He helped build a strong legacy of applied sociology at UMass Boston. Professor Bedau (pronounced beh-DOUGH) took up the issue as well in The Case Against the Death Penalty, a pamphlet distributed widely for many years by the American Civil Liberties Union. She was appointed as a Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1964, and became a Professor there in 1976. Excellent dentist. In 1980, Paul began his professorial career in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University (IU). She was responsible for many administrative duties, including scheduling classes, graduation, and her favorite, advising students, not only on academic issues but on many aspects of their lives. I might as well record that my private life has been conventional and my inner life is overwhelmingly pedestrian. He joined the army in 1942 and was discharged in 1946 at the rank of Captain in the Corps of Engineers. Drawn from Joe Simnacher, Dallas News, 8/9/11. Professor Emeritus Hal Pepinsky of Indiana University, Bloomington Department of Criminal Justice passed away on January 28, 2023. He routinely provided support and mentored junior faculty. When I tried to thank him for all of this after he hooded me in 1977, he said simply, You cannot thank me. He was everything you could ever want in a professor. As a result, Jims thinking was always interestingly at odds with the conventional wisdom. He had the largest and most diverse music library any of us has ever seen, and a bad movie collection that was spectacular. As an army military police officer at the end of World War II, he worked to keep order as American, Russian and British troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps. His scholarly publications included several seminal papers on the epidemiology of crack cocaine use, as well as the effectiveness of prison- based substance abuse treatment for drug-involved offenders. at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, LA and his PhD at Sam Houston University in Huntsville, TX). When this worked is combined with his role with the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, it is reasonable to think that he personally trained 2,000 correctional managers and administrators in the ears before joining the faculty at SUNY-Albany. It became the guide to evaluation practice across many social program fields, including criminal justice. Julie C. Abril Independent Social Scientist. Nils Christies ideas had great influence upon the criminal policy discourse not only in Norway and Scandinavia, but in many other parts of the world which have benefited from translations of a number of his most important books as well as a large number of articles and lectures. Upon her retirement, the department of political sciences teaching award was named in her honor. He retired as a Patrol Sergeant. He was born in the United States, belongs to white communities, and holds American citizenship. By the way, Steve did not really like cats so you can imagine the type of stories he would share. Irvine Jodi Lane, University of Florida PAUL BRANTINGHAM (Simon Frasier University): I note the reasons why both the field of Criminology and the criminologists who work within it benefited greatly from this man, Ray Jeffery. Dales passion for correctional research never waned and during his 21 years at CSUSB. In 1981, he was elected Fellow in the American Society of Criminology, in recognition of his scholarly contribution to the intellectual life of the discipline. Xiaogangs dissertation critically examined rational-choice and deterrence theories, drawing on data that he collected on a county-wide stop-shoplifting program. Beginning in the 1970s, his surveys established that people were far more likely to be assaulted and injured by members of their own family than they were by strangers, fundamentally changing popular and academic conceptions about crime and crime prevention. He was born April 10, 1917, in Racine, Wis., to Elmer D. and Lucinda (Hinderholtz) Johnson. His wisdom, fairness and kindness always steered the department to move in the right direction, to strive for excellence and to do right by each other and our students. Another was her famous paper on alternative approaches to experiments for assessing causality, which she entitled What to do Until the Random Assigner Comes? for a book published by Brookings Press in 2002. As she sat down in the conference room of the President of the Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC), she looked out the window towards a forested mountain in the north. The Chairperson there was Edwin H. Sutherland, the leading criminologist of his day whom Al described as another powerful influence on his intellectual development. An internationally recognized scholar and prolific writer, Dr. Champion had written 40 texts and-or edited works, several published in Russian, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish editions. His greatest achievement, he would say, was the bestselling book Violent Men, first published in 1969, released numerous times since, including a recent anniversary edition with American Psychological Association Books. Kauko carried the intellectual and social heritage of the radical 1960s the protection of the weak and socially marginalised throughout his whole life. Quite simply, Jim enriched the lives of everyone around him. In 1986 he left China to pursue a Masters degree in sociology at Baylor College in Waco, Texas. In 1994, Xiaogang was hired as an assistant professor of sociology at UMass Boston, where he worked until his retirement in 2020. Since then, we have had had many mini-vacations together in varied places and varied times of the year, most recently again in a cabin near Gatlinburg and again organized by Helen, for 5 days before the ASC conference