Jody Miller and Scott Decker have organized a special session in his honor for the 2015 meetings in Washington, D.C., and we hope you will join us for a celebration of his personal and professional lives. She was born to Wilson and Peggy Piper on July 1, 1953 and died at the too-young age of 54. But more importantly he searched for alternatives to the present penal system through alternative conflict resolution. For over two decades, he was presenting papers at every annual meeting of both ASC and ACJS. She was part of the NIJ editorial team for Volume 3 of Criminal Justice 2000, Policies, Processes, and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System, and served on the editorial board of the NIJ Journal. He loved us even if we were somewhat of a disappointment to him in the lines of scholarship we pursued. The delinquent gang subculture includes a number of values and norms in some ways opposite to those of middle class culture (like rejection of the importance of doing well in school, less respect for private property, and acceptance of violence as a way to achieve status). Born in southern Utah on April 15th 1935, Travis graduated from the University of Utah in 1957 with a B.S. During these interactions, Steve and I also talked about ideas, perspectives, and aspirations that ultimately shaped the next ten years of my life. Bedau was the first guy to put it all together and the first to make the general empirical argument against the death penalty that is, a little race, a little deterrent, a little innocence.. Stan received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Essex in 2004 and Middlesex in 2008. Cherished by his beloved wife, Kathy, son, Robbie, and Robbies wife, Elissa. Overall, Professor Curry was an inspiration as a survivor, a scholar, a social activist, a gentleman, and a great friend/family member. Despite his reticence to divulge much about himself and his life, those of us in his world knew the most important thing about him. We were wrong on the first assumption, but correct on the second, as we believe his spirit will live on in the body of his work, especially in victimology. Ron and his colleagues used multiple methods to study gang formation and behavior, to assess police and other intervention methods and to analyze official gang definitions and recording of gang members. He continued to be one of the leading experts in criminal justice law in the country even after his retirement in 2012, and is revered by students, alumni, and fellow faculty members. But perhaps equally so, Bob was known as someone who valued those shunned and outcast by society. In his review of the book, John Braithwaite describes The Crime of all Crimes as a landmark reframing in the criminology of genocide writing that Nickys work challenges existing claims about the nature of genocide, weaving together a complex new understanding of crime, war, and violence. Nicky challenged every idea she confronted. He recognized that committed scholarship involved a delicate balance even when scholars are clearly informed about a particular area or situation. Libby also contributed greatly to the profession. He was a productive scholar in both English and French and a well-known public figure through his participation in various public commissions and regular radio appearances and newspaper editorials. Ed held several key posts at NIJ including Science Advisor to the NIJ Director (1984-1992), Director of Corrections Research (1992-1996), Director of Program Development, 1998-1999), Assistant Director (1999-2000), Senior Science Advisor (2001-2008), and Director of NIJs International Research Center (2008-present). He assembled two large international consortia, involving dozens of scholars in more than 30 countries to conduct cross-national comparative surveys on dating violence and parental disciplinary practices. Dave realized that this development might cast doubt on that agents veracity in his own trial and applied for a Presidential pardon. Then in 1969, he accepted a faculty appointment in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. Weitekamp (December 16, 1954 February 5, 2022) passed on February 5, 2022, at the age of sixty-seven. Kuehne eds.) Kauko Aromaa was a long-standing member of the board of the Scandinavian Criminological Council in 1989-2002 and he acted as president of the Council in 2001-2003. Carol was very rigorous and careful in her work, but she also had a view that we should let 1,000 flowers bloom so that we can learn from the various approaches. On behalf of myself and Colonial Opticians (Potomac Village) I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Dr. Janowitz. Throughout her career, Professor Petersilia was called upon by government officials to lead efforts to reform the criminal justice system. INGER SAGATUN-EDWARDS passed away on April 2, 2007. This work led him to develop theories such as Defensible Space, Environmental Criminology, Rational Choice, and Situational Crime Prevention that extended opportunity theory into new territory. Several of her Ph.D. students received dissertation awards from the National Science Foundation or the National Institute of Justice, and her Ph.D. students have gone on to obtain faculty positions at prestigious universities and have themselves made important contributions to the discipline. He was a good friend to many and a loving, devoted husband. His work with Hindelang resulted in fundamental studies of the causes and correlates of crime, including the book-length study of self-report methods for the study of delinquency (Measuring Delinquency, with Michael Hindelang and Joseph Weis, 