The Informer
The Newsletter of the North Carolina
Criminal Justice Association
Volume 21 # 1
Mario Paparozzi, Acting Editor
Winter 2005
Don’t miss the Spring NCCJA Conference
April 1-2
Conference Theme: The State of Emergency Preparedness –
State and Federal Perspectives
Registration on site:
NCCJA non-student members: $20
NCCJA student members:
$15
Non-member/non-student : $30
Non-member student:
$20
Registration fee includes dinner.
April 1st meeting activities will be at The City Hotel in
Greenville, NC. Call (252) 355-8300 for directions and for
overnight accommodations at the special NCCJA room rate!
Brian Beatty, the Secretary of Crime Control and Public
Safety will be the Friday evening speaker.
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April 2nd meeting activities will be on the campus of East
Carolina University in the Willis Building, Greenville, NC.
A retired FBI agent will address the conference on a federal
perspective of the state of emergency preparedness.
For additional conference information contact:
Michael Drew:
(252) 443-4011 Ext. 279
medrew@nash.cc.nc.us
Fall 2004 Meeting in Raleigh with SCJA Great Success
The Fall meeting of the NCCJA coincided with the SCJA in Raleigh between 22 and 25 September.
The NCCJA offered no program of its own, but held elections and presented awards. Many NCCJA
members attended the SCJA events, and at least a dozen NCCJA members were on the program. Roy
Cooper, the Attorney General of North Carolina was awarded the SCJA Outstanding Professional
Award in a presentation led by SCJA President Matt Robinson of Appalachian State.
Awards Presented at the Fall Meeting
Lynne Snowden of UNC-Wilmington was honored with the President’s Award for her long service to
the association and most recent achievements as chair of the Awards Committee. Richard Kania also
received the President’s Award to mark his service as Secretary-Treasurer and editorship of The
Informer.
The Founders Award for outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice (research) as an academic
endeavor in N.C. , the Margaret Lang Willis Outstanding Criminal Justice Educator Award for
outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice (teaching) as an academic endeavor in N.C., the Carolyn
and Richter Moore Citizen Award for outstanding personal contributions to Criminal Justice in N.C.
by someone outside the criminal justice system , and the Perry Powell Outstanding Criminal Justice
Professional Award for contributions to Criminal Justice as a professional endeavor in N.C. were not
given. However 2002 Powell Award winner Franklin Freeman was able to attend and spoke to the
meeting, first thanking the NCCJA for his award, apologizing for not being able to attend that year’s
meeting to receive it in person, and then speaking about criminal justice educational and training
standards in the thirty-some years since he and Reed Adams first had worked together. His appearance
and address was a highlight of the General Business Meeting.
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Elections for New Vice President and Board Member
David Streater of Catawba Valley Community College won the vice presidency of the NCCJA over Fran
Fuller. Fran was re-nominated for the Board seat being vacated by Elizabeth Gail Sharpe and won that
election over Dawn Stanley of Surry Community College. Fran will serve a two-year term. David will
advance to president-elect in Fall 2005. Duane Everhart’s term as president ended with the ritual
passing of the gavel. Tim Thomas, president-elect, was unable to attend and David stood in for him and
adjourned the meeting.
NCCJA Seeks to Reward Students
Awards and Awards Criteria for Student Awards
The NCCJA has established a process for recognizing noteworthy community college,
baccalaureate, and graduate students in Criminal Justice and related degree programs in North
Carolina. Although membership in the Association is not a requirement for nomination for one of
these awards, the person making the nomination must be current dues paid member of the
NCCJA. Signed nomination letters or e-mail messages clearly identifying the sender which state
The ward sought, the rationale for selecting this person and supporting documentation should go
to the Chair of the Awards Committee, with all materials due in her possession by March 18th.
Nominators must submit four (4) copies of all paper work, including the enclosed form. The deadline
for all nominations is March 18, 2005. The nomination form must be included with all email
submissions
Dr. Lynne Snowden, Chair, Awards Committee
Dept. of Sociology, UNC-Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403
910-962-3433, SnowdenL@uncwil.edu
These awards will be presented at the Spring 2005 NCCJA banquet. Once the Awards
Committee has made its decisions, the nominators will be told. Nominators will be responsible for
notifying successful award winners and for assisting them in making arrangements to attend the
conference to receive their awards. The NCCJA will provide lodging at the conference for the
award winners, and registration at the conference is waived for them. Not all awards are
presented every year.
