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2012 Women and Criminal Justice Forum

The 2012 Women and Criminal Justice Forum will be held on Monday, March 26 AND Friday, March 30.  Award winning Criminal Justice scholars Mona J.E. Danner, Christine Sellers and Margaret Zahn will speak on public policy topics and “the academic life.”

Join Georgia State’s own noteworthy Criminal Justice faculty in welcoming:

Mona J.E. Danner is the recipient of the 1997 New Scholar Award from the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.  She has authored over 25 book chapters and journal articles including:

Danner, J.E. Mona and Dianne Cyr Carmody (2001). Missing gender in cases of infamous school violence: Investigating research and media explanations. Justice Quarterly : JQ. [in the Library Database: Criminal Justice Periodicals]

Christine S. Sellers is associate chair of criminology at the University of South Florida, where she served as director of the Graduate Program for 11 years. Recently she co-authored:

Pratt, T. C., Cullen, F. T., Sellers, C. S., Thomas Winfree, et al (2010). The Empirical Status of Social Learning Theory: A Meta-Analysis. JQ: Justice Quarterly [in the Library Database: Criminal Justice Abstracts]

Margaret A. Zhan directed the Violence and Victimization Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and published a 2010 Choice Award winner:

Zahn, M. A. (2009). The delinquent girl. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.