CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION NEWS SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS SUMMER 2010 Chair: Stacy Burns, Department of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, Suite 4341, Los Angeles, California 90045-2659. Email: sburns@lmu.edu, Phone: (310) 338-2712, Fax: (310) 338-1786 Outgoing Editor: Sarah Shannon, PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis. MN 55455. Email: ster0171@umn.edu Incoming Editor: Diana Therese M. Veloso, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660. Email: dveloso@luc.edu Inside: Notes from the Chair 1 Student Paper Winner 2 CJDD @ Atlanta 2-5 SSSP Call for Nominations 5 Members’ Notes and Accomplishments 6-7 NOTES FROM THE CHAIR This is the second newsletter of our Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division from Stacy Burns, Chair. In this issue of the newsletter, we feature a preview of the panels organized by our Division for the SSSP meeting in Atlanta and other news. Don’t forget to attend Session 93, Sunday August 15th from 10:30am-12:10 pm, the special session to award the Division’s first Lifetime Achievement Award in Crime and Juvenile Delinquency to Valerie Jenness of UC Irvine. We are also happy to announce our new newsletter editor Diana Veloso from Loyola University in Chicago (see p. 5). Welcome, Diana! I hope you enjoy this newsletter and I look forward to seeing you in Atlanta! Best regards, Stacy The theme of this year’s annual SSSP meeting is social justice work. In the words of current SSSP President JoAnn Miller, “Social justice work is problem-driven scholarship that employs rigorous theory and research methods. Examples include work on human rights and civil rights; action research focused on injustices on the factory floor or in the courtroom; and the study of discrimination or violence which is directed at groups or individuals in local communities in the United States and throughout the wider world.” More information on the meeting can be found online via: http://www.sssp1.org/ Congratulations to Michael Adorjan, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Winner of the 2010 CJDD Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled, “Tethering Rehabilitation and Punishment: The Salience and Ambiguity of Rehabilitative Rhetoric within Canadian Youth Justice Debates.” The award committee consisted of Robert Garot (Chair), Tim Berard and Karen Weiss. The committee had the following praise for the winning paper: "While we had many excellent submissions, the paper by Michael Adorjan, 'Tethering Rehabilitation and Punishment: The Salience and Ambiguity of Rehabilitative Rhetoric within Canadian Youth Justice Debates,' is our choice for the 2010 SSSP Graduate Student Paper Award. The paper is commendable for offering a nuanced discussion of an interesting, complicated and very important phenomenon. One of the features we most admire is the way that the analytic issue of different models (as in Packer's two models of the criminal process) or types (as in Weberian ideal types) of juvenile justice are addressed in a manner which acknowledges the relevance of the two models without reifying them or placing more analytic weight upon them than is empirically justifiable. Furthermore, the paper addresses how actual practices and discourses can be best understood by applying two ostensibly antagonistic models simultaneously, theoretically belying conventional political wisdom, and empirically addressing how this is actually accomplished by social actors themselves, with illustrations from a wide variety of naturally occurring political speeches and testimonies. The theoretical insights, empirical data, and the references to different theoretical and empirical scholarship are interwoven throughout the article, providing a paper that is challenging and insightful both methodologically and theoretically." Friday, August 13 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 25: Aging and Life-Course Transitions Behind Bars or Under "Criminal" Supervision Room: Georgia 11 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Chris Wellin, Illinois State University Papers: “Aging Behind Bars: Meanings and Implications of Age among Women Inmates,” Leah Janssen, Independent Scholar “Aging Inmates: Some Implications for Policy and Legal Advocacy in Georgia,” Melanie Velez, Law Office of the Southern Center for Human Rights “Screening at the Door to Higher Education: U.S. Collegiate Policies and Practices Concerning Applicants with Criminal Records,” Michael Messina-Yauchzy, Le Moyne College, Alan Rosenthal, Marsha Weissman and Elaine M. Wolf, Center for Community Alternatives 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM THEMATIC Session 33: Crime, Delinquency, and Social Justice Work Room: Georgia 11 Sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Organizer & Presider: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University Papers: “RESCUE THE PERISHING OR VAGRANT ATLANTA?: ATLANTA’S LEADERS RESPOND TO HOMELESSNESS 1880-1975,” William Wyatt Holland, Georgia State University “False Security: Sexual Offenders’ Perceptions of Residence Restrictions,” Amy Dellinger Page, Julie E. Sprinkle and Griff Gilbert, Appalachian State University “Muslim Minorities in Europe: RAXEN and EU-MIDIS,” Pamela Irving Jackson, Rhode Island College and Peter E. Doerschler, Bloomsburg University “Building an Infrastructure for Afterschool Programming,” Kauser Razvi, Strategic Urban Solutions “‘Paperworkers’ Instead of Social Workers: An Institutional Ethnography of a Child Welfare System,” Christine M. Patterson, Park University Saturday, August 14 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM Session 43: Health, Mental Health and Crime Room: Georgia 4 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Mental Health Organizer & Presider: Mark Peyrot, Loyola University Maryland Papers: “The Associations Among Sexual Orientation, Mistreatment by Parents and Caregivers during Childhood, and Adult Depression,” Elbert P. Almazan, Central Michigan University “Youth Aspirations and the Stress Process,” Karen Van Gundy, Nena F. Stracuzzi and Cesar J. Rebellon, University of New Hampshire “Examining the Impact of Victimization on Distress, Substance Abuse, and Self-Concept among People with Serious Mental Illness,” Mary Gallagher, Kent State University, Christian Ritter, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy and Kristen Marcussen, Kent State University “The Effect of Child Welfare Intervention on the Relationship between Child Abuse Victimization and Adult Mental Illness,” Rachel Butts, Michigan State University “Mental Health Courts as Reintegrative Shaming,” Bradley Ray, Cindy B. Dollar and Kelly Thames, North Carolina State University 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 53: Intersections of Crime and Substance Abuse Room: Georgia 4 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Drinking and Drugs Organizer & Presider: Dina Perrone, Bridgewater State College Discussant: Avelardo Valdez, University of Houston Papers: “Trajectories of Substance Use and Crime over the Life Course: A 13 year follow-up of Mexican American Gang Members,” Avelardo Valdez and Kathryn M. Nowotny, University of Houston “Methamphetamine Markets as Social Organizations,” Henry H. Brownstein, Timothy Mulcahy and Johannes Huessy, NORC at the University of Chicago, Bruce G. Taylor and Daniel Woods, Police Executive Research Forum “Religiosity, Surveillance, and Blame: Deterring Problem Drinking among College Students,” Andrew L. Spivak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Miyuki Fukushima, Cleveland State University and Margaret S. Kelley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Rehab Retrospect: Former Prostitutes and the (Re)Construction of Deviance,” Kristan McCray, Jennifer K. Wesely and Christine Rasche, University of North Florida Sunday, August 15 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 84: Families and Criminal Justice Room: Georgia 4 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Family Law and Society Organizer & Presider: Ebonie Cunningham Stringer, Wilkes University Papers: “An Empirical Analysis of Containment Theory using Multi-Level Modeling,” Aimée Delaney Lutz, University of New Hampshire “Identity Salience for Incarcerated Mothers: Before, During, and After Incarceration Effects of Familial Relationships and Maternal Expectations,” Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University and Ebonie Cunningham Stringer, Wilkes University “Narrative as Social Control: Storytelling and the Construction of Model Citizens,” Marc R. Settembrino, University of South Florida 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 93: Lifetime Achievement Award Room: Georgia 4 Sponsor: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Organizer & Presider: Stacy Burns, Loyola Marymount University Description: Presentation of the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division's First Lifetime Achievement Award (to Valerie Jenness). There will be presentations by the following persons: Stacy Burns, Loyola Marymount University; Tim J. Berard, Kent State University; David Meyer, UC Irvine; Ryken Grattet, UC Davis; Peter Ibarra, University of Illinois, Chicago; Shirley A. Jackson, Southern Connecticut State University and Valerie Jenness (Award Recipient) Panelists: Tim J. Berard, Kent State University David Meyer, UC Irvine Ryken Grattet, UC Davis Peter Ibarra, University of Illinois Chicago Shirley A. Jackson, Southern Connecticut State University Valerie Jenness, UC Irvine 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 101: Crime, Drugs and Social Policy Room: Georgia 4 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Law and Society Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Stacy Burns, Loyola Marymount University Papers: “Perceptions of Immigrant Criminality,” Deenesh S. Sohoni, The College of William and Mary and Tracy WP Sohoni, University of Maryland, College Park “The Future of Problem-Solving: Inside the Courts and Beyond,” Stacy Burns, Loyola Marymount University “The Intersection of Injection Drug Users and Health Care: Overview of the Literature and Theoretical Underpinnings,” Kelly E. Szott, Syracuse University 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 114: Law and Sexuality Room: Georgia 4 Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Law and Society Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Organizer & Presider: Lloyd Klein, St. Francis College Papers: “Forty Years After Stonewall: Legal and Political Movement in Gay Rights,” Joan Luxenburg, University of Central Oklahoma and Lloyd Klein, St. Francis College “Partner Rape/Sexual Assault, Marginal Legal Status, and Race/Ethnicity,” Stephen J. Morewitz, California State University, East Bay and J. Barry Gurdin, To Love and Work “Sex Offender Policy and Public Perceptions Post-Moral Panic,” Kristen Budd, Purdue University “Legislative Initiatives and Sex Offender Residency: Evaluating the Efficacy of Sex Offender Exclusion within Community Settings,” Lloyd Klein, St. Francis College “Determining Sex Offender Treatment Outcomes: An Analysis of Case-level Data at