For those interested in the area of green criminology, the International Green Criminology Work Group has been formed. The groups meets at ASC and other major venues. At this point the group members' primary form of communication and the main thrust of the group is a listserve. If you are interested in joining, email Paul Stretesky
at: paul.stretesky@ucdenver.edu
with the subject heading: Joining Green Crim Work Group

New Incinerator Rule Implementation Postponed By EPA: Obama’s New Conservative Environmental Approach.

Michael J. Lynch
Department of Criminolgoy and
School of Global Sustainability
University of South Florida

The G.W. Bush Administration is widely regarded as having established the worst environmental record of any Administration since the founding of the EPA during Nixon’s presidency. The election of Obama brought great hopes for a redirection in environmental policies in the US. In some ways, the Obama Administration has delivered on those hopes revising, for example, the outdated and fairly stagnant fuel economy standards.

Division on Critical Criminology - 2011 Awards

Call for Nominations

The DCC Awards' Committee invites you to consider nominating your critical criminology colleagues for one of the following awards:

Attached is the Call for Editorship of the American Society of Criminology Division of Critical Criminology journal, Critical Criminology: An International Journal.

Dear friends and colleagues,
Please find attached the call for papers for the inaugural meeting of the joint Carleton University-University of Ottawa national conference Critical Perspectives: Criminology & Social Justice

Chers amis et collègues,
Veuillez trouver en pièces jointes l’appel à contributions pour la première conférence nationale Criminologie et justice sociale : perspectives critiques, organisée conjointement par l’Université Carleton et l’Université d’Ottawa.

First National Conference
Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice
University of Ottawa
April 30th - May 1st 2011
Call for Papers

I am writing a book entitled Teaching Justice: Solving Social Justice Problems through Teaching which will detail the experiences, approaches, challenges and successes of professors who teach about justice in general, social justice and activism in the college classroom.

I hope to discover how you are integrating criminal justice topics into a larger social justice perspective; specifically, I hope to learn your perspectives on student apathy and your methods of engaging students on justice issues via "service learning" approaches. In order to gain as broad a range of views and practices as possible, I am surveying the membership of national and international criminal justice and criminology organizations and/or divisions within those organizations.

Please use the following link to participate in a short survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KP722HN

I plan to share the findings of this project at the ASC meeting in Toronto.

Thank you,

Kristi Holsinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice& Criminology
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5215 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Email: holsingerk@umkc.edu

The Division of Critical Criminology is seeking an editor(s) for The Critical Criminologist Newsletter

The ASC’s Division of Critical Criminology is seeking an editor(s) for its newsletter, The Critical Criminologist. Job Duties: The newsletter is published and distributed to all members 3-4 times a year. The editor(s) are responsible for sending out notices to members for submissions (e.g., essays, photos, announcements, and other relevant division news), collecting, editing, and organising materials and integrating them into the newsletter. Applicants need to have access to Publisher and pdf writer programs (and good knowledge of the programs). It is a 3 year position, beginning Spring/Summer 2011. Historically there have been joint editors that have worked together and/or are at the same institution, however, given the current format of electronic pdf, one editor would be considered.

Deadline to apply is 15 March 2011.

Applications should be sent to:

Stephen Muzzatti , Chair
Editorial Search Committee
Ryerson University
muzzatti@ryerson.ca

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

For those interested in a new book on violence against women, please see the attached cover and please go to the following link:

http://www.utppublishing.com/Violence-Against-Women-Myths-Facts-Controve...

Best,

Walter

Attached is an announcement for a position of Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies in the Department of Sociology at California State University San Marcos. CSUSM is located 12 miles off the Pacific coast, 80 miles south of Los Angeles, and 30 miles north of San Diego. The interdisciplinary major of Criminology and Justice Studies is housed in the Department of Sociology which also offers concentrations in Aging and the Life Course; Children, Youth, and Families; Critical Race Studies; and Health, Education, and Welfare. In addition, the department offers a Masters in Sociological Practice.

FYI from Bonnie Berry:

Kristi Holsinger is requesting information for her forthcoming book on teaching social justice. Information is attached.

Additional information about the Solving Social Problems series is also attached.

Bonnie Berry, PhD
Director
Social Problems Research Group

Announcing……..the new VICTIMOLOGY SECTION of ACJS. Are you interested in the study of crime victims and crime victimization? Do you study crime victims and their interactions with and treatment by the criminal justice system? Is your field of study interpersonal violence, domestic violence, child maltreatment, sexual assault, or trauma? Are you concerned with the quality of crime victims’ services and programs? If so, please join the newly created Victimology Section of ACJS.

CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY BOOK SERIES SEEKS PROPOSALS

As editor of the series Critical Issues in Crime and Society (Rutgers University Press) I am seeking proposals from members of the Division of Critical Criminology for books that provide critical inquiry into topics of interest to critical criminologists.

I will be at the ASC meeting in San Francisco. If you would like to meet to discuss a book project at the meeting, contact me by email and we can set up a time to talk. If you have a project underway, but will not be at the ASC meeting, email me your prospectus, or a concept paper outlining your project if you are not yet at the prospectus stage.

In either case, email me at:

Raymond.Michalowski@nau.edu

CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY BOOK SERIES SEEKS PROPOSALS

As editor of the series Critical Issues in Crime and Society (Rutgers University Press) I am seeking proposals for books that provide critical inquiry into topics of interest to critical criminologists.

I will be at the ASC meeting in San Francisco. If you would like to meet to discuss a book project at the meeting, contact me by email and we can set up a time to talk. If you have a project underway, but will not be at the ASC meeting, email me your prospectus, or a concept paper outlining your project if you are not yet at the prospectus stage.

In either case, email me at:

Raymond.Michalowski@nau.edu

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Martin Schwartz and I have co-edited a new special issue of Crime, Law and Social Change titled "The Present and Future of Left Realism." Contributors include Lynn Chancer and Michael Jacobson, Elliott Currie, Walter DeKeseredy and Martin Schwartz, Molly Dragiewicz, Jennifer Gibbs, John Lea, and Roger Matthews. More information on this issue is available at http://springerlink.com/content/u845485q0281/

Best,

Walter DeKeseredy

The Fall 2010 edition of The Critical Criminologist is now available:

Vol. 19, Issue 4 Fall 2010

Call for Nominations for 2010 Awards

Division on Critical Criminology (DCC), American Society of Criminology

The DCC Awards Committee invites you to consider nominating individuals for one of the following awards:

• The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual's sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.
• The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honors a person for distinguished accomplishments which have symbolized the spirit of the Division in some form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in a recent year or years.
• The Undergraduate Student Paper Awards recognize and honor outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by undergraduate students.
• The Graduate Student Paper Awards recognize and honor outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by graduate students.

All Nomination Materials are to be submitted in electronic file format (where originals are only paper please scan material):

• To nominate for the Lifetime Achievement Award or the Critical Criminologist of the Year please send e-copies of the nominee's vita, nomination letter and supporting materials.
• To nominate for the Undergraduate or Graduate paper Awards please submit e-copies of the paper and a brief bio.

Please do not submit materials as email text but rather as attachments. An email response will acknowledge the receipt of your nomination. Look for this receipt to ensure your nomination was received!

All materials should be sent to Michael Coyle at mjcoyle@csuchico.edu no later than September 15, 2010.

Please forward this message to you colleagues, students, and appropriate lists across the globe. Thank you!

Historically, babies born in Kettleman City, CA have been healthy. But in the past three years, eleven babies have been born with birth defects, and three have had serious enough defects to lead to their deaths. Many of the residents live below poverty, and a number are migrant workers regularly exposed to pestides and pesticide pollution. Kettleman's water sources are also contaminated. There is also a nearby landfill, the largest landfill in the US west of Alabama. These two large landfills in Kettleman and Alabama are both operated by Waste Management Incorporated. Waste Management has proposed extending the size of the Kettleman landfill by 50%. Residents have attempted to block Waste Management's request, and this endeavor is an excellent example of environmental justice in action.

For further details see:
http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/kettleman-city-toxic-birth-de...

Bjorn Lomborg, a noted critic of global warming research and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has altered his position, recently noting that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront". In his newest book, to be released new month, Lomborg details the need to invest in policies that address global warming, which he argues could solve the problem by the end of this century. Lomborg argued that as much as half of the needed funds can be generated by taxes on carbon emissions.

For further details see http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-...

Please see the attached flyer, introducing Walter DeKeseredy's latest book:

The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time.

Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology introduces the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the world. In its exploration of this material, the book also challenges the erroneous but widely held notion that the critical criminological project is restricted to mechanically applying theories to substantive topics, or to simple calling for radical political, economic, cultural, and social transformations.

This book is an essential source of reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of Criminology, Criminal Theory, Social Policy, Research Methodology, and Penology.