Awards to be Presented at the Spring 2005 Meeting
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The James B. Merritt Student Excellence Award, named in honor or Professor Merritt, co-founder
and past-president of the Association, a life member of the Association, and executive with the Police
Benevolent Association. This award is given for character, citizenship, and academic excellence while
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a college student in North Carolina. An award may be given to each of the following categories:
students at the two-year college, baccalaureate, and graduate level.
2.
The John C. McCollister Student Paper Awards, named in honor of the late Dr. Jay McCollister, a
co-founder and past president of the Association, and professor emeritus at Pfeiffer College. This
award is given for the best original paper submitted by college students in North Carolina. . An award
may be given to each of the following categories: students at the two-year college, baccalaureate, and
graduate level.
The nominations must be submitted by individual members in good standing of the Association, but the award
nominees do not need to be NCCJA members. The same student can be nominated for both awards. Nominators
must submit four (4) copies of all paper work, including the attached form. The deadline for all nominations is
March 18, 2005. The nomination form must be included with all email submissions. Please send nominations to
Dr. Lynne L. Snowden (SNOWDENL@UNCW.EDU)
Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice
UNC at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297
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NCCJA Student Nomination Form
Award Category for which nominee is recommended:
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James Merrit
Good Citizen Award
II. John C McCollister
Paper Award
_____ Community College Student
_____ Four year College/University
_____ Graduate Student
_____ Community College Student
_____ Four year College/University
_____ Graduate Student
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NOMINEE’S FULL NAME ___________________________________________
NOMINEE’S AFFILIATED INSTITUTION AND MAILING ADDRESS
__________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
____________
NOMINEE’S TELEPHONE NUMBER _____________________________________
NOMINATOR’S NAME, ADDRESS, & TELEPHONE NUMBER _________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
Send nomination’s to:
Dr. Lynne Snowden
Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice
UNCW
Wilmington, NC 28403-3297
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NCCJA Bookings
New Book by NCCJA author: Lynne Snowden of UNCW recently authored an excellent and timely
book entitled: Terrorism: Research, Readings, and Realities, published by Prentice-Hall. This book is
perfect for use as a primary or supplemental textbook.
New Book by N.C. Author: Barbara Zaitzow of Appalachian State University teamed with Jim Thomas
to edit Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control. The 251 page book was released by Rienner in
2003. ISBN: 1-58826-228-6 ($55 in hard cover). The book was recommended in Choice, Volume 41,
#8 (April 2004). The Informer invites a review from one of our members.
In prior issues The Informer has observed that there are a substantial number of “true-crime” genre
books about cases arising in “the Old North State.” Often our students will mention these cases in our
classes. Some of the better books about these crimes are useful educational tools, revealing just how our
criminal justice system actually functions. Having information about these books can be a useful
educational aid. For this reason The Informer continues to invite NCCJA members and Informer
readers to send in other North Carolina true crime books and will run a feature with the contributors’
mini-reviews on each of those reported. Both current and older titles are welcome. Let’s see if we can
assemble a complete bibliography of North Carolina true-crime books together. E-mail the titles,
authors, years of publication, publishers, and your brief reviews to Mario.Paparozzi@uncp.edu for
inclusion in future issues of The Informer. The editor will publish a short review. If more than one
reader reports on the same book, multiple credits will be noted for turning up the citation, but only the
first complete review received will be published. The first of these short reviews is now published for
your interest and use.
NCCJA Bookings - continued
The Informer previously has listed are the following books with a North Carolina connection. What
titles can you add? Which of these can you review for your colleagues?
Sally Avery Bermanzohn, Through Survivor's Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre. Nashville, Tn:
Vanderbilt University Press (2003).
Jerry Bledsoe, Bitter Blood (1988), Blood Games (1991), Before He Wakes (1994), Death Sentence: The True Story
of Velma Barfield’s Life, Crime and Execution (1998), and Death by Journalism : One Teacher's Fateful Encounter
With Political Correctness (2001).
Lynn Chandler-Willis, Unholy Covenant (2000).
Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901).
W. McKee Evans, To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction (1977).
Phil Link, Murder for Breakfast (2002).
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Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).
Joe McGinnis, Fatal Vision (1983).
Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost, Fatal Justice (1995).
Nancy Rhyne, Murder in the Carolinas (1988).
Jim Schultz, Preacher’s Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore (1993).
William Trotter and Robert Newsom III, Deadly Kin: A True Story of Mass Family Murder (1988).
Signe Waller Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir, People's History of the Greensboro Massacre.
Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield (2002).
Elizabeth Wheaton, Codename Greenkil: The 1979 Greensboro Killings (1987).
Robert L. Williams and Elizabeth W. Williams, The Thirteen Juror (1983).
Fiscal Facts
Dues renewal notices were mailed in late August 2004 and again with this mailing. People who enter
into lapsed membership status by not paying for 2004-05 will remain on The Informer mailing list for
two years. To confirm your membership expiration date, take a look at the mailing label. If it has no
date after your name, or has a date prior to 2005, you are either lapsed, or are not a member. Those
who have gone two years without renewing are dropped form the mailing list. If the only copy you
have received is addressed to “Criminal Justice Faculty” or some similar identification, you are not a
member. Change this by sending in your check made payable to NCCJA. We want to have your
current, preferred mailing address, phone number or numbers, and your e-mail address so we can keep
you informed. Make your check out to NCCJA and mail it to Mario Paparozzi, Sociology &
Criminal Justice, UNCP, P.O. Box 1510, Pembroke, NC 28372-1510. Be sure to include your
preferred mailing address and e-mail address, please. If you have not been getting e-mail from the
NCCJA, chances are we do not have your current e-mail address on file.
The Docket
The Informer wishes to share the following “intelligence” on other organizations and activities in
criminal justice of potential interest to our colleagues.
ACADEMY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SCIENCES: The ACJS will meet on 15-19 March 2005 at
the Sheraton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for the 2005 Abstract Submission has been
extended until October 15, 2004. Please visit the ACJS web site under the Annual Meeting tab to
submit your abstract for our 42nd Annual Meeting on-line. Hotel accommodations at the host hotel, the
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, 301 East North Water Street, Chicago, IL 60611, can be made by
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calling (312) 329-7000 or Toll-Free at (800) 233-4100, Fax at (312) 329-7045, or on-line at
www.sheratonchicago.com. The lodging rate is $179/ per night - single or double, plus tax.
Public Notice
If you are receiving this newsletter, but have not been receiving any NCCJA e-mail notices about
recent events, like our upcoming Spring 2005 meeting, then the NCCJA does not have a current email address for you. Some active members’ e-mails are being returned as undeliverable. If your
name is on the list below, or if you have not received an e-mail from the NCCJA in the last two
months, please e-mail Mario Paparozzi and ask to have your e-mail address added to our list.
Non-working or no current e-mail address on file: Lynn Barnes, Max Boylan, Dave Brumble, Jim
Bruner (Life Member), Jim Campbell (Life Member), J.T. Henson (Life Member), Ben Loeb (Life
Member), Jim Merritt (Life Member), Michelle Robertson, Doug Scott, Jerry Spencer, and Robert
Stevenson (Life Member), and Rich Weinblatt.
Help us make contact with these NCCJA members and recent past members. If you have an email address for one of them, please send it to The Informer. If you are not getting our e-mails,
pleass sent your request to be added to the e-list to: Mario.Paparozzi@uncp.edu.
Membership in the NCCJA
If you are not a current member, you should join do so now. If you know someone who should join,
please encourage him or her to do so. Dues for one year are $15, three years for $35, and five years for
$50. One can become a life member for $150 with the approval of the board. Students can become
individual student members for $10 per year, and all the members of a student chapter or justice club at
your campus can become affiliated when the club pays $25 per year. An application form is not
needed, but one can be found on the NCCJA web site: http://members.aol.com/NCCJAssoc.
Do you know someone who should be on The Informer’s mailing list but isn’t receiving the newsletter
now? Send your referrals to Mario Paparozzi, Sociology & Criminal Justice, UNCP, P.O. Box 1510,
Pembroke, NC 28372-1510, or e-mail Mario.Paparozzi@uncp.edu with current address information.
