{"id":353,"date":"2008-01-19T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/19\/tom-johnson\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:08:01","slug":"tom-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/19\/tom-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"tom johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/196-tom.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157199431042069698\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/197-tom.bmp\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>friend and collaborator tom johnson has announced that he is stepping down as president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeandJustice.org\/\">the council on crime and Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve worked closely with the council in recent years, as we share the same vision of engaged scholarship and public criminology. tom&#8217;s resignation letter well expresses this vision: (1) &#8220;to shed a brighter, more informed light on the causes and consequences of crime and violence&#8221; and, importantly, (2) to &#8220;enhance public safety by bringing about a more just society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/13908656.html\">strib<\/a> <\/em>is marking this transition with an op-ed this morning, praising tom as &#8220;a tireless advocate for the disenfranchised and a passionate community leader.&#8221; the former minneapolis city council member and county attorney will return to private practice with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpmlaw.com\/law\/page_79_34.htm\">gray, plant, and mooty<\/a> this march. fortunately, the <em>new <\/em>council president will enter with a terrific team in place, including a first-rate research staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>friend and collaborator tom johnson has announced that he is stepping down as president of the council on crime and Justice. i&#8217;ve worked closely with the council in recent years, as we share the same vision of engaged scholarship and public criminology. tom&#8217;s resignation letter well expresses this vision: (1) &#8220;to shed a brighter, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}