Pontell quoted in Associated Press
December 2012
Professor Henry Pontell was quoted in the Associated Press on the $1.9 billion HSBC Settlement: "Too big to jail? Exec avoid laundering charges"
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November 2012
Carroll Seron, Chair and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, was recently appointed president-elect of The Law and Society Association. Seron will be president-elect until June 2013, then president until June 2015.
Established in 1964, The Law and Society Association is a group of scholars from various academic fields and countries, who are interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. The Association publishes the Law & Society Review, sponsors annual conferences and fosters the development of academic programs in law and society.
In addition, Marios Barnes from the UC Irvine School of Law, was elected treasurer. Barnes will serve a two year term on the board.
November 2012CLS Alumnus Sabrina Burton to weigh-in on the abduction case of two missing girls from Evansdale
Doctor Sabrina Burton, Associate Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Ph.D Alumnus from the Criminology, Law and Society Department at UCI, was asked to weigh-in on the abduction case of two missing girls from Evansdale, 11-year-old Lyric Cook and 9-year-old Elizabeth Collins. The girls disappeared while out riding their bikes in Evansdale on July 13th. Tuesday marked four months since their disappearance. Investigators believe someone abducted the girls.
CLS Alumnus Sabrina Burton: Teaching Students Criminal Profiling
Doctor Sabrina Burton, Associate Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Ph.D Alumnus from the Criminology, Law and Society Department at UCI, worked for many years in California as a criminal profiler effectively putting herself in the minds of serial killers and socio-paths. Now, she teaches criminal justice students how to do the same.
The criminal justice and forensic investigation programs at UW Platteville use a special “forensic house” to teach their students evidence collection, examination and crime scene analysis. Very few programs have this type of realistic lab setting available to their students.
October 2012
Just released by NYU Press, Punishing Immigrants - Policy, Politics and Injustice, identifies the hidden consequences of immigration policies and practices and develops a new paradigm for understanding marginalized immigrant populations. Editors include Charis E. Kubrin, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society. Additional contributors to the book include Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society.
Book Summary:
While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less crime, and in particular less violent crime, than the native-born and that their presence in communities is not associated with higher crime rates. Kubrin's book moves beyond debunking the presumed crime and immigration linkage, broadening the focus to encompass issues relevant to law and society, immigration and refugee policy, and victimization, as well as crime.
Project Receives NIJ Funding
September 2012
A team of researchers, led by principal investigators, John Hipp and Charis Kubrin, Associate Professors of Criminology, Law and Society, have received $560,000 in funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for their project, Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the Southern California Landscape.
Tita featured in Press-Telegram, Long Beach, CA
"Neighborhood watch groups' success linked to
being good neighbors "
September 09 2012
Tita and Reid featured in Criminology Volume 50, Issue 3
George Tita, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, and Graduate Student Shannon Reid had their article: "The Ecology of Gang Territorial Boundaries" featured in the Criminology, Volume 50, Issue 3 published online (August 2012).
Thompson Featured in "NewsOK"
"Experts fear use of weaker DNA evidence in court"
July 09, 2012
Loftus Selected as UCI Medal Recipient
July 2012
Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, has
been selected as one of the recipients of the 2012 UCI Medal, the university's most prestigious award. The program bestows lifelong recognition on those who have made extraordinary contributions to the university's mission of teaching, research and public service. This year's recipients will be honored in October during the school's "Celebration of Stars" event. The event is hosted by the UC Irvine Foundation.
Professor Kubrin's is quoted in an article in the recent Supreme Court
ruling upholding Arizona's "show me your papers"immigration 
law
June 26, 2012
Professor Kubrin's research on local TV news and fear of crime was
mentioned in an LA Times article
June 18, 2012
Pontell Featured in "NY Times eXaminer"
"House Republicans Try to Create the World’s Worst Criminogenic Environment"
June 11, 2012
Professor Mona Lynch co-edits special issue:
A special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology was co-edited by Mona Lynch (with Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto) on "Theorizing Punishment's boundaries". The issue brings together leading punishment and society scholars who challenge taken-for-granted boundaries of punishment scholarship. The issue is available at:
http://tcr.sagepub.com/content/current
Congratulations to Jim Meeker who has been selected to receive an Award of Merit from the Legal Aid Association fo California for his exemplary work in improving access to justice as a volunteer & board member with the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, the Access Commission & Public Law Center.
Congratulations to our recent Ph.D. student, Christie Gardiner, who has received one of the annual Community Engagement Awards from CSU Fullerton, where she has been teaching in the Department of Criminal Justice. Christie was named "Outstanding Service Learning Instructor" in recognition of her innovative efforts to design courses that bring students into the community.
MAS is officially featured on the front page of UCI's website.
Professor Cole interviewed by Award-winning 
filmmaker Errol Morris (maker of The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure, and The Fog of War) was published today in his New York Times blog.
http://socialecology.uci.edu/news/project-receives-nij-funding