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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

Message from Dawn Rothe:

I wanted to let all of our Division members know that we have at this point renewed our contract with Springer. Springer has have offered to donate 200.00 towards book purchases for the winner of the Critical Criminologist award as well as 100.00 worth of books for the winner of the graduate student paper awards. Additionally, given the overwhelming DCC member vote to support a request for the inclusion of Springer's recognition of the Division's choice of editor and terms of service, Springer has included terms of editorial ship for one term of 3 years with a possible extension of one additional term (not to exceed 6 years). While this is a compromise from the 3/2 we voted on, it is a major accomplishment and a minor compromise given the overall situation. Additionally, as has been pointed out, a 3/3 is a common practice with other Divisions as well as ASC main journals.

The Division of Critical Criminology is currently taking applications for the following position:

Editor(s) of the Critical Criminologist Newsletter

Job Duties:

Dawn Rothe has provided the following information of interest to ASC Division and ACJS Section members.