And without Morris Janowitz, it is unlikely that Jim would have written two books on the socio-legal aspects of the military (though perhaps Jims own military service provided insights that Janowitz helped him develop into a sociological thesis.). 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. He was a challenging but caring professor who motivated his students to seek additional knowledge. The del Carmen family then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1969, where Rolando taught and Josie worked as secretary in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. With deepest sympathies. Frank was a devoted husband and father, participating with Susan and Jeffrey in a variety of activities as they passed through their childhood and teenage years. He received the greatest joy in helping people in the field. He was constantly generating new ideas for change. He went on to show that people exposed to violence in their families of origin were considerably more likely to engage in violence as adults and to support public policies such as capital punishment and military intervention. The field of evaluation will miss her greatly, and I will miss her, not only as an amazing writer and theorist, but also as a mentor and friend. She served the Western Society of Criminology in many capacities, including President from 2002-2003. He was subsequently discharged as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He saw handcuffs or tight supervision as a superfluous management tool as well as an obstacle to effective performance., No one in academia worked as hard as he did, writing every single day on his electric typewriter. My Filebox . Who is T.J. Millers Wife? One award per year is given. His legacy extends far beyond the countless publications and research reports he completed. He was the College of Arts and Sciences Scholar of the Year 2006-2007.He is survived by his wife, Gerri K.; his son and daughter-in-law Dr. Sean (Canaan) Champion, M.D., Arkansas; stepdaughter Wendy L. Tuner, Ohio; and brother-in-law William (Sharon) Sprinkle, Virginia and three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren.The family suggests that those who wish to make a contribution in his name contribute to Laredo Food Bank or charity of choice. Bob, as he was known by all, had retired from the university in August 2016. Upon reflection, she chose to leave the convent to pursue a joint masters and doctoral program in political science at the University of Connecticut, which she completed in 1976. Working with the other founding faculty members of the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice William Brown, Fred Cohen, and Donald Newman Toch helped design the pioneering Albany model of criminal justice and principally offered classes in the segment of the curriculum devoted to planned change and innovation. You can still show your support by planting a tree in memory of Dr. Steven Janowitz. Following World War II, Lieutenant Palmer completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University but was called back into the service (U.S. Air Force) during the Korean Conflict where he served in the Strategic Air Command facilities in Iceland from 1951-1953. He was an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University from 1996-2000, before joining the faculty at California State University, San Bernardino where he worked for 19 years. He was a scholar of immense stature, who continually gave to others his time, his intellect, and his incomparable spirit. She also served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review, Law and Society Review, and Law and Social Inquiry. Hugo Bedau, a philosopher who preferred to wrestle with the knottiest of public policy issues rather than reason from the remove of academia most notably in confronting capital punishment, which he opposed as immoral, unjust and ineffective died on Monday in Norwood, Mass. A memorial service at the University of Delaware is being planned for February, 2010. Born Jan. 10, 1925 in New York City, as a teenager Gil worked as an usher on Broadway and collected tickets at NY Yankee and Giant baseball games before becoming a radioman in the Navy during World War II. Harold and his co-authors, Charles Tittle, Bob Bursik and Bruce Arneklev (Grasmick et al. In short, Toch had an unshakable belief in the idea of bottom-up reform, involving staff and clients in the process of organisational change. He is survived by his wife Edi, with whom he shared a home in Park Hill, OK, sons Justin Heck and Garrett Heck, and the mother of his children, Janice Feazel Downey, of Stillwell, OK, siblings: Elizabeth & Don Yielding, Charles Heck, and Kay Shipp of Monroe, LA, Berlin & Pat Heck of Broken Bow, OK, and Mary Ida Kay of Georgetown, TX. Undergraduates consistently ranked Paul as one of the best professors in the School of Social Ecology. He attended Harvard University beginning in 1935 and graduated in 1939 with high honors as a Sociology major. Also at the turn of the century, Joan was once again ahead of her time when she directed scholarly and policy attention to what is now commonly called the prisoner re-entry problem. As prison populations swelled in the United States, she led the way in understanding two aspects of prisoners re-entry into the community: (1) the consequences of releasing large numbers of formerly incarcerated people into communities, and (2) determining what types of re-entry programs are most effective. WestEd It became the guide to evaluation practice across many social program fields, including criminal justice. She organized the first ESC meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland and became the first ESC President in 2001. Several of her Ph.D. students received dissertation awards from the National Science Foundation or the National Institute of Justice, and her Ph.D. students have gone on to obtain faculty positions at prestigious universities and have themselves made important contributions to the discipline. He helped build a strong legacy of applied sociology at UMass Boston. He would help all who sought his assistance and stayed in touch with most. Steve and Joy have no children together, while Joy has a daughter named Eve from her first marriage. Jodi Lane, University of Florida. I miss him already. 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. She was the principal or co-principal investigator on more than a dozen funded projects from local, state and national sources, and recently completed a research project funded by PEW Center on the States, examining the effects of earned time credit on successful probation outcomes in Arizona. *** In the early 1990s, he played a major role in recruiting female faculty to the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, where they were at the time underrepresented. A son, Lawrence Clinard, preceded him in death. There he formalized the terrorism database; it became the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups (ISVG). He was a tenacious researcher who widely used the Human Relations Area File in his cross-cultural analysis of homicide and suicide. He mentored dozens of Ph.D. students and junior colleagues, and delighted in teaching undergraduate courses in statistics. His woodcarvings included waterfowl and masks, and his paintings often depicted ocean front scenes from his beloved refuge on the Washington coast. She was 88 years old. 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. Memorials may be sent to the University of Nebraska Foundation to benefit the Dr. Benjamin Steiner Fellowship for Criminal Justice Professionals 1010 Lincoln Mall, Suite 300, Lincoln, NE 68508, STEPHEN TIBBETTSFeb 22, 2017.Photo by Jasmin Limon/CSUSB. From Albany, Travis returned to the West, joining the University of Arizona in 1981 where he remained through retirement, from the university, in 1997. Besides being a pioneer in sociological criminology and a successful artist, Grex was a loyal friend who had a terrific sense of humor and who felt passionately about the conditions of the disenfranchised. She held many important positions, including President of the Scandinavian Council on Criminology (1983-85), Vice-President of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (1995-99) and of the International Society Of Criminology (2000-05), and she was a member of the Crime and Justice Steering Committee of the Campbell Collaboration (2000-07). He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Dunn Straus; his children by a previous marriage, Carol Straus and Dr. John Straus; his stepchildren David Dunn and wife Kathy, Lisa Dunn, Thomas Dunn and wife Linda; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. John contributed to many community programs over the years, including Project Rebound at SFSU, and as an organizer and leader of the Prisoners Union in California. 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. I might as well record that my private life has been conventional and my inner life is overwhelmingly pedestrian. He believed in ordinary people and the value of democratic participation to create genuine change. Thus many working class juveniles engage in vandalism and interpersonal violence (non-utilitarian forms of deviance not predicted by Mertons theory) as a way to escape frustration, achieve status in the eyes of peers, and feel good about themselves. He is gone but his spirit will never be forgotten and his impact will be forever felt. In 1957 Don joined the Sociology faculty at San Francisco State College, where he eventually (1966-1968) served as the Department Chair. He also edited (with David J. Pittman), Society, Culture and Drinking Patterns (1962), another classic in the sociocultural literature on drinking patterns. Terrence Dunworth, The Urban Institute A memorial service is being planned for September at LIU Post. Let me say a little about the influences and ideas that Jim brought to bear in his astonishing oeuvre which included 17 books and more than one hundred scholarly articles. He dedicated his career to the work and the mission of NIJ and OJP. Frank was also committed to the University of Delaware, particularly to ensuring a climate of equality. Hal was committed to giving voices to crime victims and supported the Division of Victimology. Sacramento, CA 95819-6085. Since then, we have had had many mini-vacations together in varied places and varied times of the year, most recently again in a cabin near Gatlinburg and again organized by Helen, for 5 days before the ASC conference in November (2018). Theres a reason so many students and colleagues feel so devastated by his loss. And she had the best sense of humor. Anthony R. Harris died peacefully Dec. 4, 2017, in his home in Chesterfield at the age of 76 years old. By citation count or virtually any other measure, this book quickly emerged and remains a landmark statement of a conflict theory of crime. Anthonys important conceptualization of gender and deviance, published in American Sociological Review (1977) challenged criminological scholars to consider the ways in which gender and race typescripts influence behavior and societal responses to offenders. These prison publications are notable for their insiders view and their up-close understanding. 