He was married for 46 years to his wife Mildred (Mim), and took great pride in the achievements of his children (Jeff, Thea, and Risa) and grandchildren. I ended up taking several of his classes during my undergraduate career and our more formal interactions eventually spilled over into discussions about research, movies, food, music, traveling, and various other topics. 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. FSU graduate students. Her retirement was an active one in a community she cherished to the fullest. He was an exceptional mentor to his students. A Eurogang workshop or Dubrovnik course was not complete without either a collective outing to a cultural/historical site or a dinner at a local restaurant (or both). Allen moved up through the CYA organization and became its director. But among those who knew him and there are hundreds and hundreds of us Jim will mostly be remembered for his warmth, his humor, and his humanity. Rather, committed scholars need to identify and explain what policy choices and likely consequences are involved in particular decisions. The American Society of Criminology honored his outstanding contributions to criminological scholarship and the advancement of the discipline by making him an Honorary Fellow of the association. Her research was bold and she was even bolder. He served as Associate Director of the Sellin Center for Criminology & Criminal Law, a position that enabled him to help assure that the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort study was able to include the follow up to age 26 for those 27,160 subjects. Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. His love of the southwest was revealed in his large yard planted carefully with native plants. Professor Garrett received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Washington State University and his BA from Whitman College. Cindy J. Smith, past chair of the Division of International Criminology, past Secretary/Treasurer of the Division on Corrections and Sentencing, and most recently, Director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), passed away January 18, after courageously battling cancer. He attended junior and senior high school in Cleveland and graduated from Cleveland State University in 1958. His natural talent for leadership led to his eventual selection as dean of the School of Criminal Justice. Over the years the Center has grown in both size and in the scope of its studies. She will be deeply missed. He served as the President of the American Society of Criminology in 1975. The National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium named its distinguished scholar award in his honor. And those of us who were privileged to count ourselves as friends of this distinguished colleague, illustrious scholar, and altogether remarkable man long cherish his memory and smile when we hear his name mentioned as it will certainly be for decades to come. He passed away on August 7, 2011. Devoted brother to Roni (Chuck). Doting Papa Steve to Maks. With the arrival of AIDS and its disproportionate concentration among drug using populations, his research focus shifted to the epidemiology of HIV infection and transmission, and later to the development and evaluation of effective HIV prevention and treatment programs for both street and criminal justice populations. Her work on these and other issues focused on improving the corrections system through program evaluation and policy relevant research; in fact, she referred to herself as an embedded criminologist as a way of emphasizing that her professional pursuits as a researcher and scholar required her to effectively work from within the criminal justice system. Many knew Mike in a variety of capacities: distinguished scholar, colleague, mentor, and friend. His innate curiosity and ability to think outside the box led him to perform novel research demonstrating the impact of medical advances on the lethality of criminal assault. He will always be remembered as a loving, generous man. Dales dedication to supporting the scholarly development of students and faculty will be honored with the Dale Sechrest Memorial Fund and a research lab named in his honor. He hung out with such notorious organized crime chiefs as Meyer Lansky as well as lowlevel drug dealers and petty criminals in Seattle; poppy growers, heroin traffickers, and CIA chiefs in Thailands Golden Triangle; pirates of many stripes, whenever he could find them.. She launched another show on 4 September 2012 entitled Joy Behar: Say Anything! which ended after a year. At that time, there were two units, Sociology A and Sociology 1, and new faculty lines were offered in only the research unit. He then moved to the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany (first in 1974-75 as a visiting professor; then 1977-81 as professor) where he enjoyed a close collaboration with Michael Hindelang and working with graduate students. Without question, this blossoming passion was also fostered by working more closely with Steve, who eventually chaired my masters thesis. Kauko travelled to Washington, D.C. to receive the award together with his wife, Kaarina. Professor Bedaus curriculum vitae was more than 13,000. Underneath, Jeff was a real softy who went out of his way to accommodate students and colleagues. Dr. Opolot made wonderful and memorable contributions to African criminology and justice systems. I will miss him. Over the years we shared conference panels and more than a few beers He was a very humorous fellow under that no nonsense cloak he so often wore. Kauko was a member of the board of the ESC in 2005-2006 and he acted as president of the association in 2006-2007. Ray earned his BA at the University of Delaware in 1972 and a Ph.D. in criminology at Florida State University in 1978. He received his BA, MA, and PhD (1954) in sociology at Yale University, where he studied under Selden D. Bacon. His work ethic was unmatched. First genre: the work on prisons and imprisonment.The leading works here are Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society; Guard Unions and the Future of Prisons; and Perspectives on Prisons and Imprisonment. Dr. Becker was an active member of both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, as well as an active participant in the International Criminal Justice/Criminology section. Over the past quarter century since its publication, and especially since 9/11, many of his predictions of ever greater inclusionary and exclusionary controls have been all too fully borne out. In the last several years, he focused on directing the Coral Gables Research Office of CDAS, and on developing a research program to examine the rise in the abuse and diversion of prescription drugs. Joan passed away on September 23, 2019, following a hard-fought battle against ovarian cancer. In 1963, he entered the London School of Economics to pursue doctoral research on social responses to vandalism. NANCY GROSSELFINGER: I will be forever grateful to Jeff for the dignity with which he treated me as a PhD candidate. Prior to joining BiographyPedia in July 2019, he was a Bizarre TV reporter and theatre critic at TheSun. The family will receive friends in celebration of Richards life at Humenik Funeral Chap In his 70s and 80s, Ted pursued a rigorous travel agenda, which included long trips to such exotic places as the South Pacific Islands, the Great Wall of China, Mongolia, Antarctica, India, Nepal, and Tibet. Steve has never been interested in attracting the medias attention and in being under the spotlight, and prefers to spend his free time in his own or his wifes company. It was in the Navy that Hans met Doug Grant, his co-author on books like Reforming Human Services: Change through Participation (1982) and Police as Problem Solvers (1991), to whom he credits some of his best ideas. At the time of his death, he was planning another trip to Southeast Asia which included paragliding in the Seychelles and a stop in Brazil on the way home. In all of this work, there is a common theme of change through participation which he developed in his last great work, summarising a lifetime of work: Organizational Change Through Individual Empowerment. Dr. Becker a police officer with Los Angeles Police Department for four years and a member of the U. S. Coast Guard for eight years. As Stan exemplified throughout his career, objective scholarship cannot be trumped by mere advocacy or the taking sides for some particular policy choice but rather seeking a curious and simultaneous balance between detachment and passion. Their study of the conditions and effects of long-term imprisonment in H Wing in Durham Prison, Psychological Survival (1972), significantly heightened prison policy concerns in the Home Office. In December she got pneumonia and went downhill quickly. Binder founded the program to provide direct interaction between the intellectual life of the university and recurring problems of the social and physical environment. A Remembrance was held at the University of New Haven February 21, 2015. He is survived by his children Robert Lundman (Elana) of Washington, DC, and Julie Lundman (Colin) of Cambridge, MA; his three grandchildren; his brother and sister-in-law Bob and Cathy Lundman and their children. PAUL CASCARANO, Retired Federal Executive. Throughout his life he held a steadfast belief in the value of education and what it would bring. He did not like bureaucracy or process but was a master at dealing with both. His early work focused on deterrence and the mechanisms through which sanctions affect behavior. Of course, none of this would have been possible had his academic work been shoddy. Over several decades, he worked at the National Academies of Sciences, the Urban Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Bill never lost sight of the people behind his theories. Martin Luther King, Jr. His stepfather was a career military officer of his residency in earlier years was geographically scattered. I discovered the beauty of well done science and the potential for it to inform practices that would ultimately improve the quality of life among people who are disadvantaged by their experiences, their genetics, and the dynamic impact of these factors on their ability to function in society. After enrolling at UCI as an undergraduate, he served as a teaching assistant for a prisons course taught by Professor Gilbert Geis, who later became his mentor, close colleague and friend. But Jims most original contribution is a sociological one: it is his insistence on situating imprisonment within the large-scale changes taking place in American society and revealing the surprising effects these have had on the inner life of the prison. California State University, San Bernardino, http://www.legacy.com/can-ottawa/obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=146251548. 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. Mitch was high energy, loved basketball, and was an avid runner, finishing the Flying Pig Marathon and several half marathons. As the first director of the Social Ecology program, he oversaw its development and growth. Excellent dentist. Among his other contributions at Silliman are the Dr. Jovito R. Salonga Center for Law and Development, the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management, the College of Business Administration, the Senior High School Programs, and scholarships for high performing students. Toch retired in 2008, but maintained an active writing agenda in the ensuing decade. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Louis A. Mayo Endowment for Community Policing, South Eastern Missouri University, Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology, One University Plaza, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. Here is Maurice Janowitzs obituary. Second, Jeff was a protean thinker who continuously tested the scientific basis for criminological claims and who consistently argued that the field had to expand its scientific and scholarly horizons in order to properly understand and deal with crime and criminal behaviour. He was an excellent chef and a consummate host. During an illustrious career spanning over four decades, she was a Senior Researcher and Director of The Criminal Justice Program at RAND (1989-1994); a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Founding Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections at the University of California, Irvine (1992-2009); and The Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University (2009-2018), where she was also the Co-Director of The Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Under Eds leadership, the School of Criminal Justice received over 300 funded grants totaling more than $60 million in external funds. Our friend and colleague, Elmar G.M. Beginning her research career at RAND in 1974, she was one of the first criminologists to recognize community corrections as an important area for research and to conduct large-scale empirical studies in this area. The importance of saying "I love you" during COVID-19, Effective ways of dealing with the grieving process, Solutions to show your sympathy safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Professor Emeritus Hal Pepinsky of Indiana University, Bloomington Department of Criminal Justice passed away on January 28, 2023. She personally influenced the lives of many young women in the Omaha area through her involvement in youth softball. Irvine Jodi Lane, University of Florida Teds research and legacy are classic to the field of criminology and corrections. Diego Vigil, UCI. Al was enormously kind and helpful to everyone he knew. John Goldkamp, age 64, Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, passed away on August 26, 2012, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Beginning in the mid-1980s, much of her research focused on assessing the impact of community-based punishments on offender behavior and public safety. Dr. McCord mentored several graduate students and co-authored numerous publications. He is survived by his wife Hildegard, his daughter Ursula (judge in the highest German Federal court) and son Marvin Oliver (Professor Universitario Sao Paolo, Brazil). So, I took him to Twisted Root Burgers, a place in Deep Ellum that Guy Fieri once profiled on Divers, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Above all, Jean-Paul was a lover of life. She was the heart and soul of ASC for 30 years, serving as the Executive Administrator from 1976 until her retirement in 2006. He researched and wrote on mental health, crime, delinquency, corrections, deviant behavior, social problems, drug treatment and the role of organized crime in illegal waste disposal. Jo was an accomplished and highly regarded scholar and a deeply committed teacher and mentor. WebSteven Janowitz Obituary - Death : Steven Janowitz Has Passed Away - We learnt on Friday, March, 19th, 2021, that Steven Janowitz has died with loved ones left in total devastation. In two trips to Africa, she organized many opportunities to meet with scholars in our field, and to encourage membership in ISC and attendance at the World Congresses in Rio and Philadelphia. Above all, he will be remembered for his ability to bring people together in ways that enhanced their lives. A prominent advocate for womens rights and a breast cancer survivor, Roz founded the Long Island Womens Institute (LIWI) in 1991 to encourage women to become successful leaders and to break the proverbial glass ceiling. Her honors have included the Woman of the Year Award for Excellence from the Minorities and Women Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; the Fellow Award (twice) from the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences; and recognition for her work in AIDS education from the Long Island Association for AIDS Care. I never forget when he looked me in the eyes face-to-to-face telling me that he was very proud that I pursued all of my appointments and was very consistent with my dental plan. Among his associates were leading crime figures and the victims of their actions. Steve was a mentor, an advocate, and a sage advisor. Dale K. Sechrest (1939 2011), or as he preferred to be called Uncle Dale, passed away unexpectedly at Loma Linda Hospital on November 12th, 2011 from cancer-related complications. Enlisting in the Army in 1957, Dale monitored Soviet radio and missile activity from Turkey. 