and regular attendant of its annual meetings. Dr. Roslyn (Roz) Muraskin, ACJS Secretary and professor of criminal justice, passed away on Saturday, April 21 after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. He helped form the philosophies of several heads of the Arkansas Department of Correction, and many police chiefs, police officers, probation officers, and others. Joan was appointed chair of that panel, and in that role she co-wrote the final report, Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities, which was published and distributed by the National Academy of Sciences (2001). He previously was a professor of psychology at Indiana University and a professor of industrial engineering at New York University. We note just a sampling here. That said, I would note that Jeffs work changed criminology each time. He travelled a bit around Europe during his 20s, mostly to Italy which is believed to be the birthplace of his paternal grandparents. On March 5, 2017, the world lost one of the greatest fathers, husbands, sons, siblings, teachers, and scholars on the planet. She went on to explain that her parents were deceased, and she didnt want his parents to interfere with their marriage. Over the years, when an international or out-of-state student needed financial assistance to receive in-state tuition, Dr. del Carmen would provide them with a $1,000 scholarship; almost all of these students he had never previously met. Josine Junger-Tas passed away at age 81. Some may disagree with her arguments, but that is interesting writing. In 1990 he was the oldest Fulbright Scholar in Tokyo. In 1980, Paul began his professorial career in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University (IU). She is survived by her husband Robert Hahn, her son Alex Hahn, her daughter Sara Hahn, and her daughter in-law Sunali Goonesekera. ~ Pam Armstrong, We have lost a truly remarkable man and friend. His work spanned eight decades, and is notable for its interdisciplinary quality, quantity, and remarkable breadth in a number of fields, including sociology, psychology, history, criminology, criminal justice, law, media studies, education, and policy studies. 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 1991, 3 of the 4 of us have had breast cancer and 2 of the 4 of us had painful no-confidence votes in our positions of chair by colleagues we thought were our friends and for whom wed advocated. He was coauthor, with Richard Rettig and Manuel Torres of Manny: A Criminal Addicts Story (Houghton Mifflin), with Howard Bahr, of Women Alone: The Disaffiliation of Urban Females, with Calvin J. Larson, of Crime, Justice, and Society (Rowman and Littlefield) and with Russell Schutt, of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice (Plenum). Bill started his academic career as an undergraduate studying with Donald Cressey at UCLA. Because that is how Steve and I rolled. Johns contributions to the field have been recognized: the Pioneer Award from the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (1988); the Paul H. Chapman medal from the Foundation for the Improvement of Justice (2003); being named a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Experimental Criminology(2006); and this years recipient of the August Vollmer Award, to be presented posthumously at the ASC meeting (2012). Former Social Ecology Dean Daniel Stokols notes, His legacy of academic innovation and community service is renowned and admired by colleagues around the world. One of his favorite courses was the graduate class in criminological theory where he used a Socratic method to encourage students to think about the implications of each paradigm. He had spent his childhood and adult time in New York only. Doting Papa Steve to Maks. She was a gifted teacher and a patient and tireless mentor dedicated to furthering the best interests of her students both inside and outside of the classroom. In a time when social scientists have been slow to address such topics, Austin Turk as usual was thinking and writing at the leading edge of what should be among our prevailing concerns. In 2009, he received an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Guelph, Canada. Jo spent her spring break and first time in Chattanooga working on some of these manuscripts with Helen in her house which was an amazing time together.). I met Hal through Joan Petersilia, Gilbert Geis and Paul Jesilow. In the course of numerous TV interviews and newspaper reports, he became a familiar figure for the Finnish audience as a criminologist who had the ability to place problems into their appropriate scale and to do so in a language that everyone could understand. At the Vera Institute, Winterfield carried out one of the earliest studies of juvenile offenders to explore the extent to which they went on to adult criminal careers. Professor Petersilia was a preeminent scholar and one of the most widely known and respected criminologists in the world. Charles was one of the earliest adoptees of the LEAA effort to develop criminal justice degrees and provide an