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Attention graduate students! Upcoming conferences, competitions, workshops and training and fellowships and funding opportunities
CONFERENCES
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY
November 16 - 19, 2011 | Washington, D.C.
As most of you know, the ASC conference will be in Washington, DC in November 2011 – because it is so close, we’d like to see as many of you as possible participating. The deadline for submission of an abstract to ASC is Friday, March 11. Students seeking funding to present a paper at the conference must acquire a faculty sponsor to supervise the preparation of the paper and presentation; click here for the form that will be needed to indicate intent to apply for funding (deadline will be in March as well; Dr. Auerhahn will send out another email with more details about procedures to apply for funding as the deadline approaches).
Departmental funds are intended to defray costs for students who are the sole presenter of a paper (multiple authors are ok, but the funded student must be responsible for the entire presentation). If you plan to submit a paper for consideration to present at the conference, you should begin discussions with your advisor (or another faculty member you want to mentor you on the paper) soon after the semester begins.
http://www.asc41.com/Annual_Meeting/2011/2011meeting.html
ACADEMY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SCIENCES
March 1 – 5, 2011 | Toronto, Canada
March 13 – 17, 2012 | New York, NY
This is the other major national conference in our field. The deadline to present this year has long since passed, but the 2012 conference is in New York next year – like Washington DC, easy and relatively inexpensive to get to. Their conference is held in March and frequently coincides with our Spring Break (though not this year). The submission deadline is mid-September. Dr. Auerhahn will be sending out more complete information as this gets closer. We generally limit departmental funding to students presenting at ASC; however, funding is available through the College of Liberal Arts.
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS FUNDING INFORMATION can be found here: http://www.temple.edu/cla/graduate/travelandresearchawards/index.htm
PAPER COMPETITIONS
2011 ICPSR RESEARCH PAPER COMPETITION FOR MA STUDENTS
(Something to think about for next year)
ICPSR and the Research Center for Minority Data are pleased to announce our 2011 Research Paper Competitions. This year, ICPSR and RCMD are holding three competitions – two for undergraduates and one for master’s students. The purpose of these competitions is to highlight student research papers using RCMD or ICPSR data. The objective is to encourage students to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a dataset(s) held within ICPSR or the RCMD archive and presented in written form. One of the undergraduate competitions is for papers using data in the RCMD archive; the other can use dataset(s) from any ICPSR archive. The master’s competition can use data from any ICPSR archive. Competitions awards are $1,000 for first place and $750 for second place. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2011. For details, please see
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/prize/index.jsp .
ASC GENE CARTE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION
Any student currently enrolled on a full-time basis in an academic program at either the undergraduate or graduate level is invited to participate in the American Society of Criminology Gene Carte Student Paper Competition. Previous prizewinning papers (any prize from any organization and/or institution) are ineligible.
The 1st , 2nd, and 3rd place papers will be awarded prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively and will be eligible for presentation at the upcoming Annual Meeting. The 1st prize winner will also receive a travel award of up to $500 to help defray costs for attending the Annual Meeting.
Application deadline: April 15, 2011.
Please see http://www.asc41.com/awards/CarteAward.html for more information.
AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION
The journal Law & Social Inquiry (published by the American Bar Foundation) also has a Graduate Student Paper Competition. The winning paper will be published in Law & Social Inquiry and the author(s) will receive a total cash prize of $500 (US). Law & Social Inquiry publishes both empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The formal announcement is not yet available for the 2011 competition, but the deadline is usually March 1st.
WORKSHOPS and TRAINING
INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RESEARCH (ICPSR)
SUMMER PROGRAM IN QUANTITATIVE METHODS
We highly recommend this program for advanced students (in prospectus or dissertation-writing stage). There are four-week courses of instruction, as well as shorter (three to five days, usually) competitive-admittance workshops. Many of the shorter workshops come with a stipend to cover expenses; other funding may be available to you as students at a member institution. See Dr. Auerhahn for more information if you are interested in attending.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/
http://sumprog.blogspot.com/2010/08/2011-icpsr-summer-program-preliminary.html
FELLOWSHIPS and FUNDING
NIJ GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
The deadline is February 28, 2011. More information here: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000965.pdf
ASC GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES
These fellowships are designed to encourage students of color, especially those from ethnic minority groups underrepresented in the field, including but not limited to, Asians, Blacks, Indigenous peoples, and Hispanics, to enter the field of criminology and criminal justice. Applicants need not be members of the American Society of Criminology. Individuals studying criminology or criminal justice issues are encouraged to apply. The recipients of the fellowships must be accepted into a program of doctoral studies. Generally three (3), $6,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
Deadline for applications is March 1st.
http://www.asc41.com/awards/GradMinorityFellowship.html.
Distinctions
Prof. John Goldkamp was named to sit on the Advisory Committee on the Criminal Justice System in Philadelphia of the Joint State Government Commission. Prof. Goldkamp was also appointed Chair of the Bail Committee.
New grant: The National Evaluation of Community-Based Violence Prevention Program
Dr. Caterina Roman and Prof. Wayne Welsh will work in partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice to design and implement a comprehensive process and outcome evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s $8.6 million Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program (CBVP).
The CBVP demonstration program will replicate practices associated with some of the most effective recent innovations in violent crime prevention and control, such as Chicago’s CeaseFire and the Boston Gun Project. The strategies underlying the programs focus on deterring violent behavior by working directly with high-risk youth and gang offenders, by setting clear standards for their behavior, and by providing appropriate pro-social opportunities for youth in the neighborhoods affected by violence. These approaches have evolved into promising strategies for violence reduction with theoretical underpinnings, yet the empirical research assessing the impact of the initiatives is still developing. Attempts to replicate the models have not always been successful.
