Division of International Criminology News

The Division of International Criminology is now affiliated with the International Journal of Comparative & Applied Criminal Justice, edited by Mahesh Nalla at Michigan State University.

Candidate Statements for Upcoming DIC Election | Upcoming Conferences with an International Focus | Job Opportunities | Research Opportunities | Calls for Papers

Conferences

Calls for Papers

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY

DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY

The 2007 Student Paper Competition 

Any student currently enrolled in an academic university or college program is invited to participate in the ASC Division of International Criminology Student Paper Competition. Paper topics must be related to international or comparative criminology or criminal justice. Submissions must be authored by the submitting student (only) and submissions will be evaluated in three categories: undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. Papers must be previously unpublished and cannot be submitted to any other competition or made public in any other way until the committee reaches its decision. Manuscripts should include a 100 word abstract, be double-spaced (12-point Times New Roman or Courier font), written in English, and should be no more than 7500 words in length. Submissions should conform to APA format for the organization of text, citations and references. Students from all over the world are strongly encouraged to submit papers.

Submissions should be accompanied by a cover sheet which includes the author’s name, department, university and  location, contact information (including e-mail address whenever possible) and whether the author is an undergraduate, master’s level, or doctoral student. Winning submissions in each category will receive a monetary award and be recognized at the 2007 ASC meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Winning papers will also be considered for publication in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (although winning the competition is not a guarantee of publication as the manuscript will have to go through the journal’s regular peer-review process).

We prefer that manuscripts are submitted as an e-mail attachment in any of the following formats: WordPerfect, Word, .pdf file or .rtf file. For those who are unable to submit via e-mail, a hard copy may be submitted, as long as it arrives by the deadline. An e-mail confirmation will be sent when the manuscript is received and logged as a submission. 

The new deadline this year is June 15, 2007.

Please send all submissions to:

Joanne Savage jsavage@american.edu
Department of Justice, Law and Society
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington D.C., 20016-8043
U.S.A.

Job Opportunities

Research Opportunities

Grants

International Human Rights Funders Group
www.hrfunders.org or info@HRfunders.org

Grantmakers without Borders
www.gwob.net

Collaboration

Candidate Statements for Upcoming DIC Election

Nominations for Chair          

Cindy J. Smith, Ph.D.
Chief, International Center
National Institute of Justice
810 Seventh St. NW #7333
Washington, DC 20531

I am honored to be nominated for a second term as the Chair of the Division of International Criminology.  Two years ago when I became the DIC Chair, our Division was growing in participation and activities under the able leadership of Rosemary Barberet.

The struggle to keep this synergy has been both rewarding and challenging.  Our membership has remained relatively stable since 2003.  However, those involved in various activities has increased.  The Division's journal (International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, edited by Mahesh Nalla and published out of Michigan State University) has continued to grow in size and quality.  The annual luncheon continues to be an important networking event, growing to over 125 participants last year.

The DIC membership began an international research methods committee under the able leadership of Janet Stamatel to promote more rigorous research methods.  Our webpage continues to grow and serve as our historical repository and current news, because of Sharon Chamard's hard work.  Finally, we have struggled to regain our right to participate in the UN activities, a task that has not yet been completed.

If you choose me to continue in this leadership role, I will continue to strive toward inclusion of all members in all internationally related activities, encouraging and enabling research partnerships, and working with our membership to increase our voice on the ASC Executive Board.  I look forward to the pleasure of working with all volunteers and members of the DIC as a re-elected Chair or Past Chair.

Please feel free to contact me about any related business.  I continue to be a faculty member at the University of Baltimore (cjsmith@ubalt.edu) on loan to the National Institute of Justice as the Chief of the International Center (cindy.smith@usdoj.gov).

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Nominations for Secretary   

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Nominations for Treasurer   

My name is Hanno Petras and I have joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. Prior to this appointment I completed a NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship in Prevention Research as well as served on the faculty in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University. My research interests are in the identification of early risk factors for juvenile and adult offending, to study the extent to which these risk factors are malleable by effective interventions as well as in the application of novel latent variable models in criminological research.  I believe that preventive interventions are highly useful to not only improve the Public Health in societies, but importantly to also test developmental theories of crime causation. Similarly, I see internationally collaborative research serving a similar purpose, i.e., to understand variation in risk and consequences on a broad societal level. Coming from an international background (I moved to the US in 1989 from Germany), I was seeking out an organization/division which would support this view and the Division of International Criminology, I believe, can serve as a vital basis for this type of research.   If elected, I am looking forward to being instrumental in the Division's accomplishment of fostering research from an international perspective and promote and train researchers in this important area of Criminology.

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Nominations for Executive Councilor

I am a police superintendent in the Turkish National Police and have been assigned to Department of Intelligence since 1996. I earned my master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Baltimore in the 2005. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Prior to coming to the United States, I served on a United Nations (UN) peace-keeping mission in Bosnia.

As an Executive Counselor of the DIC, I believe I can add to the DIC in three important ways. First, I would respond to any and all calls for advice from the officers of the DIC. Secondly, as a non-US citizen, I would bring truly an international perspective to the DIC. Finally, I would focus my energy on finding ways to bring the DIC further into the leadership role of comparative criminology and criminal justice research on the global, international, and regional levels."

Sheldon Zhang

Professor and Chair

Department of Sociology

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182-4423

Tel: (619) 594-5448; Fax: (619) 594-1325

Email: szhang@mail.sdsu.edu 

Dr. Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
Professor and Chair
Department of Law, Police Science and CJA
John Jay College
New York, NY 10019

International and comparative Criminal Justice systems are at the heart of both my research and personal life.  As somebody who is a product of three countries, three continents and three cultures, I always skewed my academic interests towards the international arena.  I have published a number of books, book chapters and articles dealing with comparative issues in law enforcement and criminal justice and I continue to be involved in two comparative research projects, on use of force by the police and counter-terrorist measures against the terrorism phenomenon.  In addition, I have trained and provided research assistance to a number of police forces around the world, including the Dominican Republic, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey and the U.K., to mention a few.

I have been part of a team, at John Jay College, responsible for the development of the first undergraduate major in International Criminal Justice, and presently I am a member of a task force working on the development of a similar program for the Graduate Studies.

If elected for a position at the Executive Council of the DIC, I intend to further the international and comparative agenda, by reaching out to my contacts around the world and soliciting joint research projects and proposals that will advance the idea of the Criminal Justice profession that transcends cultures and borders.

I have been involved in comparative and international research since my sabbatical in 1989 which I spent rather pleasantly at Georgetown’s villa in Florence, Italy, from where I studied Italian criminal prosecution (comparing it to American practices).  My international interests have since flourished, as has the field of international/ global criminology and criminal justice.  With good leadership the Division of Criminology can be an important influence in the development of research opportunities, scholarship and teaching in this growing field.

I have served the DIC as Newsletter editor, Secretary, chairperson of the publications committee; chair of the elections committee and member of the Executive Council.  I would like to continue my active participation in the leadership of the DIC via a position of the Executive Council.  I see my role there as aiding and abetting the President of the DIC.  The President’s job is a big burden if taken seriously as our past two presidents have done.  To keep up their morale and enthusiasm they need Executive Council members who respond to their emails, give advice and courage, and generally give the sense of a lively, significant organization that provides a valuable service to its members and to the larger public community.

Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Ph.D.

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Auburn University

284 Spidle Hall

Auburn, AL 36849 (USA)

 vazsonyi@auburn.edu

Cross-national/cultural comparative scholarship in criminology, as a systematic method of inquiry, particularly related to criminological theory testing, has been central to my work over the past 15 years.  As part of an international, comparative project I developed, I have collected data on over 15,000 adolescents and young adults located in nine different American, Asian, and European countries over the course of the past decade, together with local collaborators; this has allowed me to extensively publish in this general area of inquiry.  In addition, I was a Fulbright to Slovenia (2004/2005) and currently serve as an Appointed Member of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Peer Review Committee.

Thus, the Division of International Criminology is in so many ways my intellectual home within the ASC, one that I am very committed to serving, and one that I had previously served as an Executive Council member. When I started research in this area some 15 years ago, comparative scholarship was a largely exotic specialty. Today, comparative scholarship is part and parcel of criminological research, as evidenced by the fact that more and more top tier journals in the field include either comparative or at least international work. This trend is likely to continue, and I am dedicated to supporting the DIC, its causes, and its membership as an Executive Council Member.