The pilot issue of the ASC’s critical criminology division. This issue includes essays on the counterinsurgency behind prison walls and other insights on the prison system as well as reflections on the theory within the division.

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After a “terrific response” to the initial issue of the Critical Criminologist, the second issue went ahead with gusto. Issue number two has essays examining women and the state, Crit Crim and Critical Legal studies and a reflection on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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In the third edition Mona J.E. Danner gives a brief introduction to Socialist Feminism an examination of Critical Theory and Quantitative Analysis and “a birds eye view” of the socialist legality in Cuba.

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The final issue of the 1980’s includes essays on new directions in Feminist Criminology, an innovative look at political prisoners and two, rather separate reflections on South Africa. Continuing the internationalist approach of the division, Bernard Headley looks into how Noriega, the Panamanian strongman captured by the US that year, become the United States’ "SOB”.

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In the first issue of the 1990s, essays examine the criminalization of pregnancy, definitional and methodological issues in understanding racial bias and criminal justice. Family violence is discussed at length by as well as a robust debate left realism between Chris Powell and Brian Maclean.

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The summer of 1990 saw the first issue of the critical criminology newsletter being devoted to a theme - which for this issue was left realist criminology. This came off the back of the first international conference on realist criminology in May of that year in Vancouver. Interviews were conducted with leading left realists from Jock Young to Marty Schwartz whilst left realists from afar as Australia reflected on the prospects for the approach in their country.

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Due to a backlog of articles submitted to the newsletter an editorial decision was made to include these essays and articles in this issue. Instead in this issue a more varied selection of essays and articles are on offer. These include a critique of the idealism in left realism ideas on green criminology and a Marxist humanist criminology.

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In the essays of this issue, Dorie Klein writes on losing the war on crime; Jayme Delano presents her thoughts on addicted pregnant women and the continued nonsensitivity by governmental agencies to the problem; Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig writes about how elite identities are constructed at Harvard Law School; Dennis Mumby presents ideas on the relationship of power to communication theory; Steve Gold shares his thoughts on U.S disinformation campaigns directed toward the DPR of Korea; William Wilbanks writes a rebuttal of the newsletters recent anthology Racism Empiricism and Criminal Justice, which is a critique of his Myth of a Racist Criminal Justice System.

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Dawn Currie begins this issue with a critical examination of the impact on Canadian society of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Herman and Julia Schwendinger follow with an analysis of the status of women in the Soviet Union, Kathleen Daly poses questions concerning feminists working within and against criminology. Seem Ahluwalia critiques the developments of feminist analysis of male violence in Britain. Robert Menzies and Dorothy Chunn present a thoughtful sketch of principles and themes “with relevance for a feminist pedagogy of crime law and justice.” Drew Humphries reviews the importance of criminalization of pregnancy issue for the National Policy Committee of the ASC.

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This issue includes essays from T.R. Young offers insight into the possible relationship between chaos theory and crime. Kimberley Cook and J.R. Bjerklie discuss the relationship between chaos theory and sociology. Rich Lovell and Carl Pope react to Wilbanks’ ideas concerning the “no discrimination thesis” and MacLean’s ideas concerning the “no discrimination thesis” and MacLean’s and Milovanovic’s recently published critical anthology on the subject. Thomas Arcaro provides some thoughts on human motivation.

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In this issue Henry Brownstein gives some thoughts on left realism and drug laws followed by T.R. Young’s second installment on his series: Chaos and Crime. Werner Einstadter and Stuart Henry explore the privacy dimensions of video technology, Dragan Milovanovic provides a mechanistic materialist critique of vulgar Marxism. Mark Hamm follows with an article which reports on primary research of neo-fascist organizations.

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Willem de Haan reflects on the limitations of criminology, critical and otherwise as well as the importance of “social justice” as the substance of progressive discourses on law and order. Dallas Kelter follows with a semiotic analysis of testimony by juvenile survivors of sexual assault. Marty Schwartz considers the literature pertaining to men teaching women’s studies, followed by Hal Pepinsky’s comparative analysis of the Mike Tyson and Will Kennedy-Smith rape trials.

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In this issue Frank Pearce and Steve Tombs examine “Toxic Capital” Leo Barrile looks into whether the corporate veil has really been pierced. Neil Slattery draws up a theoretical organization of treatment programs for women. Whilst Robert Hale writes on the positive legal order and the Rodney King police violence incident.

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This issue includes essays from Christine Garza “Postmodern paradigms and Chicana Feminist Thought: Creating a ‘Space and Language’”, a rereading of Giroux, an integrated theorization of serial killers by Thomas O’Reilly-Fleming whilst Michael A. Hallet reviews “Peacemaking: A devotional Criminology”.

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The feature article of this issue is an interview with Freda Adler, by Karlene Faith. Geoff Goff also writes on the underdevelopment on the issue of sentencing within left realism and there is a review of “The American Indian in the White Man’s Prison: A Story of Genocide”.