1981). http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html, [3]UNH (2015) In Remembrance of Richard H. Ward, West Haven, CT: University of New Haven. With typical generosity, she left money to establish a fund for Nordic criminological research. He grew up in southern California, and was a 1976 graduate of Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California. The quality and impact of her work was recognized with the 2014 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the most prestigious award in criminology (sometimes called The Nobel Prize in criminology). As just two examples, she was an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and she received its Vollmer Award for scholarship and professional activities that have made outstanding contributions to justice or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior. At the far-too-young age of 49, Dr. Marie Griffin lost her hard-fought battle against cancer on August 15, 2016. The theory was paradigm-shifting and spawned dozens of dissertations, books and articles over the years. James Opolot has been a member of both the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) since 1978. He is survived by wife Rita and three children: Samantha Harris of Medford Massachusetts, Theona Harris Arsenault and her husband, Daniel Arsenault, and their son Luke Arsenault of Beverly, and Jason Harris and his wife Regina LaRocque and their sons Noah and Benjamin Harris of Wellesley Massachusetts. Also he received BA and MS degrees at the same university in Applied Criminology and Administration Justice respectively. He was predeceased by his parents Anthony and Florence, as well as his brother John. In Honor of my husband, Raymond Paternoster 1952-2017. He will be missed by our discipline. Billobtaining a B.A. We spent the next five years working together, and had so many great conversations about the role of research and evaluation in the policy decision process, a subject she never tired of talking about. We lost a wise man at the Universit de Montral, yet we are all appreciative of the legacy that he left us and his relentless message to establish la pense juste. Along those lines, he argued that criminologists needed to take the law into account in thinking about crime at a time when Sellins sociological definition of crime dominated. Johns contributions to the field have been recognized: the Pioneer Award from the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (1988); the Paul H. Chapman medal from the Foundation for the Improvement of Justice (2003); being named a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Experimental Criminology(2006); and this years recipient of the August Vollmer Award, to be presented posthumously at the ASC meeting (2012). This world lost an amazing feminist scholar, teacher and activist, and our very dear, smart, generous, and hilarious sister. There are 79 obituaries and memoriams for the surname Janowitz. See Convict Criminology Memorial at http://www.convictcriminology.org/index.html. In 2005, Ted and a former colleague established the Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award, an award offered through the ASC Division of Corrections and Sentencing. Please click here for his obituary which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 5, 2008. Steven Janowitz Henry Pontell, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and UCI In the course of numerous TV interviews and newspaper reports, he became a familiar figure for the Finnish audience as a criminologist who had the ability to place problems into their appropriate scale and to do so in a language that everyone could understand. Bills life was filled with scholarly achievement and joy, both of which he shared with all those around him. Gil was one of the most respected scholars and widely beloved colleagues in criminology. Libby Deschenes (July 1, 1953 April 20, 2008), a beloved wife, daughter, sister, professor, colleague, athlete, Hash House runner and wonderful friend passed away peacefully on April 20, 2008 following a two- year battle with ovarian cancer. As the first director of the Social Ecology program, he oversaw its development and growth. He did everything with class and the highest level of skill set. She instituted the Schools first course on Women and Crime. Steve Janowitz's Biography - Age, Net Worth, Occupation In following decades, Turk advanced the general field of conflict criminology he stimulated by applying its principles more specifically to the study of political criminality. If I remind you of some of their titles youll see what I mean: Breaking the Devils Pact; Gotham Unbound; Busting the Mob; and Organized Crime and its Containment. He also published many articles and book chapters on these and related topics. The Western Society of Criminology gave him the Paul Tappan Award. After completing each chapter in my written work, Jeff would contact me to arrange a conference. In 1978, when The Ohio State University was buffeted by arctic weather and a 63 degree wind chill factor, he received and accepted an offer to teach at San Jose State University in the Department of Justice Studies, San Jose, California. She brought both a rigorous understanding of advanced statistics and a practical understanding of real world needs. Mr. Cascarano was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received bachelors and masters degrees from City College of New York. He is survived by : his significant other Maureen McGill; his children, Steve Janowitz and Eden Janowitz Allyn; his grandchildren, Jake and Ava Janowitz; his siblings, Paula Allan (Jerry Errico) and Shelly Davis (late Stuart); and his aunt Toby Chudnow. Under his leadership, CYA became renowned worldwide for its innovative research and treatment programs. Her leadership, her intellectual curiosity, her gentle spirit and her infectious laugh will be sorely missed. The rewards to me personally have been so great that I actually grew to love teaching and hoped I was perhaps a better than average professor in ways that matter in peoples lives, bringing students to a greater love and commitment to a lifetime of learning. Simpson trial and the Rodney King trial and the role of racism in contemporary criminal justice. Originally published in the Tallahassee Democrat on 2/18/2007. His most famous work, Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang, considered an instant classic explanation of delinquency and gangs and a major breakthrough in criminological theory, was published in 1955 (and later republished internationally in many languages). Susette was not only one of UGAs best faculty but also one of the universitys finest citizens, and her good works benefited students and faculty colleagues alike, said UGA President Michael F. Adams. Committed to exporting the research of those who challenged traditional notions of organized crime, Margaret was in the fore-front of ensuring that organized crime research was given a diverse platform from which new and innovative approaches could be researched, critiqued and successfully implemented. His legacy will guide scholars for many years to come. He is greatly missed. He was awarded the Young Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Juvenile Justice Section in 2009, the Distinguished New Scholar Award by the American Society of Criminologys Division on Corrections and Sentencing in 2012, and the Outstanding Research Award by the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2012. In a situation where criminal policy and the treatment of deviance is influenced by inhumane and ill-founded demands for punishment as revenge, there is a need for a deeper consideration of social knowledge and humanism which is the bearing foundation of Christies work. Hal was committed to giving voices to crime victims and supported the Division of Victimology. Cherished by his beloved wife, Kathy, son, Robbie, and Robbies wife, Elissa. That is something we will all miss. She continued her education at Stony Brook University from which she emerged with a Masters degree in English education in 1966. And to visitors, whoever they were and wherever they were from, he was the open-handed host, issuing invitations, drawing them in, connecting them to a vibrant intellectual community here at the heart of New York City. Intrigued by Turkey, she enjoyed a year there as a Fulbright Senior Researcher. In Leuven in the 1990s, he served as one of the founding fathers of the Erasmus programme in criminology, the coordinator of the EU-funded student and staff exchange project between Europe and Canada on Victimisation, Mediation and Restorative Justice, and the first director of the English Master Programme in European Criminology at the Faculty of Law. The best.. On December 29, 1982, Talarico married the love of her life, Rodger Taylor Carroll and on March 15, 1984, they had a son, Robert David Carroll: a great joy for both of them. He saw criminology and sociology as important bases for social and philosophical deliberations on the legitimacy of the exercise of societal power, and consistently raised basic issues of the states use of power and coercion. In 2006, Frank was named the Edward and Elizabeth Rosenberg Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice and received the Francis Alison Award, the University of Delawares highest faculty honor. She was 88 years old. Joy is a comedian, television host, actress, and writer. His formal education was delayed because the Cultural Revolution required him to work in a factory during much of his high school years. He continued to produce impressive scholarship and undertake innovative teaching (such as creating an online course that quickly became a favorite). I knew since I was 10 years old that I wanted to understand the underpinnings for individual differences in behavior, but it wasnt until I encountered Jeff that I was able to find a way to tangibly act upon this interest. The article continues to be republished in anthologies for courses in criminology and in the sociology of deviance. Rolando would take a colleague or a graduate student to lunch when they published an article. We always saw him as an unstoppable force with an indomitable spirit. Eric McCord (59) passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 15, 2016, in Louisville. Larry, an only child, was born January 7, 1958, in Boston, Massachusetts to Dr. Gerhard and Mrs. Ursel Salinger (nee Ehrlich), both originally of Berlin, Germany. Memorial donations in memory of Bob can be made to Tenth Life Cat Rescue, P.O. He also studied healthcare fraud internationally, and in 2002, was a Fulbright Scholar at Stockholm University in Sweden. A Celebration of his life was held at the University of Illinois at Chicago March 28, 2015. Always ahead of the curve, Arnie championed the hiring of female faculty which saw Social Ecology with the highest proportion of women of any academic unit on campus as early as the 1970s. On a macro-social level in the book Crime Control as Industry (1994), he warned against the creation of a Gulag-system of institutions as a mixture of the Soviet prison camp system and the American prison industry with the heavy influence of powerful prison contractors, and the economic interests of communities and prison staff in preserving and expanding the use of