News and Announcements

Hi Fellow DWCers,

Welcome to winter! Today it's 25 degrees here in Atlanta, which is about 25 degrees colder than it normally is this time of year! What happened to global warming? Hope everyone had a relaxing holiday season and is geared up for the new year. Thanks to all who sent me their news for the winter 2003 edition of the DivisioNews.

Cheers,
Amy D'Unger, Associate Editor for Member News, DWC DivisioNews

News from the DWC Chair, Joanne Belknap

First, I want to thank all of you for a wonderful conference in Chicago! The highlights of these meetings are seeing all my old friends, making new feminist criminologist friends, and learning about the exciting research, teaching, and activism everyone is up to. But this conference was particularly special to me in terms of all the new women who came to our business meetings (despite the ungoddessly hour!) and other events.

We kicked off the conference with our fantastic joint Social Hour with the DPCC, and thanks to Stephanie Bush-Baskette and Chris Eskeridge, had a Chicago Blues band at the event. What a great collection of folks to eat, drink, talk, and dance!

If you are reading this and have never come to one of our early morning business meetings, well, you don't know what you've missed! Every year, and this year in particular, thanks to Amy D'Unger, the food was fabulous! I'm not sure which was better: the food at the social or the breakfasts. It was really wonderful to have the fantastic food for the breakfasts while we plowed through our agendas. Another little known fact about the breakfast meetings is that they are often full of many good laughs. They are also a great way for new professors, undergraduate, and graduate students to network. (Of course, they are also great for us ol' timers to network, too!)

The graduate students and new faculty were so inspiring to the rest of us, with their drive and ideas. These meetings made me feel great about the future of feminist criminology. In addition to roundtable discussions on graduate students and new faculty, we had some other lively discussions on putting together a website for our Division to help us prepare for being expert witnesses for battered women, a GREAT idea! We discussed the continuing saga of the longer abstracts for the ASC paper submissions. We had a lively and productive joint meeting with the DPCC and the DCC where we strategized for meeting with the ASC Board. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Stephanie Bush-Baskette who was perfect in stating the case against these abstract submissions to the Board. Walter DeKeseredy was also great and supportive. Finally, I want to extend my congratulations to Marjorie Zatz, Jeanne Flavin, Kristin Carbone, Amanda Burgess-Proctor, and Emily Gaarder, winners of the 2002 DWC Awards (reported in more detail below). DWC: We rock!

ASC Issues: A Note from Joanne Belknap, Chair & Angie Moe, Executive Counselor

Hello All,

We're writing as a follow up of sorts to the discussions some of us recently had with regard to the ASC executive board's communications with the DWC, DPCC and DCC. As you may recall, the three divisions came together for a joint meeting in Chicago last November to discuss our common concerns regarding feelings of marginalization within the ASC at-large, specifically with regard to communication with last year's ASC executive board (beginning with last year's submission guidelines and conference structure and arising again with this year's submission guidelines). A general consensus formed with regard to approaching the ASC executive board as a unified front to express our concerns. The chairs of each division (Joanne Belknap, DWC; Stephanie Bush-Baskette, DPCC; Walter DeKeseredy, DCC) attended the ASC Executive Board Meeting to express their opinions to the current (new) ASC leadership. While there was a spirited discussion of the reasons for the various divisions' opposition, and the majority of the leadership's opinions, it appears that no further actions (like those discussed during the joint meeting) are necessary at this time. The 2003 Program Committee has representation from each of the divisions (by virtue of prominent division members serving on the committee) and there are strong indications that the 2004 Program Committee and conference structure will be even more representative of the three divisions (e.g., area topics on gender, race, and class). If you have further concerns or questions, or would like more specifics, please do not hesitate to contact one of us (Joanne.Belknap@colorado.edu or angie.moe@wmich.edu).

Sincerely,

Joanne Belknap, DWC Chair Angie Moe, DWC Executive Counselor

Honors and Awards

Congratulations to Eleanor M. Miller, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who has been elected President of the Midwest Sociological Society for 2004-2005.

Congratulations also go out to all those who won DWC awards in 2002! At the joint Social Hour with the DPCC and at our first breakfast meeting we celebrated our 2002 award winners. First, Marjorie Zatz received the Senior Scholar of the Division. We celebrate Marjorie's long and high quality work in the DWC. Of course, Marjorie is also an incredible scholar with a long list of publications on gender, race, class, and crime. She has published 3 books and is now a professor at the Arizona State School of Justice Studies and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at ASU. Marjorie has been a big advocate for individual women, particularly on career issues and sexual harassment, in the DWC. Thank you Marjorie!

Second, Jeanne Flavin, an Associate Professor at Fordham University, was the recipient of the New Scholar Award. Jeanne has published important contributions to feminist criminology in a number of venues including Gender & Society. She has also carried a yeowoman's workload in the DWC. Notably, Jeanne has a wickedly fine sense of humor (which we all appreciate).

