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Dr. William F. McDonald
Professor William McDonald has published a book of 18 original articles by leading scholars from Australia, Italy, Germany, the U.K and the U.S.A. The book title is “Immigration, Crime and Justice.” It is published by Emerald/JAI Press in Bingley, UK. In addition to the Introduction, he authored a chapter (“Adding Insult to Injury: The Unintended Consequences for Immigrants of Hate Crime Legislation”) and co-authored a comparative study of the police-immigrant relationship in three countries – Germany, the UK and the USA – (“Police Cooperation in Internal Enforcement of Immigration Control: Learning From International Comparison”). In addition, he finished the translation from Italian of the article about immigrants as criminals and victims in Italy – which the authors had translated with Google translator.

To order your copy of the book while they last go to http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781848554382

Professor McDonald has also published an entry titled, “Immigration and Victimization,” in the Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention, edited by B. S. Fisher and S. P. Lab. Also, this year, Professor McDonald was reappointed by President DeGioia for another three year term to the University Committee on Rank and Tenure. In AY 2009-10, he will be on sabbatical during the spring semester.

Dr. Dennis McNamara
Professor McNamara moved to Beijing for the spring semester where he served as Special Assistant to President DeGioia for China Affairs, and as Visiting Professor at Renmin University. His Renmin course on Consumer Society in East Asia will be offered at Georgetown in the fall of 2009. He returned to New York in February to present a paper at the International Studies Association titled, “Japan’s New Model of Innovation and Regional Integration in East Asia.” In May he organized and chaired a conference at Georgetown on the Financial Crisis with the China’s Central Communist Party School.

Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert
Kathleen Maas Weigert's "Structural Violence" article appeared in the _Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict_, 2nd edition (Academic Press, 2008) and she will present her paper, 'Toward a sociology of social justice: some early contributions from Jane Addams," during the ASL Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2009."

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