{"id":57,"date":"2005-11-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/11\/20\/2005-criminology-meetings\/"},"modified":"2005-11-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T02:00:00","slug":"2005-criminology-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/11\/20\/2005-criminology-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 criminology meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/icecream3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/icecream3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i&#8217;m just back from the 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asc41.com\">american society of criminology<\/a> annual meetings in toronto. we had a fine conference at the royal york (though it was expensive for the student members) and near-record attendance. i love the meetings and the society has been a great home for me since my early grad school days. both meeting and society are less formal and more interdisciplinary than american sociological association gatherings: almost anyone who <em>wants<\/em> to get onto a session <em>can<\/em> get onto a session and they usually have some interesting things to say.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m currently the executive secretary of the organization, which means that i type board meeting minutes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asc41.com\/ice1.htm\">scoop a lot of ice cream<\/a>, and sign off on awards. plus, i really <em>rake <\/em>in the loot on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.yahoo.com\/vtbear\/secretarysday.html\">secretary&#8217;s day<\/a>. next year&#8217;s meetings will be held in los angeles, and the theme under new president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccjs.umd.edu\/Faculty\/faculty.asp?p=26\">gary lafree<\/a> will be &#8220;democracy, crime, and Justice.&#8221; i&#8217;ll be organizing sessions on crime and politics, chairing an article award committee, and working on a long-term planning committee for the society. i&#8217;m hoping to reach out to non-asc members interested in voting, politics, and crime who might not otherwise attend the meetings. i&#8217;ll post more on this in spring, but if you would like to present a paper on this or another crime topic next november, you only need to submit an abstract by march to get on the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m just back from the 2005 american society of criminology annual meetings in toronto. we had a fine conference at the royal york (though it was expensive for the student members) and near-record attendance. i love the meetings and the society has been a great home for me since my early grad school days. both [&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-57","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\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}