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. Thanks to his vast networks, Kauko engaged the institute in various European research projects, thus expanding HEUNIs research endeavours into new areas. Stan received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Essex in 2004 and Middlesex in 2008. Kauko carried the intellectual and social heritage of the radical 1960s the protection of the weak and socially marginalised throughout his whole life. Jim remained a very active Co-Director of the Center till his death. The family requests no flowers. The theory was paradigm-shifting and spawned dozens of dissertations, books and articles over the years. Elmar received an MSW degree in 1980 from Fachhochschule Niederrhein (Mnchengladbach, Germany). Division of Criminal Justice The 3 of us went to stay with her last March. Anyone who met Al soon realized he had a tremendous love of life, enormous compassion and an incredible wit and sense of humor. Getting Kauko to attend a meeting, or to make a speech or presentation, was not difficult. He gave lasting input into the development of Nordic research co-operation and to the building of connections between researchers and research institutes across the Nordic countries, continuing here the work that had been instigated by his predecessors at the Institute of Criminology, Inkeri Anttila and Patrik Trnudd, during the 1960s. I just found out that "Papa Mauri" has passed. Vinces role as a formative leader in the policy arena of corrections followed several years of leadership roles locally and nationally. Jo was an accomplished and highly regarded scholar and a deeply committed teacher and mentor. I was honored to know and work with her.. She was recognized for her teaching by New York University in 1999, when she was awarded NYUs Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 1992, when she was awarded NYUs Golden Dozen Teaching Award. Over the course of her career, Professor Petersilia did not assume that social science research, however well done, will miraculously find its way to public policy makers; thus, she routinely worked with lawmakers, law enforcement agencies, and corrections officials on issues surrounding criminal justice reform. Steve was born and raised in Boston. Always ahead of the curve, Arnie championed the hiring of female faculty which saw Social Ecology with the highest proportion of women of any academic unit on campus as early as the 1970s. For many years (1984-2001), Rick was a front-line supervisor in the Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing for the Province of Saskatchewan, and Director of Operational Research for Public Safety, Canada in 2009-2010. It was also the beginning of Traviss life-long commitment to the idea that both theory and method were crucial in understanding delinquency and crime. But underneath, he was a kind, caring, compassionate man who always looked forward, seeking progress and comrades to share in that quest. Submitted by Finn Esbensen, Tom Winfree, and Hans-Juergen Kerner, [Photo Courtesy of Institute of Criminology, University of Tbingen, Germany; Photo Copyright IOC, Tbingen, Germany]. Her doctors didnt think she could survive the intensive chemo, radiation and surgeries of the initial treatments starting last January (so hadnt put in a port). On a handful of occasions, he spent personal capital to invest in my career, including convincing me to stay in school by offering me an extra-pay job, even after I had failed the first pro-seminar writing assignment in a class he taught. 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. 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. On behalf of myself and Colonial Opticians (Potomac Village) I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Dr. Janowitz. Although Dr. Janowitz passed away in March of 2021, we believe he lives on in the hearts and thoughts of his family, staff, patients, friends, colleagues and all who had the privilege to meet and The two has been living a happy married life with their daughter and grandchild in New York City. His Ph.D. was earned at Purdue University. He received a bachelors degree from University of Redlands in Southern California and did his graduate work in philosophy at Boston University and Harvard. He always said that students will forget what they learned in your class, but they will never forget how you treated them. As Dr. del Carmen was known for his kindness and self-effacing demeanor, Dr. Vaughn remarked that Dr. The theory (often now referred to as self-control theory) is today a focus of considerable attention in research, theory, and public policy in criminology and criminal justice. 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. He received numerous awards and was an active member of his professional organizations. His other honors included being named Headliner of the Year by the Orange County Press Club in 1977, being the recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Presidents Award in 1985 and the Governors Award for contributions in victimology in 1986. People who never actually read Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design attacked him for simple minded locks and bolts prescriptions. John Irwin, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University (SFSU), passed away January 3. from the University of California at Berkeley, 1974. He never failed to make the sale and showed others how being soft, sincere and confident could win a customer over. 