His colleagues at ISU repeatedly pushed to have him recognized for his scholarly accomplishments, but he steadfastly refused to even have his materials submitted. He was a former Professor at University of Louisville, the Pennsylvania State University, Florida State University, University of Texas, Arlington, University of North Dakota and others. 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. Muk already had a Masters degree from the Tata Institute for Social Sciences in India when he earned the first MA in Criminology ever awarded by the University of Pennsylvania. He decorated his office with cartoons and social commentaries that poked fun at everything. States of Denial was chosen as Outstanding Publication of 2001 by the International Division of the American Society of Criminology and was awarded the 2002 British Academy Book Prize. Criminologist Kauko Aromaa passed away suddenly in his sleep on 18 January 2019 in his home at the age of 75. Al was informed by the FBI that a supposed legitimate financial planner he was working with was in reality suspected of stealing from him and other clients. He could move effectively and communicate clearly with academic, professional, and government audiences. Upon retirement in 2001, he was appointed a professor at the University of Manchester, continuing his career in academia. Allen Breed went to work for the California Youth Authority (CYA) soon after his return from World War Two. For 11 years (1972-1983), Rita, a clinical psychologist, was a popular professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. During an illustrious career spanning over four decades, she was a Senior Researcher and Director of The Criminal Justice Program at RAND (1989-1994); a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Founding Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections at the University of California, Irvine (1992-2009); and The Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University (2009-2018), where she was also the Co-Director of The Stanford Criminal Justice Center. For example, this was reflected in his important book on POLITICAL CRIMINALITY: The Defiance and Defense of Authority (Sage, 1982) and in his statement on Political Crime in Edgar Borgattas ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIOLOGY. He was awarded Teacher of the Year at SIU in 1982 and honored as Distinguished Professor in 1984. related to miscreant physicians. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease, said his wife, Constance E. Putnam. It was our personal bond. She co-authored several articles with her daughter Marianne Junger, also a Dutch criminologist. Kuehne eds.) This study contributed significantly to revolutionizing the way that police agencies use DNA to solve high-volume crimes like burglaries and car thefts. Julie C. Abril Independent Social Scientist. He was the first recipient of all three of the OSUs top honors i.e., awards for: Distinguished Teaching (1970), Distinguished Research (1979), and Distinguished Service (1996). He pioneered techniques for getting information about sensitive topics such as being the victim or perpetrator of family violence in national household and telephone surveys. Indeed, for the ESC-members and his Nordic colleagues, Kauko was a regular sight at conferences and seminarshis figure pushing through the crowds, always with his black Marimekko bag full of all sorts of strange stuff, joking, laughing and talking practically to everyone. For me, Charles believed in me when many graduate schools would not. Stan received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Essex in 2004 and Middlesex in 2008. William especially derived pleasure from playing his guitar (and writing songs like Classical Dog and Mr. Stu spent his entire academic career at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in Durham beginning as an instructor in 1955, assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1960 and as full-professor from 1964 to 1997. Former Social Ecology Dean Daniel Stokols notes, His legacy of academic innovation and community service is renowned and admired by colleagues around the world. She was instrumental in developing new perspectives on crime that bettered our understanding of gender and violence. 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. Graveside service will be at 2:00pm Friday November 29, 2013 at Temple Israel Cemetery in Jonesboro with Cantor Dr. David Levenbach officiating. Although his battle with cancer curtailed many of these activities in recent years, he remained remarkably positive and upbeat, and never gave up hope in his fight. The dialectical theory of law he developed there, and later his theory of state-organized crime, put contradictions in the political economy at the center of analysis, and showed how lawand sometimes crimes by the state itselfare a response to those contradictions. After serving as a consultant to correctional and judicial agencies in Colorado, Winterfield moved to New York City in 1984, where she began a career as a policy researcher at the Vera Institute of Justice and later at the New York City Criminal Justice Agency. I wish i had known, I would have been at the funeral, for Steve & Eden. In following decades, Turk advanced the general field of conflict criminology he stimulated by applying its principles more specifically to the study of political criminality. While he was a professor, he wrote 2 books, 11 monographs, and 40 articles. At the University of Oklahoma, Harold was recognized for his achievements with several awards, including the David Ross Boyd Professorship, a Presidential Professorship, and the Kinney-Sugg Award for Outstanding Professor. 