Joanne Belknap wants to personally thank all of you who nominated someone and congratulate all of you who were nominated. We had about 10 nominations for each award, all very deserving individuals. So get geared up for next year! Many thanks to Claire Renzetti and the Internal Awards Committee of the DWC for overseeing these important awards.

Turning to the Student Paper Award, once again, there were many fine submissions. Indeed, they were so fine that the Committee decided to give one first place award and two "honorable mention" awards. We voted in Atlanta at the DWC Business Meetings to increase the Student Paper Award to a healthy $500. The very deserving winner of the 2002 DWC Student Paper award was Kristin C. Carbone, a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Kristin's paper was entitled "The 'Usual Suspects': How Race Affects Decisions to Report Victimization." The two Honorable Mention Awards went to Amanda Burgess-Proctor, a graduate student in Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, for her paper "Evaluating the Efficacy of Protection Orders for Victims of Domestic Violence," and to Emily Gaarder, a graduate student in Arizona State University's School of Justice Studies, for her paper entitled "A Feminist Vision of Justice?: The Problems & Possibilities of Restorative Justice." The Student Paper Award Committee requested and the DWC Board approved not only expanding to the two "honorable mention" awards, but to giving checks for $150 to each of these fine young scholars for their excellent papers. Many thanks to Angie Moe and her committee for soliciting and judging these candidates!

DWC Election Results

While the DWC Board was sad to say good-bye to Jeanne Flavin and Debra Stanley as they completed their terms as Executive Counselor and Vice-Chair, respectively, we are happy to welcome Susan Krumholz as the new Vice-Chair of the Division and Angie Moe and Jana Jasinski as new Executive Counselors. Thanks to all of you who ran in the elections and thanks to Helen Eigenberg and the Nominations Committee who ran the election. It shows how far our organization has come when we have so many fine folks running for these positions. For point of reference, the other DWC Board Members are: Joanne Belknap (Chair), Nancy Wonders (Past Chair), Kim Cook (Secretary-Treasurer), and Susan Sharp and Vernetta Young (both Executive Counselors).

Call for Papers

Contact Roslyn Muraskin at Roslyn.Muraskin@liu.edu if you are interested in submitting papers or chapters to either one of these upcoming publications:

• Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, a refereed journal published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• A volume or chapters for the WOMEN'S SERIES published by Prentice Hall
  

Recent Publications

Here are some recent publications of DWC members…

Charis Kubrin has published:

Kubrin, Charis and Ronald Weitzer. 2003. "Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture." Social Problems. 50.

Way to go Charis!

Congratulations also to Shoshana Pollack, who has published:

Pollack, S. Forthcoming. "Focus Group Methodology in Research with Incarcerated Women: Race, Power, and Collective Experience." Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.

Pollack, S. Forthcoming. "Anti-oppressive Practice with Women in Prison: Discursive Reconstructions and Alternative Practices." British Journal of Social Work.

Kendall, K. & Pollack. S. Forthcoming. "Time to Think Again About Cognitive Behaviouralism." In Bloom, B. (Ed). Gendered Justice:. Programming for Women and Girls in Correctional Settings. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.

Position Announcements

Position: Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Department of Criminology invites applications for three full-time, tenure track, Assistant Professor positions to begin Fall 2003. Our department, which has the largest undergraduate enrollment in IUP's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees.

Qualifications: Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Criminology, Criminal Justice, or a closely related social science discipline. ABDs may apply, but we will consider only individuals who can reasonably expect to have their degree in hand by Fall 2003. Area of specialization is open. However, the ability to teach and conduct research in the area of courts and legal issues will be considered a plus for one of the positions. We are seeking applicants with a strong commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to pursuing an active research agenda. In order to become a finalist, candidates must communicate effectively and perform well during the interview(s), which may include a teaching demonstration. Applicants are urged to submit copies of publications or writing samples that demonstrate research interests. Applicants must be work eligible.

How to Apply: Applicants for each position should forward a letter of application, a current vita, official transcripts, three letters of reference, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and copies of publications or writing samples, to Dr. David Myers, Chair ? Search Committee, IUP Department of Criminology, 441 North Walk, Indiana, PA 15705. Applications will be accepted until February 15, 2003. IUP is an equal opportunity employer M/F/H/V.

New Benefit of DWC Membership: 30% Discount on Women & Criminal Justice subscriptions!

In addition to all the benefits of being a DWC member, we are just signing off on an agreement with Haworth Press allowing DWC members a 30% discount on their subscriptions to the journal Women & Criminal Justice. This fine journal started out of the DWC in the mid-1980s with Clarice Feinman as originator and the first editor. Donna C. Hale has been the editor for about a decade and made a fine presentation at one of our DWC breakfasts in Chicago. This is a great way to support feminist scholarship and benefit from it! The procedure will be that the ASC-DWC provides a check off place on membership applications and on annual renewal forms. Tear sheets or e-mail notices will then be forwarded to Haworth Press for verification. We are very pleased about working out this great deal with Haworth and thank Michelle Savory of Haworth and Donna Hale!