Added 4.7.2023
Added 11.7.2022
Added 8.3.2022
ASC-DIC is hosting a virtual teach-in with Dr. Victor Asal on September 14, 2022 (Wednesday) at 12PM CT/ 1PM ET/ 10AM PT. Register early! Please see the following PDF for more information including how to register: Virtual Teach-In Final.
Added 4.15.2022
DIC’s Immediate Past Chair, Dr. Sonja Kutnjak Ivkovich has published a new book!
For more information about the book, please visit: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96844-1
Added 11.10.2020
Arizona State University has launched a new Law and Science Dissertation Grant (LSDG) program, funded through the National Science Foundation (SBE #2016661). This competitive program replaces NSF’s successful and longstanding Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) program in Law and Science. The award to ASU will provide funding of up to $20,000 apiece to doctoral students in diverse law-and-science disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminal justice, economics, forensic science, political science, psychology, sociology) to conduct their dissertation research. The next submission deadline is April 30, 2021. For more information about the LSDG program, please visit (and share) our website: https://newcollege.asu.edu/law-and-science-diss-grant
Added 11.09.2020
Peru State College Online – Website Link Request Peru State College Online is proud to offer a 100% online, affordable Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice degree. There are 3 different concentrations available: Justice Administration, Justice Counseling, or Legal Studies. Peru State College Online allows students to transfer up to 90 hours and combined with an affordable $299 all inclusive per hour rate (regardless of instate or out of state), Peru is a great choice for students wanting to complete their degree or transfer to a 4 year school. You can read more about our CJ program here: https://online.peru.edu/undergraduate-programs/criminal-justice-administration/ In addition to offering a top notch program that has been accredited since 1915, we also have started publishing blog articles specifically focused on preparing and successfully graduating from an online degree program. Here’s one of our recent posts: https://online.peru.edu/online-degrees-tips-to-prepare-for-your-new-way-of-learning/ If you have questions or would like more information about the program, please contact Rebecca Streeter at rstreeter@online.peru.edu
Added 8.4.2020
ACJS Doctoral Summit 2021 Call for Participants The Doctoral Summit Planning Committee is in the initial planning stages of the 2021 ACJS Doctoral Summit. We are writing to ask for your help with disseminating information to assist us with candidate recruitment. We would greatly appreciate you forwarding the Call for Participation and online application to your PhD students. They can also find additional information on the ACJS website: https://www.acjs.org/page/DoctoralSummit2021. If you have any questions, please email deeanna.button@stockton.edu.
Added 8.4.2020
Criminologists of South Asian Origin
At this link is a google form to assess whether there is sufficient interest in creating a group of South Asian Criminologists that can meet regularly at conferences (mainly American Society of Criminology & Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, although others can be added to the list).
It is primarily intended to be a group of academics (and academically-oriented practitioners such as police, lawyers, policymakers, social workers, etc) of South Asian origin who are interested in engaging in dialog about criminology and criminal justice-related topics. We are collecting your contact information and other details to see how many of us are out there and the level of interest in creating such a group for meeting at conferences and collaborating on projects.
(Added 7.27.2020)
Announcement: Congratulations to William Pridemore!
DIC member and 2015 DIC Adler Distinguished Scholar Award winner, William Pridemore, was re-cently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
(Added 7.27.2020)
Announcement: Wall of Congratulations!
Wall of Congratulations!
If you’ve received an award from another entity and are a DIC member, we’d love to hear about it and celebrate your accomplishment in our next newsletter!
Take a look at some of the awards received by our DIC Social Media Committee Members:
Dragana Derlic
2020 Honorable Mentions, Distinguished Instructions by a Teaching Assistant, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas
Jared Dmello
2020 Ken Peak Innovations in Teaching Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
2020 Outstanding Service, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Popy Begum
2020 Honorable Mentions $500, Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship , Division on Women and Crime
(Added 6.24.2020)
Announcement: Call for Papers
Upcoming Special Issue of Victims & Offenders (Fall, 2020)
Prison and Jail Reform during the Global Pandemic—Short-term Solution or Long-term change?
During the current Global Covid-19 crisis, prisons and jails in each global region have been found to be hot spots for the outbreak of the corona virus, and several countries have reported high rates of infection, serious illness and death for both prisoners and corrections staff. Judges, legislative policy makers and corrections administrators in each global region have been faced with a Sisyphean task: protect the public from “dangerous” inmates, while protecting inmates and staff (and the public) from Covid-19. At the core of the debate on how to respond to the pandemic is the definition of what exactly constitutes a danger to society.
To manage this crisis, many countries are utilizing both front-end and back-end alternatives to incarceration in prisons and jails to move individuals from institutions to the community, resulting in reductions in the global prison and jail population. While advocates for sentencing reform argue that such reductions are long overdue, others worry about the potential harm to the public if these reforms last more than a few months.
In this special issue, we will examine the impact of the pandemic on both prison and jail downsizing and the expansion of community-based sentencing and early release mechanisms. Papers documenting the institutional and community correction system’s response to the pandemic– within and/or across global regions– are now being solicited. We hope to include articles highlighting the strategies being employed in countries representing each global region; we are also interested in assessing both the short and the long-term impact of these changes. If you are interested in contributing to the special issue, please contact James Byrne, Editor-in-Chief, Victims & Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uvao20/current, at profbyrne7@gmail.com . Manuscripts for the special issue will need to be completed by August 1, 2020 to be included.
(Added 6.24.2020)
Dear ACJS International Section Members,
The United National Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has an online training session in July called “Stakeholder Engagement for the Implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.”
Training objectives
The overall objective of this training is to develop the participants’ capacity to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and is Review Mechanism in accordance with Resolution 9/1 of the Conference of the Parties (COP), and to prepare them for constructive dialogue between government focal points, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that serves as the guardian of the Convention, and various stakeholders. UNODC is committed to support Member States in the Review Mechanism and to prepare non-governmental actors for constructive and meaningful contribution during the review process.
TRAINING DATES: 21-24 JULY 2020
DEADLINE TO APPLY: 14 JULY 2020
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ngos/se4u-training.html?testme
(Added 12.4.19)
Criminology in an Age of Global Injustice(s)
8-10 July 2020 (with a postgraduate event commencing on 7 July 2020)
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool.
Further details available at: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/events/bsc-2020/
(Added 6.24.2020)
Dear ACJS International Section Members,
The United National Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has an online training session in July called “Stakeholder Engagement for the Implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.”
Training objectives
The overall objective of this training is to develop the participants’ capacity to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and is Review Mechanism in accordance with Resolution 9/1 of the Conference of the Parties (COP), and to prepare them for constructive dialogue between government focal points, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that serves as the guardian of the Convention, and various stakeholders. UNODC is committed to support Member States in the Review Mechanism and to prepare non-governmental actors for constructive and meaningful contribution during the review process.
TRAINING DATES: 21-24 JULY 2020
DEADLINE TO APPLY: 14 JULY 2020
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ngos/se4u-training.html?testme
(Added 12.4.19)
Criminology in an Age of Global Injustice(s)
8-10 July 2020 (with a postgraduate event commencing on 7 July 2020)
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool.
Further details available at: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/events/bsc-2020/
(Free) New Online Course- Implementing Restorative Justice for Children
We at the International Juvenile Justice Observatory have developed an online course which is currently open to enrol and free of charge:
‘Implementing Restorative Justice for Children’
It is currently hosted in the moodle platform of our International School of Juvenile Justice, here is all the info:
http://www.eijj.org/implementing-restorative-justice-children
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