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Congratulations to all students and faculty who participated in this year’s American Society of Criminology 58th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA:

 

Acevedo, Summer

The Effectiveness of Formal & Informal Interventions: What influences stalking duration?

Session: Understanding Stalking: Interventions and Its Relationship with Sexual Harassment and Intimate Partner Abuse

 

Bauer, Erin

Is the Influence of Unsupervised Time on Delinquency Conditioned by the Nature of One’s Peers?

Session: Juvenile Delinquency and the Use of Prevention/Diversion Programming

 

Beckley, Amber L

Missing Data in Racial Profiling: A Reanalysis of Past Studies

Session: Racial Profiling: Empirical Research and Theoretical Problems

 

Beckman, Karen A and Jennifer Gibbs

Poster Session: Trends in Police Research, 2000-2004

 

Bersani, Bianca E

Poster Session: Group Differences in Life-course Transitions and Desistence

 

Betsinger, Sara

Sentencing the "Model Minority:" Examining Asian American Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal District Courts

Session: Race and Sentencing

 

Bierie, David

Costs, benefits, and the randomized experiment: Comparing boot camp to prison

Session: Alternatives to Traditional Incarceration

 

Bouchard, Martin

Growers and facilitators: Monitoring trends in innovations in the marijuana cultivation industry

Session: Measuring Drug Markets

 

 Bucklen, Kristofer

Presented - A Latent Class Analysis of Community Reintegration Domains Differentiating Successes from Failures on Parole

 

Cross, Amanda

Poster Session - The Effects of Enhanced After School Programs on Educational Outcomes – Overview and Pilot Study Results

 

DiPietro, Stephanie M

Race, Ethnicity and the Diversion to Intermediate Sanctions under Pennsylvania's Sentencing Guidelines

Session: Race/Ethnicity and Criminal Justice Decision Making: The Courts

 

Dugan, Laura J.

Session Participant:  The National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR): An Important Effort for Criminology

National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

Session: Criminologists Thinking About Terrorism

Determinants of Global Terrorism Incidents

Session: Trends and Determinants of Global Terrorism Incidents

 

Dugas, Denise

Does the Effectiveness of Teen Court Depend Upon Gender?

Session: Juvenile Delinquency and the Use of Prevention/Diversion Programming

Poster Session - The Effects of Enhanced After School Programs on Educational Outcomes – Overview and Pilot Study Results

 

Fahey, Susan

Presented - Reconsidering SES and Family Process as Parallel Growth Processes

Poster Session - The Situational Dimensions of Aerial Hijackings

 

Foster, David R.

Three years of violence in Iraq: Using a rational choice framework to explore terrorist activity in Iraq, 2003-present

Session: Routine Activity and Rational Choice Approaches to Terrorism

The General Theory of Crime as a Predictor of Computer Crime in a College-aged Sample

Session: Computer Crime

 

Franke, Derrick

Satisfaction with Police: Examining the Interaction between Race and Neighborhood Disadvantage

Session: Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Issues in Policing

 

Frederique, Nadine

Testing a Model of Corporate Offending Using Social Bond Theory

Session: Social Bond and Self-Control Theory

 

Goodison, Sean E

Victims of Criminal Homicide: A Test of Sociological and Forensic Approaches

Session: Homicide Issues

 

Gottfredson, Denise C.

Session Chair: To Divide is to Multiply: The Power of ASC's Divisions (Co-sponsored by all of ASC's Divisions)

Session Participant: Meet the Editors: A Remix

Poster Session - The Effects of Enhanced After School Programs on Educational Outcomes – Overview and Pilot Study Results

Multi-Level Models of School Climate Effects on Delinquent Problem Behavior: An Analysis of Mediators

Session: Multi-level Modeling of School Effects on Student Delinquency and Perceptions of Safety

 

Gottfredson, Gary D.

Individual and School Influences on Gang Participation

Session: Multi-level Modeling of School Effects on Student Delinquency and Perceptions of Safety

 

Hendrickson, James C

Correlates of Terrorist Attacks in Latin America, Comparative Results from El Salvador and Colombia

 

Hinkle, Joshua

 The Irony of Broken Windows: The Relationship Between Disorder, Focused Police Crackdowns and Fear of Crime

Session: Broken Windows Policing

 

Johnson, Brian D.

The Social Context of Guideline Circumvention: Racial Disparities in Federal District Courts

Session: The Changing Nature of Racial Disparity in the Federal System (Sponsored by the Division on People of Color and Crime)

 

LaFree, Gary

Session Chair: Can Criminology Strengthen Democratic Institutions?

Session Chair:  Is Popular Democracy a Threat to Justice?

ASC 2006 Presidential Address: Expanding Criminology's Domain

Session: Presidential Plenary: Presidential Justice Award and Presidential Address

 

Laub, John H.

Session Participant:  Frictions, Faultlines and Fusions: Criminology and its Constitutive Disciplines: A Sociology Perspective

Session Participant: New Directions In Research at the National Institute of Justice

Session Participant:  (Re)discovering Clio's Craft: History and Historical Research on Crime and Criminal Justice

 

Kim, Eunyoung

An Examination of Gender Differences in the Relationship Between of Strain and Crime

Session: Generalizing General Strain Theory

 

Lin, Chien-min

Crime at places across time: A routine activity approach

Session: Routine Activity: Spatio-Temporal Patterns

 

Liu, Weiwei

Presented - Exploring Victimization Inequality—A Latent Class Analysis

 

MacKenzie, Doris Layton

Session Participant: The ASC as a NGO to the UN: A Frank Discussion About Possibilities and Pitfalls

Session Discussant: The International Prisons Initiative (IPI) Project

 

McGloin, Jean M.

