American Society of Criminology

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The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is an international organization based on the campus of The Ohio State University focussed on crime and delinquency. It aims to grow and disseminate knowledge and scholarly research, with members working in many related fields and on different levels in the fields of criminal justice and criminology.[1]

It is devoted to the study of crime and justice policy, with the objective of strengthening the role of research in the formulation of public policy in this arena. Eleven of the 16 Society divisions also produce and distribute various publications.[2] The Society holds an annual meeting that attracts some 4,000+ attendees from roughly 40 countries.[3]

Society offices were located on the campus of Ohio State University from the mid-1960s,[4] but they are now located in a separate location in Chatham Lane in Columbus, Ohio.[5]

History[]

In the early 1930s, former Berkeley, California police chief and then University of California-Berkeley professor, August Vollmer, started running some informal discussion groups. The Society was formally established as the National Association of College Police Training Officials in Vollmer's home in December 1941. It was renamed the Society for the Advancement of Criminology in 1946, and after a restructuring, again renamed to its current name after a meeting in March 1957 at the University of Southern California.[4]

Divisions[]

The Society has a number of divisions, established at different times over its history, from the Division of International Criminology (DIC) established in 1981 to the Division of Convict Criminology (DCC) in 2020.[6]

Publications[]

The Society publishes a newsletter, The Criminologist,[7] and two journals. The journal Criminology has been published since 1963. It is generally regarded as the leading journal in the field, and is distributed worldwide.[8] The journal Criminology & Public Policy has been published since 2001.[9]

The academic journal Critical Criminology: An International Journal has been the official journal of the Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice since 1996.[10]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "American Society of Criminology Website". Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. ^ "ASC – The American Society of Criminology". Asc41.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  3. ^ "ASC – The American Society of Criminology". Asc41.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Morris, Albert (30 December 1941). "History of ASC". The American Society of Criminology. Retrieved 2 October 2020. "The American Society of Criminology: A History, 1941 - 1974" (From Criminology, August 1975, pp. 123-167)
  5. ^ "Contact Us". ASC. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Divisions - ASC". The American Society of Criminology. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  7. ^ "ASC – The American Society of Criminology". Asc41.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  8. ^ "ASC – The American Society of Criminology". Asc41.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  9. ^ "ASC – The American Society of Criminology". Asc41.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  10. ^ American Society of Criminology. Division on Critical Criminology (1996), Critical criminology, [American Society of Criminology, ISSN 1205-8629

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