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. She will be deeply missed. Inspired by the Oklahoma context, Harold noticed that religion was influential to society, and he began to focus his research on how religion shaped peoples attitudes towards punishment, and he published several articles in this area. 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. We have lost one of the greats. Dr. Garrett joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1970 and played many important roles in the department and the larger University community until his retirement in 2002, after which he was named professor emeritus. Would you like to offer Maurice Janowitzs loved ones a condolence message? A Remembrance was held at the University of New Haven February 21, 2015. Weitekamp (December 16, 1954 February 5, 2022) passed on February 5, 2022, at the age of sixty-seven. Here is Maurice Janowitzs obituary. He fought brilliantly and bravely through numerous serious health issues for a half-century while accomplishing major professional success and mentoring many others along the way. The world will never be the same or as cheerful as when "Jag" was around. His first U.S. degree was an M.A. Box 355, Champaign, IL 61824-0355. She also taught me how to be graceful in light of criticisms. 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). He joined the army in 1942 and was discharged in 1946 at the rank of Captain in the Corps of Engineers. California State University, San Bernardino, http://www.legacy.com/can-ottawa/obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=146251548. One thing I admired most about Steve was his ability to get along with everyone. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Northeastern Arkansas Childrens Advocacy Center in Jonesboro. Ed was known for his kindness and his genuine humility. As a result of his mentorship and friendship, I have worked to incorporate these gifts from Jeff into my own life and teaching. With Great Sadness but Also Gratitude for Having Been Loved by Helen. In 1957 he published Sociology of Deviant Behavior, a major text book now in its 14th edition and still widely used. He also provided training and consultation on crime prevention for LMPD, the Boy Scouts of America and 21st Century Parks and Parklands of Floyds Fork. Steve launched his career shortly after graduation when he began working as a high school teacher, and stayed in the same profession for more than 45 years, until retirement. Josie worked for 18 years in the Psychology and Philosophy Department and then in the Division of Student Life at Sam Houston. 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. A reception was held at Antrim 1844 in Taneytown. A walking encyclopedia of criminal justice law, he had an incredibly inquisitive mind. Jo Dixon, 70, passed away unexpectedly, on March 7, 2020, at her home in Estero, FL. One colleague remarked, His presence was huge and unforgettable. In many subsequent publications Muk continued to examine crime trends as well as exploring related topics such as women and crime, juvenile justice issues, ethnicity and crime, and firearms and violence, to name a few. Committee. Ruth D. Peterson, Ohio State University During his Wisconsin years he worked in Sweden for a year as a Fulbright Research Professor studying prisons; he spent 3 years working in India for the Ford Foundation in Urban Community Development; he taught a year at Makerere University in Uganda under a Rockefeller Foundation Grant; and he spent a year in Switzerland studying crime under a National Science Foundation Grant. Everyone knows what it is like to go through graduate school, but then there is the personal life as well. He later earned two PhD degrees the first from the University of Delhi (Social Work) and the second from the University of Pennsylvania (Sociology) working with Thorsten Sellin and Marvin Wolfgang. Boulder, CO: Westview. It is noteworthy that the project helped provide validation evidence for self-report methods but is cited just as often for its substantive contributions about the nature of delinquency. In between, he was an assistant professor of Political Science (Criminal Justice Program) at California State University, Chico (2002-2006) and then an associate professor there in 2006. A native Californian, Dale soon left the humidity and mosquitos, returning to his home state and settling in at CSUSB. Ron began his interest in the field working in corrections in Ohio, after receiving a MSW degree from the University of Michigan. He is the lead author of the classic white-collar crime text, Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America (just released in the 5th edition) which is being translated into Japanese and Chinese and which Fortune Executive Editor Clifton Leaf used in writing the first cover story on white-collar crime in the magazines history (March 2002 ). There is no photo or video of Steven Janowitz.Be the first to share a memory to pay tribute. Sadly, criminology has lost another giant. Michael Gottfredson, Valerie Jenness, Cheryl Maxson, and Carroll Seron. He