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RESUME FOR GREGG BARAK

EDUCATION

Doctor of Criminology, University of California at Berkeley 6/74

Master of Criminology, University of California at Berkeley 6/71

A.B. in Criminology, University of California at Berkeley 6/70


EXPERIENCE: Teaching, Research, and Administration


Eastern Ketucky University (1/04-5/04)


Visiting Distinguished Professor, College of Justice & Safety


Eastern Michigan University (9/91-)


Professor (9/91--) and Head (9/91--9/96), Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology


Graduate Coordinator, Criminology and Criminal Justice (9/91- 1/93, 1/97-1/99)


Recording Secretary, College of Arts & Sciences' Department Heads (CAD-EMU), (9/92-9/93)


Arts Head Representative, College of Arts & Sciences' Research Fellowship and Sabbatical Leave Committee (9/92-9/94)


Head Representative from the College of Arts & Sciences, Graduate Faculty Council (9/93-9/96)


Chair, EMU Task Force on Interdisciplinary Studies (1/94-7/96)


Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 1996; Sabbatical, Winter 1999; Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 1999; Spring/Summer Research Fellow, 2000; Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 2001


Who's Who Among American Teachers, 5th and 6th editions (1997;2000)


Writing Across the Curriculum Fellows Progam, 2001-2002


27th Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Awarded March 2003


Western Michigan University, Department of Sociology, Outside Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member for D.K., established 2003


Alabama State University (9/85-8/91)


Professor and Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (9/85-8/91)


Chair, Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (9/88- 8/89)


University Wide Research and Funding Selection Committee (6/88-8/91)


Designed and secured approval from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education for the first graduate criminology program in the State of Alabama, May 1989


ASU Funded Research Grant for homelessness book (Summer 1989)


Recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences' Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, 1990-91


Aurora University,Illinois (9/80-8/85)


Chair, Department of Criminal Justice (9/82-8/85)


Designed and secured approval of the curriculum/departmental status for criminal justice


Director, Program in Criminal Justice (9/80-8/82)


Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice (9/84-8/85)


Associate Professor of Criminal Justice (9/80-8/84)


Chair, University Wide Internship and Off-Campus Terms Committee(9/82-9/83)


Office of Justice Planning & Evaluation,Portland, Oregon


Policy Analyst (Full-time consultant on Youth Policy Project,11/79-3/80)


University of Maryland, European Division(1/78-5/79)


Lecturer in Criminology, Law Enforcement, and Sociology


University of Nevada at Las Vegas(8/75-6/77)


Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology


Coordinator, Criminal Justice Internship Program (5/76-5/77)


Edinboro University,Pennsylvania (1/74-5/75)


Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice


Social-psychologist, Office of Special Programs, Edinboro Foundation (9/74-5/75)


Judicial Council of California(Summer 1973)


Research Associate, Individual and Master Court Calendar Study


U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons(10/72-4/73)


Administrative Assistant at the Oakland Community Treatment Center/Halfway House


Ulrey's Home for Boys(Summer 1972)


Houseparent in a group home situation for status and delinquent offenders


University of California at Berkeley (Su '71, Wi '72, Sp '72)


Teaching Assistant in the School of Criminology


University of California at Berkeley(Fall 1971)


Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Law and Society


University of California at Berkeley(Fa '70, Wi '71, Sp '71)


Readership in the School of Criminology


Napa State Mental Hospital, California(1/70-6/70)


Counselor in Adolescent Treatment Program as a part of the Stiles Project of the University of California at Berkeley


AREAS OF ACADEMIC COMPETENCE


Criminology and Criminal Justice; Social Movements and Social Change; Social Deviance and Social Control; Sociology of Law; Public Policy and Administration; Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault; Homelessness and Housing; Media and Crime; Crime and Inequality; Historical, Comparative and Evaluative Methods; Interdisciplinary and Integrative Studies; Class, Race, and Gender Studies; Global Studies


PUBLICATIONS


Books


Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003).


Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: Social Realities of Justice in America.(Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing,2001) (co-authored with Jeanne Flavin and Paul Leighton)



Crime and Crime Control: A Global ViewWestport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), Editor


Integrative Criminologya volume in THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CRIMINOLOGY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PENOLOGY (Hamsphire, England: Dartmouth/Ashgate Publishing, 1998), Editor


Integrating Criminologies (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998)


Representing O.J.: Murder, Criminal Justice and Mass Culture(Albany, NY: Harrow and Heston, 1996), Editor;Media, Criminal Justice, and Mass Culturere-published edition (New York: Criminal Justice Press, 1999)


Media, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime: Studies in Newsmaking Criminology (New York: Garland Press, 1994), Editor


Varieties of Criminology: Readings from a Dynamic Discipline (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), Editor


Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America(New York: Praeger, 1991; 1992)ChoiceList of Outstanding Academic Books for 1991 (May 1992)


Crimes By the Capitalist State: An Introduction to State Criminality(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991), Editor


In Defense of Whom? A Critique of Criminal Justice Reform(Cincinnati: Anderson Publishers, 1980)


Chapters and/or reprinted articles in books


"Representing O.J. and the Trial of the 20th Century." In the three volume set, Famous Trials from the American Colonies to the Present (Westport, CN: Prager, 2004), edited by Frankie Bailey and Steven Chermak.


"A Reciprocal Approach to Terrorism and Terroist-Like Behavior." In Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives (NY: Elsevier, 2004), edited by Mathieu Deflem.


"Violence and Society course syllabus in Violence Resource Book published by the American Sociological Association, August 2003.


"Integrative Theories," Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002), eidted by David Levinson.


"Foreword" to Varieties of State Crime and Its Control (Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, 2000), eidted by Jeffrey Ian Ross.


"Introduction: A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Crime Control" inCrime and Crime Control: A Global View(Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000), edited by Gregg Barak.


"Sexuality and Criminal Law" inThe Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior(London: Taylor and Francis, 2000), Editor-in-Chief, Clifton D. Bryant, (co-authored with Charlotte Pagni).


"Capstone Advanced Criminology (CRM 447) Syllabus," inCriminology Resource Book (Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Teaching Resource Center, 2000), edited by Richard Wright (2nd. edition).


"Constituting O.J.: Mass-Mediated Trials and Newsmaking Criminology" inConstitutive Criminology at Work (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999), edited by Dragan Milovanovic and Stuart Henry.


"An Integrative-Constitutive Theory of Crime, Law, and Social Justice" (co-authored with Stuart Henry) inSocial Justice/Criminal Justice: The Maturation of Critical Theory in Law, Crime, and Deviance(Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth, 1999), edited by Bruce Arrigo.


"Time for an Integrated Critical Criminology" in Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical and Critical Criminology(Westport, CN: Greenwood, 1998), edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross.


"The Crimes of the Homeless or the Crime of Homelessness: On the Dialectics of Criminalization, Decriminalization, and Victimization" (co-authored with Robert Bohm) and "Newsmaking Criminology: Reflections on the Media, Intellectuals, and Crime" inRadical Criminology (U.K.: Darthmouth, 1997), edited by Michael Lynch.


"Representing O.J.: An Introduction" and "Media, Discourse, and the O.J. Simpson Trial: An Ethnographic Portrait" in Representing O.J.(1996), edited by Gregg Barak.


"Constitutive Criminology: An Overview of an Emerging Postmodernist School" (co-authored with S. Henry and D. Milovanovic) inThinking Critically About Crime (Vancouver, B.C.: Collective Press, 1996), edited by Brian MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic


"Mass-Mediated Regimes of Truth: Race, Gender, and Class in Crime News Thematics" inRace, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection(New York: Garland, 1996), edited by Martin D. Schwartz and Dragan Milovanovic.


"A National Housing Policy Can Reduce Homelessness" inThe Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996), edited by Tamara L. Roleff.


"Media, Crime, and Justice: A Case for Constitutive Criminology" in Cultural Criminology(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995), edited by Jeff Ferrell and Clinton R. Sanders.


"Homelessness" inMagill's Survey of Social Science: Sociology(Salem Press, 1994), edited by McCrea Adams.


"Media, Society and Criminology" and "Newsmaking Criminology: Reflections on the Media, Intellectuals, and Crime" inMedia, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime(1994/95), edited by Gregg Barak.


"Criminological Theory in the 'Post-Modernist' Era" and "Crime, Criminology and Human Rights: Toward an Understanding of State Criminality" inVarieties of Criminology(1993), edited by Gregg Barak.


"The Epidemiology of Homelessness in Black America" inHandbook of Black American Health: The Mosaic of Conditions, Issues, Policies and Prospects (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), edited by Ivor Lensworth Livingston.


"Crime, Criminology and Human Rights: Toward an Understanding of State Criminality" inPolitical Crime in Contemporary America: A Critical Approach(NY: Garland Press, 1993), edited by Kenneth Tunnel.


"Radical Humanist Sociology: An Alternative to Traditional Humanism" inThe Humanist Sociology Resource Book(Washington, DC:American Sociological Teaching Resource Center, 1993), 2nd ed., edited by Martin Schwartz.


"Homelessness and the Case for Community-Based Initiatives: The Emergence of a Model Shelter as a Short Term Response to the Deepening Crisis in Housing" in Criminology as Peacemaking(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991), edited by Harold Pepinsky and Richard Quinney.


"Toward a Criminology of State Criminality" and "Resisting State Criminality and the Struggle for Justice" in Crimes by the Capitalist State(1991), edited by Gregg Barak.


Journal Articles


"A Recirpocal Approach to Peacemaking Criminology: On the Dialetical Relationships between Adversarialism and Mutualism."Theoretical Criminology, 2005, vol. 9, no. 3.


"Class, Race, and Gender in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Ways of Seeing Difference." Race, Gender, and Class: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004, vol. 12, no. 3.


"Revisionist History, Visionary Criminology, and Needs-based Justice." Contemporary Justice Review, 2003, Dec, vol. 5, no. 3.


"Crime and Crime Control in An Age of Globalization: A Theoretical Dissection." Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 2001, vol. 10, no. 1.


"Repressive versus Restorative and Social Justice: A Case for An Integrative Praxis,"Contemporary Justice Review 2000, vol. 3 (1).


"Trialogues Along the Color Line: (Re)reading Resistance at the End of the Twentieth Century,"Critical Studies in Mass Communication16, Dec (1999), co-authored with Mark L. McPhail, Angharad Valdivia, and Herman Gray.


"On the State of State Criminality Research,"Humanity and Society, vol. , No. (Summer, 1999), co-authors.


"Reflexive Social Justice,"Social Justice, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer (1999), Special 25th Anniversary Issue.


"Between the Waves: Mass-Mediated Themes of Crime and Justice,"Social Justice ,, Vol. 21, No 3, Fall-Winter (1995).


"Media, Crime, and Justice: A Case for Constitutive Criminology,"Humanity and Society, Vol. 17 , No. 3 (1993).


"Cultural Literacy and a Multicultural Inquiry into the Study of Crime and Justice,"Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1991).


"Crime, Criminology, and Human Rights: Toward an Understanding of State Criminality,"Journal of Human Justice, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1990).


"The Crimes of the Homeless or the Crime of Homelessness? On the Dialectics of Criminalization, Decriminalization, and Victimization," Contemporary Crises: Law, Crime and Social Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1989) (co-authored with Robert Bohm).


"Newsmaking Criminology: Reflections on the Media, Intellectuals, and Crime,"Justice Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1988).


"Feminist Connections and the Movement Against Domestic Violence: Beyond Criminal Justice Reform,"Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. IX (Winter 1986).


"In Defense of the Rich: The Emergence of the Public Defender,"Crime and Social Justice, No. 3 (1975).