            Juvenile co-offending networks: Considering specialization and variation

            Session: New Research on Criminal Careers & Life-Course Criminology

 

Miller, Erin E

Race, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Retaliatory Homicide

Session: Macro-Level Research on Race/Ethnicity and Crime: The Persistence of Inequality and Segregation

 

Mitchell, Fawn Ngo

            Chair: The International Prisons Initiative (IPI) Project

 

Morris, Nancy

Social Competence and Criminal Offending Over TIme

Session: Crime and the Life Course I

 

O'Neill, Lauren

Remembering today what we learned yesterday: Self-control and deviant peer network structure

Session: Small Worlds, Social Control, and Delinquent Peers: Applying Social Network Analysis to the Study of Crime and Delinquency

 

Paternoster, Raymond

Capital Punishment, Race, and Geography: The Death Penalty in Maryland from 1978-1999

Session: Death Penalty Research: What Do We Know and How Should It Affect Public Policy?

 

Petras, Hanno

Longitudinal relationship between Conduct Disorder and later Offending – A Gender Comparison

Session: Group Differences in Life-Course Criminology

Session Chair: Applications of Person-Centered Latent Variable Methods to Criminological Research

 

Philofsky, Rachel B.

A Look at the Role of Proportionality Review and Capital Punishment in Maryland 1978-1999

Session: Fairness and Capital Punishment

 

Povitsky, Wendy

Helpful or Harmful? The Effect of Teen Court on Recidivism

Session: Juvenile Delinquency and the Use of Prevention/Diversion Programming

 

Reuter, Peter H.

Session Chair: Frictions, Faultlines and Fusions: Criminology and its Constitutive Disciplines: An Economic Perspective

Session Chair: Historians and Organized Crime: Deconstructing Myths, Constructing Realities

 

Richmond, Kerry M.

Presented - The Long-Term Impact of Childhood and Adolescent Victimization

 

Rocque, Michael

Poster Session - A Randomized Comparison Of The Impact Of A Traditional Prison and Therapeutic Boot Camp On Social Bonds

 

Simpson, Sally S.

Session Chair: Challenges to Corporate Crime Regulation

Why do Managers Comply? Comparing predictors of corporate anti- and pro-social behavior.

Session: Predicting Corporate Crime and Compliance

 

Slocum, Lee Ann

Poster Session - Community Context and Offending

 

Smith, Jaclyn D

Session Chair: Intimate Partner Violence and its Consequences

Session Chair: Understanding Stalking: Interventions and Its Relationship with Sexual Harassment and Intimate Partner Abuse

(w/ Chris Maxwell) Exploring the Effect of Sociodemographic Characteristics on Perceptions of Procedural Justice among Domestic Violence Offenders AND The Influence of Procedural Justice on Long Term Compliance with the Law

Infanticide

Session: Infanticide & Female Feticide- A Cross Cultural Perspective (Round table)

 

Van Brakle, Mischelle

 What Happens When "Terrorists" Win? The Case of South Africa

Session: Successful Strategies of Terrorists and of Government Responses

 

Varriale, Jennifer

Poster Session - Female Gang Members and Desistance: Motherhood as a Possible Exit Strategy? A Quantitative Analysis of Fleisher and Krienert (2004)

 

Weisburd, David

Session Chair: Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group Mini-Series Panel Two

Does Crime Just Move Around the Corner?: A Controlled Study of Spatial Displacement and Diffusion of Crime Control Benefits in Two Crime Hot Spots

Session: Does Crime Move Around the Corner? : Displacement, Diffusion, and Anticipatory Benefits

Session Participant: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., 1922-2006: Reflections and Remembrance

Critic: Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police Abroad

            Author meets critic

Session Chair: Broken Windows Policing

 

Wellford, Charles F.

Session Participant: Death Penalty Research: What Do We Know and How Should It Affect Public Policy?

Estimating the Impact of Race in Sentencing: Issues in Highly Dimensional Models of Decision Making

Session: Racial Disparities Under Sentencing Guidelines: Present and Future Issues

 

Wiersema, Brian

            Session Chair: Multilevel and Panel Analysis

 

Yang, Sue-Ming

The relationship between disorder and violent crime: causal or spurious? A longitudinal study of violent crime and disorder

Session: Crime and Theories of Place

 

Recent Scholarly Publications and Presentations by Faculty:

 

 

Denise Gottfredson and Erin Bauer's chapter, "Youth violence" was published this month in: Doll, L., Bonzo, S., Mercy, J., and Sleet, D.  Handbook on Injury and Violence Prevention Interventions. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Doris MacKenzie, Lauren O'Neill, Wendy Povitsky and Summer Acevedo(eds)  2006, Title Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior. Lexis/Nexis/ Anderson Press - with chapters by MacKenzie, and current /former students: Jaclyn Smith, Jennifer Gibbs, Summer Acevedo, Danielle Harris, Ashlee Parker, Wendy Povitsky, Elizabeth Smith, Lauren O'Neill, Raven Korte, Susan Fahey, Sara Betsinger,  and Natalie Schell.

 

John H. Laub. “Bad Boys, Bad Men? The Life Course of Crime,” presentation at The Hoffinger Colloquium, Center for Research in Crime and Justice, New York University School of Law, October 23, 2006.