28, 2008, in Carbondale. In fact, I had the distinct sense that Carol enjoyed engaging in all of these debates. 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)? Rita was the first, and for most of her career, the only female professor at the School and one of very few women at the University holding the rank of Full Professor. Nickys love of historical criminological research was born when her dissertation research on the punishment of defective delinquents, while a doctoral student at SUNY-Albany, brought her to the nearly-undiscovered world of state prison archives. In one article, the author wrote that Carol was too pessimistic about the influence of research in policy; in another, a colleague wrote that she didnt emphasize randomized experiments enough; and, in still another, she was listed as a theorist who failed to emphasize the unique roles of context and theory to understanding program impact. His colleagues at ISU repeatedly pushed to have him recognized for his scholarly accomplishments, but he steadfastly refused to even have his materials submitted. Lou was known to many long-time employees at the U.S. Department of Justices National Institute of Justice as NIJ Employee #1. Lous history with the agency dates to its earliest days in 1968. The daughter of an Air Force General and an Army nurse, Joan was born in Pittsburgh, and she earned her BA degree in sociology from Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1972, her MA in sociology from The Ohio State University in 1974, and her PhD in criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine in 1990. Another memorial service will be held at a later time in the Philippines. For more information, please go to the Oral History Project page. Raymond Paternoster, who was born on February 29, 1952, was taken much too early from so many people who loved him. To have geneticists, lawyers, philosophers, historians, criminologists, and sociologists in the same room discussing the impact of biology on criminal behavior was a most unique event in history and a most disappointing one. Throughout his career Muk traveled widely and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Visiting Professor at the University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta, and, on several occasions, a Visiting Expert at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute in Tokyo. 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. We called him the dean of death penalty scholarship, said Michael Radelet, a death penalty expert at the University of Colorado who began working with Professor Bedau in the 1980s. She was a key contributor to the agencys work on prisoner reentry and reentry program evaluation. The first was in corrections. She was also chair of the DWC nominations for years. He held posts at Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, UCLA, Dartmouth, the University of Denver, and the University of Virginia. In his early career, he wrote an important and fascinating book on The Social Psychology of Social Movements (1965) that included an interrogation of the Nazi movement, lynch mobs and cults. Rosemary Barberet, John Jay College of Criminal Justice He attended college at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960. Blessing from God above. Following the completion of his Ph.D., Don accepted a one-year position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, with a joint appointment as Director of the Staff Training School at Oakalla Prison Farm. Her compassion for others knew no bounds; it motivated her dogged work ethic and insatiable desire to get it right. Likewise, she took great pleasure and pride in cultivating this passion and commitment in others, including her many law students and Ph.D. students over the decades. Besides his notable academic accomplishments, Steve Rosoff was a first-rate human being whose absolute unpretentiousness belied his enormous intellectual prowess. A service celebrating Dr. del Carmens life will be held on Monday, November 19, at 11:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Huntsville. Don served his profession with similar enthusiasm and commitment. In addition to these perpetual scholarship funds, Dr. del Carmen has provided intermittent scholarships for students in need. This in itself is a commentary on the integration of biology and crime in the contemporary world.. 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. He also established the Police Executive Training Program for senior local and state law enforcement officials and for a period of time directed the National Jail Resources Institute. Paul was also well ahead of the curve in appreciating and highlighting diversity issues, now a trademark of the academy. 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. He was awarded an Honorary LL.D. Al was also a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto and a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, the Institute of Criminology (Cambridge, England), Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), the University of Haifa, the University of the Philippines, and Kansai University in Osaka. California State University, San Bernardino, http://www.legacy.com/can-ottawa/obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=146251548. Jos Boulder medical friends assisted in the advice on the best dispensaries and brands at a dinner at her house, where Molly Bowers, was also present. This research focused on such questions as how much prison populations could be decreased by diverting specific classes of offenders to community corrections, and how much crime that group would be expected to commit if left at large. He was a good friend to many and a loving, devoted husband. He developed an early knowledge of crime and politics in South Africa as well as North America, and this was apparent throughout his career in the breadth of his theoretical and research contributions. Dr. Steven Janowitz, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on March 17, 2021.Cherished by his beloved wife, Kathy, son, Robbie, and his wife, Elissa. Some of these individuals participated in the ASC Oral History Project. Al was enormously kind and helpful to everyone he knew. His innate curiosity and ability to think outside the box led him to perform novel research demonstrating the impact of medical advances on the lethality of criminal assault. He will be remembered as a kind, caring person, often generous to a fault, who once said he wanted to be remembered as a good man. His family and friends believe he achieved his goal. Published in numerous editions, it received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, given annually for a work that makes an extraordinary contribution to the study of crime and criminal justice.. His death has been a major loss for all of us who knew him. Submitted by Robert P. Weiss, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He also studied healthcare fraud internationally, and in 2002, was a Fulbright Scholar at Stockholm University in Sweden. There are no events at this time. Nati passed away there in 2003. On someones passing, we often say she will be missed. She was a Visiting Professor at several American universities, including Harvard, Yale, the University of Minnesota, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Scholarship was central to his identity, but it wasnt his entire identity. 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. He was a lead consultant on corrections to the 1973 National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and goals. He spent tireless hours working in his studio in Charlottesville and had several gallery exhibitions. http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html, [3]UNH (2015) In Remembrance of Richard H. Ward, West Haven, CT: University of New Haven. While he did not talk much about his family, his joy with them was obvious when you could get him to open up. Drug courts now function across the country. Dr. Margaret E. Beare (1946-2019) Professor of Sociology and Law, York University and Osgoode Hall Law School. But the work was not all that mattered. Frederick T. Martens, former President of IASOC. His classic text, Society, Crime and Criminal Careers, now in its 8th edition, was first published in 1968 and is used in classrooms throughout the world. Her scholarly research focused on womens leadership development; gender, race and the criminal justice system; and women prisoners in correctional facilities. Dick Ward, you will never be forgotten. For this work, the Governor formally thanked Professor Petersilia for bringing systematic evidence to bear on correctional reform and significantly influencing his thinking about prison and parole reform in California. John was proud to be a convict criminologist and advocate for social justice. Als theory explains how social conditions experienced by a group of persons can lead them to create a collective solution to their mutual problem, a criminal subculture, which then becomes an additional cause of crime. Long before the recent resurgence of criminological interest in genetics and crime, Nicky was one of few criminologists to examine the origins of the eugenics and crime movement and her decades-long interest in this area never waned. He was elected President of the American Society of Criminology and was also the recipient of the societys Edwin H. Sutherland Award, the ASCs highest honor. If Daves life was a movie, most film critics probably would dismiss it as completely implausible. Doting Papa Steve to Maks. It became the guide to evaluation practice across many social program fields, including criminal justice. He not only taught international students but also assisted them cut through red tape enabling many to come to America to further their education. Steve and I started graduate school at the University of Maryland College Park together, took every course together, shared an office, an amazing mentor (Ray Paternoster), ideas, life experiences, and so much more. for a teaching position at Indiana University in 1947. At the same time, he also fashioned life-long colleagueship with fellow students such as Rodney Stark and John Lofland. The best.. He was known by many of us in the department to share odd or strange crime stories. At the time of her death, she was the Beatrice Whiting Professor Emeritus of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she had taught since 1978. Whats good for the University of California? His focus on the creation of knowledge through research also positioned the department to be approved by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to grant doctoral degrees.