Jim Taylor (Sociology; Ohio University) appeared on the WOUB television program Newswatch on July 31st to briefly discuss his research on masculinities, guns culture and stigma management. His 2009 book, "American Gun Culture: Collectors, Shows and the Story of the Gun” was released by LFB Scholarly Publishing on July 15.

Deanna Wilkinson (Human Development and Family Science; OSU) was granted tenure at Ohio State University this year! Her most recent publication is:

Wilkinson, D.L., Magora, A.*, Garcia, M.* and Khuranna, A.* (2009). “Fathering from the Margins of Society.” Journal of Family Issues, Volume 30: 945-967. *student co-authors.

She has also given the following presentations:

Wilkinson, Deanna (2009). “Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Urban Youth Violence.” A presentation to the CeaseFire Chicago staff and Ashoka visitors. July 29. Chicago, IL.

Wilkinson, Deanna (2009). “Revitalizing the Village: A Community-Based Violence Prevention Collaborative.” A presentation to the United Way of Central Ohio Neighborhood Impact Council. August 12. Columbus, OH.

Wilkinson, Deanna, Anita Parker, Ashley Hicks, Angela Harvey, Mark Davis, and Victoria Venable (2009). “A Look at Collaborative Partnerships, Programs, and Agency Networks: Results of a Pilot Study in East Columbus.” A presentation to respondents in the BCC study and the YVPAB. August 19. Columbus, OH.

Wilkinson, Deanna (2009). “Understanding and Preventing Urban Youth Violence: Lesson from Youth involved in Violence” (2009). Off to a Great Start 7th annual Conference. August 20. Columbus, OH.

Richard Lundman (Sociology; OSU) has the following publications:

Lundman, Richard J. and Brian R. Kowalski. "Speeding While Black? Assessing the Generalizability of the Lange and Colleagues (2001, 2005) New Jersey Turnpike Speeding Survey Findings." Justice Quarterly 26 (September 2009):504-527.

Lundman, Richard J. "Police Blue or Women Too? Officer Gender and Traffic Ticket Decisions by Boston Police.” Journal of Criminal Justice 37 (August 2009):342-352.

Danielle Kuhl (Bowling Green State University) and and David Maimon (University of Miami) won the Best Publication Award from the Mental Health Section of ASA (award presented at annual ASA meetings, San Francisco, August 2009) for their article, "Social Control and Youth Suicidality: Situating Durkheim's Ideas in a Multilevel Framework." American Sociological Review 73:921-43.

Walter DeKeseredy (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) presented a paper titled "Girls, Crime, and Criminal Justice in the Canadian Context" at the Fifth Annual Conference on Girls, Community, & Justice at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on May 1, 2009.

Joseph Donnermeyer (Rural Sociology; OSU) gave an invited lecture on March 27, 2009 to the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University titled "Toward a Rural Criminology." He also had advisee Yuh-Yuh Li, Rural Sociology Graduate Program complete her dissertation entitled "Social Structure, Social Control and Crime in Rural Communities: A Test of Social Disorganization Theory."

Joe also presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, Wisconsin (August) – entitled "Crime in Rural Communities: Structural Equations Models of Violent and Property Crime in Nonmetropolitan Counties." And has the following publications:

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Martin D. Schwartz, (2009), "Toward a Gendered Second Generation CPTED for Preventing Woman Abuse in Rural Communities," Security Journal, 22, 3 (July), 178-189.

Book chapter by Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Pat Jobes, and Elaine Barclay, (2009), "Sociological Theory, Social Change, and Crime in Rural Communities," pp. 305-319 in Ann Denis and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (eds.), Contemporary Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

David Jacobs (Sociology; OSU) has the following new publication:

Keen, Bradley and David Jacobs. 2009. “Racial Threat, Partisan Politics, and Racial Disparities in Prison Admissions: A Panel Analysis.” Criminology; February 47:209-238.

Cathy McDaniels Wilson (Xavier University) and Joanne Belknap (University of Colorado) won the Violence Against Women (Journal) 2008 Best Article award for their article, "The Extensive Sexual Violation and Sexual Abuse Histories of Incarcerated Women."

Andrew Grant-Thomas (Kirwan Institue; OSU) is co-editor of the recently-published book: Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America, published by Temple University Press.

Hasan Kwame Jefferies (Kirwan Institue; OSU) is the editor of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. The book was released on July 1, 2009 by New York University Press.

Michael D. Maltz (OSU, Sociology) and a colleague recently completed a study for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, evaluating the methods they use in forecasting prisoner and parolee populations.

The report is available at http://sociology.osu.edu/mdm/CDCRPopForecast

Glenn McNair (Kenyon College) has been named to the editorial board of the Georgia Historical Quarterly, and his book “It's Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System” (2009) has been published by University of Virginia Press.

Randy Roth (History, OSU) received the Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009! He also has a new book entitled “American Homicide: An Interregional, Comparative Study of Homicide in the United States from ColonialTtimes to the Present.” It will be published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in October, 2009.

A supplemental volume of methodological essays, statistical tables, graphs, and quantitative analyses will be available in October through the CJRC’s on-line Historical Violence Database, where Randy’s spreadsheets and case notes will also be available to scholars. The materials from American Homicide are part of a general update of the database, which will include many new datasets.

Deborah Merritt (Moritz College of Law, OSU) was invited to brief and argue a case in the United States Supreme Court. It is a copyright/federal jurisdiction case called Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick. It stems from a large class action involving copyright interests in electronic databases like Lexis and WestLaw. She will argue the case on October 7.

A link to her brief is at: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-103_JudgmentCourtAppointedAmCu.pdf