24 to Mar. After teaching at UC Irvine and Purdue, Ron returned to Ohio State, where he produced a distinguished body of research and established himself as a great academic administrator. When he completed his PhD in 1973 from NYU, Jim had already relocated to the University of Miami continuing to work with Chambers in the Division of Addiction Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Miami. Binder is survived by his wife of 51 years Virginia; children Andrea, Jeff and Jennifer; and grandchildren Julia, Clare, Elliott and Damien, a freshman at UCI. After graduating from Chaparral High School, she attended Santa Clara University where she earned B.S. He wanted to know how they are. Division of Criminal Justice He earned a doctorate in sociology from Ohio State in 1974, studying criminology with Sy Dinitz. He was not hesitant to offer advice to a series of deans including Vince OLeary, Don Newman, Terry Thornberry, David Bayley, Julie Horney, and David Duffee. Andrea Leverentz, University of Massachusetts Boston. At the Administration of Justice program in Houston, Professor Opolot showed distinctive and commendable services over the years through his participation in numerous dissertation committees and advisor to the Administration of Justice Club. Rick was born on April 19, 1944, to the late Oscar Yngve and Mabel Josephine Lundman in Chicago, Illinois, where he spent his childhood. He was an influential and pioneering organized crime scholar who authored or co-authored books such as: East Side-West Side, Poisoning for Profit; The Business of Crime, Masters of Paradise, All Is Clouded by Desire, and Space, Time & Organized Crime. A beautiful memorial service was held on a warm Sunday morning; April 27, 2008 at the Japanese Garden on the campus of CSULB. Personally, Jim loved jazz, scuba diving, traveling and collecting art from Latin America. Ms. Putnam, a medical historian, said Professor Bedau was teaching at Princeton in the 1950s when the New Jersey Legislature was weighing measures in support of the death penalty. After the mines closed, his father transplanted the family into a series of housing projects and abandoned houses/trailers that could serve as free, temporary residences while he unsuccessfully looked for full-time work. John L. Hagan, Northwestern University His PhD dissertation provided the basis for his book Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972). However, it was the chance occurrence of being asked to teach a course on legal and criminal psychology while at Michigan State University in the 1960s that led to his lifetime passion of criminal justice reform. from the University of California Berkeley in 1971. Grex received his doctorate in sociology at Northwestern University in 1954. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him but especially by his partner and husband of 22 years, Bruce Ponder. He also was preceded in death by his grandparents: Carl and Mary Radloff, John F. and Anna Marie Steiner, Matt Jarolimek, and Oscar Berryman. Another was her famous paper on alternative approaches to experiments for assessing causality, which she entitled What to do Until the Random Assigner Comes? for a book published by Brookings Press in 2002. In this incredibly readable work (among the first popular academic books on the subject of violence), Toch pioneered the, now fashionable, method of participatory peer research, utilising peer researchers (prisoners, ex-prisoners and ex-police officers) in both the data collection and data analysis processes in an attempt to blur the line between the observer and the observed., On a personal level, Hans was not a fan of memoirs, although he read many written by friends and contemporaries. http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/notable-deaths/article/nicholas-kittrie-1926-2019-pulitzer-prize-nominated. Talarico was the Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law, Emerita and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorat UGAs School of Public and International Affairs. At that point he already had garnered international acclaim for his work in military sociology and his studies of street gang activities, which later expanded into a focus on youth violence in general. In between, he was an assistant professor of Political Science (Criminal Justice Program) at California State University, Chico (2002-2006) and then an associate professor there in 2006. Steve was one of those colleagues that I could go to when I needed to discuss a possible project, advice on how to handle a situation, or just to vent. He seemed to always have a way of making things seem better. Her family and many friends spoke in moving detail, celebrating her life, her friendships and her accomplishments. 