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MARTIN
SCHWARTZ ELECTED CHAIR OF THE DIVISION ON CRITICAL
CRIMINOLOGY
Contact:
Martin Schwartz, 593-1366 or schwartz@ohio.edu
Editors:
A photo of Martin Schwartz is available for download at
www.ohiou.edu/news/pix/SCHWARTZ.JPG
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Martin D. Schwartz, professor of sociology and chair
of the department of sociology and anthropology, has been
elected chair of the Division on Critical Criminology of the
American Society of Criminology for a two-year term. The
American Society of Criminology is the main academic and
professional association in criminology worldwide.
Schwartz
was named the 1999 Presidential Research Scholar in social
and behavioral science. With close to 400 dues-paying
members worldwide, the division maintains a refereed
journal, an additional nonrefereed quarterly and one of
criminology's more popular Web sites. The division also
fosters research and theory development in the field of
critical criminology and provides a forum for members of the
ASC to discuss ideas and exchange information.
"We are
concerned with the fact that, with a crime rate that is not
much higher than many other countries, the United States
leads the world by far in imprisonment rates," said
Schwartz. "We are the last major industrialized country to
engage in capital punishment, although virtually every study
ever done says that it does not work to reduce crime."
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