Faculty

Eugene Howard Czajkoski, 78, died Friday, February 16, 2007, at the Margaret Dozier Hospice House. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Rosalind. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Eugene H. and Rosalind D. Czajkoski Scholarship Fund, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, attention Dean Blomberg, 634 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

By Libby Fairhurst, February 2007 The juvenile justice system emerged a century ago out of the belief that young offenders were less culpable and more salvageable than their adult counterparts, but today, that system is under attack by get-tough policymakers claiming wide public support that Florida State University criminologists say simply doesn’t exist.

The editorship of Criminology and Public Policy, an official publication of the American Society of Criminology, will move to FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Spring 2007 (submissions should be sent to the College beginning March 1, 2007). This prestigious publication is a peer-review journal devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. Beginning with Volume 7, Issue 1 (February 2008), the new editors of Criminology and Public Policy will be Thomas G. Blomberg and Michael D. Reisig.

The College is continuing its expansion with the addition of four new faculty members in fall 2006: Kevin Beaver, who is earning his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, Brian Stults from the University of Florida, and Patricia Warren from the University of Massachusetts have joined the faculty as assistant professors. Sarah Bacon, who is finishing her Ph.D.

Professor Vanessa Barker, Ph.D., has received a one-year fellowship from the Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). Each year, LAPA brings to Princeton five or six world-class experts on the law. Drawn from law schools, the social sciences, the humanities, and from the world of policy-making and legal practice, the fellows are in full-time residence at Princeton for an entire academic year. During her fellowship, Barker will teach a graduate seminar on punishment and society and conduct research for a new book on comparative penal sanctions in Europe.

The University has named Professor Ted Chiricos, Ph.D., the William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology in recognition of his excellence in research, teaching, and service. Chiricos’s studies on the fear of crime have been recognized as the most influential in the field, and his research on deterrence changed the way criminologists approached this major and controversial subject matter.

Professors Tom Blomberg, Kristy Holtfreter, and Michael Reisig shared the stage with former U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft when they presented at the Economic Crime in the 21st Century Conference in Miami March 18. Their presentation, Consumer Fraud Victimization: An Empirical Study, was presented as one of the keynote conference addresses and their paper on the subject will be published in the May 2006 issue of the St. Thomas Law Review.

Many of the College’s faculty and graduate students presented at the 2005 American Society of Criminology Conference in Toronto in November. Scroll for an alphabetical list of the presenters and their research topics.