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. Bondeson, U. V. (2003) Nordic Moral Climates. And I am now at a profound loss, as is far too often the case, because I never stopped to thank him for simply being himself and for how much he impacted my career and life until it was too late to tell him in person. Scholarship fund. Dr. Salinger taught in the Department of Criminology, Sociology, and Geography at Arkansas State University from 1990 until his death, most recently serving as department chair. The importance of saying "I love you" during COVID-19, Effective ways of dealing with the grieving process, Solutions to show your sympathy safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. To explain what I mean, let me distinguish three distinct genres that, I would suggest, together constitute Jims body of published work. He never forgot to call, to email, to stay in touch sometimes over decades and great distances. Dons last book, Talking about Crime and Criminals: Problems and Issues in Theory Development in Criminology, published in 1993, reflects his long-term attention and commitment to the elaboration of criminological theory. Lou was known to many long-time employees at the U.S. Department of Justices National Institute of Justice as NIJ Employee #1. Lous history with the agency dates to its earliest days in 1968. An avid swimmer, gardener, and Phillies fan, John will be remembered for his strong sense of humor, love of rock and roll trivia, all things French, and his deep and long-standing friendships. Members of the American Society of Criminology will recall his recognition as a Fellow and his service as their past President. He was 85. Quite simply, Jim enriched the lives of everyone around him. In his 2004 presidential address to the ASC, Francis Cullen recognized Ted as one of the 12 people who saved correctional rehabilitation. Ted was later recognized by the ASC Academy of Experimental Criminology which awarded him the 2011 Joan McCord Award. Larry earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Ecology from the University of California at Irvine (1981), a Master of Arts in Forensic Studies from Indiana University at Bloomington (1983), and his doctorate in Sociology from Washington State University (1992). He worked initially in alcoholism research at Columbia University with sociologist Howard M. Bahr. Jeff became the central repository for all comments from the. Boulder, CO: Westview. Winterfield was born in Miami, FL, and spent most of her childhood in Denver, CO. She studied with Delbert Elliott receiving her PhD in sociology in 1980 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and she completed a post-doctoral program with Professor Alfred Blumstein at Carnegie Mellon University. These activities did not sit well with the Alabama political power brokers and they assigned a Special Agent from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to go undercover with the VVAW in an effort to take Dave down. in Sociology (1966) from San Jose University. In lieu of flowers, donations in Rays honor can be made to the Delaware Food Bank, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, or the American Civil Liberties Foundation. The first was in corrections. He is survived by his beloved partner Mabe, his son Mark, and his faithful service dog Kota. Murray Straus, an internationally influential former professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire and founder of the field of family violence research, died May 13 at the age of 89. A collaboration with social historian, Mary Gibson, led to their re-translation of the Cesare Lombrosos Criminal Man and Criminal Woman. Josine launched the First International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD-1) in 1989, which was followed several years later by a much expanded ISRD-2 in which more than 30 countries collaborated. He compiled a robust and distinguished record of scholarship and was the longtime editor of Crime, Law and Social Change. Studying for comps at a restaurant every Friday afternoon, we would talk theory, policy, theory, methods for hours on end. He was born in Boston, MA on November 12, 1911, the son of Gladys Barron and Andrew Marshall Clinard. A native of New York, he earned his doctorate in public administration (Criminal justice) from New York University in 1964. In 2009 he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the British Society of Criminology. Over his 40-year career, Elmar presented hundreds of lectures, talks, and formal papers on victims rights, social justice, and restorative justice at dozens of conferences and courses around Europe, North America, and Asia. There are no events at this time. Dr. Roslyn (Roz) Muraskin, ACJS Secretary and professor of criminal justice, passed away on Saturday, April 21 after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. Al later wrote Deviance and Control, a textbook on the Sociology of Deviance.