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Proceedings

 

WESTERN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY

1999 MEETING

PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1999

7 - 9 pm Executive Board Meeting

1. LAW AND COURTS

Panel Chair: Miki Vohryzek-Bolden, CSU, Sacramento.

Aaron Dalton, and Hiroshi Fukurai, Sociology, UC, Santa Cruz. Affirmative Action Strategies in Jury Selection: Affirmative Jury Structures and Affirmative Peremptory Inclusion Create Racially Mixed Juries.

Scott Senjo, Dept. of Criminal Justice, CSU, Bakersfield. The Role of the Judge Amid the Dilemma of Drugs and Crime.

Jeanette Sereno and Cecil Rhodes, Dept. of Sociology and Criminal Justice, CSU, Stanislaus. Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: The Supreme Court's Failed Experiment with the Death Penalty.

Stefanie Petrucci, King Hall School of Law, UC Davis. The Impact of the Terhune Decision on the Commitment of Mentally-Ill Offenders.

2. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS

Panel Chair: Mark G. Neithercutt, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward

Discussant: Ben Carmichael, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward

Patricia Zajac, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward. Effectiveness of Physical Evidence in Crime Investigation.

Matthew Petrocelli, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward. Community Policing Effectiveness: Sergeants' Perspectives.

Stephanie Amedeo-Marquez, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward. Outcomes-Based Evaluation of Judicial Discretion.

Mark Neithercutt and Ben Carmichael, Dept. of Criminal Justice Administration, CSU, Hayward. Sixteen-Year Follow-Up of Felony Probationers.

3. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

Coordinator: Charles Tracy, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University.

Mikki E. Jones, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University. The Challenges of Restorative Justice.

Penn Weldon, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University. The Language of Restorative Justice.

Charles Tracy, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University. The Promises of Restorative Justice.

Michael Day, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University. South Africa's Experience with Restorative Justice.

4. EVALUATION

Panel Chair: Libby Deschenes, CSU, Long Beach.

Chris Eskridge, University of Nebraska, Omaha. Thinking About Crime Rates: The Rise and Fall of UCR Figures.

Christine Way, CSU, Humboldt. Is Supervision Enough? A Look at Service Adequacy and the Reduction of Juvenile Crime in Humboldt County.

Stephen Bright, California Youth Authority. Evaluating Substance Abuse Treatment Programs: The Importance of Earnest Feedback.

Horst Senger, Simi Valley, CA. Missing Statistics of Criminology.

5. CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY

Chair: Frank P. Williams III, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University

Discussant: Chris Eskridge, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Armando Espinosa, Drury College, Missouri. College Athletes and Crime

Stephen M. Haas, CSU, Bakersfield. Assessing the Influence of Instigation Mechanisms on High School Aggression.

Michael Perez, CSU, Fullerton. The Influence of Extracurricular Activities on the Fighting Behavior of Asian-Pacific Youth: Social Integration and Social Control Perspectives Revisited in a Cross-Cultural Context.

Carmela Lomonaco, and Cheryl Maxson, Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California. Situational Aspects of Youth-Involved Violent Incidents.

Frank P. Williams III, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University. The Simplicity of Criminological Theory: Whatever Happened to the Complexity of Reality?

6. REGULATING DRUGS AND DOCTORS

Panel Chair: Stephen Bright, California Youth Authority Research Division.

Discussant: Richard Tillson, NCCD

Rex Reed, Division of Classification and Planning, Nevada Dept. of Prisons. Marching After Folly: An Analysis of the Drug War Policy.

Claudia E. Lavenant, Craig L. Hayward, and Paul Jesilow, UC, Irvine. Tort Reform and Physician Sanctioning.

Elizabeth D. Leonard, Vanguard University/Southern California College and Kate Auerhahn, UC Riverside. Docile Women: Psychotropic Drugs and the Female Inmate.

David Farabee, Vandana Joshi, and M. Douglas Anglin, Drug Abuse Research Center, UCLA. Criminal and Addiction Careers of DATOS Clients.

Michael Perez, Dept of Sociology, CSU Fullerton, Linkages between Substance Use and Violence: A Research Note on Guam's Youth.

7. INNOVATIVE JUVENILE STRATEGIES

Panel Chair: Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat

Sharon Mihalic, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado. What Works in Violence Prevention.

Darlanne Hoctor Mulmat, Criminal Justice Research Division, San Diego Association of Governments. Delinquency Prevention through Assessment in the Community.

Cynthia Rienick, Criminal Justice Research Division, San Diego Association of Governments. At_Risk Juveniles and Families in Need: Identifying Problem Areas and Providing a Continuum of Services.

David Mayeda, Youth Gang Project, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Constructing Ethnicity and Masculinity Within the Confines of Urban Honolulu.

8. WOMEN AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Panel Chair: Barbara Owen, CSU, Fresno.

Sharrell Blakeley, California Dept. of Corrections. Family Foundations: A New Model for Breaking the Inter-Generational Cycle of Criminality.

Meda Chesney-Lind and Vickie Paramore, Women's Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Contextualizing Girls' Violence: An Inquiry into Female Juvenile Robbery.

Angel Ilarraza Fuentes, Dept. of Sociology, Texas Christian University and Cdr. Julia A. Stokes, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Carswell. Sharing Hope About Recovery Experiences: Women Inside Helping Girls Outside.

Barbara Owen, Dept. of Criminology, CSU, Fresno. Women and Imprisonment in the United States: The General Consequences of the U.S. Imprisonment Binge.

Sponsored by the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

9. CRIME MAPPING AND CRIME ANALYSIS

Panel Chair: Paul Brantingham, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Nancy LaVigne, Director, Crime Mapping Research Center, NIJ, Washington, DC. Spatial Analyses of Crime and Criminal Behavior: An Overview of Current Research Applications.

D. Kim Rossmo, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Clues in Crime Maps: The Manhattan East Side Rapist.

Krista Joyner, GIS Analyst, Valley Professional Services, Chico, CA. Monitoring 290s: Using GIS to Demonstrate Limitations of Megan's Law in California.

Paul Brantingham and Patricia Brantingham, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The Role of Theory in Crime Mapping.

Terry Whin-Yates, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Beyond Pin Maps: Using GIS to Map Crime Attractors and Crime Generators.

10. VICTIMS' ISSUES

Panel Chair: Janet Johnston, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University

Michael Munoz, Criminal Justice Dept., Northern Arizona University. Lesbian Victims of Hate Crime: The Effects of Victimization.

Paul Kincade, Reno, Nevada. Twice Victimized: Law and Public Policy.

Janet Johnston, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University. Interventions with Multiply-Victimized Children in the Community: An Evaluation Study.

Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Victims Under Restorative Justice Systems: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model.

11. COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS

Panel Chair: Wes Krause, San Bernardino County Probation

Lisa Pasko, Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Juvenile Sex Offenses in Hawaii: An Analysis of Contemporary Social Response and Future Directions.

David Huizinga and Rachele Espiritu, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Delinquent Behavior Before, During and After Different Official Dispositions.

Mona Lynch, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University. Modernist Rhetoric in Corrections: The Precarious Place of Rehabilitation in Parole Ideals and Practices.

John Berner, California Board of Corrections, Update on the California Challenge Grant Program.

12. CRIME POLICY

Panel Coordinator: Austin Turk, UC Riverside

Panel Chair: Ruth-Ellen Grimes

Justin Galt, Dept. of Sociology, UC, Riverside. Prisons and Profit: Trends in Privatization and Prison Labor.

Linda Robyn, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University. Environmental Law, Policy and Indigenous Knowledge.

Robert Figlio, Dept. of Sociology, UC, Riverside. Social Control in Public Spaces.

Deborah M. Plechner and Valerie J. Callanan, Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, UC, Riverside. The War on Gangs: Criminology's Silent Support of the "Iron Fist" Approach.

13. LAW ENFORCEMENT

Panel Chair: Marilyn Brown, University of Hawaii

Rizwana Mahmood and Nancy Ramero, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University. An Analysis of the Escort Service Provided by the University Police Department at San Jose State University.

Deborah Parsons, Criminal Justice Dept., CSU, San Bernardino. Campus Policing: The Transition from Revolvers to Semiautomatic Weapons.

Ron Boostrom and Natalie Pearl, Criminal Justice Administration, San Diego State University. The Role of Community Organizations in Community Policing.

14. AUTHOR MEETS CRITIC

In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison

(State University of New York Press, 1998)

Author: Barbara Owen, CSU, Fresno

Critic: Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii at Manoa

16. CURRENT ISSUES IN JUVENILE JUSTICE

Chair: Randy Shelden, Dept. of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Randy Shelden, Dept. of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Dan Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco. The Political Realities of Juvenile Justice Reform: The Detention Diversion Advocacy Project.

Shirley Burgess, Federal Pre-Trial Release Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. Racial Bias in the Certification Process.

Vikki Irby, Clovis, CA. The Juvenile Offender: Accountability in the Juvenile Justice System.

Ann Rubenstein and Francine Williams, San Diego Unified School District. The San Diego Targeted Truancy and Public Safety Program.

17. CORRECTIONS

Chair: Don Josi, Dept. of Government, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Discussant: Dale Sechrest, Criminal Justice Dept., CSU, San Bernardino.

James Austin, Institute for Crime, Justice and Corrections, George Washington University. The Diminishing Returns on Private Prisons.

Ryan Sherman, California Correctional Peace Officer's Association. Privatization and Public Safety: Not for Sale.

Dave McKell, Sociology Dept., Northern Arizona University. Politization of Correctional Policy.

18. ROUNDTABLE: Coordinating Research: Practitioners,

Academics and Consultants

Chair: Candace Cross-Drew, Dept. of Mental Health, Sacramento, CA.

Participants:

Marilyn D. McShane, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University.

Barbara Bloom, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University and Barbara Bloom and Associates.

Charlotte Wong, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University.

Convener: Patrick Jackson, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Sonoma State University.

Patrick Jackson, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Sonoma State University

Paula Hammett, Librarian, Sonoma State University

Phyllis Gerstenfeld, Criminal Justice, CSU, Stanislaus