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Conjectures, Refutations, And (Elusive) Resolution: An Exercise In The Sociology Of Knowledge Within Criminology, Brendan Dooley 2017 Mount St. Mary’s University

Conjectures, Refutations, And (Elusive) Resolution: An Exercise In The Sociology Of Knowledge Within Criminology, Brendan Dooley

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"An analysis of in-depth discussions (oral histories) with 17 leading criminologists on the seminal debates in which they each participated showcases the benefits of intellectual debate. Over the last half-century, the field’s understanding of crime and its control has experienced genuine gains through a vigorous exchange of conjectures and refutations. It stands to benefit from more of these. However, there is a tension between professional and scientific concerns that limits the expansion of this process. The insistence on open ended inquiry in advancing professional ends dulls the interest and opportunity for debating first principles. As a result, the field is …


Kitty Calavita And Valerie Jenness, Appealing To Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, And Carceral Logic, TaLisa J. Carter 2017 University of Delaware

Kitty Calavita And Valerie Jenness, Appealing To Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, And Carceral Logic, Talisa J. Carter

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"In Appealing to Justice, by Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness explain the grievance system of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in detail. Grievance systems are the formal internal process by which inmates contest prison conditions. Federal law requires that prisoners fully exhaust the grievance system before their claims can be heard in court. Although there may be an assumption that justice exists in systems that are charged with upholding standards of safe and humane conditions within confinement facilities, the authors find the grievance process to be riddled with inefficiencies and inequalities."


Waverly Duck, No Way Out: Precarious Living In The Shadow Of Poverty And Drug Dealing, Jascha Wagner 2017 University of Delaware

Waverly Duck, No Way Out: Precarious Living In The Shadow Of Poverty And Drug Dealing, Jascha Wagner

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing examines how the residents of “Lyford Street,” an impoverished Black neighborhood, organize for survival against the backdrop of “increasingly desperate circumstances.” Decades of deindustrialization and misguided social policies have left the neighborhood economically and socially isolated. Unemployment and poverty are rampant for young men of Lyford Street. Stripped of educational or economic opportunities, the drug trade has become their “principal employment.” However, against the “stereotypical image of the drug infested ghetto,” Waverly Duck compels us to see Lyford Street as a place with a unique social …


Aldo Civico, The Para-State: An Ethnography Of Colombia’S Death Squads, Elena Sciandra 2017 University of Trento

Aldo Civico, The Para-State: An Ethnography Of Colombia’S Death Squads, Elena Sciandra

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"On August, 24, 2016, the Colombian conflict returned to the spotlight. On this day the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the last active guerrilla group, the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaria de Colombia), had been signed after decades of discontinuous peace talks. Such discontinuity, along with other peculiarities, have long piqued the interest of scholars in this conflict; not only is it one of the longest civil wars in recent history – its origin dating back to the end of the 1950s – it has also shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of the country. Started as sectarian …


Self-Motivation In Policing, Scott W. Phillips 2017 SUNY Buffalo State

Self-Motivation In Policing, Scott W. Phillips

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Research shows that the work shift of a patrol officer includes a large amount of “down time.” Occupational scholarship has validated that workers can reduce boredom by engaging in activities that are ancillary to normal duties. The autonomous work environment of police officers provides them a unique opportunity to minimize boredom by working in a way that makes their expected behavior interesting. To date the police motivation scholarship tends to examine “job satisfaction,” but the notion of boredom is missing from the research. This study used an observational research design to provide a qualitative examination of the techniques used by …


Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth Of The Prison, Trans. Alan Sheridan, Brian Sellers 2017 Eastern Michigan University

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth Of The Prison, Trans. Alan Sheridan, Brian Sellers

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"For hundreds of years, criminologists and penologists alike have investigated the various functions and designs, as well as the policies and practices that regulate the effectiveness of prisons as correctional institutions. The ideological aims underpinning penal practice can be either myopically focused or quite diverse as they reflect the varying goals of retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. However, as corrections continue to undergo numerous reforms, scholars and policymakers might do well to revisit, critically reflect upon, and reexamine the socio-historical origins of the prison and its close relationship to power structures operating in the wider society. French philosopher, Michel Foucault’s …


Playing Nice In The Sandbox: An Examination Into The Working Relationships Between Retail Store Detectives And Public Law Enforcement Officers, Ronald Floridia 2017 University of Virginia-College

Playing Nice In The Sandbox: An Examination Into The Working Relationships Between Retail Store Detectives And Public Law Enforcement Officers, Ronald Floridia

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"This study explores the working relationship between store detectives and public law enforcement officers. Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted with store detectives from two national retail chains. The results of this study indicate that store detectives have a positive working relationship with police and engage in active cooperation with them. In addition, the presence of community development units and organized retail crime task forces enhance active cooperation between the two parties. Findings from this study can be used by both academics and practitioners to promote strong relationships between law enforcement and the retail security industry."