Make your check out to NCCJA and mail the dues to Mario Paparozzi, Sociology & Criminal
Justice, UNCP, P.O. Box 1510, Pembroke, NC 28372-1510. Please include your preferred mailing
address and e-mail address. Should you receive this issue with errors in the address used, please let The
Informer know how it should be addressed. If the addressee no longer is there, please notify us or
simply mark the newsletter “return to sender” and the post office will let us know. Thanks.
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Congratulations and best wishes to UNC-Charlotte Professor
Charles Dean.
Professor Dean is retiring after an illustrious career teaching and advancing the causes of criminal
justice. Professor Dean will continue in department emeritus status.
Among his many and noteworthy accomplishments over a 51 year career in education, Professor Dean
served as a principal, a professor, and a department chair. He has been a principal or co-investigator in
research studies attracting approximately one million dollars! Professor Dean is well known for his
research with the North Carolina Division of Youth Services. In this regard, he helped to devise a
juvenile classification system and analyzed county training school commitment practices. Professor
Dean is also acknowledged for his excellent work on the police role in spouse abuse.
The Faculty and College Line-up
Appalachian State University: Matt Robinson presided at the 2004 SCJA meeting in Raleigh, and also
presented at the roundtable on the Death Penalty, and joined with Renee Scherlen to present a talk on
“Drug War Lies Revisited.” What, Matt, our government lies to us? Say it ain’t so!
Appalachian State University II: The Informer has learned that there are some new faces at ASU
who have yet to come to attend NCCJA meetings. Elika Peterson recently joined ASU from Florida
State, and her specialities are juvenile justice, criminology and homicides of women. Her degree is
from the University of Missouri at Saint Louis. Dan Murphy is a sociologists from Iowa State who
specializes in community corrections. The NCCJA welcomes them both.
Appalachian State University III: Kathleen Simon was in Raleigh for SCJA, offering her ideas on
“The Implications of Recent Supreme Court Decisions.” Other presenters included Matt Robinson.
Ken Mullen also was on the program with a paper on Police K-9 Programs.
Davidson College: Bob Ruth headed a roundtable on “Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism” at
the Raleigh SCJA.
East Carolina University: Lynne Barnes presented a paper to the SCJA in Raleigh on “North Carolina
School Resource Officer Program. Also attending and presenting were Lisa Epperly and Mark Jones to
speak on “Managing Terrorists in U.S. Correctional Settings.” Mark had another co-authored paper
with John Newton on “Protecting the Homeland at the Local Level.”
Methodist College: Darl Champion was panel chair and a presenter at the SCJA in Raleigh, speaking
on “Emergence from Shadowland” on homeland security with co-author Andreas Ringl.
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N.C. Central University: Truc-Nhu Ho was in Raleigh for the SCJA, speaking on her recent research
on the “Resolution of Rape Cases Following Initial Investigative Decisions.” Her partner in the study is
Robert Moore of Delta State.
N.C. Wesleyan: Tom O’Connor was at SCJA in Raleigh to make a presentation on “Teaching
Intelligence.” It was not about raising our students’ IQ, but about intelligence collection, analysis and
utilization in the Post 9/11 world. He also co-presented a second paper on police review boards with
some of his students from Troy State’s Fort Benning campus.
UNC-Chapel Hill: John R. Hipp, Patrick J. Curran, and Kenneth A. Bollen of Chapel Hill joined with
Daniel J. Bauer of N.C. State in publishing "Crimes of Opportunity or Crimes of Emotions? Testing
Two Explanations of Seasonal Change in Crime," in Social Forces, 82-4 (June 2004), pages 13331372. The Informer will not disclose the conclusions, inviting you to discover them for yourself.
UNC-Charlotte: Yoskiko Takahashi, a graduate student at UNCC was on the program Raleigh for the
SCJA, to present a paper on “Using GIS to Examine Social Disorganization Theory.”
UNC-Pembroke: Rich Kania was at SCJA in Raleigh to participate in a roundtable on the death
penalty. The very next day he was on a plane to the Republic of Belarus to begin a nine-month long
Fulbright teaching fellowship in Minsk.