Video Production "PRIME TIME CRIME," for Allyn & Bacon, Inc. a division of Viacom Productions (1998).


Essays, Reviews, Op Eds, and Miscellaneous


"Review Essay of a Criminololgist and his Final Book: On Ian Taylor and Crime in Context: A Critical Criminology of Market Societies in Critical Criminology: An International Journal, vol. 10, 1 (2002). 

."Comparative Criminology: A Global View,"The Critical Criminologist , vol. 10, No. 2 (2000).

"Integrative Criminology," a Theoretical Perspective Entry inThe Sage Dictionary of Criminology(London: Sage,2000),edited by Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie.


"Newsmaking Criminology," a Theoretical Concept Entry inThe Sage Dictionary of Criminology, (London: Sage, 2000), edited by Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie.


A review of David Nelken's (editor)The Futures of Criminology inInternational Review of Criminal Justice, vol. , no. (1998).


A review of David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman'sNo More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and Mark Hamm'sApocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged in Theoretical Criminology, vol. 2, no. 2 (1998).


"Three by Three,"The Critical Criminologist, vol. 7, no 2 & 3 (1997) (co-authored with Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic).


A Review of Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic'sConstitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism in

Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1996).


"Time for an Integrated Critical Criminology,"The Critical Criminologist, vol. 7, no.1 & 2 Winter/Spring (1995).


A review of Christopher Jencks'The Homeless inSocial Forces, vol. 73, no. 3, March (1995).


"Extensive media coverage has not convicted O.J. Simpson,"The Ann Arbor News, op. ed. piece, August 23 (1994: A8).


"ADDRESSING MALE PRIVILEGE: Patriarchy promotes violence against women, lack of societal response,"The Ann Arbor News, op. ed. piece, June 26 (1994: C5).


A review of the video tape,Domestic Violence: Which Way Out?, produced by KCTS-TV,Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture,vol. 2, issue 1: 8-11 (2/1594),(Available on the Internet from SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.Albany.Edu).


A review of Stephanie Golden'sThe Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness inContemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews , vol. , no. 1994.


"Sure, TV is violent, but that's not the real issue,"The Ann Arbor News, op. ed. piece, Nov. 28 (1993: C3).


A review of Ray Surette'sMedia, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Images and RealitiesInThe Justice Professional, Vol., No.(1993).


"The Violence of Homelessness in America,"Safety Network: The Newsletter of the National Coalition for the Homeless, July(1991).


"Other Agenda Behind Gang Story,"The Montgomery Advertiser,January 14(1991).


A review of Diana Gordon'sThe Justice Juggernaut: Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens in theAmerican Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol., No.(1990).


"The Dialectics of Legal Reform: A Review of Kristin Bumiller'sThe Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims and Jeanne Gregory/sSex, Race and the Law: Legislating for EqualityinSocial JusticeVol.17,No. 2 (1990), (co-authored with Katheryn Russell).


"The Violent Nature of Homelessness,"The Critical Criminologist,Vol. 2, No. 3(1990).


"Snyder's Death Doesn't Portend Demise of Homeless Movement,"The Montgomery Advertiser, July 12 (1990).


"White Crimes Aren't Counted,"The Montgomery Advertiser, April 9 (1990).


"Sound Policies Emerge to Ease Jail Overcrowding,"The Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, August 13 (1989).


"Robinson Book Tells Another Side of the Boycott Struggle." A Review of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson'sThe Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It,in theMontgomery Magazine, No. 90, January 7-13 (1988) and reprinted inSouthern Changes , Vol. 10, No. 3 (May/June 1988).


"Black on black crime is a meaningless concept, an empty slogan,"The Birmingham News, February 21 (1988).


"The Myth and Reality of Black on Black Crime,"Dialogue, Vol. 1, No.1(Summer/Fall 1988).


"Most Rapes Never Reported." The Montgomery Advertiser, October 6 (1988).


"Comment on 'Traditional Contributions to Radical Criminology'" by Groves and Sampson,Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency,November(1987).