in November (2018). Harold served as Chair of the OU Sociology Department from 1982 to 1988, which was a challenging time institutionally as OU was transforming to a national-level university with an emphasis on research. This latter appointment was indicative of what was to come, in that Don continued to use his criminological knowledge to serve the community. He was a foremost expert of ARIMA analyses, and employed the technique to study the reciprocal relationship between crimes and arrests, as well as a tool for social policy analysis. A skilled methodologist and staunch advocate for improving criminal justice policies, Pauls scholarly contributions focused on measurement and analysis of criminal careers over the life course, juvenile justice, drug prohibition, prisoner re-entry, and capital punishment. The personal lives of many of us have been forever enriched by his empathy. Christy Visher, University of Delaware, HAROLD K. BECKER, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University Long Beach. John Goldkamp, age 64, Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, passed away on August 26, 2012, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. A few years later she returned to those archives to analyze reports produced by prison matrons in the early to mid-1900s and authored the authoritative history of womens imprisonment in Gender, Prisons and Prison History (1985) and Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control (1990). Using numerous cross-cultural practices and informal strategies, these modern models of conflict resolution are now widely practiced in many different settings. Du Bois Award from the Western Society of Criminology, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University at Albany, among others. Early in his career he specialized in rural sociology and the measurement of family interaction. Family and friends knew of his culinary skills, especially sourdough pancakes and homemade root beer. I think of these books as constituting the Jacobean studies in skepticism.Each of these contrarian books takes a policy reform that has been universally embraced by liberals and by the legal academy more or less the same thing, Jim would have said and proceeds to show, in loving detail, why these reforms backfire. A memorial service at the University of Delaware is being planned for February, 2010. Frank was a devoted husband and father, participating with Susan and Jeffrey in a variety of activities as they passed through their childhood and teenage years. Such a fun-loving, kind man. On multiple occasions, she organized mini-conferences at the prison bringing together incarcerated men and world-renowned criminologists to tackle pressing issues in the correctional field. Debbie also informally mentored graduate students in Criminology. He was honored with a criminological (Schwind, H.-D., E. Kube and H.H. He was a devoted husband and wonderful father to their son, John. Dr. Salinger was proud to contribute to his community, both on-campus and off. A charter member of UGAs Teaching Academy, Talarico was known for her innovative approach to teaching and mentoring and for her contributions to curriculum development at the universityserving as the driving force in the creation of the interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in criminal justice. The world will never be the same or as cheerful as when "Jag" was around. His exploration of the significance of the interactions between parents and children for the life-chances of children helped fill a void in the field. Bondeson, U. V. (1994) Alternatives to Imprisonment. And, somewhere in the middle of it all, Dale completed a D.Crim. Brothers and sisters: Keith Jarolimek (Kim), Colorado Springs, Co; Kristy Owens (Eric), Lincoln, North Dakota; Angie OHara (James), Yuma, AZ; Matthew Jarolimek (Christy), Minneapolis, MN; Lea Steiner and Avi Steiner, Boise, ID. This publication cemented Harolds national reputation as a scholar and renowned criminologist. Ben leaves behind his beloved wife Emily (Wright), whom he met and married while they were both doctoral students at the University of Cincinnati. Only Bill could have survived this fieldwork (and then, just barely, as I heard Bills stories about being threatened with beatings more than once). He also introduced us to The Saints and the Roughnecks, as they wreaked havoc on their neighborhoods and our conventional wisdoms. After Paul returned to the University of California, Irvine, Department of Criminology, Law and Society Paul mentioned he wrote a book with Hal. He is survived by his wife Edi, with whom he shared a home in Park Hill, OK, sons Justin Heck and Garrett Heck, and the mother of his children, Janice Feazel Downey, of Stillwell, OK, siblings: Elizabeth & Don Yielding, Charles Heck, and Kay Shipp of Monroe, LA, Berlin & Pat Heck of Broken Bow, OK, and Mary Ida Kay of Georgetown, TX. Charles published several books and his many articles (often co-authored with graduate students and junior faculty whom he mentored over the years) appeared in our disciplines top journals, including Criminology, a journal for which he served five years as editor (1992-1997). With Great Sadness but Also Gratitude for Having Been Loved by Helen. A giant has passed before our eyes, and those that follow can see a little further and understand a little better: its all about preventing victims, not punishing the perpetrator. He later urged Joan Petersilia, then with the Rand Corporation, to obtain her Ph.D. in Social Ecology at UCI. (Please be sure to specify that the tribute is in Kays memory.). The FBIs Behavioral Sciences Unit invited him to a 3-day closed conference on cyber crime at Quantico. Harold and his co-authors, Charles Tittle, Bob Bursik and Bruce Arneklev (Grasmick et al.