UNC-Wilmington: Susan Lecker and Reid Toth of UNCW were on the program Raleigh for the SCJA,
to present a paper on “HIV and AIDS in U.S. Prisons.” Reid also was on a panel with Michael Maume
and Jeff Spears to discuss “Race in Context: The Impact of Structural Factors in Racial Differences in
Juvenile Case Processing.” Reid is a new NCCJA member. Welcome to the NCCJA, Reid.
Western Carolina University: Ron Hunter was at SCJA in Raleigh to speak on “BS and Buzzwords
Revisited: New Rhetoric, Same Results.” Ron has rejoined the NCCJA now that he’s back in the state,
returned from Georgia to chair CJ and WCU. Ron also is a candidate for office in the ACJS and all
NCCJA members who also are in ACJS should give his candidacy serious consideration. Good luck,
Ron!
New NCCJA Officers for the 2004-2005 Term
At the general business meeting of the NCCJA in Raleigh in September 2004 the election of new
officers and the elevation of some existing officers into new positions will occur. Duane Everhart will
become Immediate Past President when he passes the gavel of leadership to Tim Thomas. We will
choose a new Vice-President, as Michael Drew moves up to President-Elect. Elizabeth Gail Sharpe’s
first term on the Executive Board expires, while Jim Pleszewski begins his second year of a two year
term. Outgoing Past-President Dick Hayes will present the new slate of candidates for vice president
and for member of the Executive Board. Interested parties should contact Dick to alert him of their
interest and availability.
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Timothy M. Thomas, President
Department Head, Public Services Programs
Alamance Community College
P.O. Box 8000, Graham, NC 27253-8000
336-506-4164, thomas@alamance.cc.nc.us
Timothy M. Thomas,
NC CJ Standards Commission PEC
Representative
Department Head, Public Services Programs
Alamance Community College
P.O. Box 8000, Graham, NC 27253-8000
336-506-4164, thomas@alamance.cc.nc.us
Michael Drew, President-Elect and
Program Chair 2005
Criminal Justice Program,
Nash Community College
P.O. Box 7488, Rocky Mount, NC 27804-0488
252-443-4011, ext 279,
MEDrew@nash.cc.nc.us
Dr. Ken Mullen,
NC CJ Standards Commission PEC
Representative.
Dept. of Political Science and Criminal Justice
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-6096, MullenKL@AppState.edu
David Streater, Vice-President
and Membership Committee Chair
Criminal Justice Program
Catawba Valley Community College
2550 Hwy. 70 S.E., Hickory, NC 28602
Robert Ruth, Commissioner, NC CJ Standards
Commission (NCCJA Representative)
Department of Sociology
Davidson College, P.O. Box 1554
Davidson, N.C. 28036
704-894-2256, boruth@davidson.edu
Jim Pleszewski, Executive Board, 2005
Criminal Justice Program
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
P.O. Box 1595, Salisbury, NC 28145-1595
704-788-3197, ext. 523,
PleszewskiJ@rowan-cabarrus.edu
Mario Paparozzi, Editor, Informer, 2004-2005
Secretary-Treasurer, 2004-2007
Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
P.O. Box 1510, Pembroke, N.C. 28272
910-522-5783, Mario.Paparozzi@uncp.edu
Fran Fuller, Executive Board, 2006
Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, N.C. 28372
910-521-6473, Fran.Fuller@uncp.edu
Jan Chauncey, NCCJA Archivist
NC Justice Academy
P.O. Drawer 99
Salemburg, NC 28385
910-525-4151,
JChauncey@mail.jus.state.nc.us
Duane Everhart, NCCJA Past-President
Criminal Justice Program,
Wayne Community College
P.O. Box 8002, Goldsboro, NC 27530
919-735-5152, dde@waynecc.edu
Bobby Jeter, Liaison with the N.C. Criminal
Justice Training and Standards Division
P.O. Drawer 149, Raleigh, N.C. 27602-0149
RJeter@mail.jus.state.nc.us
Dr. Lynne Snowden, Chair, Awards Committee
Dept. of Sociology, UNC-Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403
910-962-3433, SnowdenL@uncwil.edu
Mae McLendon, Liaison with the NC
Correctional Association
109 Caldwell Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
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919-942-6571, MMcLendon2@bellsouth.net
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