{"id":680,"date":"2008-09-28T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=680"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:37:38","slug":"good-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/09\/28\/good-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"good trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SOBdbolq0BI\/AAAAAAAABtI\/VqvTapF9Mkk\/s1600-h\/contemplation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251299894847262738\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SOBdbolq0BI\/AAAAAAAABtI\/VqvTapF9Mkk\/s200\/contemplation.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>whenever i go a few days between posts, folks start wondering whether all is well. well, aside from a mounting backlog of email, all is well. swell, really. i\u2019ve just returned from a few busy days in beautiful oregon, where i enjoyed a productive trip as department chair, researcher, and public criminologist.<\/p>\n<p>As chair, i had a lovely meal with a generous donor to the minnversity\u2019s sociology department. i know that not every academic enjoys this sort of thing, but I love this aspect of being chair. i\u2019ve met a lot of very smart, successful, and civic-minded people this way. and, contrary to my expectations when i became chair, i never ever have to ask them for money.<\/p>\n<p>as researcher, i spent some time on an nsf grant with melissa thompson, a former advisee who is now professin&#8217; at portland state. melissa is the p.i. on this grant, so i\u2019m mostly following her lead \u2013 not quite a<em> full<\/em> role reversal from her days as my research assistant, but we\u2019ve both come a long way. she\u2019s the first of my advisees to come up for tenure, so i&#8217;m feeling a bit <em>senior <\/em>these days.<\/p>\n<p>as public criminologist, i spent yesterday afternoon at oregon state penitentiary, where my pubcrim colleague michelle inderbitzin has led several inside-out classes. several of the men on a-block had read my work on disenfranchisement with jeff manza, but we had a long and wide-ranging group discussion about mandatory minimums, family support, public opinion, the economics of crime, and the politics of criminal justice. i learned a lot &#8212; and hope i struck the right balance between talking and listening.<\/p>\n<p>i didn&#8217;t have time to see all of portland, but i saw enough to know why melissa is so happy there. the pic above is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesegarden.com\/\">japanese garden<\/a> &#8212; a last-minute stop on the way to the airport this morning. beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whenever i go a few days between posts, folks start wondering whether all is well. well, aside from a mounting backlog of email, all is well. swell, really. i\u2019ve just returned from a few busy days in beautiful oregon, where i enjoyed a productive trip as department chair, researcher, and public criminologist. As chair, i [&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":[156],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}