He became well known for asking three questions: Whats good for the public? New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. (Jo was Helens Deputy Editor which we quickly renamed Deputy Dog. All members of the community are welcome. When asked why he was so generous, he said that he would have never made it in the U.S. as an international student from the Philippines if he had not received scholarships along the way. He recognized that committed scholarship involved a delicate balance even when scholars are clearly informed about a particular area or situation. For example, Prisoners in Prison Societies (based on Ullas doctoral dissertation) was a comparative study of 13 correctional institutions with a 10-year follow-up. Vince OLeary (1924-2011) died on April 22, 2011, from injuries suffered from a fall. He helped build a strong legacy of applied sociology at UMass Boston. Sally S. Simpson, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. I love this man more than my own father. How many of us can make that claim? This work, coupled with Charles interests in theory testing, measurement and integration, inspired his control-balance theory. We all miss him beyond words.. It was at Penn that Elmar developed a life-long professional interest in cross-national and longitudinal studies, thanks to the mentorship of Marvin Wolfgang and Thorsten Sellin. By permitting me to color outside the lines during my doctoral education at PSU, Don instilled in me the self-confidence to develop my own unique identity as a scholar. His teaching expertise became well known, and throughout his professional career, he was invited to serve as a visiting professor at an impressive array of universities, including Stanford University, University of Oregon, San Diego State College, Arizona State University and University of Melbourne. Contributed by (alphabetically) M. Kay Harris, Phil Harris, Alan Harland, Jerry Ratcliffe, Ralph Taylor. Call 18007892611. His students and colleagues uniformly describe him as generous, caring and a delight to be around. In 1975-76, SUNY suffered a fiscal crisis that required university-wide reorganization and retrenchment. In lieu of cards or flowers, the Wells family would appreciate contributions to the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences Rev. While he did not talk much about his family, his joy with them was obvious when you could get him to open up. 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. Mail to: American Society of Criminology, 921 Chatham Lane, Ste. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1950. This work shifted circuits of thought and laid a foundation for many other strands of positive criminology in which healing mattered. The only thing he asked in return is that these graduates consider giving back to the University once they succeed in life. In early January 2023, the criminological community lost a dear friend Rick Ruddell, the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair in Police Studies in the Department of Justice at the University of Regina. The world lost an intelligent, caring, compassionate, non-judgmental, and very unique person when William Pipes Heck (known to many as Bill or Wild Bill) was killed in a motorcycle accident in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 4, 2008. He was the former President of the Administration of Justice Services, Inc., a Fellow and former President of the American Society of Criminology, former Director of the Dallas (Texas) County Jail, and former Director of the City of El Paso (Texas) Jail. For more information, please go to the Oral History of Criminology Project page. Not surprisingly, Nicky was instrumental in the creation of the American Society of Criminologys Division of Women and Crime and remained an active member throughout her life. Read below to read others thoughts on C. Ray Jeffery: DENNI FISHBEIN (RTI International): Dr. C. Ray Jeffery was not only instrumental in my career but to my humanity. To plant a tree in memory of Dr. Steven Janowitz, please visit our, Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021. Born in southern Utah on April 15th 1935, Travis graduated from the University of Utah in 1957 with a B.S. Xiaogangs dissertation critically examined rational-choice and deterrence theories, drawing on data that he collected on a county-wide stop-shoplifting program. Later we heard tat at another dinner party someone said, thats probably the first and last time Ill eat a dinner where both a former incarcerated person and a former prison guard [Helen] discussed how fucked up the prison system is! One of many priceless moments was in one of the dispensaries when many people were in line with Helen and Jo and a cheery, loud, youthful voice said, Hi, Professor Belknap! and everyone in the dispensary (about 30 people) burst out laughing. For me, Charles believed in me when many graduate schools would not. Jeff, as he was affectionately known, was neither a fiery orator nor even a good lecturer. in sociology and history and received a M.S. He was a brilliant writer, an elegant wordsmith, skills he had honed as a sports journalist. There is no photo or video of Maurice Janowitz.Be the first to share a memory to pay tribute. For many years, Elmar served as a co-director of the Post Graduate Course on Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice at Dubrovniks Interuniversity Center, and moved the course to the Vrie Universiteit (Amsterdam) during the Balkan Wars from 1993 to1997; Elmar continued to participate as a co-director well into the second decade of the 21st century when his ongoing medical issues caused him to retire from active academic work. And he wrote many amusing poems. He received the August Vollmer award from the American Society of Criminology, and served on the Board of Directors for the JFA Institute and the Sentencing Project. He had a breadth of knowledge that often left his colleagues scratching their heads (and I was certainly one of them). Please click here for his obituary which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 5, 2008. 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. But most of all, we remember Kauko as a well-read person within whom education and intellectual curiosity combined with friendliness and a good sense of humour. He has short gray hair and brown eyes, is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) tall, and weighs around 150lbs (68kgs). Donations in Binders honor may be made to Waymakers or Carry the Future, an organization Capasso leads that helps refugees. In 2020, the department named a graduate student paper award in his honor to recognize his many contributions. Elmar Weitekamp was one of the co-founders of the Eurogang group, an international collaboration of scholars, practitioners and others interested in the youth/street gang phenomenon. 