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The American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance invites submissions for the 2025 Distinguished Student Paper Award competition. This award is presented annually for the best paper authored by a graduate student. Papers may be empirical or theoretical and can address any topic in the sociology of crime, law, and deviance. Submissions may be sole- or multiple-authored, but all authors must be students at the time of submission. Papers should be article length (approximately 30 double spaced pages) and should follow the manuscript preparation guidelines used by the American Sociological Review. Papers accepted for publication at the time of submission are not eligible.

The winner will receive $500 to offset the cost of attending the 2025 ASA meeting. Nominations may be submitted by the author or by others, and we encourage self-nominations. Please send a PDF of the paper to the Award Committee Chair, Dr. Shannon Malone Gonzalez, sgonzalez@unc.edu, with the subject line, “CLD Distinguished Student Paper Nomination.”

Committee: Chair: Shannon Malone Gonzalez (Chair), University of North Carolina; Tony Cheng, Duke University; Uriel Serrano, University of California, Irvine; Bryan Sykes, Cornell University

Please save the date! Jelmar Meester will be delivering a talk via zoom on his Fulbright project, titled “Detecting Corporate Crime: An Estimate for Hidden Offending,” on January 28th at 10:00 AM in the Large Conference Room.

In his presentation,  Jelmar will begin by acknowledging that corporate offending suffers from detection bias. Not all offending can be detected through current regulatory practices. But, in contrast to mainstream criminological research, research on corporate offending cannot apply victim surveys or self-report studies to estimate the true figure of offending. To overcome this problem, he examines the application of a detection controlled estimation model to estimate the extent of undetected corporate offending. His first step in the application is to assess the performance of the model using a simulated dataset. Next, the model is applied to a dataset on offending in Dutch inland shipping. He concludes by discussing the benefits and disadvantages of the model as well as possible applications in other contexts.

The Human Relations Committee (HRC) would like you to join them for the 3rd annual semester kickoff event on Thursday, January 23rd from 1 to 3 pm in the Large Conference Room.  We hope to create a space for people to connect before the semester begins, and foster community.  To facilitate this connection, the HRC will provide some board games to play and some snacks and drinks. 

Please mark your calendars today, so that you can stop by and connect with others from the CCJS community.  

Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Gabrielle Wy
Neighborhood Cultural Heterogeneity and Offending Across Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Generation

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: 2165E LeFrak Hall
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91346978827?pwd=e0A5bkJp5PgWU9MrXOkYc0bkcxRJKc.1
Meeting ID: 913 4697 8827
Passcode: Wy2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

“New Directions in Theorizing ‘The Prison’ as an Institution”

Incarceration: An international journal of imprisonment, detention, and coercive confinement.

As we approach the twenty-fifth anniversary of Loïc Wacquant’s (2000) seminal article, “The New
‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto,” theorizing what, exactly, “the prison” is
remains a vibrant research stream. While some scholars continue the vital work of locating the linkages between prisons and other peculiar institutions, others have seized on Wacquant’s core thesis—that the carceral apparatus is tethered to other racialized forms of confinement—to holistically (re)consider what type of institution “prison” represents. Scholars engaged in these parallel agendas have yet to fully cross- proliferate insights that can deepen our understanding of “the prison” as a Weberian pure type.

To this end, we wish to bring scholars into conversation who are working in these varied theoretical treatments in this special issue of Incarceration. In particular, we seek to assemble diverse theoretical understandings of the institutional or organizational forms of the prison and related sites of coercive confinement. Examples of potential contributions may include (but are not limited to) papers that:

• Critically revisit existing theories of prisons as institutions.
• Revise existing theories of institutions through the lens of the prison.
• Introduce new theoretical treatments of “the prison” as a type of institution.
• Locate new dependencies between prisons and other institutions of coercive confinement.
• Theorize how non-carceral institutions of coercive confinement (e.g., immigration detention centers, asylums, reformatory schools, and others) may operate in a carceral manner.
• Theorize novel institutional qualities of prisons or social functions of confinement.
• Reveal novel linkages between prisons and non-carceral institutions, broadly defined.
• Advance theoretical models of how technologies of coercion reshape the operation of prisons and related institutions of coercive confinement.
• Uncover surprising distributions of power between institutional officials and system-impacted groups that induce distinct forms of conformity and/or structure behavioral norms.

Though we expressly solicit primarily theoretical works for this special issue, we also welcome compelling empirical submissions that deeply engage with or advance relevant theoretical frameworks.

Submission Procedures
Interested parties should submit an extended abstract of approximately 250 words to the special editors via email by January 1, 2025. Please indicate that your abstract is a candidate for the Incarceration special issue in the subject line of the email. Based on these abstract submissions, the special editors will reach out to selected authors to coordinate full manuscript submissions that will result in a coherent issue.

All papers will go through the standard Incarceration double-blind peer-review process. As such, publication is not guaranteed. Invited authors will submit their full manuscripts by June 30, 2025. Questions about this call for papers should be directed to the special editors:

• Michael Gibson-Light, PhD (Michael.Gibson-Light@du.edu), Associate Professor, Department
  of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Denver, USA
• Alexander B. Kinney, PhD (akinney@shsu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Sam Houston State University, USA

On behalf of Dr. Zambrana, Director of The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and in collaboration with the Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion, The Graduate School is pleased to announce the tenth round of Dissertation Fellowship Awards for advanced graduate students at the University of Maryland engaged in research using qualitative and mixed (qualitative and quantitative) methods whose research explores the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and dimensions of structural inequalities as they shape the construction and representation of complex social relations the U.S.

For additional information, please email crge@umd.edu.