Sep 23, 2013 - Sep 25, 2013

Fifth Annual International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration

Conference Goals

The Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference was established to encourage an international cross-disciplinary exchange between both academic scholars and practitioners who are engaged in research, teaching and practices associated with crime, deviance, history, social justice, policy, and law and their relationship with the media and popular culture. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of knowledge associated with these areas of study in an effort to engender further growth of the discipline among students, academicians and practitioners.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: June 13, 2013
*Early abstract submission is recommended

REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - PRESENTERS: June 14, 2013

(Those planning on presenting must pay by June 14, 2013: No extensions)

REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - NON-PRESENTERS:              August12, 2013

Visa/Invitation Letters will not be issued to those who make payments after July 8th, 2013

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana

May 23, 2013 - May 23, 2013

21st Century Drug Policy Reform: A Conversation with Gil Kerlikowske

In 2007 alone, illicit drug use cost more than $193 billion in lost productivity, healthcare, and criminal justice costs nationwide. Last month, the Obama Administration released a new drug policy strategy aimed at treating America's illegal drug problem as a public health issue, and not just a criminal justice issue. The new plan pursues a science-based approach to drug policy based on the fact that substance use disorders are a chronic disease of the brain that can be prevented, treated, and from which people can recover.
 
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, will discuss the Obama Administration's plans to support innovative alternatives to incarceration and policies that reduce drug use and its consequences. Joining him will be Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project and Chief Thomas Manger of the Montgomery County Police Department. Together, these experts will discuss the future of criminal justice reforms with respect to drug control, with the Urban Institute's Nancy La Vigne facilitating the discussion.
 
Participants:

• Moderator:  Nancy LaVigne, Director, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute

R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, National Drug Control Policy

Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project

Thomas Manger, Chief of Police, Montgomery County, MD At the Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Lunch will be provided at 12:15 p.m. The forum will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m.

May 8, 2013

New York City's Crime Decline In the Age of Stop and Frisk

NYU Wagner and the Museum of the City of New York present New York City's Crime Decline In the Age of Stop and Frisk, a provocative and enlightening forum on the policing and crime-fighting challenges facing the city's next mayor, on May 8 at 6:30pm.

Moderated by Sam Roberts, accomplished author and urban affairs reporter at The New York Times, the panel will examine the state of policing in New York City as the Bloomberg era nears an end, whether the drop in violent crime will continue, and the impact of law enforcement strategies such as stop and frisk. The panelists are:

·       John Feinblatt, Chief Advisor to the Mayor for Policy and Strategic Planning
·       Jumaane D. Williams, New York City Council Member, Brooklyn
·       Franklin Zimring, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
·       Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College

Location: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, New York City

May 7, 2013 - May 7, 2013

Newtown Memorial

The closing event in John Jay College's "Remembering Newtown" Series.

John Jay College Gerald W. Lynch Theater

524 West 59th St.

New York, NY 10019

May 1, 2013 - May 2, 2013

Domestic Child Sex Trafficking Symposium

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Advisory Council on Child Trafficking (ACCT) and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women will host a symposium to address the needs of victims of child sex trafficking. The symposium is part of a White House initiative, first announced by President Obama at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative, to bring together leading researchers, bipartisan policy makers and advocates to identify gaps in research, best practices, and evidence to improve the lives of sexually exploited children.

The two-day symposium will address how mental health research, law enforcement, survivor advocacy, disruptive technology, epidemiology, criminal justice, and public policy can all inform the treatment of victims of sex trafficking. Day two of the symposium will be a closed session with numerous working groups to generate policy and research recommendations.

WHERE:

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205

News media wishing to attend the symposium should register in advance by contacting Natalie Wood-Wright at nwoodwri@jhsph.edu.

Twitter hashtag for the summit #EndTrafficking

Speakers

Government Officials

The Honorable Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland, invited
The Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Honorable Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, invited
The Honorable Lindsey Graham, United States Senator, South Carolina, invited
The Honorable Danielle Gray, Assistant to the President of the United States and Cabinet Secretary
The Honorable Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls

Issue Advocates

Tory Burch, CEO of Tory Burch and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation
Withelma “T” Ortiz, survivor and advocate, 2011 Glamour magazine “Woman of the Year”
Dina Habib Powell, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President of The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Elizabeth Smart, author, President of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress, anti-human trafficking advocate, Founder of Don't Sell Bodies

Scholars

Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Rebecca Campbell, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
Mark Latonero, PhD, Research Director, USC Annenberg Center on Communications Leadership and Policy
Mohamed Y. Mattar, SJD, Senior Research Professor of International Law and Executive Director of The Protection Project, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
James A. Mercy, PhD, Special Adviser for Global Activities, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Linda M. Williams, PhD, Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD, director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Judy Bass, PhD, Program on Global Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Apr 29, 2013 - Apr 30, 2013

13th Annual Jerry Lee Capitol Hill Symposium on Evidence-Based Crime Policy

The UK’s creation of the College of Policing, a new police professional body providing global leadership on police standards, raises key questions for evidence-based policing:
·         How can research help increase police professionalism in democracies?
·         What should be the role of research on what works in training and promotions?
·         What should state boards of Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) do?
·         What should universities do to support practitioner-led field tests of police practices?
·         What should research funders, like NIJ, do to expand “what works” research
·         On-line education and assessment: can it help to spread police knowledge?
·         What level of knowledge should police have for each rank or role?
·         Can master’s degrees in evidence-based policing become like law degrees in law?
 
From 1:00 PM on April 29th to 1:00 PM on April 30th, the symposium will assemble leading experts from the UK and US to discuss these questions, including
--Alex Marshall, CEO, College of Policing UK                                                        
--Laurie Robinson, former US Assistant Attorney General                                      
--Alex Murray, President, Society of Evidence-Based Policing                               
--John Laub, former Director, US National Institute of Justice                                
--Sara Thornton, Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police UK                                  
--James Bueermann, President, Police Foundation US                                             
--Charles Wellford, University of Maryland                                                             
--Lawrence Sherman, Universities of Cambridge and Maryland                              
--Cynthia Lum, George Mason University                                                                
--John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
--Mike Becar, International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and  Training

Location: National Guard Memorial, One Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20001

To reserve a seat at the Symposium, please email Margaret Pendzich at mpendzic@umd.edu

Apr 22, 2013 - Apr 22, 2013

Resisting Criminalization

JustPublics@365 is co-sponsoring a Summit on April 22, 2013 about "Resisting Criminalization" at The Graduate Center. The event is part of the JustPublics@365 project, funded by the Ford Foundation, and is co-sponsored by our partners the Drug Policy Alliance and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

The Summit is a day-long event intended to bring together academics, journalists, and activists in new ways to discuss mechanisms for effectively resisting criminalization. The broad goals of the Summit are reflected in the tagline: Create. Connect. Transform.


The day of the Summit will include a morning set of roundtable discussions among academics, activists and journalists, a short break for lunch on your own, then an afternoon panel on the use of data visualization to resist criminalization, and an evening screening of the new documentary "The House I Live In," followed by a panel discussion with Gabriel Sayegh (Drug Policy Alliance) and Glenn E. Martin (Fortune Society).

Location: Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY