He had been attracted by the advertised interdisciplinary environment and the strange name of the degree. Brothers and sisters: Keith Jarolimek (Kim), Colorado Springs, Co; Kristy Owens (Eric), Lincoln, North Dakota; Angie OHara (James), Yuma, AZ; Matthew Jarolimek (Christy), Minneapolis, MN; Lea Steiner and Avi Steiner, Boise, ID. Ulla Bondesons most famous English-language publications were Prisoners in Prison Societies (Bondeson, 1989), Alternatives to Imprisonment (Bondeson, 1994), and Nordic Moral Climates (Bondeson, 2003). For many years, Elmar served as a co-director of the Post Graduate Course on Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice at Dubrovniks Interuniversity Center, and moved the course to the Vrie Universiteit (Amsterdam) during the Balkan Wars from 1993 to1997; Elmar continued to participate as a co-director well into the second decade of the 21st century when his ongoing medical issues caused him to retire from active academic work. Dr. Lou Mayo served as a first Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War as an electronics countermeasures expert and served three U.S. presidents as a Secret Service Agent on the White House detail. His work is uniformly praised as path breaking, provocative, and vitally important. (His scholarship is occasionally described as controversial, provoking his amusement at how a work could be path breaking and provocative while avoiding controversy). 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. John Braithwaite, Australian National University Al was also a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto and a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, the Institute of Criminology (Cambridge, England), Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), the University of Haifa, the University of the Philippines, and Kansai University in Osaka. in Sociology and Political Science (1972) and his M.A. Since 2006, Drs. He amassed over one million dollars in state and federal grants while producing two books, 60+ journal articles, numerous book chapters, project reports, and monographs. In fact, it caused a minor dust-up with the Dean before it was approved. He will be sorely missed.. At OSU, Sy helped to establish a strong and lasting tradition in Criminology. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Rosalind. His worn-out blue and yellow Nikes became part of the wall decoration in his office. His most ambitious work, The Death Penalty in America, revised several times, has been a standard text since it was first published in 1964. Until shortly before her death, former students and colleagues continued their relationship with Rita through visits to her retirement home and correspondence. He joined the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2012 and earned full professor rank in 2017. For 30 years, Sarah Hall was ASC, and we all benefited immeasurably because of it. He is also survived by his sister Anne Cifu, his daughters-in-law Joan and Lynne, and his grandchildren Allegra, Brooks, Anastasia, and Alessandra. Als theory explains how social conditions experienced by a group of persons can lead them to create a collective solution to their mutual problem, a criminal subculture, which then becomes an additional cause of crime. A researcher of astonishing energy and ambition, he achieved world-wide renown as a leading authority in a dozen different specialties, from imprisonment and criminal records to corruption and organized crime, by way of gun control, drunk driving, and hate crime. He died in the arms of his wife, Ronet Bachman, and son, John Bachman-Paternoster, after a nearly 3-month herculean battle against idiopathic pancreatitis. He taught enormously popular graduate courses at UH in social deviance, law and society, crime and the media, law and psychology, criminological theory, organized crime, juvenile delinquency, crime in the cinema, and white-collar and corporate crime. For these and so many more reasons, he will be greatly missed. She retired from this post in 2018. She launched her career as an English teacher at Lindenhurst Senior High School in New York, and meantime began studying acting at HB Studios. In 2011, he received the inaugural ACJS Minority Mentorship Grant Award. Debbie earned her BA from the University of South Florida, where she was active in local and state politics, was a member of the National Organization for Women, and was a fervent supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. Bill was an international scholar, with visiting professorships in Nigeria, Sweden, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, Cardiff, and Zambia. At the national level, Rita Warren worked on President Johnsons Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Adored Dr. J. to his staff and loved by his patients, peers and friends. The research influenced later research and practice on responsivity, and the notion of matching offender clients to interventions intended to optimize their chances of success. For Frank, these were perhaps the happiest years of his life. Jodi Lane, University of Florida. Submitted by David P. Farrington and Lawrence W. Sherman, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He was a loyal Red Sox fan and attended one of the championship games at Fenway Park when his team recently won the World Series. Simon Singer, Northeastern University She co-authored several articles with her daughter Marianne Junger, also a Dutch criminologist. 