studied sociology and social work at the University of Witwatersrand and later moved to London with his wife Ruth to work as a psychiatric social worker. Elmar was a co-organizer of the first EG meeting in Schmitten, Germany (1998) as well as four subsequent meetings in Germany. I will remember and miss Michael most for his knowledge of comic books and superhero movies. Although weve known Helen was dying for the last year and originally hadnt expected her to live past March 2018, she was so vibrant last summer on the pot quest and in November in our Tennessee cabin, we didnt realize we would never see her again. He further argued that people respond to their immediate environments so crime prevention must involve the redesign of physical, social, economic and political environments (at least). Gil was one of the most respected scholars and widely beloved colleagues in criminology. He reached me in ways that I did not think were possible in college. 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. Tony also strongly supported the development of criminological research and teaching in Europe and beyond. Copenhagen, Denmark: DJOF. program, that she pushed us to write a proposal together, and we eventually were funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study it. and regular attendant of its annual meetings. Instead, he took his media responsibility seriously and was always willing to comment and consult with the media. Members of the American Society of Criminology will recall his recognition as a Fellow and his service as their past President. . He was also steadfast and selfless in his devotion to his wife, Charlotte Kerr, as he cared for her during her struggle with a long illness. At the time he left his academic post Toch was a Distinguished Professor in the SUNY system, and in every meaningful sense of the term. (Jo put on 8 poundstrue story.) He loved Sam Houston State University. Debbie also informally mentored graduate students in Criminology. He encouraged me and guided me on handling so many situations. NI-1, the very first policy memo to be issued by the newly founded National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (NILECJ), which later became the NIJ. Dr. Margaret E. Beare (1946-2019) Professor of Sociology and Law, York University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Like many agriculturists, he complained incessantly about the weather, but his skills at creating productive vegetable gardens in the desert environment were unrivaled. Richard H. Ward, International Criminologist, passed away in his sleep at age 75 at home in Bethany, Connecticut, on February 17, 2015. Everyone who worked with her became her friend as well as her colleague. Hal had eclectic interests in criminal justice. Remembrances may be made to Santa Barbara Special Olympics (281 Magnolia Ave Suite #200, Goleta, CA 93117), a group which held a special place in Joans heart. In 1999, the Special Agent whose false testimony sent Dave to prison was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. Since 2006, Drs. 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. He also supervised the development and operation of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the first automated reference data base on all aspects of criminal justice. In 2000, he was appointed as the director of the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI). He published fifty peer-reviewed articles, four books and edited four volumes. He assembled two large international consortia, involving dozens of scholars in more than 30 countries to conduct cross-national comparative surveys on dating violence and parental disciplinary practices. Steve Janowitz was born in the United States of America, and he is a retired school teacher. He appreciated smoking a good cigar and drinking a nice glass of scotch. Immediately upon arrival at his office he would suggest we leave for a beer or cup of coffee that would take us out of the physical, hierarchical setting of the office/school and put us more in a casual peer /mentoring environment. Dr. Becker a police officer with Los Angeles Police Department for four years and a member of the U. S. Coast Guard for eight years. Our hearts go out to his colleagues and students in Criminal Justice, along with his wife, Debra, their children and two grandchildren. We were inseparable, bonded by our love of criminology, football, sports, Marathon Deli, and too many other things to name here. After being discharged from the Army in 1946, Al returned to Harvard as a Ph.D. candidate spending one year in residence before leaving A.B.D. Robbin, or Coach Robbie, as she was affectionately referred to by her players, who herself had a very successful collegiate softball career, loved coaching and helping girls develop both as players and people. He will always remain the only Emperor of Wyoming. Don taught a variety of classes in Sociology, Criminology and Urban Studies and was highly thought of by his students. Dick returned to John Jay moving into administration and among other things established the Law Enforcement News and launching John Jays Ph.D. program. Janowitz Obituary His woodcarvings included waterfowl and masks, and his paintings often depicted ocean front scenes from his beloved refuge on the Washington coast. He has been a mentor for 40 years to Japanese graduate students at the Crime Study Center earning