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In this issue Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic start off with an exploration into the problem of defining crime. Dale Dearden reviews the new Collective Press publication “Seeking Shelter: A State Battered Women by Karlene Faith Dawn Currie. Robert Hale explores the contradiction of a parens patriae doctrine which embraces the capital punishment of juveniles.

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This special issue of the Critical Criminologist is devoted to critical criminology “down under”. Essays included are representatives of the active theoretical work being done by critical criminologists in Australia and New Zealand . Essays include Suzanne Hatty’s analysis of narratives on crime; Kerry Carrington’s analysis of essentialism in feminist criminology; Janet Chan’s critique of David Garland’s recent book. Paul Haverman analyzes newly developed forms of hegemonic control in New Zealand and Pat O’Malley’s expose of the political economy of internal colonialism in Australia.

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This issue of the newsletter helps reflect the interesting opportunities for and intellectual trends in critical criminology. It sought out themes from authors who had recently published books of critical value on crime and crime control. These included Mark Hamm's Apocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged, Esther Madriz's Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives, George Pavlich's Justice Fragmented: Mediating Community Disputes Under Postmodern Conditions, and Katheryn Russell's The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harrassment, and other Macroaggressions.

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This issue explores some new topics and includes new voices. Marlyce Nuzum, a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, writes a concise and provocative article on the perils of privatization. Jeanne Flavin shares a short version of her ongoing work on how to deliver humane treatment to people who are (or are suspected of being) HIV+ when the police and society in general have high levels of AIDS-phobia. George Rigakos and Matt Robinson remind readers what the ‘critical’ part of critical criminology is about. Rigakos starts to deconstruct the risk profiling and actuarialism that are part of ‘risk society’. Robinson uses the current controversy about the tobacco industry to highlight the wrongs they have done and remind criminologists not to limit their inquiry only into officially designated ‘crimes’.

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This issue explores some new topics and includes new voices. Marlyce Nuzum, a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, writes a concise and provocative article on the perils of privatization. Jeanne Flavin shares a short version of her ongoing work on how to deliver humane treatment to people who are (or are suspected of being) HIV+ when the police and society in general have high levels of AIDS-phobia. George Rigakos and Matt Robinson remind readers what the ‘critical’ part of critical criminology is about. Rigakos starts to deconstruct the risk profiling and actuarialism that are part of ‘risk society’. Robinson uses the current controversy about the tobacco industry to highlight the wrongs they have done and remind criminologists not to limit their inquiry only into officially designated ‘crimes’

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This issue intended to demonstrate the value of division membership. Jeffrey Reiman shared his latest thoughts about ideology and crime, which he originally presented at November 1998’s ASC meeting at a Division sponsored panel. On the international front, Anne Alvesalo wrote about the problems confronting critical criminologists in Finland as that country tries to tackle the problem of white collar crime. Also, Michael Rodrigues talks to a Puerto Rican political prisoner about his case. (Many thanks to Dragan for bringing this article to our attention and getting it to us in a form we could reproduce. Dragan Milovanovic also provides an excellent example of constructive intellectual engagement in his response to an article in the previous issue by Stretsky and Lynch about race, class and gender.

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Substantively, this edition of the newsletter follows up on an article in the previous issue by Bruce Arrigo on publishing critical criminology in mainstream journals. Bruce had inspired an interesting discussion on the division’s listserve that is excerpted here so it can be more widely shared. We have shared listserve exchanges a few times here because of the thoughtful and engaged exchanges.

This edition also pursues international issues. In this spirit, Gregg Barak (winner of 1999’s Critical Criminologist of the Year) summarizes some of the work related to book on global crime he was editing (manuscript is in production). In addition, Noriyoshi Takemura reported on the absence of critical criminology in Japan and some of the reasons for it not being well developed.

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This issue includes contributions from Great Britain, Canada, and Japan. Adam Edwards shares from his report and remarks on transnational crime prepared for the United Nation’s Tenth Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, held in Vienna, this past April. Matthew Yeager, also in attendance at the meetings as an “expert observer,” shares his impressions and critique of the Congress. David Potter and Stephen Richards offer their thoughts and suggestions on the ex- portation of critical criminology, in response to articles from the last issue.

In this edition, there are also insights from Ray Michalowski, Marty Schwartz, Steve Russell, Ellen Leichtman, and Bruce Arrigo. They continue the conversation that occurred over the Division’s listserve about the status of critical scholarship and publication. In a related piece on critical scholarship, Richard Wright reports on the upcoming Critical Criminology sessions at the 2000 ASC meetings in San Francisco, especially in the context of the inter- sections of class, gender, and race. Finally, in a similar vein, Mick Hallett interviews Hal Pepinsky on peacemaking, self- control, ritualistic abuse, and more.

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This issue is concerned with the 9/11 attacks. In addition, two other pieces were “reprinted” from another forum (i.e., the Progressive Sociologist List- serve) with the permission of the authors. One was written by the Marxist Humanist Forum at Northern Illinois University, the other by Bertell Ollman, Professor of Political Science at New York University.

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