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Two Year Post-Doctoral Research Postion, University of South Florida
Duties: The Post-Doctoral Scholar will work with USF Criminology Professors, Fridell and Lynch. The Scholar will work on the National Police Research Platform. NIJ has funded a 3-year pilot of this multi-faceted, large-scale, longitudinal "platform" for learning about police and policing. The Scholar will assist with the implementation of multiple methodologies (e.g., survey, interview, focus groups, observation, archival data collection) to research an array of policing topics. S/he will work with the top policing researchers in the nation on this revolutionary project.
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Assistant Professor Position, University of South Florida
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Seeking Submission for a New Book Series, Green Criminology
Ashgate Publishing will produce a new book series, Green Criminology, to promote original scholarlship
contributing to the expanded study of environmental harm, crime, law and justice from a criminological
perspective. Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky will serve as series editors. The series is expected to
publish between three to twelve books per year. See attached annoucement for further details.
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Keeping it Radical: Exploring Income, Income Inequality and Poverty Data for the US.
Keeping it Radical: Exploring Income, Income Inequality and Poverty Data for the US.
Michael J. Lynch (Department of Criminology, University of South Florida)
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Music and Knowledge Part I of II
Here I try to make a connection between critical pedagogy and music.
http://musingsbydave.blogspot.com/2009/11/music-and-knowledge-part-i-of-ii-i.html?spref=fb
Let me know what you think!
Dave
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Associate or Full Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
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Critical Criminology Sessions at Upcoming ASC Meetings
Here is a list of all sessions found while searching the ASC program for Critical Criminology:
1. "A 'Critical' Approach to Teaching White Collar Crime: Challenges and Objectives", *William Calathes, New Jersey City University
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Big Green Crimes -- The End of Water?
Whether or not we are willing to admit it, the world is hurling to its demise much more rapidly than we would like to admit. This is due, in large part, to our modern state of ignorance about the state of the environment and the fact that, as Bill McKibben wrote in The End of Nature, that we have spoiled nature. And while we were spoiling nature with what appeared to each of us tiny little acts, we never saw the big picture, never connected all the “little” incidents of pollution together, never imaged the mass of what we were doing. As McKibben noted, “We never thought we had wrecked nature.
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As goes California . . .

When we incarcerate people for petty offenses and trifling conduct which we disapprove, we not only deprive them of liberty and virtually ensure that they will never be permitted to rejoin our society as respected, responsible citizens. We rob ourselves of the talents and contributions that might otherwise help to meet the challenges of our time, and those that lie ahead. We deplete public coffers of much-needed revenue in a wasteful, destructive spiral of reckless ruination.
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Is it constitutional to execute an innocent person?
Is it constitutional to execute an innocent person? That's nothing the legal system needs to worry about, says Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Sounds outrageous, but as Scalia pointed out in an opinion last week, the court "has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas (reviewing) court that he is 'actually' innocent.
The court has managed to avoid the issue for decades. In 1993, a majority said a Texas man who couldn't point to any legal flaws in his trial wasn't entitled to a hearing based on his claim of new evidence of innocence. But in that same ruling, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said he assumed that it would be unconstitutional to execute someone who came up with a "truly persuasive demonstration" of innocence.
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Mike Presdee
Mike Presdee, who has died of cancer aged 64, was a sociologist of international acclaim and great personal magnetism. His work focused on the sociology of youth and cultural criminology. He was fascinated by the way in which young people can be criminalised and controlled, and of youth being seen as a problem, rather than young people being the locus of the problems of the system. In later life, he attempted to understand and explain New Labour's neurotic obsession with antisocial behaviour.
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Ross and Richards on NPR
Steve Richards and Jeff Ross were interviewed on NPR on their new book:
Great job!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106550398
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Introduction to Criminology
CC folks,
There are several good introduction to criminology books out there from a critical perspective. I'd like to think the book Hugh Barlow and I just published makes that list. More information here: http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742561860&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]
Thanks,
Dave
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Policing books
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Capital Murder
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Taboo subjects in the primaries
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Denying that Racism Exists
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Peeing For Profit
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Back to the "Old Ways": Getting Students and the DCC involved in Activism
Those involved in founding the marxist/radical/critical criminology of the late 1960s and early 1970s, were also often members of groups that engaged in various acts of protest designed to stimulate social change. These criminologists spent much of their time being activists. Their activism was shared with and by the college students they taught, and they spent at least part of their time engaged in activities that brought their social change theories to life.
Today, college students are not very active politically, and are very unlikely to be engaged in acts of resistance. In order to stimulate activism, I often design my courses to include an option to engage in a community activist project in lieu of a term paper. The assignments vary depending on the course. In environmental law and crime, the students are encouraged to map out hazardous waste sites and dangers within a local, economically deprived community, and set up a meeting to share that information with community members. Students have also become involved in the community by attending City Council meetings and becoming members of committees on community problems related to crime, justice or the environment. Students in one of my graduate classes, for example, became experts on water distribution rules and rights, and helped guide decisions made by Hillsborough County about expanded water rights requested filed by water bottling companies that sought to increase the amount of water they were allowed to bottle. The student committee, using information it gathered on the past behavior of the companies who had applied for expanded water rights in other communities, helped conviced the Hillsborough County executives not to expand water pumping rights. To spread the idea of activism, I have also served as the student advisor to a group that protested animal experimentation on campus.
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Summarizing the New US Census Bureau Report on Income and Poverty: The Rich Continue to Get Richer
The US Census Bureau released new figures on the economic health and well being of Americans on August 29th in its annual report. Below I summarize some of the important aspects of this report. To view this report: www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf
1. Real median household income rose 1.1% in 2005 to $46,326. Real median income is an inflation adjusted measure which indicates the income amount that divides US families at their midpoint, with one half of families earning less than $46,326, and one half of families earning greater than that amount.
2. Although real median household income rose last year, the rise was not sufficient to overcome the impact of the recession that ushered in the 21st century in the US. Real median family incomes in the US in 2005 remained 0.5% lower than real median family incomes in 2001.
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