He served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1954. PAUL CASCARANO, Retired Federal Executive. When named and distinguished professorships became an additional rung on the ladder for faculty to achieve in academia and another status symbol on email signatures, he added the moniker, Emperor of Wyoming, to his signature in playful protest. from Indiana University in 1942 and worked for nine months at the Indiana Boys School, a state institution for juvenile delinquents. thesis as he drew everyone in around him to help with the research. And, it tied delinquency research to the most fundamental questions of social order, human nature, and classic theory. We all miss him beyond words.. Don Gibbons, a renowned criminologist and important contributor to the criminological literature, died on April 14 in Portland, Oregon. His most recent textbook, Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations and Interventions, is in its fourth edition. Thanks to his vast networks, Kauko engaged the institute in various European research projects, thus expanding HEUNIs research endeavours into new areas. Marc is survived by wife Patricia Vickers Moore Riedel, mother of his children Sharon L. Riedel, son Brian Riedel (Lynne), son Eric Riedel, mother of Erics children Aylin Altan, brother Michael Jr. Riedel (Jennette), and grandchildren Evan Riedel, Julius Riedel, Erika Riedel, Felix Riedel, and Claire Riedel. Nicky Rafter, a long-time professor of Criminal Justice and senior research fellow at Northeastern University and an internationally-revered scholar in the fields of social history and criminology, passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly, on February 29, 2016 at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Jeff became the central repository for all comments from the. He knew many of the invisible people of St. Louis, and it seemed as though everyone in town knew who Bob was, as he was often engaging in countless large and small acts of kindness to others. Professor, Dept. He was 82. Here are the tributes to Maurice Janowitz. We have lost one of the greats. He is listed in Whos Who in America, American Authors, American Men of Science among others, and was a Kentucky Colonel. Thereafter, in her (now classic) book titled When Prisoners Come Home (2003), she utilized both qualitative and quantitative data to critically examine the prisoner reentry problem. This was a fitting tribute because it was only due to his salesmanship that the room was even included in the buildings renovation plans. One of our goals was to help her put some weight back on and we (and her doctors) were thrilled when shed put on 5 pounds. Though her greatest love was reserved for her family and friends, Talarico also loved to sing and was known to devour books. Memorial contributions may be made in Daves name to: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, www.vvaw.org or Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc., National Office, P.O. He lamented the size of prison populations in those nations with large penal systems, and asked whether the international community has a moral obligation to shame these extremely punitive countries. Frank was also committed to the University of Delaware, particularly to ensuring a climate of equality. He was a dedicated and knowledgeable basketball fan and former player, and served as a coach for a number of years in the Irvine Youth Basketball League. Indeed, toward the end of her life, she often remarked on how she found inspiration in her students and took great pride in their many accomplishments, knowing they represent the future. Vince was an iconic figure in correctional theory, policy, and practice. He lived in Concord, Mass. His papers, reports, and books are used and referenced around the world. He was also an active member of the Chicano civil rights movement on the UCI campus. Paul was the only faculty member in UCIs School of Social Ecologys history to receive his undergraduate and graduate degrees at UCI. Professor Block created international programs in the Netherlands, Wales, and Denmark and mentored numerous graduate students du! In 1974, they moved to Huntsville, Texas. Kauko took an active part in international co-operation and in the development comparative criminal statistics, both as a member of the European Sourcebook Working group and as a member of several working groups of the European Society of Criminology. He is greatly missed. His research focused primarily on juvenile justice and disproportionate minority contact with the criminal justice system. Tax-free donations to ASC or any of the ASC Divisions. [1]The summary of Professor Allens professional career was taken from Willard Oliver, Celebrating 50 years, 1963-2013, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Arnold Binder, inaugural chair of the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and founder of the Social Ecology program, died Oct. 2. Since 1991, 3 of the 4 of us have had breast cancer and 2 of the 4 of us had painful no-confidence votes in our positions of chair by colleagues we thought were our friends and for whom wed advocated. He was a remarkable man and a great criminologist who will be dearly missed by all those who knew him. He was also the inspiration for the Justiceworks Institute and the Justice Studies academic program at UNH. Hans himself sees his career path as more of a cautionary tale, redolent with incidents in which aspirations appeared to have been blunted by obdurate realities and successes proved annoyingly evanescent. Indeed, to the end, he never felt like he achieved all that he could, but it never stopped him trying. Echovita Inc is a registered trademark. Ruth D. Peterson, Ohio State University In 2010, Paul was the Keynote Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Medicaid Program Integrity. 