education for people in the criminal justice system. In 1985, Paul moved to be close to family and taught at Northeastern for 7 years, leaving to help establish a crime and justice program at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he worked for 19 years, before returning to his favorite part of the country and joining the Lowell faculty. What does a card have to do with Dr. Talaricos success as a mentor and instructor? Through the years, he tried to maintain contact with his childhood friends as well as those from his years working in the Ouachita Parish Sheriffs Office and in the Monroe Police Department, his buddies from his years in the U. S. Navy Seabees, from his Karate Clubs, and from his college years (B.A. He was a quintessential role model for students, especially underrepresented students and those with physical disabilities, and was a noted scholar, making major contributions to criminology, particularly the study of white-collar crime. Contributions should be sent to: The Elizabeth Deschenes Memorial Fund On December 29, 1982, Talarico married the love of her life, Rodger Taylor Carroll and on March 15, 1984, they had a son, Robert David Carroll: a great joy for both of them. Upon leaving the Marine Corps in 1961, he joined the NYPD where he remained until 1970, leading as a gold shield Detective. When I went to him for advice and he offered to take me on as a PhD student he told me one of his conditions was that I allow him to choose the additional member from within the School so as to keep things within his control. This, indeed, was a hallmark of Stans work that was without unambiguous conclusions but replete with original, prescient and altogether thoughtful arguments that always push readers to think in new and different ways. As a career public servant for more than 35 years, Dr. Edwin Zedlewski helped form, shape, and nurture our nations criminal justice research agenda. During the fall of 2021, the University named the School of Criminal Justice conference room in his honor. In 2006, she because an inaugural faculty member in ASUs School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He was not hesitant to offer advice to a series of deans including Vince OLeary, Don Newman, Terry Thornberry, David Bayley, Julie Horney, and David Duffee. Before joining Temple, Kay was already a prominent figure with major reform and advocacy organizations such as the ABA. PAUL CROMWELL (Wichita State University): I received the better part of my doctoral education sitting with him and Fred Faust at Steak and Eggs each morning, having breakfast and listening to and participating what amounted to the best graduate seminar anywhere. Memorials may be sent to the University of Nebraska Foundation to benefit the Dr. Benjamin Steiner Fellowship for Criminal Justice Professionals 1010 Lincoln Mall, Suite 300, Lincoln, NE 68508, STEPHEN TIBBETTSFeb 22, 2017.Photo by Jasmin Limon/CSUSB. Upon returning state-side, he used the G.I. thesis as he drew everyone in around him to help with the research. This at times was seen as controversial by traditional criminologists and politicians, but at the same time places him as an important philosophical and societal light-tower in the often impermeable fog of loosely founded assumptions and allegations in policy-making. She became so enamored with the story of how research was used (or not used) in the D.A.R.E. It was in the Navy that Hans met Doug Grant, his co-author on books like Reforming Human Services: Change through Participation (1982) and Police as Problem Solvers (1991), to whom he credits some of his best ideas. Our dear friend and colleague, C. Ron Huff, passed away on March 31, 2019 after bravely battling pancreatic cancer. On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Dr. Louis A. Mayo passed away in his sleep after a long battle with cancer. In recognition of his contributions, he was inducted as a fellow of the ASC and received ASCs Edwin Sutherland Award for a career of distinguished scholarship. A newly-minted Ph.D. (1969), he taught at Florida State University briefly before being recalled to Ohio to serve as Executive Secretary of the Ohio Governors Task Force on Corrections. The two has been living a happy married life with their daughter and grandchild in New York City. There is no detailed information about her father and mother from where they are and other personal details. Mail to: ISU Foundation, Campus Box 8000, Normal, IL 61790-8000. Receive obituaries from the city or cities of your choice. Joy is a comedian, television host, actress, and writer. 