Thursday, March 20, 3:30 p.m. Claude Pepper Auditorium, 636 West Call Street

New scholarships prepare law enforcement officers for service in small departments.

CCJ 6065 Professional Development in Criminology provides Ph.D. students with the key skills for engaging in professional activities that lead to successful scholarly work. The primary focus of the class is on the strategies and proficiencies needed to translate students substantive research agenda into a successful career one that advances both the students goals and the body of knowledge in their chosen area of study.

Ted Chiricos, William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology in the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been named the next editor of Social Problems.

For more than 20 years, the state of Florida has used radio frequency and global positioning systems as electronic monitoring devices to supervise felony offenders in the community as a method of diverting offenders from the significantly more costly alternative of imprisonment. In the wake of recent federal and state legislation, electronic monitoring will increasingly be used across the country on moderate-to high-risk offenders.

FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Department of Computer Science have teamed up to offer a new Computer Criminology Degree. Computer criminology includes both how to use computers to facilitate the study of crime and the study of how crimes are accomplished through the use of computers.

Associate Professor Dan Mears has been awarded tenure and Carter Hay has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Mears joined the faculty in 2005 from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. He received his Ph.D from the University of Texas. Mears’ main research interests are crime and delinquency theory, juvenile and criminal justice, and crime policy.

There are a lot of variables that factor in to deciding what university and city are a good fit for a graduate’s first faculty position: size of the city and university, proximity to family, the institution’s financial resources, recreational opportunities, departmental research focus. Congratulations to our PhD students who have secured faculty positions for next fall and found the place that was the right fit for them.

The overpopulation of prisons has endured extensive research for many years, and those that are the most responsible for funding them, the citizens, are the least informed about their effects. This is a point that Associate Professor William Bales and other researchers illustrate in the Pew Charitable Trusts study “Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007-2011.” This study is the first of its kind.

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.