I. Dr. Gregg Barak

Publications

i. Barak, Gregg. 2007. Violence, Conflict and World Order: Critical Conversations on State-Sanctioned Justice. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
ii. Barak, Gregg, Paul Leighton & Jeanne Flavin. 2007. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America. 2nd ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
iii. Barak, Gregg. 2007. “Doing Newsmaking Criminology from within the Academy.” Theoretical Criminology, 11(2).
iv. Barak, Gregg, Donald Shelton & Young Kim. 2007. “A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence: Does the ‘CSI Effect’ Exist?” Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 9(2).

Presentations

i. “Violence in an Age of Globalization” presented at the ASC annual meeting, November 2006 in Los Angeles, CA
ii. “Toward an Integrated Study of International Crimes and State-Corporate Criminality: A Reciprocal Approach to Gross Human Rights Violations” presented at the Supranational Criminology Conference, April 2007 in Maastricht, The Netherlands

Radio Interview(s)

i. National Public Radio out of North Carolina in August 2007 as one of three “panelists” on the subject of media and violence.

Award(s)

i. Recipient of the 2006 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity. March 28th, 2007 at the 30th annual Faculty Awards.
ii. Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 American Society of Criminology-Division on Critical Criminology

II. Dr. Liqun Cao

Publications

i. Cao, Liqun & Susyan Jou. 2007. Criminological Theories and Their Empirical Status. In simplified Chinese. (ISBN: 978-7-5014-3984-3). Beijing: People’s Press.
ii. Jou, Susyan & Liqun Cao. 2007. Criminological Theories and Their Tests. In traditional Chinese. (ISBN: 978-957-11-4644-7). Taipei: Wunan Publisher.
iii. Cao, Liqun. 2007. Returning to normality: Anomie and Crime in China. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 51(1): 40-51.
iv. Stack, Steven, Liqun Cao & Amy Adamczyk. 2007. Crime Volume and Law and Order Culture. Justice Quarterly, 24: 291-308.

Presentations

i. Seminar Serial: Sociology of Policing in America. National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC. Funded: Spring 2007.

Scholarly Activities

i. Guest editor of a special issue for Sociological Focus. Due to be out in 2008.

III. Dr. Paul Leighton

Publications

i. Barak, Gregg, Paul Leighton & Jeanne Flavin. 2007. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America. 2nd ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
ii. Leighton, Paul. 2008. The U.S. Can’t Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned Men Feel Bad About the Death Penalty? Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh’s Execution Public. In Robert Bohm, ed. Death Penalty Today. CRC Press: Taylor and Francis. An audio (.mp3) version of this material is available from Paul’s Blog: http://www.paulsjusticeblog.com/2007/03/televising_mcveighs_execution_mp3.php
iii. Leighton, Paul. 2007. “Denaturalizing Terrorism: ‘Crazy Islamic Terrorists Who Hate Us Because We’re Free?’” In Robert Bohm and Jeffrey Walker (ed). Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.

Presentations

i. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 2007. “Why is photographing an execution a crime?” An audio (.mp3) version of this material is available from Paul’s Blog: http://www.paulsjusticeblog.com/2007/03/televising_mcveighs_execution_mp3.php
ii. American Society of Criminology, with Desire’ Anastasia. 2006. “Gender and the Body Canvas: Analyzing the Portrayal of Tattooed Women on Educational Television Programs.”

Other Noteworthy Information

i. Paul is the founder and webmaster of StopViolence.com (http://stopviolence.com). StopViolence.com: Resources for a Just Peace. This website started as a student project in a graduate Violence and Society class, but it has turned into an ongoing project to collect resources about non-repressive responses to violence. Many government agencies, libraries, non-profits and universities link to it.

IV. Dr. Donna Selman

Publications

i. Donna Selman and Paul Leighton. 2007. “Punishment for Sale: How Big Business Bought the American Correctional System.” Roman and Littlefield.
ii. Donna Killingbeck. 2006. “Can a Working Class Girl have Roots and Wings?: White Trash in the Ivory Tower: .” In Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Identities and the Working Class Experience. Stephen Muzzatti and Vincent Samarko eds. Roman & Littlefield.
iii. Donna Killingbeck and Dawn Rothe. 2003. “Death By Nightclub: A Content Analysis of the E2 Stampede.” The Critical Criminologist v12 #4
iv. Donna Killingbeck. 2006. “The Role of Television News Media in the Social Construction of School Violence as a ‘Moral Panic.’” Reprinted in Potter and Kappeler, Constructing Crime: Perspectives in Making News and Social Problems. Waveland Press.

Presentations

i. American Society of Criminology. 2006 with Chadd Powell. “Policy, Practice and Impact: Children Present at Parental Arrest.”
ii. American Society of Criminology. 2006 with Chadd Powell. “Poles Apart: Pole Dancing Gone Mainstream.”
iii. American Society of Criminology, 2005. “Privatizing Solutions? From Arrest to Release.”

V. Dr. Young Kim

Publications

i. Hon. Donald E. Shelton, *Young S. Kim*, and Gregg Barak (2007). “A Study
of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence: Does the “CSI Effect” Exist?” /Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Vol.9/ No2: 331-368
ii. Lo, Celia C., *Young S. Kim*, and Tyrone C. Cheng (Forthcoming in Jan.
2008).“Offense Specialization of Arrestees: An Event History Analysis.” Crime and Delinquency
iii. Lo, Celia C., *Young S. Kim*, and Wesley Church. (Forthcoming in Jan.
2008). “The Effects of Victimization on Drug Use: A Multilevel Analysis.” Substance Use and Misuse, Vol. 43

VI. Dr. Marilyn Corsianos

Publications

i. Corsianos, Marilyn. Policing and Gendered Justice: Examining the Possibilities. Ontario: Broadview Press (forthcoming 2008)
ii. Corsianos, Marilyn. 2007. "Mainstream Pornography and 'Women': Questioning Sexual Agency." Critical Sociology, Vol. 33.
iii. Corsianos, Marilyn. “Police Corruption,” in Gregg Barak ed., Controversies in Criminal Justice – Battleground: Criminal Justice Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. (forthcoming 2008)

Presentations

i. Promoting Gendered Justice using the Community-Oriented Policing Model. Annual Meeting of American Society of Criminology 2007
ii. Policing and Gendered Justice. International Conference on Sociology by the Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research. Athens, Greece, May 14-16, 2007.

Award(s)

i. Faculty Research Fellowship - Fall 2006
ii. Sabbatical Award - Fall 2006