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. ), and the drive he instilled in me to push forward to upgrade the field with the ultimate goal of helping people. A memorial service at the University of Delaware is being planned for February, 2010. She co-hosts ABCs daytime talk show The View, where she is the only original panelist who still appears on a regular basis. Elmar grew up in a small village in Germany, the place where his family owned and operated a local sawmill and where his cremains will be interred. She was especially fond and respectful of evaluators on the front lines in the field who were trying to produce good studies in face of political pressures and resource constraints, particularly those working in developing nations or impoverished communities. He was everything you could ever want in a professor. Another memorial service will be held at a later time in the Philippines. One award per year is given. Her talent for articulating transparent models to link programs to outcomes made her a valued and trusted colleague in many research ventures, especially those in the area of corrections and community supervision of offenders. Bill was an international scholar, with visiting professorships in Nigeria, Sweden, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, Cardiff, and Zambia. Dr. Charles L. Newman, age 92 of Louisville, Kentucky passed away on September 4, 2019. I will remember and miss Michael most for his knowledge of comic books and superhero movies. A member of the Lyndon Johnsons Presidents Commission on Law Enforcement & Administration of Justice, Gil was responsible for the white-collar crime section of the report. He served as ASC President in 1976, and received the Sutherland Award in 1985. Her research covered a wide range of topics, including juvenile justice, corrections and human trafficking. She was certainly not shy about enlisting the cadre of conflict and Marxist criminologists in the war against organized crime, advancing the belief that much of what is defined or described as organized crime are crimes committed by the state against its people. His work on white-collar crime spawned a new generation of researchers who have broadened the scope of criminology. His research has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Crime Patterns and Analysis and the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 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. Christies criticism of official criminal policy not only addressed issues of punishment (e.g., in Limits to Pain, 1981 on the right level of punishment and suffering for society) but also police abuses of power, and the situation of prison inmates. The Chairperson there was Edwin H. Sutherland, the leading criminologist of his day whom Al described as another powerful influence on his intellectual development. Mr. Cascarano created the Institutes training and dissemination programs to help criminal justice agencies apply research findings and promising approaches, such as the first police street crime units and the first rape crisis centers. He was central to UCIs efforts early on to advance diversity in all ways in academia. Dear brother-in-law to Bruce. He served as Chair at Arizona State University and Iowa State University, and as Associate Dean and then Dean at Northeastern University. He is survived by a daughter, Cara, and a son and daughter-in-law, Clay and Jocelyn. They were the picture of the balcony-seated muppets Statler and Waldorf with a running critical commentary of the proceedings. Second genre: the work on Organized Crime and Racketeering.This section of the collected works consists of 5 books that form a remarkable series perhaps the most sustained effort to understand racketeering ever undertaken by a single scholar. He was named an assistant director of the agency in 1985, and was a charter member of the Senior Executive Service. On the personal side, Opolot was a team player and friendly. Nicholas Kittrie passed away in December at the age of 93. In fact, Carol once wrote, in her beautiful prose, that the effort put into finding such examples was protracted and painful. Instead, Carol wrote that the more common outcome of research was to affect the way people asked questions or thought about the issues, which she termed conceptual use. This impact often occurred over a long term through a mechanism she described as the circuitry of enlightenment., My personal contact with Carol began in 1997. Mary Dodge, University of Denver After retiring from the RDC in 1994, she became a professor of youth criminology at the University of Lausanne where she received an honorary doctorate. Ed was school head for nearly 40 years. begin to recall all of the times I went to Steve for advice, to chat about the past weekends Gator football game, to talk about Rians most recent volleyball tournament, or to simply complain and conspire on a plethora of work and life related situations. Satyanshu Kumar Mukherjee (13 September 1935 28 August 2021) died at his home in Australia, just shy of his 86th birthday. Among the most widely cited were Behind Closed Doors and Beating the Devil Out of Them.. We were all lucky to know her. Criminologist Kauko Aromaa passed away suddenly in his sleep on 18 January 2019 in his home at the age of 75. Eric worked various positions during his career such as K-9 officer, SWAT, Detective, just to name a few. Anette Storgaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark and Chairperson, the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology), And