"Farm Bureau Should Trust Voters and Elected Officials,"The Montgomery Advertiser,November 2(1987).


"We need to acknowledge and address growing poverty in our nation,"The Birmingham News,June 14(1987).


"Race will be the hidden agenda in the 1988 presidential election,"The Alabama Tribune, June 12(1987).


"Alternatives to imprisonment save funds, maintain safety,"The Mobile Press,February 9 (1987).


"Behind the Numbers on Black Crime,"Southern Changes , Vol. 8, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1986).


"Crime Forum Seeks Public Input,"The Montgomery Advertiser, November 12 (1986).


"Montgomery May be the Model,"The Montgomery Advertiser, October 2 (1986).


"Minorities, Police Views Distorted,"The Montgomery Advertiser, September 9 (1986).


"Police Relations Perplexing,"The Montgomery Advertiser, July 25(1986).


"Is America Really Ready for the Currie Challenge? A Review" of Elliott Currie'sConfronting Crime: An American Challenge in Crime and Social Justice, No. 25(1986).


"The Ominous Crime Control Policies of Right-Wing Think Tanks: A Review" of James Q. Wilson's editedCrime and Public Policy , inCrime and Social Justice, No. 23(1985).


"History of Crime Control" and "Annotative bibliographic comment on David Greenberg's (edited)Crime and Capitalism ," inCrime and Control: Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Linda B. Deutschmann and Richard A. Wright (Washington, DC: American Sociological Teaching Resources Center, 1984).


"Punishment and Corrections: A Review ofPunishment and Penal Discipline: Essays on the Prison and the Prisoners' Movement (edited by Platt & Takagi) andCorrections: An Issues Approach (edited by Schwartz, Clear and Travis)," inCrime and Social Justice

, No. 18 (1982).


"Beyond the Legal Definition of Crime,"Criminal Justice Columns, Vol. III, No. 2 (1979).


A book review of Rosett and Cressey'sJustice by Consent: Plea Bargains in the American Courthouse in theAmerican Journal of Sociology, Vol. 83, No. 2 (1977).


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Associations, Journals, and Miscellaneous


Associate Editor, Media, Crime, and Culture, Sage: London, Nov 2003


Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Jutice Sciences, inducted/awarded on March 7th, 2003 at the annual meetings in Boston


International Editorial Advisory Board of Theoretical Criminology, Sage: London, Jan 2002--


Editorial Advisory Board, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, Kluwer, The Netherlands,  Apr 2001--


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Chair and Discussant at the session, Cross-National Studies of Crime and Punishment, and Chair at the session, Ideology, Knowledge, and Power: Discourses on Crime and Punishment, San Francisco, Nov 17-20, 2000


Editorial Advisory Board,Race, Gender, and Class: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Journal, Jan. 2000--


Tenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders, invited as an expert observer by the Secretary of the Congress, Jonathan Lucas, April 10-17, 2000, Vienna, Austria


Critical Criminologist of the Year Award, 1999, presented by the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Nov 1999


University of Helsinki, Finland, Guest Lecturer and Workshop Leader on Newsmaking Criminology for a consortium of universities, research institutes, and investigative journalists; interview with print media, September 20-24, 1999


United Kingdom Lecture Series on Integrative Criminology at the following places: Keele University, Middlesex University, University of Sheffield, University of Edinburgh, University of Durham, University of Northumbria, and University of Teeside, February 17--March 3, 1999


Editorial Advisory Board,


Journal of Criminal Justice Education(Official Publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences), 1999--


Editorial Advisory Board,Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal(Official Publication of the American Society of Criminology), 1998--


Member, Fellow Awards Committee, American Society of Criminology, 1998-99


Chairperson, Division on Critical Criminology, ASC, 1997-1999


12th International Congress on Criminology, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 24-29, 1998. Chair and organizer of the sessions on Crime and Crime Control: The Story of Five Nations


Co-Editor,The Critical Criminologist: Newsletter of the Division on Critical Criminology,9/97-8/00


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 1997, Washington, D.C., Program Chair for Integrative Criminology: Theories, Methods & Policies and Chair and Discussant for the Session, Integrative Criminology: Potpourri II


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 1997, San Diego, Chair at the session, "Issues in Theory and Method in Media Research; Discussant at the session, State and Governmental Crime; and Editor Meets Critics for my book, Representing O.J.