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. Cherished by his beloved wife, Kathy, son, Robbie, and Robbies wife, Elissa. Nils Christies ideas had great influence upon the criminal policy discourse not only in Norway and Scandinavia, but in many other parts of the world which have benefited from translations of a number of his most important books as well as a large number of articles and lectures. And she had the best sense of humor. He was able to elicit strong reactions from supporters and detractors alike. 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. I will remember and miss Michael most for his knowledge of comic books and superhero movies. Criminology has lost a giant figure with the passing of Hans Toch at age 91. 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. One of the major contributions of this body of work is the elaboration a general theoretical model of the social conditions that lead some political disputes to escalate into political violence and others to de-escalate before violence erupts. In 1988, they moved to Pullman, Washington, where Debbie was the Academic Advisor for the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. From Berkeley, the family went to the University of Illinois, in Urbana, where they stayed for three years while Rolando finished his Doctorate of the Science of Law degree. Her studies on criminal sentencing, domestic violence policies and practices, responses to sexual violence, gender stratification in the legal profession, and other topics were published in the top journals of her field including Law and Society Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, and Criminology and Public Policy. He returned to Germany to finish his secondary education after what he described as a heated disagreement with priests at the school. Jims early works bear the unmistakeable stamp of his training at Hopkins and Chicago and the world-class mentors he found there. Steve was born and raised in Boston. He was widely recognized for his work on corporate crime; his book Corporate Crime was republished in 2005. He loved teaching in all kinds of settings, and so also served as visiting faculty in departments across the country and the world. Before joining the National Institute of Justice, he was a systems analyst at Systems Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He is also survived by two children, Marsha Clinard (spouse: Charlie Boast) and Stephen Clinard (spouse: Paula Giordano), by four grandchildren (Eric and Marshall Schacht and Amy and Andrew Clinard), and by five great-grandchildren (Madison, Kayley, Noelle, Wade, and Tanner). Criminal justice has lost another of its founding greats. Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021. Box 355, Champaign, IL 61824-0355. In 2007 he moved to Eastern Kentucky University where he was an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice until taking up the Law Foundation position in 2010. As one former student (now a professor) wrote in a commemoration, Perhaps more than anything I will never forget the freedom Don gave me to explore radical criminology and to write my dissertation about the policing of labor radicalisman area outside his expertise. He once wrote: if you want to become a well-rounded psychologist, a smidgen of psychoanalysis is good for you, and among his first ever publications was a 1956 psychoanalysis of eccentric mail sent to the United Nations.. Austin Turk began his occupational life as a police officer in Georgia, and a realism and toughness born of this experience showed through his work. Published in Legacy from Mar. He was a great builder of critical criminology, where the biggest of many contributions was in peacemaking criminology. Lou was a thoughtful, active scholar. He accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of South Alabama, achieving the rank of Associate Professor and serving regularly as an expert witness for the local NAACP- affiliated law firm and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Eds innovative approach, linking social/behavioral science and program evaluation to the emerging technology of DNA analysis and trace evidence helped to usher in what we know recognize as a new era in crime-solving, forensics, and policing. His Conflict Tactics Scale, which he revised over the years, became the standard approach for gathering information about child and spouse abuse and one of the more widely used instruments in social science. The dialectical theory of law he developed there, and later his theory of state-organized crime, put contradictions in the political economy at the center of analysis, and showed how lawand sometimes crimes by the state itselfare a response to those contradictions. Dr. Marguerite (Rita) Warren, a pioneering figure in personality development and a renowned scholar in the field of criminology, passed away in her home outside of Charlottesville, Virginia on March 19, 2008. In the 1980s, his research in Philadelphia led to the implementation of pretrial release decision guidelines, which later were adopted by other municipalities around the country. At the far-too-young age of 49, Dr. Marie Griffin lost her hard-fought battle against cancer on August 15, 2016. There was no better colleague and academic partner than Rick Ruddell. Nils Christie was always very engaged in creating scientific milieus with older and younger colleagues in the Nordic countries. In 2008 he left Texas to serve as Dean of the College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven, bringing with him ISVG and establishing the Ph.D. [4] When from the dais the question was asked of the audience: How many of you are former students of Dr. Ward? half of the 400 present stood. For elected officials, the media and leaders in philanthropy, Allen Breed was the most authoritative and object source on best practices. Jim went on to become a leading authority on both of these topics. A colleague at the University of California at Riverside, where Austin last taught, remembers him not only as a scholar of note, but also as an exceptionally warm human being, a generous friend and a caring mentor, a bon vivant, and a gracious host. That is the memory of Austin Turk that his admiring colleagues and friends will treasure: he was as fun and stimulating to be around as he was passionate and realistic about the failings of the world he struggled to understand and improve. Sadly, she will not be around to participate in ISRD-3. The journal was later renamed Criminology, and he returned as editor. Indeed, he wanted his life to end as he lived it: responsibly, productively, passionately. Pauls earned his B.A. He was a devoted husband to Beth. Tax-free donations to ASC or any of the ASC Divisions. Perhaps a part of Elmars propensity to challenge authority and the status quo derived from this eclectic upbringing. Second genre: the work on Organized Crime and Racketeering.This section of the collected works consists of 5 books that form a remarkable series perhaps the most sustained effort to understand racketeering ever undertaken by a single scholar. Obituary Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021. STEVEN JANOWITZ Obituary The world has lost a beacon of joy and a fount of knowledge that benefited us all. Michael Gottfredson, University of California, Kay enjoyed contra and swing dancing and while travelling for business or pleasure would look for opportunities to join in local contra and swing dance nights. John L. Hagan, Northwestern University He also served as a consultant to help relocate Native American children from the reservation school to surrounding communities due to closing of the Fort Bethold Reservation to make way for the Garrison Dam project. His classic text, Society, Crime and Criminal Careers, now in its 8th edition, was first published in 1968 and is used in classrooms throughout the world. He also studied healthcare fraud internationally, and in 2002, was a Fulbright Scholar at Stockholm University in Sweden. Her retirement was an active one in a community she cherished to the fullest. As a person, Jeff was modest and humble, even somewhat reserved. In 1968, he was appointed by the University President to Chair the Advisory Committee on Policies, Programs, and Services Affecting Blacks and Other Minority Group Students. Later in his career, Harris also served as the founding Director of the Criminal Justice Program where he was committed to helping educate a generation of professionals. That work led to stints as a Fulbright Fellow in Norway and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard in the 1960s. In DC, he researched law-enforcement practices in the racialized urban ghettoes, and the political dimensions of the war on crime, publishing his incisive Power, Politics, and Crimea book Noam Chomsky called a wake-up call and Chesney-Lind praised as a sweeping indictment of our criminal justice policies. Dr. Beare was instrumental in establishing the Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption in 1996. He died on November 21, 2007, at his home in Huntington Beach of complications from cancer. A memorial to commemorate his life and work is planned for July 11 in conjunction with the International Conference on Family Violence and Child Victimization Research to be held at the Portsmouth Sheraton. Unfortunately, in a case of extremely bad judgement, Dave helped facilitate the drug delivery. Steve Janowitz Geoff Ward and Amy Farrell have organized a special session in her honor for the 2016 ASC meetings in New Orleans and we hope you will join us for a celebration of her life and impact on the field. If I were interviewing a convicted burglar I would probably call him Charlie (or whatever his first name is), while he might call me He is one of the pioneers in the development of rural criminology, especially his influential books on Oil, Gas, and Crime: The Dark Side of the Boom (Palgrave Macmillan) and Policing Rural Canada (de Sitter Publications). Mitch was a prolific scholar in the field of macro-social criminology, and regularly published in the top journals in criminology and criminal justice. Funeral arrangement under the care ofThe Dorfman Chapel. He had a productive career spanning 30 years before retiring as a Professor of Sociology in 2002. Steve was magnetic. Dick Ward, you will never be forgotten. His professional writing accomplishments include nine published books and 81 journal articles in sociology and criminology. Dales tenure with applied research organizations culminated in a 10 year relationship with the American Correctional Association. She was a fervent and compassionate believer in prevention rather than punishment, and she often spoke out publicly against the repressive and hard line youth policies which emerged in the Netherlands over the last decade. As an army military police officer at the end of World War II, he worked to keep order as American, Russian and British troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps. Dale is survived by his ex-wife, Judy Sechrest; three children, Stephanie Conner, Alan Sechrest and David Sechrest; 6 grandchildren, two nephews, and 1 great grandchild; and, many colleagues. He soon realized that this would require him to leave the back alleys, and go across town to corporate boardrooms and City Hall. The lectures were collected in a book, Making Mortal Choices, published by Oxford University Press in 1997. Copenhagen, Denmark: DJOF. Literally in the last days of his life, Austin concluded an essay with the telling observation that the reality to which counterterrorism responds is the ancient and unavoidable struggle to decide whether human freedom and dignity or oppression and exploitation will prevail in our lives (forthcoming, WILEY HANDBOOK ON DEVIANCE, Eric Goode, ed.). It, too, provides a $1,000 scholarship annually for a graduate student at the College of Criminal Justice. Missing the east coast, he was accepted into Harvards Ph.D. program in psychology, where he spent his third year of graduate work. His coauthored book, Poisoning for Profit, was widely cited by legal and legislative officials as the impetus for legal action designed to curb unlawful waste dumping. Dear brother-in-law to Bruce. The 3 of us went to stay with her last March. He completed a stellar masters thesis on the social psychology of the sanctioning of high-status defendants (later published in Law & Human Behavior), and placed articles in medical journals on issues When I started as an assistant professor at CSUSB in 2007, Steve was assigned as my faculty mentor. The resulting book, Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance (1995), won the American Society of Criminologys (ASC) Michael J. Hindelang Award and the American Sociological Associations (ASA) Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarship Award. from Baldwin Wallace College. He continued to produce impressive scholarship and undertake innovative teaching (such as creating an online course that quickly became a favorite). He was a former Professor at University of Louisville, the Pennsylvania State University, Florida State University, University of Texas, Arlington, University of North Dakota and others. Frank was also committed to the University of Delaware, particularly to ensuring a climate of equality. William L. Tafoya, Ph.D., Professor, University of New Haven, [1]Scholarships in his memory may have been established at other institutions; at UNH contributions may be sent to: The University of New Haven, C/o The Richard and Michelle Ward Endowed Scholarship, Office of Advancement, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT 06516, [2]Churchill, Winston (1939) The Russian Enigma, BBC Broadcast October 1, London: The Churchill Society. Coming to SUNY as a founding faculty member in the new School of Criminal Justice was a natural career step, given Vinces interest in high-quality education for professionals, especially top-management, in the field of criminal justice. The significance of his work is demonstrated by how often it has been reprinted: 10 of his writings have been reprinted a total of 21 times. My Filebox . Charles published several books and his many articles (often co-authored with graduate students and junior faculty whom he mentored over the years) appeared in our disciplines top journals, including Criminology, a journal for which he served five years as editor (1992-1997). He is survived by his loving wife, Kim, talented daughter, Rian, and caring parents, Steve and Jane. Steve was a mentor, an advocate, and a sage advisor. The programs, moderated by James Q. Wilson, were broadcast on public television stations. The National Crime Survey and Rape: The Case of the Missing Question. Josine Junger-Tas passed away at age 81. Visions of Social Control demonstrated the value of studying social control and the role of ideology from a past, present and future perspective while refraining from reliance upon traditional ideological battles. I was not disappointed. His legacy extends far beyond the countless publications and research reports he completed. She served as a member of the National Institute of Justices Justice Systems Research Scientific Review Panel (2012-2014); as Secretary/Treasurer of the ASCs Division on Corrections and Sentencing (2006-2010); as an Executive Counselor on the Board of the WSC (2011-2014); as a member of numerous ASC and ACJS committees; on the editorial boards Criminal Justice & Behavior, Women and Criminal Justice; and Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society; as a peer-reviewer for nearly two dozen scholarly journals; and on dozens of ASU board, committees, task forces, and community service initiatives. In a time when social scientists have been slow to address such topics, Austin Turk as usual was thinking and writing at the leading edge of what should be among our prevailing concerns. Allen emphasized the use of research to improve corrections and sought to upgrade professional organizations in the field. An incredibly prolific social scientist, Gil produced more than 500 articles and chapters, dozens of research monographs, and 26 books during a highly distinguished academic career. There are no events scheduled. He lived in Concord, Mass. He was such a unique character: a self-described rebellious Jewish New Yorker. Dr. Palmer was predeceased by his wife, Ann and their only child Catherine. In 1969, Dr, Amos was appointed to the U.S. Parole Commission and served for a period of time as the chair of its youth corrections division. Furthermore, James was the founding President of the African Criminology and Justice Association (ACJA). In 1993, Al was given the American Society of Criminologys Sutherland Award. Gerald R. Garrett was a nationally recognized expert in criminal justice, substance abuse studies, and homelessness. He believed in advancing knowledge to correct the many challenging social ills in society, and this concern for social justice guided his career. 