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Children Are Collateral Victims When Mom Serves Time, Rutgers Academic Finds

  • Jane Siegel

  • "John was 15 when Rutgers academic Jane Siegel encountered him for the first time. His mother was in prison – a chronic thief and drug addict, she had been arrested 31 times and convicted 15 times.  

    Ten years later, John’s own rap sheet included eight arrests and two convictions. He’d held a series of dead-end jobs and saw little hope of anything better. He was chronically depressed.

    Siegel, an associate professor and former chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Camden, hopes to bring people like John out of the shadows.

    Through her 2011 book Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison (Rutgers University Press), and more recently through a series of in-depth follow-up interviews with young adults, the researcher has trained a spotlight on a population whose voices are rarely heard.”

Rutgers, Verizon Team Up to Provide Lifeline for Domestic Abuse Survivors – and Boon for Environment

  • Verizon "V" Logo

  • "When is a cell phone more than a cell phone? When it enables a survivor of domestic or dating abuse to reclaim her life.

    Close to 2,000 refurbished cell phones are in the hands of formerly vulnerable women and men thanks to a partnership launched in 2008 between Rutgers and Verizon Wireless.

    The used phones, dropped off in bins placed strategically on the university’s major campuses in New Brunswick, Camden and Newark, have been wiped free of existing numbers and loaded with 3,000 minutes of nationwide calling or texting.

    One program organizer calls the project “an anonymous act of kindness.”

    “We know there is a great need for these phones after a woman leaves her abuser,” says Melanie Hoffman of Rutgers’ Center on Violence against Women and Children (VAWC), which coordinates the campus effort. “The ability to have a ‘clean’ phone gives her back a sense of empowerment and a sense of security.”

    Men are also subject to domestic violence. A 2010 survey by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control found that more than 5 million men had experienced abuse at the hands of their wives or girlfriends in the previous year.

Welch Journal Publications - Crime, Law, & Social Change

  • This stack consists of various medical journals and research papers.

  • Michael Welch published "Economic Man and Diffused Sovereignty: A Critique of Australia's Asylum Regime" in Crime, Law, & Social Change (2014) 61: 81-107.

    Michael Welch published "Fragmented Power and State-Corporate Killings: A Critique of Blackwater in Iraq" (reprinted from Crime, Law and Social Change), in Routledge Major Works Collection: Critical Criminology (2014), edited by W. DeKeseredy and M. Dragiewicz. New York: Routledge.

    Michael Welch published "La Reaparicion de la Tortura en la Cultura Politica: Siguiendo su Discurso y Genealogia" (The Re-Emergence of Torture in Political Culture: Tracking its Discourse and Genealogy) in La Tortura: Una practica estructural del sistema penal, el delito ms grave, (2014) edited by Gabriel Ignacio Anitua and Diego Zysman Quiros. Buenos Aires: Editorial Didot. (A new translation from "La Re-Emergencia de la Tortura en la Cultura Politica: Rastreando su Discurso y su Genealogia," Capitulo Criminologico: Revista de las Disciplinas del Control Social [Venezuela], 35: 471-505.)

Rutgers Launches New Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security

  • Tom Ridge

  • "Mass casualty events – terrorism, natural disasters and biological superbugs – are the challenges of the 21st century and confronting them calls for multidisciplinary public-private partnerships.

    'For the next generation of homeland security professionals, multidisciplined public-private collaboration must be a part of your DNA,' said Tom Ridge, the country’s first homeland security secretary and keynote speaker at a Rutgers conference that brought together experts in emergency preparedness, disaster response and homeland security.

    The conference, held June 6, 2014 in New Brunswick, marked the official launch of the Rutgers Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security.

    To read the full article published in Rutgers Today, click here.

Commencement 2014: 32 C.J. Graduates Receive Prestigious Albert Roberts Scholar Award

  1. Workshop Paper Presented at Yale University
  2. Dr. Anne M. Piehl, Winner of 2015 Presidential Public Service Award
  3. The Passing of Dr. Patrick Carr
  4. Dr. Noura Erakat Op-Ed

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