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. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, and following his discharge, he attended the University of Washington; there he completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies and was awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1956. Ring bearer was Ryder Wineke. 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). His students and colleagues uniformly describe him as generous, caring and a delight to be around. And I lost a best friend. As a student, he was already one of the founding members of the social liberal movement established in Finland in 1967 against social injustices and for the improvement of prisoners rights and the living conditions of homeless people. He later went to Indiana University for his PhD in sociology where he studied with Alfred Lindesmith and published The Deterrent Influence of Punishment. Bills first academic job was at the University of Washington where he wrote the pathbreaking A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy. That piece quickly became a classic and established Bill as a founding father of both conflict criminology and the contemporary sociology of law. She obviously did to the doctors amazement. That agent convinced one of Daves associates that he needed cocaine to treat some headaches he was suffering due to a head wound he supposedly had received as a Marine in Vietnam. Charles was also a strong supporter of people in prison. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in his honor to the University of Delaware, Gift Processing, 83 E. Main St., 3rd Floor, Newark, DE 19716, including in the check memo line Frank Scarpitti Graduate Student Award in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Gifts can also be made on the University of Delaware secure website, www.udel.edu/makeagift and including the same designation. At URSA, UCLA and the Rand Corporation, Libby developed a rigorous research agenda, including program evaluations and studies of drug users, and violent offenders. UNH Today (May 23, 2016) Passing: Professor Murray A. Straus, 1926-2016, University of New Hampshire. Hal earned the Jurisprudence Doctorate from Harvard University in 1968 and the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. He was grown up in New York City only. He was also ever-present: these 17 books didnt write themselves and it was clear that he relied enormously on his remarkable wife Jan Sweeney, whom he adored, and who enabled his academic work, as well as their family and cultural lives, while holding down an academic job of her own. After a move to Durham University in 1967 and later to the University of Essex in 1972, Stan began collaboration with Laurie Taylor. Paul conducted numerous research projects during his career, publishing 6 books and editions, 50 articles and chapters, and additional official reports on topics ranging from healthcare fraud to policing, gender and crime, sentencing, criminal deterrence, social justice, criminological theory, criminal justice evaluation, and white-collar and corporate crime. In the early 1990s, his evaluation of the nations first drug court in Miami, Florida, documented the effectiveness of the drug court treatment. Album dropping soon? from Rhode Island College and his Ph.D. in 1978 in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her first visit to Seoul in 1996 to help organize the 12th World Congress of Criminology came at a time of heightened tensions between North and South Korea, with much sabre-rattling from the North. Jim began his career at Cornell where he was jointly appointed in Law and Sociology before moving to NYU School of Law in 1982. Joy was given the custody over Eve, who gave birth to her son Luca in 2011 thus making Joy a grandmother. Al was born in Boston on June 15, 1918. Relationships, children, pets, moving, travel, music, Tacos for Everyone (inside joke, ask me in person)things that are what make us who we are as people. In 1959, he returned to Kentucky, joining the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work, where he introduced a specialty in Correctional Social Work. He was such a unique character: a self-described rebellious Jewish New Yorker. His beaming attitude toward life in the face of incredible physical hardship enriched everyone around him, and he was loved by many. In 1994 he received the Outstanding Scholar Award from the University of Delaware and was awarded a Merit Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and in 1995 he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Excellent dentist. Our beloved friend and colleague, Harry E. Allen, passed away at his home in Palm Springs, California on July 4th, 2021. Simply put, Jeff was one of the best people one could hope to know and emulate. She was predeceased by her parents and her brothers EB Dixon and David Dixon. Dr. Rolando V. del Carmen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Regents Professor Emeritus, and long-time benefactor of the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, died on October 31 in his Huntsville home after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He had been attracted by the advertised interdisciplinary environment and the strange name of the degree. In more recent years, she and her esteemed CTP colleague, Ted Palmer, established an award in their names that is given through the Division of Corrections and Sentencing. Don taught a variety of classes in Sociology, Criminology and Urban Studies and was highly thought of by his students.