialscienceandhumanities.uoit.ca/EN/main/faculty_staff/walter_d...

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Molly Dragiewicz and I are pleased to announce that the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology will be in print in November or shortly after. Below is a link that will give you more information on this anthology

Best,

Walter DeKeseredy

http://www.remote-sensing.routledge.com/books/details/9780415779678

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Routledge is producing a new series on critical criminology and I am the series editor. Critical criminology has gone through a number of significant changes since its birth in the early 1970s. The series includes authoritative original essays on major contemporary issues of central concern to critical criminologists around the world. Each book examines new areas of empirical and theoretical inquiry, and sets out an agenda for innovative progressive ways of thinking critically about crime, law, and social control.

These books are specifically designed to be useful resources for undergraduate and post-graduate students, researchers, and policy makers. The length should be no more than 80,000 words, including notes and references. Please contact me at walter.dekeseredy@uoit.ca if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,

Walter DeKeseredy

Michael J. Lynch
Professor, Department of Criminology
Associated Faculty, School of Global Sustainability
University of South Florida

The Hosue has passed HR 2018 in an effort to limit the powers of the EPA, and that's not good for the health of Americans, nor is that consistent with their effort to undermine the specific intent of the Clean Water Act. Read why.