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. As he described it, it was a way to keep our students busy with research and away from working in the bars next to campus. Over the years the Center has grown in both size and in the scope of its studies. The Many Faces of Youth Crime: Comparing and Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives on Youth Crime is now in press (Springer). He received his BA from Chapman University, masters degree from California State University, San Bernardino and his Ph.D. in from Temple University all in Criminal Justice. We shared and relied on one another for a lot, some good some bad, but that is what made our friendship one that I have always cherished. He also authored many scholarly papers published in journals or as book chapters, most on delinquency, criminal organizations, and theories and concepts in criminology. Dr. McCord joined the University of Louisville faculty in fall 2010 and recently was awarded promotion (associate professor) and tenure. 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. In retirement, Ted was a regular attendee of the ASC meetings. He developed regional training programs and national conferences that brought together professionals from a number of fields to address community problems. 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. Moreover, and particularly noteworthy to the current debate over public sociology and public criminology regarding scholar versus activist/policy roles, Stan effectively embraced both. She was instrumental in developing new perspectives on crime that bettered our understanding of gender and violence. Plant a tree in memory of Dr. Steven An environmentally friendly option Plant a tree 6 trees planted in memory of Dr. Steven Janowitz. STEVEN JANOWITZ Obituary He taught In China, Saudi Arabia Malaysia, Egypt, and Thailand and visited 45 other countries as well. In 1978 he was invited as a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, which set the stage for his activities of the next several decades. These books present important and sophisticated empirical research projects. In 2002, his outstanding contributions to university governance were recognized with the Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate. Michael met his wife and children and became a family man late in life. Harolds research was about illegal behavior and norm violations in general, particularly guilt, shame and embarrassment, and their parallels to legal or formal sanctions. He articulated the case against the death penalty as well as anyone ever has, Paul G. Cassell, a law professor, former federal judge and noted proponent of the death penalty, said in an e-mail. Questions regarding the Fund may be sent to Barbara Owen at barbarao@csufresno.edu. We hope that his memory and impact will continue into the future. She also noted that her father loved travel, meals, and wine with his family. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he earned a Master of Comparative Law. Any remembrance would be incomplete if it failed to mention Dons fondness for running. Dear brother-in-law to Bruce. While the appeals process progressed, Jim Coleman of the University of Chicago (bless his heart) successfully convinced the courts to release Dave into his custody. 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. He was highly effective in mediating conflicts between civil rights lawyers and corrections officials. 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. Third genre:his work on the ironies of American social policyIf the study of organized crime finds Jim in an optimistic mood, this third genre is much more sardonic in tone. She began her career on TV as a producer of Good Morning America in the 80s, in which she could also have been performing stand-up comedy. Sometimes policemen picked him up and drove him home only to discover that he was the author of the famous book on juvenile delinquency they had read in their criminal justice programs. In 1980, Paul began his professorial career in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University (IU). After leaving NIC, Allen took over the leadership of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Board of Directors for a decade, and was central to saving that organization. Finally, those who knew him will remember his sense of humor. Irwin taught Sociology and Criminology at SFSU for 27 years. He had the largest and most diverse music library any of us has ever seen, and a bad movie collection that was spectacular. His scholarly publications included several seminal papers on the epidemiology of crack cocaine use, as well as the effectiveness of prison- based substance abuse treatment for drug-involved offenders. To me, it is an investment in the person and in the future of the College of Criminal Justice, Dr. del Carmen said. He was a brilliant scholar and a remarkable friend who lived an exciting and productive life before his passing on February 1 of this year. 