their MS degree from Southern Illinois University. Much of his military service in the 1950s was at the prison in Nuremberg. As an immigrant who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, first to Cuba and then to the United States, Toch was a fiercely patriotic American, inordinately proud of his military service in the Navy defending San Diego during the Korean War. Professor Bedaus curriculum vitae was more than 13,000. The Center has acted as a magnet for other state, national, and international studies related to substance abuse and health. He is survived by his wife of 65 years Carol (Holmes) Johnson; daughter and son-in-law, Joy J. and John E. Boyden; daughter, Jill C. Lewis; grandson, Alexander B. J. Lewis and wife, Heidi M. Lewis; granddaughter, Suzanne J.Boyden; and great- granddaughter, Amelia A. Lewis (Mia). His impressive international career culminated in his 15-year long service to the International Society for Criminology. Steven Janowitz 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. Ron and his colleagues used multiple methods to study gang formation and behavior, to assess police and other intervention methods and to analyze official gang definitions and recording of gang members. Joy has appeared in numerous movies too, as well as TV series over the years, some of which are Love is All There is in 1996, playing Ann in three episodes of the Crisis in Six Scenes TV series, and voicing Eunice in the Ice Age: Continental Drift film in 2012. This certainly set the stage for much after-hours discussions that veered into the wee hours of the morning. He liked to make the rounds to connect with colleagues for a quick conversation, mostly stand in the doorway to talk about whatever was on his mind and never in a whisper. RON HUNTER (Western Carolina University, President ACJS): Ray Jefferys legacy is not just that he was a brilliant criminologist. In 2009 he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the British Society of Criminology. As he did so he became known for his fundamental decency and his daily acts of kindness. He received his BA, MA, and PhD (1954) in sociology at Yale University, where he studied under Selden D. Bacon. Treasured uncle and great uncle to his niece, nephews and great nieces For example, in 1976, when he instituted training to improve methods for dealing with rape victims, it was often the first time that police detectives, emergency room doctors, prosecutors, and mayors representatives had been at the same table to work on the problem. Nicky was never afraid to take on unpopular topics. Michael Gottfredson, University of California, His research focused primarily on juvenile justice and disproportionate minority contact with the criminal justice system. 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. His career included positions at Indiana University, Florida Atlantic University, Washington State University, and North Carolina State University where he was the Goodnight-Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences. Gresham MCready Sykes passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 29, 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia. When Ruth died in 1999 Marshall returned to Santa Fe where he married and continued traveling, writing, and keeping engaged in the world. An avid swimmer, gardener, and Phillies fan, John will be remembered for his strong sense of humor, love of rock and roll trivia, all things French, and his deep and long-standing friendships. Christy Visher, University of Delaware, HAROLD K. BECKER, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University Long Beach. His organizing efforts were instrumental in the continued development of this international collaborative group of researchers. The Untold Truth of Steven Yeuns Wife- Joana Pak. In his case, it brought a life of scholarship that included important contributions to criminology in Australia and beyond. Donations in Binders honor may be made to Waymakers or Carry the Future, an organization Capasso leads that helps refugees. Submitted by Terence P. Thornberry and Robert A. Silverman. In the face of contention and opposition from a few criminologists who feared that the social part of the equation would be lost, Jeff persisted in his movement toward a more rigorous, holistic, and empirically-based perspective on the causes of crime. In the 1980s, he shifted his attention to victims and victimology, and ten years later to practices of restorative justice between perpetrators and victims. Her influence on California policy over the years was substantial and consequential. Authored by: Natasha Frost and Jack McDevitt. Jo was an accomplished and highly regarded scholar and a deeply committed teacher and mentor. His book Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control, co-authored with Harold G. Grasmick (1993), Lexington Books, identified many of the important elements necessary for a comprehensive understanding of how community organization, through its formal and informal networks, could work to control levels of crime and delinquency. Mail to: American Society of Criminology, 921 Chatham Lane, Ste. Bob served as Editor of Criminology from 1997 to 2003, and he was named Fellow of the ASC in 1998. Gathering data from the archives of medieval England, the streets of Seattle, the villages of Nigeria, the poppy fields of Thailand, the sleek cityscapes