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Julie
Horney |
UAlbany Dean Named President
and Fellow of American Society of Criminology
Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (January 13, 2005) -- University
at Albany School of Criminal Justice Dean Julie
Horney was elected president of the American
Society of Criminology (ASC) at the November
annual meeting. She was also inducted as a Fellow
of ASC.
Horney has previously served as an executive
counselor of ASC, an international scholarly
organization concerned with issues of crime
and criminal justice. Its 3,500 members, who
represent many disciplines, are involved in
studying crime and delinquency at the individual
and aggregate levels, the functioning of law
enforcement, criminal courts, and corrections,
and the legal framework of the criminal justice
system.
After graduating from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Horney earned her Ph.D.
in experimental psychology from the University
of California at San Diego. Her work has been
published in Criminology,
the American Sociological
Review, and Law
and Society Review. She is the co-author
(with Cassia Spohn) of Rape
Law Reform: A Grassroots Revolution and Its
Impact (Plenum, 1995). She currently
serves on the editorial boards of Criminology,
the Journal of Research
in Crime and Delinquency, and Women
and Criminal Justice, and was previously
a deputy editor of Justice Quarterly. Her current
research focuses on the experiences of incarcerated
males and females with violence and the avoidance
of violence and how those experiences are shaped
by situational factors.
UAlbany�s School of Criminal Justice, consistently
ranked among the top five in the nation, examines
the political, economic and cultural patterns
that shape definitions of crime and influence
policy. Graduates find opportunities in the
expanding academic field of criminal justice
research and teaching, all the operating agencies
of criminal justice, in addition to the many
private and non-profit organizations which provide
services or make policy recommendations.
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