Some Things Are Just Better Left As Secrets: Non-Transparency And Prosecutorial Decision Making In The Era Of Neoliberal Punitivism, Shanda Angioli, Paul Kaplan 2017 San Diego State University

Some Things Are Just Better Left As Secrets: Non-Transparency And Prosecutorial Decision Making In The Era Of Neoliberal Punitivism, Shanda Angioli, Paul Kaplan

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"This paper focuses on prosecutorial decision-making during the late-20th and early 21st century era of punitive American criminal justice. Qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 former prosecutors who worked in two large and diverse states to determine how they made their decisions regarding charging and plea bargaining. This study investigates how prosecutors consider legal and extra-legal factors when making decisions. The results suggest that prosecutors considered legal factors such as evidence/provability and elements of the crime, the defendant’s criminal history, and witness credibility and/or victim credibility, but also extra-legal factors such as, victim’s request, law enforcement priorities, relations …


Correspondence And Memos Related To Curriculum Guide And Criminology Courses, 1992-1993, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence And Memos Related To Curriculum Guide And Criminology Courses, 1992-1993, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Documents Related To Dwc Nominations And Elections, 1990-1995, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime 2017 University of North Florida

Documents Related To Dwc Nominations And Elections, 1990-1995, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Recently Released Women’S Time Spent With Mentors And Achieving Reentry Goals, Rebecca R. Stoddard 2017 Grand Valley State University

Recently Released Women’S Time Spent With Mentors And Achieving Reentry Goals, Rebecca R. Stoddard

Masters Theses

Within the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the local Women’s Resource Center (WRC) fosters a mentoring program, New Beginnings (NB), with the goal to assist recently released jailed women to successfully reintegrate by achieving reentry goals. The following study examines how gender-responsive offender mentoring influences the success of women achieving reentry goals and reentering society. This study uses data from WRC that shows how many hours 78 mentees spent with their mentors before and after they were released from the Kent County jail and if reentry goals were met. It is hypothesized that total, pre-, and post-release hours mentors and …


Correspondence: Asc Fellows And Awards, 1992-1997, Nicole Rafter, Carole Garrison, Alfred Blumstein, Martin D. Schwartz, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime 2017 Carnegie Mellon University

Correspondence: Asc Fellows And Awards, 1992-1997, Nicole Rafter, Carole Garrison, Alfred Blumstein, Martin D. Schwartz, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Correspondence: Mentoring Program, 1994-95, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime, Lynne Goodstein, Nicole Rafter, Ruth Seydlitz, Vera Phillip, Phyllis Gray-Ray 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence: Mentoring Program, 1994-95, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Lynne Goodstein, Nicole Rafter, Ruth Seydlitz, Vera Phillip, Phyllis Gray-Ray

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Correspondence And Masthead Design Planning For 1986-1987 Divisionews, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Chris Rasche 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence And Masthead Design Planning For 1986-1987 Divisionews, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Chris Rasche

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Correspondence: 1986-1990 Division Newsletter Planning, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Meda Chesney-Lind, Nanci Koser Wilson 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence: 1986-1990 Division Newsletter Planning, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Meda Chesney-Lind, Nanci Koser Wilson

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


1995-96 President's Report Clipping Related To Asc Oral History And Archives Project., American Society of Criminology, Jay Albanese 2017 University of North Florida

1995-96 President's Report Clipping Related To Asc Oral History And Archives Project., American Society Of Criminology, Jay Albanese

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Correspondence: 1996-1997 Asc Annual Meeting Activities, American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime, Chris Rasche, Sarah M. Hall, Michelle Miller, Debbie Stanley, Chris Eskridge 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence: 1996-1997 Asc Annual Meeting Activities, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Chris Rasche, Sarah M. Hall, Michelle Miller, Debbie Stanley, Chris Eskridge

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Includes planning for 1996 annual meeting.


Correspondence And Mock-Up For A Division Brochure, 1985-1986., American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Christine E. Rasche 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence And Mock-Up For A Division Brochure, 1985-1986., American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Phyllis Jo Baunach, Christine E. Rasche

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime.


Correspondence: Emails Related To An Dwc Information Brochure, Nicole Rafter, Chris Rasche, Kimberly J. Cook, American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime 2017 University of North Florida

Correspondence: Emails Related To An Dwc Information Brochure, Nicole Rafter, Chris Rasche, Kimberly J. Cook, American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Emailed related to planning the informational brochure. Includes mock up items and correspondence regarding brochure revisions.


Brochure And Mock-Up: The Division On Women And Crime Of The American Society Of Criminology. 1985-1986; 1998-99., American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime 2017 University of North Florida

Brochure And Mock-Up: The Division On Women And Crime Of The American Society Of Criminology. 1985-1986; 1998-99., American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

American Society of Criminology. Division on Women and Crime


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