Annual Meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1997, Louisville, Chair and Discussant at the lead session, Media, Image, and Crime


Member, Ethical Issues Subcommittee, American Society of Criminology, 1996-98


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 1996, Chicago, Chair at the session, Editor Meets Critics for the book,Controlling State Crime: An Introductionby Jeffrey Ian Ross


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 1995, Boston, Chair at the sessions, Criminological Verstehen: Political, Critical, and Postmodern and Varieties of Newsmaking Criminology


Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, October 1993 in Phoenix, Chair at the session, Theory and Research in Critical Criminology II


Program Chair,Annual Meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 1993 in Kansas City, MO--THEME: Class, Race, and Gender


Deputy Editor, Justice Quarterly, (Official Publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences) 1993-1995


Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee, Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology, 1992


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1992 in Pittsburgh, Deputy Program Chair and Coordinator for the topical area: Deviance and Criminology; Discussant at the session, Integrating Cultural Diversity into Criminal Justice Teaching; Chair at the session, Newsmaking Criminology


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1991 in San Francisco, Discussant at the session, Sanctioning: Structure and Ideology; and Author Meets Critics for my book, Gimme Shelter


Annual Meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Plenary Speaker, conference theme: Homelessness and Poverty in America, Oct 1991 in Cincinnati


Book Review Editor, November 1986 to May 1991,Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order (formerlyCrime and Social Justice


Executive Counselor, Division of Critical Criminology, ASC (1990-91)


Minority Liaison, Division of Critical Criminology, ASC (1990-1992)


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1990 in Baltimore, Chair at the session, Politics and Justice Administration, and Discussant at the session, Politics, Social Theory and Crime


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1990 in Denver, Discussant at the session, Racism and the Criminal Justice System


Guest Lecturer at the University of Carelton and Ottawa University (Ontario, Canada), on U.S. Homelessness and the Housing Crisis, Governmental Deviance, and Media, Crime, and Gang Violence (January 19-23, 1990)


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1989 in Reno, Discussant at the session, Criminology as Peacemaking I


University of Alabama's 4th Annual JUSTICE COLLOQUOIA SERIES, 1988-89 (April 12), Invited Outside Scholar to present work on Media, Crime, and Social Justice: The Cases of Drugs, Black on Black Crime, and Homelessness in America


American Sociological Association, 1988-89, Latin American Scholar Award Committee Member, section on Crime, Law and Deviance


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1988 in Chicago, Program Committee Member; Chair at the session, Ideology, Terrorism, and the Global Political Economy; Discussant at the session, Women Abuse and the State; Discussant at the roundtable, Traditional and Innovative Perspectives on Crimes By and Against the State


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, April 1988 in San Francisco, Chair and Discussant at the session, The Economically Disadvantaged and Criminal Justice


Annual Meetings of the Southern Association of Criminal Justice Education, October 1987 in Birmingham, Discussant at the session, System Response to Crime: The Question of Outcomes


Annual Meetings of the ASC, Oct/Nov 1986 in Atlanta, Discussant at the session, Marxist and Critical Criminology


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1986 in Orlando, Discussant at the session, Theories of Criminal Causation, and Presenter at a specially invited Session on Future Directions in Criminological Theory


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1985 in San Diego, Discussant at the session, Women and the Law


Youth Policy Statement, adopted by the Aurora Township Board as recommended by the Aurora Township Commission on Youth, December 1984


Editorial Board Member,Journal of Crime and Justice, October 1985-1994


Annual Meetings of the ASC, November 1984 in Cincinnati, Discussant at the session, Female Homicide and Domestic Conflict: The Continuing Inquiry