incarceration. He was a strong supporter of the ACLU and contributed to many charities and to the universities where he studied and taught. Throughout his career he published three books, more than 50 articles and nearly 100 research reports.He worked closely with a substantial number of masters and doctoral students. Doting Papa Steve to Maks. Sy collected an array of awards. He received the Herbert Bloch Award for service to the ASC in 2005, and served as President of the ASC in 2008. Dr. Garrett joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1970 and played many important roles in the department and the larger University community until his retirement in 2002, after which he was named professor emeritus. Sally Simpson, University of Maryland Jim remained a very active Co-Director of the Center till his death. The next year Judge Hughes ordered that he take over as Director of the jail system, which he did until it was released from Federal oversight in 1980. He received the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2001, and in 2005 he was recognized with the Prix DeGreff award for distinction in clinical criminology by the International Society of Criminology. He was the chair of the department of criminology before becoming the founding dean of the School of Criminology in 1974. He received many awards and 1977 1978 served as President of ACJS. His students rated his teaching as outstanding and he was a popular and beloved adviser to many. Donations in Binders honor may be made to Waymakers or Carry the Future, an organization Capasso leads that helps refugees. Advertisement. Kays research, teaching and wide-ranging service to the field was focused on issues related to institutional and community-based corrections and informed by her deep-seated desire to create a more just system of criminal justice. Moreover, and particularly noteworthy to the current debate over public sociology and public criminology regarding scholar versus activist/policy roles, Stan effectively embraced both. Dr. Steven Janowitz Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021. Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021.Cherished by his beloved wife, Kathy, son, Robbie, and his wife, Elissa. To her, even more importantly, she was a loving wife, mother, and sister; a good friend; an engaged community member; and consummate public servant committed to positioning social science analyses front and center when it comes to doing all we can to ensure criminal justice systems better peoples lives, including by delivering justice. At NYU, Jim taught criminal law, criminal procedure, and federal criminal law, and a variety of other topics including the regulation of vice, guns, and cybercrime. Donations in his memory can be made to: Mission of Mercy through the Maryland State Dental Association Charitable and Educational Foundation (msdaf.org/remembersomeone); or University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://www.ummsfoundation.org/site/Donation2?idb=1607739902&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=1&df_id=3083&mfc_pref=T&3083.donation=form1&idb=[[S76:idb]]). Harold was hired to teach and lead in research, and as part of this, he developed the Oklahoma City Survey, which provided research and statistical training for students. Nicky was never afraid to take on unpopular topics. When I went to him for advice and he offered to take me on as a PhD student he told me one of his conditions was that I allow him to choose the additional member from within the School so as to keep things within his control. Western Society of Criminology I learned so many things from Carol. WebIn 1982, Behar began a long term relationship with Steve Janowitz, a school teacher, calling him her spousal equivalent. He is also survived by his sister Anne Cifu, his daughters-in-law Joan and Lynne, and his grandchildren Allegra, Brooks, Anastasia, and Alessandra. He wrote recently on the new terrorism of religiously dedicated holy warriors, saying that such warriors can be expected to show little reluctance to use weapons of mass destruction and that the the portent is more incidents, more deaths and injuries, and more terrorist challenges to established social orders. He was the author of a recent and similarly prophetic review essay on the Sociology of Terrorism in the Annual Review of Sociology (2004). In 2012, the Society for the Study of Social Problems created the William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award and Bill was the first recipient. Generations of research scientists have been affected by his written work and generous inclusion in his professional work. Committee. He was 85. They will miss him and strive to carry on his work. Steve Janowitz is an American retired high school teacher. He was a long-time editor of the journal Crime and Delinquency and an Associate Editor of both the Pacific Sociological Review and the Western Sociological Review. For those in the criminology community that knew Margaret, she was a passionate believer in the advancement of knowledge to ameliorate the many social ills that challenge a civil society. During that fellowship, I shared the story of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1950. Most scholarly books are lucky to sell more than a few hundred copies; Carols book sold several hundred thousand copies and is still on the prime shelf of evaluators and scholars. This book introduced and systematized the study of conflict and criminalization as testable interrelated phenomena. Edward J. Latessa, the long-time leader of the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice, passed away on January 11, 2022.