Ethnographer to Serve as Second Beto Chair Lecturer
Crime and culture will be the topics of discussion by Jeff
Ferrell, associate professor of criminal justice at Texas
Christian University, when he lectures at Sam Houston State
University April 6-7.
Ferrell, the second of three George J. Beto Chair Lecturers
this semester, will make two presentations in the Kerper Courtroom
of the Criminal Justice Center. Both lectures are free of
admission charge and open to the public.
His first presentation on Wednesday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m.,
is entitled Detonating the “Cultural” in Cultural
Criminology.
"The publication of the book Cultural Criminology
inaugurated a new sort of criminology that has now spawned
a variety of subsequent books and articles; lead to the creation
of Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal;
produced a special edition of the journal Theoretical
Criminology; and otherwise engaged criminologists around
the world," said Dan Richard Beto, executive director
of the Correctional Management Institute of Texas.
The lecture on Wednesday summarizes the cultural criminological
approach and proposes a further expansion and exploration
of cultural dynamics as they relate to crime, criminal justice
and criminology.
The second presentation will be Thursday, April 7, at 1:30
p.m., and is entitled Empires of Illicit Meaning.
Over the past 15 years Ferrell has engaged in three long term
ethnographies of criminal or criminalized groups, each published
in book form---hip hop graffiti writers in Crimes of Style;
urban street activists in Tearing Down the Streets;
and urban trash scroungers in Empire of Scrounge,
a book that is due out this year.
The lecture on Thursday, according to Ferrell, summarizes
each of these ethnographies and argues for the importance
of studying ethnography for the understanding of crime and
crime control.
Since 1981 the College of Criminal Justice has brought in
distinguished scholars through the Beto Chair Lecture Series
to speak on relevant and timely topics of concern to students,
faculty and practitioners.
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Media Contact: Julia
May
March 24, 2005
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