of Scandinavia, and the ghettos in the heart of our nations capital, Bill routinely performed that most difficult task in sociologyengaging his sociological imaginationlinking biography and history, the private lives of those he studied to the public issues they embodied. His great optimism and sense of humor were unfailing. Moral panic is now a part of the English language and is routinely employed in criminology and sociology studies. Elmar had been in poor health for several years. Dr. Wells was often described as the soul of the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences. But that pales in comparison to the people he left behind. Always ahead of the curve, Steve was the first major writer on cyber crime in criminology. Jim was an active member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and a former member of the Internal Advisory Committee, Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy. He used his skills to generate resources that supported faculty to pursue their own research agendas. Dr. Salinger was proud to contribute to his community, both on-campus and off. At that time, there were two units, Sociology A and Sociology 1, and new faculty lines were offered in only the research unit. He was such a unique character: a self-described rebellious Jewish New Yorker. His work was recognized by awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Drug and Alcohol Section of the American Sociological Association. In America Satyanshu was known as Muk, in the rest of the world as Sat. After spending four years on the faculty of Rutgers University, he accepted an associate professorship at the University of Delaware in 1967, moving his wife and young daughter to Radcliffe Drive in Newark, a home he and Ellen never left. Guided by a methodology of comparative social history, Nickys eclectic research and scholarship explored mechanisms of social control, representations of crime, eugenics, biological theories of crime, and the history of criminology. One of the rare francophone researchers to regularly participate in ASC meetings, Jean-Paul completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1975 at the Universit de Paris and was a professor of Philosophy at the Universit du Qubec Montral until 1978. All members of the community are welcome. She was demanding, fierce, and loyal. He attended junior and senior high school in Cleveland and graduated from Cleveland State University in 1958. 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. Even more important than his professional work is the living memorial that remains among his professional friends and colleagues. The lectures were collected in a book, Making Mortal Choices, published by Oxford University Press in 1997. At the same time, Bill was hanging out in Seattles pool halls, card rooms, and back alleys, determined to make sense of organized crime. My job has consisted of teaching at the university level. http://www.newhaven.edu/news-events/news-releases/2014-2015/863092/. In addition to his influence on the legal and justice systems, he also worked extensively with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to help ground in the latest scientific research in their efforts to combat cheating in sports. He was promoted to Professor at UD in 1979. in political science in 1989. He was a primary initiator of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology and its chairman from 1979 to 1982. 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. 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 served in that position for 17 years over several terms. Al was born in Boston on June 15, 1918. What does a card have to do with Dr. Talaricos success as a mentor and instructor? My condolences to the family. 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. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, CTP was one of the first large experiments to be conducted in an applied criminal justice setting. He helped develop and served as director of a large criminal justice program, bringing to it the same sociological sensibilities that shaped his research. After his military service, Travis enrolled in the Ph.D. program in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In keeping with his comparative criminological emphasis, Elmar was also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China. Steve was apparently raised in New York City his mother was a housewife while his father was a shop owner. Henry Pontell, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and UCI Joans principal scholarly focus was on the workings of the criminal justice system, including how it processes people, how it makes decisions about various sanctions, and the consequences of those decisions for both society and those punished. Her recent accomplishments include expanding the departments graduate program, overseeing the Orange County Drug Court Program, and procuring a large grant for the evaluation of repeat offenders. Out of all of this I hope the integration of biology, psychology, sociology, and criminology can begin. Mon-Fri, 7am-6pm MDT. She was a highly intelligent, multilingual and very cultured person who also had a hearty laugh and a great sense of fun. Although the official cause of death was heart failure, he also suffered from Hepatitis C and, just before his death, was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease.