VITA: JIM THOMAS - April, 2015
Mailing Address:
Jim Thomas
Dept of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: (312) 498-9207
E-Mail: jthomas@jthomasniu.org
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Current Position: NIU Distinguished Teaching Professor (emeritus)
Sociology
Northern Illinois University (NIU)
DeKalb, IL 60115 (815-753-6436)
Academic Record
2007-Present: Distinguished Teaching Professor, NIU (Emeritus)
2007-2010: Visting & Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois/Chicago
1979-2007 Professor - Sociology-Criminal Justice, NIU
1980 Ph.d. Michigan State University (Sociology)
1974 M.A. Michigan State University (Social Science: History, Sociology)
1972-1974 Ph.d. Candidate, Trinity College, Dublin
(Ireland)(Political Science, History, Philosophy)
1967 B.A. Michigan State University (Social Science: History, Psychology)
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2008 David Maines Narrative Sociology Award (Midwest Sociology Society)
2003 Faculty Sabbatical for study of Teaching/Prisons
1999 David Raymond Grant (for Online Teaching)
1997 College of Continuing Education Grant (NIU)
(Net Strategies and Distance Learning)
1993 Faculty Sabbatical for study of Computer Culture
1991 Graduate School Summer Grant (Computer Culture)
1986 Faculty Sabbatical for study of prisoner and civil rights law
1982 Faculty Research Grant (NIU)--study of prison law in Federal Courts
1980 Faculty Research Grant (NIU) for study of maximum security prisons
1979 LEAA Graduate Fellowship - impact of Federal funding on policing
research
1974 Michigan State University Graduate Fellowship
Teaching Awards
2005 - present NIU Distinguished Teaching Professor
2000-2004 University Presidential Teaching Professor
1999 American Society of Criminology, E-Mentor of the Year
1998-99 Nominee, University Presidential Teaching Professor
1997-98 Teacher of the Year, Dept of Sociology
1997-98 Nominee, University Presidential Teaching Professor
1996-97 Nominee, University Presidential Teaching Professor
1986-87 University Nominee, Outstanding Teacher
1984-85 College Nominee, Outstanding Teacher
1979-80 Teacher of the Year, Dept of Sociology (NIU)
Memberships:
Correctional Accreditation Managers Association
--(Secretary & Board of Directors, 2012-present)
Illinois Correctional Association: Secretary (2011-present)
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Midwest Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
Society for Study of Symbolic Interaction
American Correctional Association
--(Student Affairs Committee
--(Dual Chapters/Joint Membership Committee)
Correctional Education Association
Editorial Boards of:
Past ASA's Critical Criminology Division
Past Board of Directors: Crim. Justice Distance Learning Consortium
Symbolic Interaction: Technology Advisor (1997-2002)
Computer underground Digest (Editor, 1990-2000)
Areas of Interest
Prisons / Prison policy
Correctional standards and accreditation
Philosophy of punishment
Juvenile Incercration
Qualitative Research Methods
Research Ethics /Responsible Conduct of Scholarship
Historical Sociology/Culture
Online education
Sociology of Law
Computers and Society / Computer Culture
Social Theory/Political Philosophy
Unix Systems Administration
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University of Illinois/Chicago (2008-2010)
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Systems (graduate)
Corrections (undergraduate)
Northern Illinois University (1979 - Present)
Methods
Documentary Methods
Qualitative Methods (graduate/undergraduate)
Field Methods (graduate)
Critical Ethnography (graduate)
Multimethods
Theory
Contemporary Theory (graduate)
Classical Theory (graduate)
Dialectical Theory (graduate)
Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
Criminology
Comparative Criminology
Criminal Justice Systems (graduate/undergraduate)
Criminal Procedures and Police
Criminology (Introduction)
Criminological Theory (graduate)
Juvenile Delinquency (also online)
Law and Society (graduate)
Nature of Crime (graduate)
Penology and Corrections (graduate/undergraduate) (also online)
Philosophy of Punishment (undergraduate)
Sociology of Law (graduate/undergraduate)
Punishment and Society (Special topics) (also online)
Other
Introductory Sociology
Peace and Social Justice (graduate/undergraduate) (also online)
Thesis/Dissertation Supervision (Phd/MA: chair, member)
Dixon Correctional Center (2003 - 2004)
Introductory Sociology
Social Problems
Stateville (Illinois) Correctional Center (1980-1986)
Criminal Procedures
Penology
Social Disorganization
Sociological Inquiry
Sociological Theory
(and others)
Michigan State University (1975-1978)
Political Sociology
Social Psychology
Sociological Research: Dialectical theory
Sociology Honors: History of Social Thought
Sociology Honors: Existential Literature/society
U.S. Society (social culture and problems)
Lansing (Michigan) Community College (l975-76)
Introductory Sociology
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J. Thomas. (In Process). Communicating Prison Culture:
J. Thomas and B. Zaitzow (eds). 2003. Gender and Social Control
in Women's Prisons. Denver: Lynne Reinner.
J. Thomas. 1993. Doing Critical Ethnography. Beverly Hills
(Calif.): SAGE.
J. Thomas. 1988. Prisoner Litigation: The Paradox of the Jailhouse
Lawyer. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield.
J. Thomas. 1983. Chicago Sociology: The Tradition and the Legacy.
edited special issue of Urban Life, 11(January), Beverly
Hills: SAGE.
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((*) indicates Thomas as senior author)
J. Thomas. 2010. "CAMA and Students: Why Bother?" The Criterion
(Correctional Accreditation Managers Association). April. 13-15.
J. Thomas. 2009. "Getting there from here:(CAMA, Colleges, and
Corrections - CAMA and Students." The Criterion (Correctional
Accreditation Managers Association). December. 6-7.
J. Thomas. 2008. "Revisiting 'Ethnograpy: Principles and Practice:'"
International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches.
J. Thomas. 2008. "Nietzche at Northern: An Existential
Narrative of Confronting the Abyss." Social Psychology Quarterly.
71(2): 109-113.
J. Thomas. 2008. "Passing Time: The Ironies of Food in
Prison Culture." Pp (166-179 in Food, Eating and Culture (L. C. Rubin,
ed). McFarland.
J. Thomas* and Josh Stone. 2007. "Faith-based Prison Programming.
pp 275-287 in Controversies in Criminal Justice
(G. Barak, ed.). Wesport (Conn): Greenwood Press.
Adam King and Jim Thomas. 2007. "You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man: Making (dollars) and sense of the Nigerian Email Scam."
pp (206-224) in Crimes of the Internet. F. Schmalleger and M. Pittaro
(eds.). Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall.
J. Thomas. 2007. "Prisoner Litigation." pp 567-578 in
Controversies in Criminal Justice (G. Barak, ed.). Wesport (Conn):
Greenwood Press.
J. Thomas* and Will Mingus. 2007. "Sex Offender Registries."
pp 681-693 in Controversies in Criminal Justice (G. Barak, ed.).
Wesport (Conn): Greenwood Press.
J. Thomas* and Barbara H. Zaitzow*. 2006. "Conning or Conversion? The Role
of Religion in Prison Coping." The Prison Journal. 86(2): 242-259.
J. Thomas*, M. Leaf, S. Kazmierczak, and J. Stone. 2006. Self-Injury in
Correctional Settings: "Pathology" of Prisons or of Prisoners? Crime
and Public Policy. 5(February): 1001-1011.
J. Thomas. 2005. "The Moral Ambiguity of Social Control in Cyberspace: A
Retro-assessment of the "Golden Age" of Hacking." New Media & Society.
7(5): 599-624.
J. Thomas. 2004. Encyclopedia articles in Encyclopedia of Prisons and
Correctional Facilities. Sage: Thousand Oaks (Calif). "Jeremy Bentham,"
pp 71-73. "Clemency," pp 134-137. "Hooch," pp 443-445. "Stateville,"
pp 926-929. With Mary Bosworth: "Food," pp. 330-333. With Patrick
MacManimon: "The Importation Model," pp. 459-462. With Dragan
Milovanovic: "Jailhouse Lawyers," pp 493-495.
J. Thomas. 2004. Cyperpoaching behind the Keyboard: Uncoupling the
Ethics of "Virtual Infidelity." Pp 164-194 in Net.SeXXX: Investigating
Sex, Pornography, and the Internet (D. Waskul, ed). New York:
Peter Lang.
J. Thomas, et. al. 2003. "Critiquing the Critics of Peacemaking
Criminology: some Rather Ambivalent Reflections on the Theory
of 'Being Nice'." Pp 101-134 in Kieran McEvoy and Tim Newburn
(eds.), Criminology and Conflict Resolution. London: Macmillan.
(pp. 144-167). New York: Peter Lang.
J. Thomas. 2003. "An Overview of Critical Ethnography." Pp. 218-228
in The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research and Method.
Thousand Oaks (Calif.) SAGE.
J. Thomas. 2003. "Critical Ethnography and the Problems of Outsiders
Looking in." Pp. 45-54 in Expressions of Ethnography. (R. Claire
ed.). New York: SUNY Press.
J. Thomas. 2002. "Institutionalizing the Ethics of Online Research:
Skirting the Edges." Pp. 172-83 in Online Social Research. S. Chen
and G. J Hall (eds.) New York: Peter Lang.
J. Thomas. 2002. "Some Thoughts on Bosworth's Engendering
Resistance: Challenging Symbolic Violence in Prisoner Culture
Research." Violence against Women, 8(March): 403-412.
J. Thomas. 2002. "Big Brother, or Allies? in Defense of IRBs and RCR."
SSSI Notes. 29(March): 4-6.
J. Thomas. 2001. "Do Sociologists Need 'Ethical Education'?" The Midwest
Sociologist. 44(September): 5.
C. Achison* and J. Thomas*. 2000. "The Internet and the State:
Instrument of the State, or Subversive Technology?" Radical
Criminology: An International Journal. 9(Autumn): 163-170.
J. Thomas. 2000. "A Curmudgeonly Look at the Myth of the 'Information
Age.'" SSSI Notes, 27(December): 8-9.
J. Thomas. 2000. "Online Distance 'Education' an an Oxymoron?: An
Interactionist's View." SSSI Notes. 27(June): 3, 17.
J. Thomas. 1999. "Balancing the Ethical Conundrums of Internet Research."
Iowa Journal of Communication. 31(Spring): 8-20.
D. McArthur, T. McGee & J. Thomas*. 1999. "Update: Reversing the Pendulum
of Prisoners' Rights." Pp 112-115 in D. Stephens
(Ed.), Perspectives: Corrections. Coursewise, Inc.
D. Milovanovic* and J. Thomas*. 1999. "(Re)Visiting the Jailhouse Lawyer:
An Excursion into Constitutive Criminology." pp 227-246 in S. Henry and
D. Milovanovic (eds), Constitutive Criminology at Work: Applications
to Crime and Justice. SUNY Press (Albany).
J. Thomas* and I. Sabau. 1997. "Critical Criminology Meets the Net:
Carrying the Revolution to Cyberspace." The Critical Criminologist.
9(Sept): *-*.
J. Thomas* & Isabelle Sabau. 1997. "Theory and Praxis on the Internet: A
Critical Exploration of the Electronic Frontier." Critical Criminology:
An International Journal. 8(2): 1-7.
J. Thomas. 1996. "Introduction: A Debate about the Ethics
of Fair Practices for Collecting Data in Cyberspace."
The Information Society, 12(2): 107-117.
J. Thomas. 1996. "When Cyber-Research Goes Awry: The Ethics of the
Rimm 'Cyberporn' Study." The Information Society. 12(2): 189-197.
J. Thomas. 1994. "Writing Sociology in the Cyber-age."
Writing Sociology, 3(1).
J. Thomas. 1994. "The Ironies of Prison Education." Pp. 25-41
in H. Davidson (ed.), Schooling in a Total Institution. Westport
(Conn.): Greenwood Press.
J. Thomas* and S. Boehlefeld. 1991. "Rethinking Abolition: 'What do
we do with Henry'?" Social Justice, 18(Fall): 239-251.
J. Thomas. 1991. "The Meaning of Race in Prisoner Culture: Snapshots
in Black and White." Pp. 126-144 in M. Lynch and E. B. Patterson
(eds.), Race and Criminal Justice. New York: Harrow and Heston.
J. Thomas* and H. Mika. 1991. "Prison Disciplinary Proceedings: The
Social Enactment of Power." Justice Quarterly, 8(March): 37-57.
J. Thomas. 1991. "Prisoner Cases as Narrative" (reprint).
Pp. 237-261 in D. Papke, Nararative and the Legal Discourse,
Liverpool (Eng.): Deborah Charles Publications.
J. Thomas* and G. Meyer. 1990. "Joe McCarthy in a Leisure Suit:
(Witch)Hunting for the Computer Underground." The Critical
Criminologist, 2(September): 7-8, 19-20.
G. Meyer and J. Thomas*. 1990. "The Baudy World of the Byte
Bandit: A Postmodernist Interpretation of the Computer
Underground." Pp. 31-67 in F. Schmalleger (ed.), Computers
in Criminal Justice. Bristol (Indiana): Wyndham Hall.
J. Thomas*, B. Suchner*, and A. Aylward. 1990. "Judicial
Decision Making in Prisoner Civil Rights Litigation." Journal
of Crime and Justice. 12(12): 109-145.
J. Thomas* and P.A. O'Maolchatha. 1989. "Re-Assessing the
Critical Metaphor: An Optimistic Revisionist View." Justice
Quarterly, 6(June): 101-130.
J. Thomas*, P. Wheeler, J. Findlay and R. Trammell. 1989.
"Persephone Chained: Equality or Parity in Women's Prisons?"
The Prison Journal, 69(Spring-Summer): 88-102.
D. Milovanovic and J. Thomas*. 1989. "Overcoming the Absurd:
Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion." Social Problems,
36(February): 48-60.
J. Thomas. 1989. "The 'Reality' of Prisoner Litigation:
Repackaging the Data." New England Journal of Civil and
Criminal Confinement, 15(1): 27-53.
J. Thomas. 1988. "Inmate Litigation: Using the Courts or Abusing
Them?" Corrections Today, 50(July): 124-127.
J. Thomas* and James B. Marquart. 1988. "Dirty Knowledge and Clean
Conscience: The Dilemmas of Ethnographic Research." Pp. 81-96 in
D. Maines and C. Couch (Eds.), Information, Communication and
Social Structure. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.
J. Thomas* and H. Mika. 1988. "The Dialectics of Prisoner
Litigation: Reformist Idealism or Social Praxis?" Social
Justice (Formerly Crime and Social Justice), 15(1): 48-71.
J. Thomas* et. al. 1988. "Historical Rhetoric and the Images
of Law: Legal Fundamentalism as Ideology." Journal of
Crime and Justice, 11(1): 77-100.
J. Thomas*, K. Harris and D. Keeler. 1987. "Issues and Misconceptions
in Prisoner Litigation." Criminology, 24(4): 901-919.
J. Thomas* and E. Erez. 1986. "Tortured Images: Prisoners in the
Movies." in Crime in Motion Pictures: Proceedings of the Fourth
Annual Conference on Film. (D. Radcliff-Omstead, ed.).
Kent State (OH).
J. Thomas* et. al. 1985. "Rethinking Prisoner Litigation:
Some Preliminary Distinctions between Habeas Corpus and
Civil Rights." The Prison Journal, 65(Spring/Summer): 83-106.
D. Moton, A. Aylward and J. Thomas*. 1985. "Pedagogical
Innovation and Cognitive Interests: A Critical View. New
England Sociologist, (Winter): 44-55.
J. Thomas. 1984. "Law and Social Praxis: Prisoner Civil Rights
Litigation and Structural Mediations." Pp. 141-170 in
S. Spitzer and A. Scull (Eds.), Research in Law, Deviance and
Social Control (Vol. VI). Greenwich (CT): JAI Press.
J. Thomas. 1984. "Some Aspects of Negotiated Order, Mesostructure
and Loose Coupling in Maximum Security Prisons." Symbolic
Interaction 7(Fall): 213-231.
A. Aylward and J. Thomas*. 1984. "Quiescence in Women's Prison
Litigation: Some Exploratory Issues," Justice Quarterly,
1(June): 253-276.
C. Goldin and J. Thomas*. 1984. "The Cooperative Model in
Correctional Education: Symbol or Substance", Adult Education
Quarterly. 34(Spring): 123-134. Reprinted in Standard
Educational Almanac (18th Edition), 1985. Chicago:
Marquis Professional Publications.
J. Thomas. 1983. "Justice as Interaction: Loose Coupling and
Mediations in the Adversary Process." Symbolic Interaction,
6(Fall): 243-260.
J. Thomas. 1983. "Chicago Sociology: An Introduction," Urban
Life, 11(January): 387-395.
J. Thomas. 1983. "Toward a Critical Ethnography." Urban Life,
11(January).
J. Thomas. 1983. "Teaching Sociology in Unconventional Settings:
The Irony of Maximum Security Prisons." Teaching
Sociology, 10(January): 231-250.
J. Thomas. (R) 1982. "Federal Funding and Policing Research:
The Impact of Government Sponsorship in Social Science."
Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 3(March): 339-369.
J. Thomas. 1982. "New Directions in Deviance Research," in
The Sociology of Deviance. A. Turowetz, et. al. (eds).
New York: St. Martins: 288-318.
J. Thomas. 1981. "Class, State and Political Surveillance:
Liberal Democracy and Structural Contradictions." Insurgent
Sociologist 11-12(Summer/Fall): 47-58.
J. Thomas*, et. al. 1981. "Prison Conditions and Penal Trends,"
Crime and Social Justice 15(July): 49-55. Reprinted in
T. Platt and P. Takagi. 1982, Law and Order in the 1980s: The
Rise of the Right. San Francisco: Synthesis Press.
J. Thomas*, et. al. 1980. "The Ideology of Prison Research: A
Critical View of Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society,"
in Crime and Social Justice, 14(December): 45-50.
J. Thomas. 1980. "The Ideological Control of Knowledge
Production: Federal Sponsorship and Social Research," The
Transforming Sociology Series, No. 68, Red Feather Institute,
Livermore, CO.
J. Thomas. 1977. "Marx, Hegel, and Dialectical Method,"
Insurgent Sociologist, 7(Fall): 49-55.
J. Thomas. 1974. "Evolutionist and Marxist Conceptions of
Social Change: Two Views," Social Studies (Irish Journal of
Sociology), Vol. 2: 335-341.
J. Thomas. 1974. "Theory, Method, and the Irish Revolution,"
Social Studies (Irish Journal of Sociology), Vol 3: 381-402.
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2013. The Seduction of Ethics. By Will C. Van Den
Hoonaard. Symbolic Interaction (forthcoming).
2012. Forgotten Reformer: Robert McClaughry and Criminal Justice
Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. By Frank Morn.
Criminal Justice Review. 37(December): 539-40.
2006. Doing Prison Work. By Elaine Crawley. Contemporary Sociology.
35(2): 178-179.
2005. Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security
Prison. By Lorna A. Rhodes. Contemporary Sociology, 34(4): 412-415.
2003. Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for
Qualitative Researchers. By Will van den Hoonhaard. Canadian
Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. 40(August): **-**.
2003 "Resurrecting the 'Science' of Symbolic Interactionism."
Review of D. Maines Faultline of Consciousness. Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography. 32(August): 475-478.
2001. Extended review of: Punishment in America: Social Control and the
Ironies of Imprisonment. By Michael Welch. The Politics of
Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. By Katherine Beckett
and Theodore Sasson. Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity
among First Time Inmates. By Richard S. Jones and Thomas J.
Schmid. Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's
Prisons. By Mary Bosworth. British Journal of Criminology.
41(4): 755-761.
1999. The Social Worlds of Sentencing. By Jeffery Ulmer. Symbolic
Interaction. 22(4): 393-395.
1998. The Contours of Psychiatric Justice: A Postmodern Critique of
Mental Illness, Criminal Insanity, and the Law. By Bruce A.
Arrigo. Justice Quarterly 15(September): 573-578.
1998. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative
Organization. By Sherryl Kleinman. Sociological Inquiry, (**)
1994. Screwing the System and Making it Work, by Mark D. Jacobs.
Public Administration Quarterly, ?(&&): **-**.
1991. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers in the Electronic Frontier,
by Katie Hafner and John Markoff. Cu Digest, 3.31.
1992. Protectors of Privilege, by Frank Donner, in Contemporary
Sociology, 21(1): 88.
1989. Whitefella' School, by Ralph Folds. In Contemporary
Sociology, 18(6): 952.
1988. Review Essay: Crime and Culture in America: A Comparative
Perspective, by Parviz Saney. The Scapegoat, by Rene Girard.
Responses to Crime, by David James G.H. (Lord) Windlesham.
Vengeance: The Fight against Injustice, by Pietro Marongiu and
Graeme Newman. Women, Crime and Criminal Justice, by Allison
Morris. In Journal of Legal Education, 38(September): 437-450.
1989. Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional
Empowerment, by Terence C. Halliday. In Sociological Inquiry,
59(Winter): 105-107.
1988. Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional
Management, by John J. DiIulio. In Journal of Military and
Political Sociology, 16(Spring): 123-124.
1988. Framing the Criminal: Crime, Cultural Work, and the Loss
of Critical Perspective, 1830-1900, by David R. Papke. In
Journal of Legal Education, 38(September): 469-470.
1987. Armed and Considered Dangerous, by James D. Wright and
Peter H. Rossi. In Corrections Today, 49(August): 182, 184
1987. The Politics of Broadcasting, Raymond Kuhn (ed.), and
The Chilling Effect in TV News: Intimidation by the Nixon
White House, by Marilyn A. Lashner. In Contemporary Sociology,
16(1): 70-71.
1985. Indeterminate Sentencing, by Diane Goodstein and John Hepburn.
In Corrections Today, 47(December): 100-101.
1985. Consumerist Criminology, by Leslie T. Wilkins, in Contemporary
Sociology 14(July): 461-463.
1985. The Joint: Language and Culture in a Maximum Security Prison,
by Inez Cardozo Freeman, in Urban Life, 13(January): 432-435.
1985. Charles Stastny and Gabrielle Tynauer, Who Rules the
Joint? and Jacobs, James B., New Perspectives on Prisons and
Imprisonment, in Journal of Military and Political Sociology,
13(1): 148-150.
1983. Jon Snodgrass, The Jack-Roller at Seventy, and James Bennett,
Oral History and Delinquency: The Rhetoric of Criminology, in
American Journal of Sociology: 89(3): 770-773.
1982. Richard Kilminster, Sociological Dialogue with Lukacs, Gramsci,
and the Frankfurt School, (in Urban Life, 11(April): 129-132.
1981. Piers Beirne and Robert Sharlet (eds), Pashukanis: Selected
Writings on Marxism and Law, (in Journal of Military and
Political Sociology. December: 317-319.
1981. Jason Ditton, Controlology: Beyond the New Criminology,
in Contemporary Sociology, 10(May): 383-384.
1981. Jorge Larrain, The Concept of Ideology, (in Contemorary Sociology,
10(May): 425-426.
1979. Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline: Notes 1926-1931 and 1950-1969,
(in Contemporary Sociology, 9(May): 4).
1977. George Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness Gianfranco Poggi,
Images of Society and Anthony Giddens, Capitalism
and Modern Social Theory, (in Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
7(June): 201-206).
1976. T.B. Bottomore, Sociology as Social Criticism, (in Contemporary
Sociology, 5(September): 668-669).
1974. W.J. Goldstein, et. al., Pornography and Sexual Deviance,
(in Social Studies (Irish Journal of Sociology), Vol 3: 343-44).
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2013. Session Organizer/Discussant. "Pursuing Fame and Glory as an
Interactionist: How Graduate students" do it!" Midwest
Sociological Society annual meetings. Chicago, March 29.
2013: "You Proved What? Deconstructing Media Depictions of
Criminal Justice 'Research." Correctional Accreditation
Managers Association. Richmond (VA), May 5.
2013. "The Accreditation Generation: Why Communicate Standards?"
Correctional Accreditation Managers Association. Richmond,
(VA): May 6.
. 2012. "Social Media and Crime: The Origins." Prepared for the
Correctional Accrediation Managers Association annual
conference. Austin, April 23.
2012. "Organizing for our Future: Students, Mentors, and Corrections."
Prepared for the American Correctional Association annual
conference. Phoenix. January 21.
2010. "Accreditation goes to College." Prepared for the Correctional
Accrediation Mangers Association annual conference.
Columbus, May 3.
2010. Session organizer/Presider/Discussant. "Communities and Crime:
Sentencing and Incaraceration." Midwest Sociological Society
annual meetings. Chicago. April 1.
2009. "A Valentine's Day Narrative: Confronting the Abyss." Prepared
for the Americian Society of Criminology Meetings. Kansas City,
November, 15.
2007. (and J. Adlophson): "Sex Offenders, Media, and the Politics of Fear."
Presented at the American Correctional Association conference,
Kansas City. August 14, 2007.
2006. "The Roots of Faith-Based Prison Programming: A Revisionist View."
Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology.
Los Angeles, November 3.
2006. "Confronting Obstacles - An Outsider Trying to Look." Presented
at the American Correctional Association, Charlotte, August.
2005. "Re-assessing 'Convict Criminology'." Discussant paper presented to
American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November.
2004. "From Classroom to Workplace." Paper presented to American
Correctional Association, Phoenix, August.
2004. "The Legacy and Life of TR Young." Paper presented at the Society
for the study of Social Problems Annual Meetings, San Francisco,
August 14.
2003. "Getting in is Half the Fun: IRB Gatekeeping and Criminal Justice
March." Presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual
Meetings. Denver, November 18.
2003. "Citizen Involvement: The Value of Partnerships in Meeting
Accreditation Standards--an Outsider's View." Correctional
Accreditation Managers' Association/ACA, New Orleans. May 12.
2003. "Protection Human Subjects or Protecting Human
Scholars? Who Protects us from the IRB?" Prepared for
Society for the Study of Symbolic Intearaction/Couch-Stone
Symposium. Tempe, Arizona. February 7.
2002 (and B. Zaitzow). "Praise the Lord and 'Get Me the Hell
Outta' Here': Religion and Coping in Prison." Paper for the
Southern Sociological Society annual meetings, Baltimore, April 4.
2002. "Re-examining Human Subjects Protections in Ethnographic
Research: Unpacking the Memes of Over-Zealous Oversight."
Paper presented to the Midwest Sociological Society Annual
Meetings, Milwaukee. April 7.
2000. "Information Technology and Online Education: Hypsters, Huckster,
and Hustlers, or Pedagogical Progress?" American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings. August.
2000. Pirandello Meets the 'New Panopticon:' Technology, Domination, and
Heterogendering on Cell Block D." American Sociological Association
Annual Meetings. August.
2000. "Online Criminal Justice 'Learning:' An Oxymoron?" Midwest
Sociological Society Annual Meetings, April.
1999. "The Antinomies of Internet Research." National
Communication Association Annual Convention, Nov. 4-7. Chicago.
1999. "Re-Assessing Models of Prison Culture: Does Gender Matter?" (With
B. Zaitzow). American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings,
Toronto, November.
1999. "Balancing the Ethical Conundrums of Internet Research: An
Existentialist View from the Trenches." American Association for the
Advancement of Science - Program on Scientific Freedom,
Responsibility and Law Workshop. June 10, Washington, D.C.
1998. "A Critical Review of the 1995 Prisoner Litigation Reform Act.
American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings. Washington,
November.
1996. "Crime, Computers, and Socially Constructed Problems. " Midwest
Sociological Society Annual Meetings. Chicago, April.
1996. "Pedagogy and Technology. " Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction - Stone Symposium. Des Moines,
May.
1996. "When Cyber-research goes Awry. " Society for the
Study of Social Problems annual meetings, Washington, August.
1996. "Cyberporn, Ethics, and Martin Rimm. " Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility annual conference.
Chicago, October.
1996. "Academic Freedom, Ethics, and Human Subjects
Research. " American Society of Criminology. Boston,
November.
1994. "Privacy, Viruses, and Crime on the Nets: Law,
Ethics and "Cyber-control". Paper presented for annual
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference (Chicago,
March).
1994."Ethics, Control, and Computer Deviance."
Featured speaker at Femi Labs (Batavia, Ill). June.
1994."Researching Crime and Ethnography in
Cyberspace." Paper presented at the American Society of
Criminology annual meetings (Miami, November).
1993."Playground or Battleground? Ethics, Control, and
Computer Deviance in Cyberspace--an Ironic View." American
Society of Criminology annual Meetings, Phoenix, (Oct. 30).
1993."Settling the Electronic Frontier--a View from the
Underground." Midwest Sociologial Society annual meetings,
Chicago (April).
1992. "Civil Liberties and Computer Culture." American
Computer Manufacturers Conference, Chicago (November).
1992. "Abolitionist Thinking and "the Problem with Henry."
Midwest Sociological Society, April.
1991. "From Disk to Discourse: The Images of Techno-Evil."
Prepared for American Society of Criminology annual meetings,
San Francisco, November.
1991. "Legal Rhetoric and Social Control: Malice in Wonderland?"
Prepared for Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings,
Des Moines, April.
1990. "In Defense of the Computer Underground." Prepared for
American Society of Criminology annual meetings, Washington,
D.C., November.
1990. "(Witch)Hunting for the Computer Underground." Prepared
for Law and Society annual meetings, San Francisco, June.
1990. "Wither Postmodernism?" Prepared for Midwest Sociological
Society, Chicago, April.
1989. "The Baudy World of the Byte Bandit." American Society
of Criminology annual meetings, Reno (November).