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. The number of people Charles touched and changed through interaction with him is immeasurable. While at the University, he met his future wife, Carmen Baker in Dons words, the best thing that ever happened to me! He and Carmen, married for 56 years until her death in 2008, had two children, Michael and Diane. He had a unique ability to be on everyones side in work discussions at any given time regardless of how many sides there actually were. After retiring from the RDC in 1994, she became a professor of youth criminology at the University of Lausanne where she received an honorary doctorate. Stanley Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the London School of Economics, passed away in early January after a long battle with Parkinsons disease. He was honored with a criminological (Schwind, H.-D., E. Kube and H.H. Rest in peace our dear friend and colleague. At the University of Delaware in the late 1970s, Bill wrote yet another seminal piece entitled On Lawmaking, published in the British Journal of Law and Society. In 2002, Harry Allen began online teaching for the University of Louisville, team-teaching with his husband Bruce Ponder on a wide variety of courses, including Corrections, Community Corrections, Victimology, Alternatives to Incarceration, International Terrorism, Intelligence and Homeland Security, Drug Abuse, and Ethics[1]. Dr. del Carmens generosity was not limited to Sam Houston State University. She worked for twenty years at the Research and Documentation Center (RDC) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, honing her skills at applied research with scientific integrity. In prison he discovered that convicts were mostly ordinary human beings. His seminal contributions to criminal justice policy and practice were recognized in 1981, with the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology. No one in the history of social ecology or criminology at Irvine has completed two advanced degrees this quickly; nor published a number of major articles while doing so. In 1972, Binder founded and initially led the Youth Service Program (later Community Service Programs and now Waymakers), an intervention project providing counseling, housing and other services for delinquent youth and their families. He also was preceded in death by his grandparents: Carl and Mary Radloff, John F. and Anna Marie Steiner, Matt Jarolimek, and Oscar Berryman. King. A beautiful memorial service was held on a warm Sunday morning; April 27, 2008 at the Japanese Garden on the campus of CSULB. In those years too, he published Boxman: A Professional Thiefs Journey, giving us a first-hand account of the day-to-day life and methods of a professional thief. Steve has made a significant, and lasting, impact in the field of criminology in so many ways. In that respect, he was the best faculty mentor I could ever ask for. Indeed, he stayed in The Vidar collective, one of these Institutions for extraordinary people, for extended periods of time. But his impact on me professionally is only part of the story. Ben was born on March 3, 1975 to Kathy (Jarolimek) and Stan Steiner in Bismarck, North Dakota where he also spent his formative years of schooling. His impressive international career culminated in his 15-year long service to the International Society for Criminology. In his research and theorizing on delinquency, Al ingeniously blended major aspects of Mertons social structure culture incongruity theory (anomie theory) of crime with Sutherlands learning subcultural theory of crime to explain why so much delinquency occurred in groups (gangs), was committed by lower income kids, and included a lot of vandalism. He was awarded Teacher of the Year at SIU in 1982 and honored as Distinguished Professor in 1984. Winterfield came to Washington in April 1997 to work for the U.S. Department of Justice where she was Division Chief for Justice Systems Research at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). His early work focused on deterrence and the mechanisms through which sanctions affect behavior. Stu spent his entire academic career at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in Durham beginning as an instructor in 1955, assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1960 and as full-professor from 1964 to 1997. A native of New York City, Sy received his Bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University (1947), and his Masters (1949) and Ph.D. (1951) from the University of Wisconsin. Mower and Robert Sears, the Yale team that conceptualized Sigmund Freuds anxiety classification into the frustration/aggression theorem. Palmer provided the empirical research testing this theorem with the study of murders and a control group based on ethnicity and socio-economic status resulting in a best selling book The Psychology of Murder (1960).