there are several articles that follow a similar formula, dousing liberal ideas with large quantities of cold water: Should Hate Be a Crime? Can We Ever Clean Up the Javits Center? and Will New Yorks Safe Act Make Us Safer? While Jim is best known for his books on prisons; the Mafia; and criminal records I believe that his studies in skepticism are the ones that best express his distinctive authorial voice and his personal world-view. Loretta Bass, University of Oklahoma; Trina Hope, University of Oklahoma. In addition to his wife and son, he left many other family members including three siblings whom he loved very much, Carole Gaughan, Anthony Paternoster, and Kim Paternoster. Moving to Australia in 1977, he joined the Australian Institute of Criminology, first as Senior Criminologist and then, in 1985, as Principal Criminologist, a post he maintained until his retirement in 2000. It is our sad duty to inform the American Society of Criminology of the passing of Glen David Curry, Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, on April 27, 2015. 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. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Northeastern Arkansas Childrens Advocacy Center in Jonesboro. A Eurogang workshop or Dubrovnik course was not complete without either a collective outing to a cultural/historical site or a dinner at a local restaurant (or both). He was an energetic and prolific scholar, authoring 15 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Thereafter, in her (now classic) book titled When Prisoners Come Home (2003), she utilized both qualitative and quantitative data to critically examine the prisoner reentry problem. Current Interim Social Ecology Dean, Mona Lynch notes, His great legacy lives on, as scholars continue to work across disciplines on major social challenges to improve life conditions for those near and far., Binders daughter Jen Capasso said UCI held a special place in her fathers heart. Allen was a key advocate for the passage of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act. Some of these individuals participated in the ASC Oral History Project. We shared many lunches in the Square together, and she loved holding court while we peppered her with questions on all things evaluative. So many of us have Bursik stories, and we encourage those who do to share them at the memorial session for Bob at the 2017 meetings of the ASC. At the national level, Rita Warren worked on President Johnsons Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. He was involved in numerous research projects on gang violence and juvenile crime prevention. After his retirement, he was a volunteer with the Travelers Aid Society at Reagan National Airport. To those who knew him well, Ben was funny, witty, passionate, and warm-hearted. He was 86 years old. Among other editorial assignments, he served on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1957-83. Ben earned a M.A. 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. His early accomplishments helped to lay the foundation of the National Institute of Justice: developing and administering NIJs evaluation program under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988; serving as consultant to the Presidents Commission on Organized Crime; conducting a study of DEA airport surveillance, a study later placed in evidence by the U.S. Their amazing, volleyball-star daughter Rian lost a father. Ray earned his BA at the University of Delaware in 1972 and a Ph.D. in criminology at Florida State University in 1978. 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. Michael was an extremely private person who held his personal life in abeyance and shared little with even his closest friends and acquaintances. He amassed over one million dollars in state and federal grants while producing two books, 60+ journal articles, numerous book chapters, project reports, and monographs. 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. The Saints and the Roughnecks are among the 20th centurys best-known criminological characters, their names now code for unreliable stereotypes of conformity and delinquency. After many years in academia, we are grateful for having the colleague who we also consider a dear friend, someone special in our lives. Excelsior! It is important to remember that Libby was a lot of fun. They are both lovers of animals, and have had three pet dogs over the course of years.Steve Janowitz and Joy Behar. Talarico was the Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law, Emerita and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorat UGAs School of Public and International Affairs. Don taught a variety of classes in Sociology, Criminology and Urban Studies and was highly thought of by his students. His was a life well lived. He was continuously active as a scientist and as an important voice in the public discourse on society`s reaction to crime and deviance with a focus on the problems that system responses create, and on the humanistic as well as empirical foundations for these reactions.