1989. "Computer Hacking and the Postmodernist Condition."
Prepared for Society for the Study of Social Problems annual
meetings, San Francisco.
1989. "Phracks, Hacks, and Cons: The Cultural Meaning of the
Computer Underground." Prepared for the Midwest Sociological
Society annual meetings, St. Louis (April).
1988. "Is there a Feminist Jurisprudence?" American Society
of Criminology annual meetings, Chicago (November).
1987."Why do Prisoners Litigate? Assessing Theories of Prisoner
Litigation." Society of Criminology, Montreal, November.
1987. "The Symbolic and Instrumental Uses of Prison Violence."
Prepared for Society for the Study of Social Problems annual
meetings, Chicago, August.
1986. "Prisoner Litigation: Boon or Bane?" American Society
of Criminology annual meetings, Atlanta (October).
1986. "Politics and Cueing Theory: The Ideology of Judicial
Decision Making." Law and Society Association annual
conference, Chicago (May).
1986. "Dirty Knowledge and Clean Conscience: The Dilemmas of
Ethnographic Research." Society of Symbolic Interaction
annual symposium, Iowa City (May).
1986. "Tortured Images: Prisoners in Cinema." Fourth Annual
Conference on Film, Kent State University (April).
1986. "The Social Enactment of Power in Prison: The Case of
Disciplinary Hearings." The Midwest Sociological Association
annual Meetings, Des Moines (March).
1985. "The Rhetoric of History and the Images of Law: Myths
as Politics." Paper prepared for American Society of
Criminology annual meetings, San Diego (November).
1985. "Critical Criminology and Mythic Struggle." Paper
prepared for American Society of Criminology annual meetings,
San Diego (November).
1985. "Fair and Gentle Railroad: Disciplinary Proceedings in
Illinois since Wolff v. McDonnell." Paper prepared for
Midwest Society of Criminal Justice Annual Meetings, Chicago,
(October).
1984. "Policy and Legal Research: An Uncomfortable Marriage."
Paper prepared for American Criminological Society annual
meetings, Cincinnati (November).
1984. "Civil Rights and Habeas Corpus Litigation by Prisoners:
A Comparison." Paper prepared for the Midwest Criminal Justice
Association annual meetings, Chicago
1984. "Extra-Legal Factors in Judicial Decision Making:
Ideology and Cue Theory." Paper prepared for the Midwest
Sociological Society annual meetings, Chicago.
1983. "Civil Rights Litigation and Social Praxis." American
Society of Criminology annual Meetings, Denver.
1983. Discussant: "Critical Theory and Symbolic Interaction."
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit.
1983. "Dialectical Method: Who Needs It?!?," Midwest
Sociological Society annual meetings, Kansas City.
1982. "Toward a Critical Ethnography." Society for the Study
of Social Problems, San Francisco.
1982. "Journal Content and Editorial Gatekeeping: Trends in
Urban Life Acceptance and Rejection Decisions, 1972-81,"
Midwest Sociological Association, Des Moines.
1982. "Prison Chaos and Prison Law: Some Correlates between
Institutions and Issues," North Central Sociological
Association, Detroit.
1982. "The Status of Prison Law in Illinois," Law & Society
Association, Toronto.
1981. "Class, State and Political Surveillance," Society for
the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, August.
1981. "Legal Struggle as Social Praxis: The Prison Jailhouse
Lawyer," North Central Sociological Association, Cleveland,
April.
1981. "Structural Problems in Unconventional Settings: The
Irony of Teaching Sociology in Maximum Security Prisons,"
Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, April.
1981. "Negotiated Order in Maximum Security Prisons," Midwest
Sociological Association, Minneapolis.
1980. "Law and Legal Repression," Society for the Study of
Social Problems, New York, August.
1980. "The Adversary Process and the Subversion of Justice,"
North Central Sociological Association, Dayton.
1980. "Federal Sponsorship and Ideological Control in the
Social Sciences," Midwest Sociological Association, Milwaukee.
1977. "Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge,"
American Sociological Association, Chicago, September.
1973. "History and the Role of Theory," British Sociological
Association Student Convention, Oxford, England, December.
Masters Project: Toward a Sociology of Science Fiction, Michigan
State University (1974).
Doctoral Dissertation: The Relationship of Federal Sponsorship of
Criminology and Policing Research in the Social Sciences.
(Michigan State University, March, 1980).
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