News and Announcements

Dear Fellow DWC Members,

Happy Spring! As usual, DWC members have made some important contributions to the field through their research and will do so even more with the addition of a DWC-SPONSORED JOURNAL (Feminist Criminology) soon to debut! Please keep sending me all the news that you'd like to share with your fellow friends and colleagues in the DWC and have a wonderful and productive 2005.

Warm Regards,
Amy D'Unger

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First, I begin with two sad notes. It is with great sorrow that I inform you of the passing of BECKY TATUM on January 27th and LINDA SALTZMAN on March 7th, both of apparent heart attacks. We will greatly miss their presence and contributions to the discipline.

Our fearless leader SUSAN SHARP is busy, busy! The ING Group and the OU Athletic Department have selected 7 faculty members as "faculty member of the game." These 7 are under consideration for ING/Athletic Department Faculty Member of the Year at OU. The selections were made by the Director of Athletics based on teaching, research and service to the OU community. Susan is one of the honorees! In addition, she has been selected for the University of Oklahoma Good Teaching Award. Only one or two faculty members receive this award each year. The Good Teaching Awards Program was introduced by the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation in 1966 and the purpose of the program is to recognize excellence in teaching performance at the undergraduate level (OU has participated in the program since 1968). As if all this teaching isn't enough, Susan also has a book being published this summer. Hidden Victims:The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused is being published by Rutgers University Press as a part of their Critical Criminology Series edited by Ray Michaolowski. Congratulations in her continuing excellence in serving both the DWC and our discipline!

In the category of "More News About People Named Susan," Susan Krumholz emailed to tell me that this month Susan Sharp is visiting the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where she is giving two presentations to faculty and students. The presentations are being co-sponsored by Crime and Justice Studies and Women's Studies. This is just the start of an exciting exchange program (of sorts) that Susan K. is starting UMass- Dartmouth. It's certainly a great start!

ALESHA DURFEE has some very exciting news. In December of 2004 she received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington and has been hired as an assistant professor in Women's Studies at Arizona State University, beginning August 2005. Way to go Alesha! It's always exciting to hear about new scholars being added to the ranks feminist criminologists.

KIM DAVIES of Augusta State University was interviewed for play on three Augusta, GA radio stations about her paper "Battered Women Seeking Help: Police Contact and Experiences" (by Kim Davies-Augusta State University, Department of Sociology, Carolyn Rebecca Block-Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, and Jacquelyn Campbell-The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing).

Congratulations to ANGIE MOE on her 2004 publication "Blurring the Boundaries: Women's Criminality in the Context of Abuse," which came out in Women's Studies Quarterly. Make sure to pick up the issue (32), as it focuses on women, crime and the criminal justice system and features several DWCers!

KATE HELLENGA'S life has certainly been busy! She has been granted an adjunct professorship in the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed the OJJDP/Community Justice Initiative Training for Restorative Justice Trainers in November of 2004. In addition to two conference presentations in March, she has also joined the Board of Directors of the Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project and the Champaign-Urbana Area Project (promoting community and neighborhood projects to reduce crime and delinquency). But Kate has been MOST busy on the home front, as she and her partner Charley gained an "instant teenager" last fall when her niece Sequoia, who had been visiting for the summer, decided to stay and attend school in Champaign. She's a high school junior and plans to stay until she graduates in June 2006. Best of luck with that!

Under the heading of "News That Will Make You Jealous," there was a DWC rendezvous convened in Madrid, Spain! NANCY WONDERS and MONA DANNER, currently on leave in Valencia, Spain, had a rendezvous with Rosemary Barberet in Madrid for a Policing and Cultural Diversity Conference on March 31st and April 1st. The conference was co-sponsored by the Universidad Carlos III and the CSI-CSIF Police Union and attracted over 250 attendees (mostly police officers, but 50 students also attended the conference for course credit). Wonders addressed the topic of immigration and crime, and Danner that of racism and xenophobia. Sangrias and feminist criminology-what a combo!

DWC member WALTER DEKESEREDY emailed to say that the new issue of the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Journal (Volume 3, Number 1, 2004) features an article co-authored by WALTER DEKESEREDY, SHAHID ALVI, CLAIRE RENZETTI and MARTIN SCHWARTZ. The title of their piece is "Reducing Private Violence Against Women in Public Housing: Can Second Generation CPTED Make a Difference?" The main objective of the article is to show how Second Generation CPTED can be modified to help reduce much pain and suffering in intimate relationships also plagued by poverty, unemployment, and a host of other social ills. Congratulations on another fine contribution to the discipline!

Make sure to pick up a copy of DOROTHY SCHULZ'S new book, Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004). It is based on interviews with and quantitative data supplied by women chiefs and sheriffs and also includes chapters on the earliest women sheriffs and chiefs. If you're interested to learn more about it, don't hesitate to contact her at dschulz@jjay.cuny.edu.

ROSLYN MURASKIN was pleased to be a part of the Certification Committee of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The plan has been approved and reviews will begin in January 2006. For information on the Standards, visit their website at www.acjs.org. Roz is also still looking for people who would like to either edit a volume or contribute some chapters for the Women's Series for Prentice Hall. Just contact her at Roslyn.Muraskin@liu.edu. Thanks for the update Roz!

Don't forget to check out the information now coming out of the recently-formed "Girls Study Group". Information presented on the work-in-progress at the ASC meetings is now available online at http://girlsstudygroup.rti.org/.

Congratulations to KRISTIN PARSONS WINOKUR, of the Justice Research Center, for her recognition as a Semifinalist in the Harvard University Innovations in American Government Awards for her work with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in the development of the Program Accountability Measures (PAM) model which evaluates juvenile justice programs statewide relative to measures of expected recidivism and cost effectiveness. The PAM Model has been successfully replicated by the Justice Research Center in the state of Louisiana as well. In addition, it is an integral component of a new project Kristin is working on in the state of Florida, the What Works Initiative, which is charged with integrating evidence-based principles and practices into juvenile justice interventions throughout Florida's juvenile justice system.

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It's never too early to think about the 2005 meetings of the American Society of Criminology and, of course, the Division on Women and Crime! If you have ideas or contributions that you'd like to make to the division, don't hesitate to contact someone on the appropriate committee. Here is a list of the 2005 committees:

Committee Assignments for 2005 - Division on Women & Crime/ASC

Special Events:
Amy D'Unger, Chair: adunger@emory.edu
Nancy Rodriguez: nancy.rodriguez@asu.edu

Student Paper Awards Committee:
Venessa Garcia, Chair: vgarcia@kean.edu
Stacy Mallicoat: smallicoat@fullerton.edu
Danielle McGurrin: dmcgurrin@stonehill.edu
Barbara Koons-Witt: bakoons@gwm.sc.edu

External Awards Committee:
Roslyn Muraskin, Chair: Roslyn.Muraskin@liu.edu
Dana Hubbard: d.j.hubbard@csuohio.edu
Sharon Redhawk Love: srl11@psu.edu/ gooddoc991@aol.com

Internal Awards Committee
Kim Cook, Chair: kjcook@usm.maine.edu
Yaschica Williams: y.williams@wmich.edu
Michelle Hughes Miller: mhmiller@siu.edu
Angie Moe: angie.moe@wmich.edu

Newsletter Committee
Kristin Winokur, Chair: kwinokur@thejrc.com
Amy D'Unger, Co-Chair: adunger@emory.edu
Kristen Hefley (Graduate Student Corner): khefley@ou.edu
Mel Nagai (Graduate Student Corner): nagainm@colorado.edu
Peggy Bradford: pbradfor@aurora.edu
Venessa Garcia: vgarcia@kean.edu

Outreach Committee
Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Chair: burges26@msu.edu
Sharon Redhawk Love: srl11@psu.edu gooddoc991@aol.com
Melissa Smith: mks04h@fsu.edu
Robin Robinson: rrobinson@umassd.edu
Jo-Ann Della Giustina: jdgiustina@hotmail.com
Kristi Holsinger: holsingerk@umkc.edu
Angela Simon: angela.simon@wmich.edu
Emily Lenning: lizbethemily@aol.com
Ruth Mann: ruthm@uwindsor.ca

Student Affairs Committee
Kristen Hefley, Chair: khefley@ou.edu
Angela Simon: angela.simon@wmich.edu
Mel Nagai: nagaim@colorado.edu
Jo-Ann Della Giustina: jdgiustina@hotmail.com
Lisa Fahres: lfahres@earthlink.net
Jennifer Bernier: bern0927@wlu.ca
Cassandra Reyes: gwjl@iup.edu
Melissa Smith: mks04h@fsu.edu

Note: Contact Danielle McGurrin (dmcgurrin@stonehill.edu) for information on what this committee has done in the past.

Committee on Women in Non-Academic Jobs:
Becky Block, Chair: BBLOCK@ICJIA.STATE.IL.US
Deidra Upchurch: dupchurch@ocjrc.net
Stephanie Bush-Baskette: Sbushbask@aol.com
Betsy Stanko: betsy.stanko@met.police.uk
Dorie Klein: doriek@phi.org
Holly Johnson: holly.johnson@aic.gov.au
Sharon Ross: sross@cornellcompanies.com
Vicki Waytowich: vwaytowich@danielkids.org
Kristin Parsons Winokur: kwinokur@thejrc.com

External Nominations for ASC Officers
Pam Schram, Chair: pschram@csusb.edu
Susan Caringella McDonald: susan.caringella@wmich.edu
Jeanne Flavin: JFLAVIN@FORDHAM.edu

Committee on ASC Committee Appointments
Susan Krumholz: skrumholz@umassd.edu
Debra Stanley: dstanley@ubalt.edu
Susan Caringella MacDonald: susan.caringella@wmich.edu
Jeanne Flavin: JFLAVIN@fordham.edu
Ruth Mann: ruthm@uwindsor.ca