Critical Mentors

This mentoring network is intended to provide students, activists, and faculty interested in critical criminology with connections to critical criminologists in order to help support critical research, teaching, service, and activism endeavors. Our process is relatively simple. The following Division members have agreed to serve as mentors and can be contacted directly. Due to problems with e-mail harvesters (spammers) the links are not active. Please cut-and-paste the address of the individual you would like to contact, replacing " at " with @.

This is a great list of scholars and we hope you will take advantage of their generosity. Each volunteer has listed a few area of expertise. You are also encouraged to use Google, or the search tool on the critcrim.org site, to learn more about these scholars. Of course, you can also learn about these mentors through a review of scholarly literature.

Name Areas of Interest Email

Shahid Alvi

violence against women, poverty and crime, youth and crime, left realism
shahid.alvi at uoit.ca

Meda Chesney-Lind

girls, women meda at hawaii.edu
Keith Crew interpersonal violence, sentencing, corrections, media constructions bk.crew at uni.edu
Walter DeKeseredy woman abuse, poverty and crime, critical criminological theory Walter.DeKeseredy at uoit.ca
Jeff Ferrell cultural criminology, media, ethnography ferrelltdts at earthlink.net
Mark Israel research ethics, state crime, teaching and learning, Australian criminology mark.israel at flinders.edu.au
David Kauzlarich state crime, peace studies, theory dkauzla at siue.edu
Lloyd Klein hate crime, state and corporate crime lklein at bemidjistate.edu
Ronald C. Kramer state and corporate crime, peace studies, social problems ronald.kramer at wmich.edu
Paul S. Leighton rape, hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, capital punishment,prisons paul at stopviolence.com
Shadd Maruna prisoner reentry & reintegration, psychology of punitive attitudes shadd.maruna at crim.cam.ac.uk
Ken Mentor education, internet, media, teaching and learning, law and society mentor at critcrim.org
Raymond J. Michalowski state crime, globalization, political economy of crime raymond.michalowski at nau.edu
Christopher W. Mullins gender, corporate and state crime christopher.mullins at uni.edu
Stephen L. Muzzatti media, youth, white-collar crime muzzatti at ryerson.ca
Hal Pepinsky peacemaking criminology pepinsky at indiana.edu
Barbara Perry hate crime, race and justice, citizenship & crime barbara.perry at uoit.ca
Randall G. Sheldon delinquency, juvenile justice, gangs, prisons, the crime control industry profrgs at cox.net
Jim Thomas social justice, prison culture, incarceration effecs jthomas at sun.soci.niu.edu
L.A. Visano media and youth lavisano at yorku.ca
Matt Yeager convict criminology myeager at cyberus.ca

Critical Mentors

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice: I'm thinking about doing a paralegal certification course through an online program like here: (link removed) so I can keep working at the same time. Do you think these programs are a good idea?

Paralegal certification

Having employed a few paralegals in my time, I don't think it's worth the money.

You are hired for skills, not credentials. The main thing I want in a paralegal is an intelligent self-starter. If you are that, you can gain the skills with a combination of the library and hanging around a law office.

Judge Steve Russell
Indiana University