a Local Sex Offender Treatment Program in Kentucky,” Lincoln B. Sloas, George Mason University, Matthew R. Laurin, Paul D. Steele and Timothy S. Hare, Morehead State University. The Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Business Meeting will be held on Friday August 13 from 4:30 pm-6:10 pm in Georgia 13. ALL MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION ARE KINDLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE BUSINESS MEETING AND THE RECEPTION (see below)! Our Division will host a jointly-sponsored reception along with The Community Research and Development; Conflict, Social Action, and Change; Disabilities; Educational Problems; Environment and Technology; Family; Global; Health, Health Policy, and Health Services; Institutional Ethnography; Labor Studies; Law and Society; Poverty, Class, and Inequality; Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities; Sociology and Social Welfare; Sport, Leisure, and the Body; Teaching Social Problems; and the Youth, Aging, and the Life Course divisions on Friday, August 13 from 6:30pm – 7:30pm. The Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division, along with all other divisions, have been asked by the SSSP to solicit nominations from our division membership for the various positions in the 2011 SSSP General Election (e.g., President, Vice-President, Board members, etc.) by July 15th at midnight (EST). The nomination form for this purpose contains a description of each position and is available at: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1082/. You can also submit nominations directly to the division Chair, Stacy Burns at sburns@lmu.edu before the July 15, 2010 midnight (EST) deadline. Please welcome aboard Diana Veloso as our new editor for the CJDD newsletter. Diana is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. Her dissertation is about the life histories and issues of women formerly on death row in the Philippines. Outgoing editor Sarah Shannon has served as editor since Fall 2006. Joachim J. Savelsberg has published a new book: Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide an Atrocities. London: Sage. Effective June 1, 2010, Michael Musheno has been named Director of the Legal Studies Program and Lecturer in Residence at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, UC/Berkeley. Stephen J. Morewitz, Sociology Department, San Jose State University/Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D., & Associates, will present a poster on: “Gender Differences in the Classification of Foul Play in Missing-Persons Reports,” at the 10th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in Liege, Belgium, September 8-11, 2010. In addition, Stephen J. Morewitz's book, Death Threats: New Research and Clinical Perspectives (New York: Springer, 2008) will be discussed at an Author Meets Critics Session of the American Society of Criminology Meetings in San Francisco, CA, November 17-20, 2010. This book was also placed on the Amazon.ca Bestseller List in School Shootings. Anita Wilson has a report available on her website titled, “Interrupted Education – Interrupted Life.” The report describes findings from Wilson’s research project which looks at how the criminal justice system acts as an exacerbating or ameliorative force on the educational progress of young offenders. The report can be found here: http://www.interrupted-education.com/ Mary Hollowell’s book The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth (Lexington Books) was named a finalist in the education/academic category for the International Book Awards. Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik presented a colloquium at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic) on June 3, 2010.  The colloquium title was, “Work-Life Balance and the Fictional Policewoman: Jane Tennison in the British TV Series Prime Suspect. Stacy Burns, has published a book (with Mark Peyrot) entitled “New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment,” Volume 17 of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (Series Editors, William Freudenburg and Ted Youn), Emerald Group Publishing. The volume examines diverse developments in the evolution of public policy institutions for remedying social problems, including criminal justice, mental health, and community institutions (schools). JoAnn Miller also announces her recently published book: Problem Solving Courts (2009) by JoAnn Miller and Donald C. Johnson.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield James Ptacek has edited a new volume with Oxford Press: Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women considers both the dangers and potential benefits of using restorative justice in these cases of violence against women. The contributors include antiviolence activists and scholars from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where restorative justice is beginning to be practiced. Their chapters introduce a wide range of perspectives, offering rich descriptions of new programs that combine restorative justice with feminist antiviolence approaches. Advocates, community activists, and scholars will find the theoretical perspectives and vivid case descriptions presented here to be invaluable tools for creating new ways for abused women to find justice. We welcome members to submit editorials, book reviews and other content to the CJDD newsletter! As always, please send us your news and accomplishments for inclusion in the next newsletter. If you would like to submit something, please contact our new editor Diana Veloso: dveloso@luc.edu CJDD Summer 2010 7