Letter from the Editor

Greetings All! The fall semester is well underway and if you are anything like me, you have officially entered the "Oh No, ASC Is Less Than A Month Away" mode! It is a sad state, as it generally entails a lot of last minute preparations and more that a few late nights. But, I also find myself looking forward to Chicago and the opportunity to see and reconnect with DWC friends and colleagues. DWC members are an amazing group! The scholarship and support within the division is evident each time we begin to pull together materials for the DivisioNews. People reach out from all over to become involved by adding to member news, taking the time to write a book review, answering questions for our columns, and volunteering to help others in the division. Many thanks to you all!

We have a few new items this issue that I would like to bring to your attention. Please help Susan Caringella-MacDonald and Donna Hale by filling out a brief survey about networking. They are preparing materials for a workshop on networking to be presented at the ASC conference and would like to get DWC member input about their experiences and thoughts. To participate, simply click on the following link: Networking Survey.

Another new edition to the DivisioNews is the Looking at Retirement column. We wondered how people facing retirement in the next few years plan to use their knowledge and skills in retirement. Many thanks to the editor for this new column, Susan Sharp, for developing this valuable contribution to the newsletter. We would like to thank the first contributors to the column as well!

To ease in your scheduling of events at the ASC annual meetings, we have provided a link (DWC ASC Times/Places) with a list of the DWC related activities. Note, the pre-meeting DWC Feminist Criminology in Theory and Action Workshop being held on Tuesday November 12th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in LaSalle2. We hope you will be able to gather here to informally discuss ways to connect our academic work to social change in the classroom and the community.

Our mainstay columns, Ask a Tenured Professor and the Graduate Student Corner, continue to offer valuable insight and support. Many thanks to the contributors to those columns. Thank you to Dr. Gina Robertiello for her review of M.R. Haberfeld's, Critical Issues in Police Training.

Take a little time to get to know some of the faces among the members of the Division through the Member Profiles column. This month, we profile Mary Bosworth, Libby Deschenes, and Hoan Bui. If you would like to contribute to an upcoming edition of this column or know of someone you would like to see profiled, please contact Angie Moe at angie.moe@wmich.edu.

This issue's Member News is filled with lots of updates. Thanks to the many who contributed to this section! Of special note are upcoming conferences such as The Society for the Study of Social Problems 53rd Annual Meeting in August 15-17, 2003; as well as the Western Society of Criminology 30th Annual Meeting in February 20-23, 2003. For more information about these events and other updates, click on the Member News link above.

My sincere thanks to all column contributors for this issue of the DivisioNews. Continued thanks and appreciation go to my associate editors Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Amy D'Unger, Angie Moe, Susan Sharp, and Alisa Smith! Please feel free to contact us with any questions, thoughts, or suggestions at: http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/dwc/comments.html.

I hope that you are enjoying the beautiful days of fall and I hope to see you in Chicago soon!

Kristin Winokur
kwinokur@garnet.acns.fsu.edu