The evaluation team will begin by collaborating with OJJDP, their project advisors, and the four CBVP sites to design methods of generating the data necessary to assess site performance and to monitor implementation of the CBVP logic model. The evaluation itself will include three additional components: 1) a process and transferability analysis that draws upon direct observations, participant interviews and document analysis to assess the CBVP logic model and the factors related to its success; 2) an outcome analysis of the effects of CBVP on individual youth using self-administered questionnaires at baseline and follow-up, as well as program performance data generated in each site; and 3) a quasi-experimental impact analysis that tracks community-wide changes in four CBVP sites and four comparison sites.
The four communities selected to participate in the OJJDP Community-based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program include:
1. City and County of Denver Safe City Office
2. City of Oakland, California
3. Columbia Heights/Shaw neighborhood in the District of Columbia
4. New York City
Results from the national evaluation will be available in 2014.
Distinctions
Prof. Ralph Taylor was appointed in May to a three year term on the editorial board of Journal of Criminal Justice, considered by scholars to be one of the leading eight journals in the field. He continues to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Prof. Jerry Ratcliffe receives two awards for contributions to the criminal intelligence community
At the annual meetings of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and the Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU) held jointly in Orlando, FL in early May, 2010, Jerry Ratcliffe, professor in the criminal justice department, received awards from both associations. At the award dinner, Dr Ratcliffe was awarded the IALEIA Professional Service Award for outstanding contributions to criminal intelligence analysis, in particular for the influential role of his recent book and seminal text, ‘Intelligence-Led Policing’. Later in the same evening, he received the LEIU Distinguished Service Award for his involvement in strategic criminal intelligence education both nationally and internationally.
IALEIA is the largest professional organization in the world representing law enforcement analysts. Formed in 1981, the purpose of IALEIA is to advance high standards of professionalism in law enforcement intelligence analysis at the Local, State/Provincial, National and International levels.
The Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU) was founded in 1956 to provide leadership and promote professionalism in the criminal intelligence community in order to protect public safety and constitutional rights. LEIU has subsequently established criminal intelligence standards that are recognized by both law enforcement and civil libertarians as creating a proper balance between the needs of law enforcement and the constitutional privacy rights of individuals.
Invited presentations
Prof. Taylor delivered an invited presentation "Place-based Micro-scale Initiatives : Beyond Best Practices for Crime Prevention" to the World Bank at a Washington, DC forum they sponsored on "Evidence-based Approaches to Violence and Crime Prevention" with a focus on the Caribbean region.
Release of new report on the handling of violent offenders
At the request of Governor Rendell, the Criminal Justice team of
J. Goldkamp, R. , Vîlcicã, M.K. Harris and D. Weiland conducted a review of the handling of violent offenders
by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and Probation and Parole after the killing of police officers under their charge. The team's final report, titled Parole and Public Safety in Pennsylvania was released in early May, 2010. Click here for an executive summary of the report, and click here for the report in full.
Criminal Justice graduates leave Temple with job offers
Every member of the Ph.D. graduating classes of May 2010 and January 2011 leaves Temple with a job placement. Four departing Ph.D. students have successfully garnered tenure-track faculty positions, while a fifth will serve as a criminologist. This is, of course, no small feat in the current job climate. Congratulations are extended to:
- Brian Lockwood - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (May 2010)
- Eric McCord - University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (May 2010)
- Christopher Salvatore - Towson University, Towson, MD (January 2011)
- Travis Taniguchi, Criminologist, Police Department, Redlands, CA (May 2010)
- Brian Wyant - LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA (January 2011)
Awards to current or former graduate students
Nola Joyce, a graduate student in the department, along with Dep. Commissioner Richard Ross of the Philadelphia Police Department received the 2010 Gary P. Hayes Memorial Award at the Police Executive Research Forum meeting. Click here for more details.
George Cronin, PhD (photo right) was the inaugural winner of the Richard Block Dissertation Award for Homicide Research. Dr Cronin graduated with a PhD from the Department of Criminal Justice in 2008 with a dissertation titled "Structural and situational determinants of homicide in Rural Pennsylvania". The Richard Block Award is presented to a graduate with an outstanding dissertation on homicide or lethal violence, and will be awarded every year by the Homicide Research Working Group, a national body dedicated to collaborative, interdisciplinary research on lethal and non-lethal violence. Each recipient receives a monetary award of $500 and a plaque commemorating his/her achievement. Dr Cronin's dissertation (chaired by Professor Jerry Ratcliffe, Criminal Justice) built on his long career as a homicide investigator with the Pennsylvania State Police. The award was presented at the 2009 meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia, PA, last week. Dr Cronin is shown with Professor Richard Block, for whom the award is named in recognition of his long career in homicide research.
Undergraduate awards
Several CJ majors received awardson May 13th, 2009 at the Baccalaureate Awards Ceremony. Recipients and (mentors) are listed here:
Sarai Rosado (Tara Tripp) received the Neysa and Arlin Adams Prize for Excellence in Pre-Law Studies. Click here for a story in Temple Times about Sarai Rosado.
Ishata Al-Yakoub (Kate Lunger) received the Carolyn Karcher Prize.
Mary Kohler (Peter Jones) received the Irving J. Leder and Beatrice Deglin Leder Award.
New White Paper
Dr. Phil Harris, Brian Lockwood and Liz Mengers of the Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators (CJCA) have completed a white paper, Defining and Measuring Recidivism, which contains recommended national standards for measuring recidivism for the juvenile justice system. Development of this paper was funded by the CJCA and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. CJCA is leading the implementation effort.
Distinctions
Professor John Goldkamp testified before the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee relating to findings and recommendations from the Parole Violence investigation in January 2009. He was also invited to brief Philadelphia’s City Controller, Alan Butkowitz, and his staff on pretrial release reform in March 2009.