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. A lifelong baseball fanatic, he played in Little League, and few persons knew more about the sport, its players, and its statistics than Steve. But more importantly he searched for alternatives to the present penal system through alternative conflict resolution. Steve met Joy Behar in 1, 982long before she became popular for being the host of The View TV show. https://account.asc41.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3352, Donations can be made online or by check: Make checks payable to the American Society of Criminology and include The Benjamin Steiner Award in the notes. He wanted to know how they are. This was perhaps the most important and active period in the history of American sociology centered on delinquency theory. Albert K. Cohen, the noted criminologist and sociologist whose work and life enlightened and inspired scholars and law enforcement practitioners around the world, passed away unexpectedly on November 25 in Chelsea, MA. Dear brother-in-law to Bruce. Ulla will be greatly missed by all criminologists who had the pleasure and privilege of knowing her. When I finally met him in 1981, at ASC annual meeting, he and I became roommates for more than 10 subsequent ASC and ACJS meetings that followed. At URSA, UCLA and the Rand Corporation, Libby developed a rigorous research agenda, including program evaluations and studies of drug users, and violent offenders. We came up with so many ideas talking about comps, and actually drafted a survey on the balcony of LeFrak Hall that turned up to be one of our first but best publications on rational choice and individual differences in Justice Quarterly. William L. Tafoya, Ph.D., Professor, University of New Haven, [1]Scholarships in his memory may have been established at other institutions; at UNH contributions may be sent to: The University of New Haven, C/o The Richard and Michelle Ward Endowed Scholarship, Office of Advancement, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT 06516, [2]Churchill, Winston (1939) The Russian Enigma, BBC Broadcast October 1, London: The Churchill Society. He wrote 11 books and over 40 articles. This latter appointment was indicative of what was to come, in that Don continued to use his criminological knowledge to serve the community. Most recently, the UGA chapter of Phi Kappa Phi presented Talarico with its Love of Learning Award. 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. Bill joined the Department of Sociology at George Washington University in 1986, where he co-directed the Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections. He never forgot to call, to email, to stay in touch sometimes over decades and great distances. He mentored dozens of Ph.D. students and junior colleagues, and delighted in teaching undergraduate courses in statistics. Donations can be made to the Scleroderma Research foundation at https://srfcure.org/donate/ OR the Kevin Shimek Memorial Endowed Criminal Justice Scholarship at Texas State University at https://secure.ua.txstate.edu/site/SPageServer/?pagename=main_donation_form. As a police officer, he enrolled at John Jay College of Criminal Justice completing his bachelors degree in Criminal Justice in 1968 and there taught part time in Law Enforcement. Jean-Paul was a member of the American Society of Criminology since 1987. There is no detailed information about her father and mother from where they are and other personal details. Although Carol received her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1977 (from Columbia University) and did not publish in criminology journals, her influence on the field is unmistakable. He left New York in 1977, to take a position as Vice Chancellor for Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he remained for 22 years; there he established the Office of International Criminal Justice and its bimonthly Criminal Justice International. He had 17 PhD students. Nowhere is that more evident than in his work with the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission in Brisbane (1990-93). He was a great man and a wonderful father., An OJP colleague who knew Lou for many years remarked that the IACP Conferences wont even be the same without Lou therewho else, in the world of sole proprietors, believes in their work so much that they have a booth at IACP every year?. Dr. del Carmen also earned accolades in the academic discipline of criminal justice, and was one of only three scholars to be recognized with all three top awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the national organization of criminal justice professors: the Founders Award (2005), the Bruce Smith Sr. Award (1997), and the Academy Fellow Award (1990). One of her last papers was entitled The Fairy Godmotherand her Warts: Making the Dream of Evidence-Based Policy Come True. Who could even think to use a phrase like this in the title of the leading evaluation journal in the world (the American Journal of Evaluation)? He held several research and academic positions at the University of Miami in the early 1970s, including Director of the National Center for the Study of Acute Drug Reactions at the University of Miami School of Medicine. William Earl Amos protected a president as a Secret Service agent and guarded war criminals as a military police officer but his lifelong passion was in education. [4] When from the dais the question was asked of the audience: How many of you are former students of Dr. Ward? half of the 400 present stood. Mail a check, payable to George Washington University and Sociology in memory of Bill Chambliss in the memo line, to 2100 M Street NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20052 Not only was she a two-time winner of the coveted Josiah Meigs Award, Talarico was named the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor for three years and a Danforth Teaching Fellow for six years. Some of her research was in collaboration with her husband, Douglas Young. It was the last one granted by Bill Clinton (2000). He served as Dean of Graduate Studies, Dean of Students and thereafter Vice President. Treasured uncle and great uncle to his niece, nephews and great nieces and nephews. He will be remembered as a passionate scholar, devoted mentor, and loyal friend. 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.