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1984 in Chicago, Chair at the session, Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys in Criminal Court, and Discussant at the session, Philosophy, Law, and Justice: Implications for Development of Crime Theory


Annual Meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology, October 1983 in Hartford, Chair at the session, Control Institutions and Changing National Priorities; Discussant at the session, Correctional Intervention


Editorial Board Member, Social Justice, April 1982--


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1982 in Louisville, Chair and Discussant at the session, Empirical Studies of Respectable Criminality


Annual Meetings of the ACJS, March 1981 in Philadelphia, Chair at the session, Law and Order Reconsidered


"Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention: An Analytical Framework for Addressing Current Problems and Issues in the Greater Portland Area," Final Report to the Office of Justice Planning and Evaluation, Portland, Oregon, March 1980


Annual Meetings of the Western Society of Criminology, February 1977 in Las Vegas, Host and Local Arrangements Person


Assistant Editor,The Western Society of Criminology Newsletter, 3/76-3/77


Annual Meetings of the WSC, February 1977 in San Diego, Chair at the session, Public Defenders


IN DEFENSE OF THE POOR: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PUBLIC DEFNDER SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES (1900-1920),unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley,1974


COMMUNITY and PUBLIC SERVICE


O.J. Simpson Trial Commentator, Tuesday and Friday mornings on FM 107.1 Kool Radio, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Jan through Oct 1995)


Public Television WBSX-31 interviewed about Media and Crime for 30 minutes on the Sunday Edition show, 8:00 A.M. (April 17, 1994)


Shelter House Association for Ann Arbor, Board Member, non-profit community organization that purchases/owns property for temporary and/or transitory housing for the homeless (4/92-1/93)


Avalon, Inc., Founding Board Member, non-profit community organization that purchases/owns property for the permanent housing of formerly homeless and low-income persons, cooperatively run and managed by Avalon and volunteer tenant associations in Washtenaw County, MI (June 1992- July 1993)


The Birmingham News, Interviewed by Peggy Sanford on gang study, "Study fuel for racism, expert says," February 28, 1990


Tuskegee University,21st Century Leadership Conference, Workshop Leader for "Youth Leaders Focused on Crime," December 17, 1989


St. Judes High School, Crime Awareness Seminar, Presenter on "Being Informed Is a Solution to Child Abuse, Drug Addiction, and Black on Black Crime," Dec 9, 1989


Prison Review Task Force Public Hearing,Testimony presented at the Jefferson County Criminal Justice Center, Birmingham, Al, Nov 19, 1987


Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, One of six Alabama residents invited to participate in the workshop, Legislative Strategies for Alternatives to Incarceration, Nashville, October 22-23, 1987


National Rainbow Coalition, Delegate from the 2nd Congressional District of Alabama at the First Biennial Convention, Raleigh, NC, Oct 9-11, 1987


Confronting Racism in America Conference, Sponsored by the Mayor of Birmingham's Commission on the Status of Women, Panelist at the workshops on Race and Criminal Justice,Sep 12, 1987


Southern Christian Leadership Conference,Poor Peoples' Crusade: Putting Poverty on the National Agenda, Committee Member to hear and question the testimonies given from statewide advocates and representatives of Alabama's poor, at the Dexter Avenue-King Memorial Baptist Church, Montgomery, June 5, 1987


Alabama Public Television, For the Record, Guest/critic with Governor Guy Hunt's Legal Advisor to discuss the governor's proposed drug legislation and related crime control package (Bills), May 6, 1987


Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, Legal Committee Member, Feb 1987 to 1988


Alabama Attorney General's Victims' Task Force, General Advisor to the task force and to Attorney General Don Siegelman, Feb 1987 to Jan 1990


Alabama Prison Project, Inc.,Member of the Board of Directors, Nov 1986 to Oct 1987


Domestic Policy Association's National Issues Forum, 1986-87, Moderator for the Forum, "Crime: What We Fear, What Can Be Done," Tullibody Fine Arts Center, Montgomery, November 12, 1986


