Perry - Advancing Critical Criminology

Shahid Alvi is Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is author or coauthor of numerous articles and book chapters and four books, including the recently released Deviance and Crime: Theory, Research and Policy (with Walter DeKeseredy and Desmond Ellis). He is also the 2002 recipient of the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminologys Division on Critical Criminology.

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Crime, Law, and Society in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His research and teaching interests include critical and philosophical criminology, criminal and legal psychology, and crime and social justice policy. He has authored more than 125 articles, book chapters, and scholarly essays. Recent books include The French Connection in Criminology: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change (coauthored with Dragan Milovanovic and Robert Carl Schehr; State University of New York Press, 2005); Criminal Behavior: A Systems Approach (forthcoming from Prentice Hall, 2006); and Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology (coedited with Christopher R. Williams; forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press, 2006). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Gregg Barak is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University and was the 2004 Visiting Distinguished Professor and Scholar, College of Justice and Safety at Eastern Kentucky University. He is author or editor of eleven books, his most recent being Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding (Sage, 2003). Dr. Barak is a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the recipient of the Critical Criminologist of the Year, 1999, awarded by the American Society of Criminologys Division on Critical Criminology.

Elaine Barclay is a researcher in rural social issues at the Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. She is also Director of the Centre for Rural Crime, Safety and Security, which is an international research centre located within the Institute for Rural Futures. Over the past seven years, Dr. Barclay has developed an extensive program of research in rural crime in collaboration with Professor Pat Jobes of the University of New England and Professor Joseph Donnermeyer of Ohio State University. Dr. Barclay has also conducted research in farm succession and inheritance as well as studies in information technology, welfare services for farm families and biosecurity in rural communities. Elaine has a degree in Social Science, postgraduate qualifications in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology/Criminology, which focused upon property crime on farms.

Julie Borkin is a rhetorical studies doctoral student at Wayne State Universitys Department of Communication, where she is completing a dissertation on contemporary calls for civic commitment and public sacrifice.

Michelle Browns research explores the intersection of culture, punishment, and risk. She is working on a monograph exploring the meanings of U.S. imprisonment in cultural practice while serving as Assistant Professor and criminologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. She is coeditor of Media Representations of September 11 (Praeger, 2003).

Kimberly J. Cook is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her book Divided Passions (Northeastern University Press, 1998) explores public opinions on abortion and the death penalty. More recently, she was a Senior Scholar Fulbright (2001) recipient at the Australian National University, where she conducted the research framing the analysis of her coauthored chapter in this book. Her current research examines the postprison experiences of death row exonerees in the United States (with Saundra Westervelt). When not working, she spends her time with the most enchanting dachshund and partner ever made!

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is author or coauthor of eleven books and over fifty refereed journal articles. In 2004, he and Martin D. Schwartz jointly received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminologys (ASC) Division on Women and Crime. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASCs Division on Critical Criminology.

Joseph F. Donnermeyer is Professor in the Rural Sociology program, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Program Area Leader for Rural Sociology and Chair of the Rural Sociology Graduate Studies Committee at Ohio State. He currently serves as the International Research Coordinator of the Centre for Rural Crime, Safety and Security at the University of New England in Australia, where he has been a visiting academic on two separate occasions. Dr. Donnermeyers major field of study is criminology, with a special focus on rural and agricultural crime. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Kentucky, and his B.A. degree in Sociology from Thomas More College, a small liberal arts college located near Cincinnati. He holds a lifetime Honorary Membership in the Ohio Crime Prevention Association and regularly conducts leadership training on social change and community for police organizations.

Judith Grant, whose specialization is in the area of women, addiction and recovery, teaches in a tenure-track position in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. Previously, she taught for four years at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Dr. Grant received her Ph.D. in Womens Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests include drugs and gender; crime, justice and gender; women, addiction and recovery; violence against women; public policy issues; community activism and community-academic alliances.

Stuart Henry is Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. He is author and coauthor (with Dragan Milovanovic) of numerous articles and books on post-modern criminology, most notably, Constitutive Criminology (Sage, 1996) and Constitutive Criminology at Work (State University of New York Press, 1999).

Pat Jobes has written extensively on rural communities, social change, and social problems in Australia, the United States, Romania and Pakistan. Dr. Jobes served until recently as a fellow to the Criminology Research Council in Canberra, Australia, coming to the Council as Associate Professor on the faculty at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. Although he is now retired, he continues to write and conduct research on rural crime. He has held professorial positions at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and at Montana State University and visiting faculty appointments as Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Bucharest, the University of Oregon, New Mexico State University, Utah State University and the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. In 2002 he was elected to a four-year term as President of the Section on Deviance, RC-29, of the International Sociological Society. Dr. Jobes received his B.A. (Psychology) and M.A. (Corrections) degrees at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His Ph.D. (Sociology) was conferred by the University of Washington.