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. In her courses and through various funded research opportunities for her students, Rita stressed the importance of constructive research partnerships with criminal justice agencies. When he turned his mind to policy he focused on developing criminal justice policies that are both humane and scientifically informed. In 2013, his research was recognized by Southeastern Louisiana University for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Research. Simpson trial and the Rodney King trial and the role of racism in contemporary criminal justice. For example, she was tapped by the California State Legislature to chair an expert panel on correctional reform in California and thereafter by the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to chair a strike team charged with the implementation of California Assembly Bill 900, also known as the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007. He was Assistant Director of the 1967 Presidents Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, handling the area of corrections, and he later drafted portions of the 1968 report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Most credit went to others, for later articles. He helped build a strong legacy of applied sociology at UMass Boston. Soon afterward Dick was selected to matriculate at the University of California, Berkeley in the famous School of Criminology where he received his Doctorate of Criminology in 1971. He is already missed by those of us who were fortunate enough to know him well. Larry is survived by one son, Mr. Jeremiah Salinger a current graduate student at Arkansas State University and formerly resident of Spokane, Washington; his life partner, Ms. Robin Pawson of Bono; the mother of his child, Mrs. Denise Routt of Spokane; and a host of other family and friends. He certainly didnt believe in one big thing. He was a painstaking empiricist and a hard-headed realist who abjured all forms of dogma and who was allergic to any kind of grand theory. Practitioners, policymakers, and funders knew they could count on him to take on tough and controversial issues and deliver informative, thorough, and fair results. PAUL BRANTINGHAM (Simon Frasier University): I note the reasons why both the field of Criminology and the criminologists who work within it benefited greatly from this man, Ray Jeffery. Memorial gifts may be made to the Susette M. Talarico Fund, which supports students and faculty in criminal justice and political science. But his most distinctive writing, and his characteristic intellectual voice, is most apparent not in these books, nor even in the books on organized crime. Jeff, as he was affectionately known, was retired from the faculty of the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University, and was a past president of the American Society of Criminology. Steve graduated with his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland in 1997. Robbins teaching and research focused primarily on correctional organizations and the intersection between gender and crime. 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. He later served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from1982-1995. Or as I like to think of it: From one Clinton presidency to another. A partial list of topics includes education issues, race relations, Scandinavian studies, the death penalty, film censorship, prisons, prostitution, crime and crime victims, policing, community corrections, rehabilitation, organized crime, prisoner rights, evaluations, rape, homicide, victimless crimes, legal ethics, drugs, violence, social problems, good Samaritans, compensation, restitution, deterrence, witch trials, criminal justice policy, research methods, medical fraud, comparative criminology, and white-collar and corporate crime. In 1990 he was the oldest Fulbright Scholar in Tokyo. Although he rarely talked about his required military service, Elmar served in the German Navy, the Kriegsmarine. Just this past summer, Steve was in Dallas and wanted to have lunch. Donald Cressey once called the young Bill Chambliss, one of my sociological childrenpeople who drifted into my UCLA undergraduate classes in the 1950s and got turned on to sociology. Hundreds of us are now Bills criminological children (and grandchildren), turned on to criminology by his righteous anger, his engagement, and his theoretical vision. He also began working on behalf of federal courts as a special master in cases involving prison and jail crowding, the provision of inmate medical care, and juvenile corrections systems in many states. It, too, provides a $1,000 scholarship annually for a graduate student at the College of Criminal Justice. His published journal articles comprise too many to list, but his topics were diverse and always timely. Nevertheless, once the appeals were exhausted, Dave was sent to prison, where he eventually served 14 months (the time was reduced because of new sentencing guidelines). In his own words, even the worst seminar is better than staying at home. He was a founder of the Department of Sociologys Criminal Justice major, director of the Universitys Alcohol and Substance Abuse Studies program, and acting chair for one year of the Department of Sociology. This award is made to a junior or above who is an underrepresented group. 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. Sadly, she will not be around to participate in ISRD-3. Its hard to put into words what Dr. del Carmen has meant to our program and the broader field of academic criminal justice, Dr. Vaughn opined.