Alabama New South Coalition Keynote Speaker at the .00 a plate Fall Luncheon, Birmingham-Hyatt Hotel, October 25, 1986


Moot Trial of the State of Alabama v. Frank McCool, Participant/witness as part of the project, "Jury Service: A Lost Art of Citizenship," sponsored by the Social and Political Action Committee of the Dexter Avenue-King Memorial Baptist Church, Montgomery, October 19, 1986


Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women,Guest Speaker on behalf of Church Women United and the Southern Poverty Law Center, at the Monthly Speakers Forum, October 5, 1986


Alabama Department of Corrections Central Regional Advisory Committee, October 1986 to October 1989


Police-Community Relations, Guest speaker respectively at the Men's Breakfast Forum of the Metropolitan United Methodist Church and at the Breakfast Meeting of One Montgomery (a biracial civic and business association), August 5 and September 14, 1986


Black on Black Crime Symposium, Respondent/Discussant, Alabama State University, Thelma Glass Auditorium, May 14, 1986


Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama New South Coalition, Moderator for the Debate, Alabama State University, Thelma Glass Auditorium, April 24, 1986


Alabama Public Television,For the Record,Guest with the Montgomery Chief of Police and a civil rights attorney to discuss black on black crime in Montgomery, April 29, 1986


Alabama State Department of Education, Member of the Steering Committee for the statewide conference on High Risk Youth in Alabama, May 1986


Marquis Who's Who in the Midwest,1986-87


Aurora, Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission Member, April 1985 to August 1985 (when I moved to Alabama)


Aurora Area Inter-faith Food Pantry, Inc., President and Member of the Board of Directors respectively, from December 1984 to August 1985 and from August 1983-85


Aurora Township Youth Commission Member, appointed when the commission was established in August 1984, resigned in August 1985 (when I moved to Alabama)


Aurora Clergy Association, Guest Speaker at the Monthly Meeting, November 1984


Hesed House, Inc. (temporary shelter/services for the homeless), Founding Board Member, September 1984 to August 1985


Illinois Department of Corrections, Fox Valley Correctional Center (work release/halfway facility), Member of the Citizens Advisory Board, March 1983 to August 1985


Golden K Club (Kiwanis for men 60 and over in Aurora),Guest Speaker at the Monthly Meeting, July 1984


Greater Aurora Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Government Operations Committee, April 1984 to August 1985


Mutual Ground, Inc. (shelter for abused women and their children, sexual assault crisis intervention, and advocacy in Aurora), Vice-President and Member of the Board respectively from October 1983 to August 1984 and June 1983 to August 1984


Optimist Club of Aurora, Guest Speaker at the annual Law Observance Day, May 1984


Peace Awareness Day Program Speaker, Phillips Park, Aurora, August 1983


Aurora City Council, Candidate for 3rd Ward Alderman, in the four-way primary, February 22, 1983 and in the run-off general election, April 12, 1983


Aurora University Community Campaign Drive, Participant 1983 to 1985


Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. (Kane/Dekalb Counties), Member of the Advisory Council, September 1983-84


Safer Foundation of Chicago, Inc., Member of the Criminal Justice Board of the Council for Safer Communities, August 1982 to January 1984


Radio Talk Show, WFXW's Up Close,Guest interview to discuss crime, punishment, and community development, December 22, 1982


Aurora League of Women Voters, Guest Speaker at the Unit Meeting to discuss alternatives to incarceration, November 1982


Clark County Office of the District Attorney, Las Vegas, Advisor to the Victim-Witness Program, 1976


Poor People Pulling Together, Inc., North Las Vegas, Advisor on Justice related issues and the community, 1976-77


Saddleback Community: A Community-based Alternative to Institutionalization, Tucson, AZ, an accepted program design for repeat juvenile offenders by both the Pima County Juvenile Court Center and the Arizona State Department of Public Welfare, to be funded annually at  ,000, Feb 1973.