The Informer
The Newsletter of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Association
Volume 21 # 2 Mario Paparozzi, Acting Editor Summer 2005
Fall 2005 Meeting in Atlantic Beach
Plan to attend!
Make you hotel reservations now!!
The Fall meeting of the NCCJA will be held on October 14th and October 15th at:
Sheraton Atlantic Beach
2717 Fort Macon Road
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
1-800-624-8875
http://www.sheratonatlanticbeach.com/
The association has negotiated a special hotel room conference rate of approximately $57 for all who attend the conference. This is your chance to participate in state-of-the-art professional development, meet your regional colleagues, and enjoy one of the finest vacation destinations in our great state. Be sure to call for hotel reservations soon in order to receive our conference rate.
The conference registration fees are:
$20 for the full conference
$10 for guests
Registration will be on-site – check, voucher, or cash accepted.
Conference attendees may also pay their annual membership dues at the time of registration.
Atlantic Beach has always proven to be a popular NCCJA conference destination. Our conference planner, Michael Drew, has outdone himself with a lineup of speakers that will certainly engage all who attend.
The program theme for this year is Forensics. Our major session speakers are scheduled as follows:
Friday, October 14th: Jerry Richardson, Assistant Director North Carolina State Bureau of
Investigation
Topic: An Overview of the State Bureau of Investigation’s Crime Lab
Saturday, October 15th : John Wydra, Senior Team Leader for the North Carolina Evidence
Response Team with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Topic: An Overview of Evidentiary Techniques
For additional information about the conference, please contact:
Mario Paparozzi, Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Email:
Phone: (910) 522-5783
Breaking News:
Dr. Richard Kania, Editor of The Informer has returned from his Fulbright Scholar assignment in Belarus!
Dr. Kania has been sorely missed by his colleagues at UNCP and this association- we are thankful for his safe return.
Awards Winners at the Spring Meeting
Several awards were presented at our Spring conference in Greenville. As usual, there were many deserving nominees for these prestigious awards, and we thank the nominees as well as those who submitted their names for consideration.
The following awards were given at our Spring 2005 conference:
John C. McCollister Paper Awards
Community College Division
Angela Kyles won the Community College Division for her paper, entitled, “A Study of Bipolar Disorder and the Positivist School.” Angela graduated from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 22, 2005.
Undergraduate Division
Two students tied for the Undergraduate Division award.
Kristina K. Koul's paper was entitled "The Great Divide: The Impact of Race and Class on Women's Court Based Experiences With Domestic Violence." Kristina is now a graduate of Davidson College.
The co-winner for the McCollister Undergraduate Division was Dana C. Cook, a student at Mt. Olive College. Dana’s paper was entitled: “Exploring Methods to Improve Management in Pro Se Cases: A Study of Self-Reported Litigants.”
James B. Merritt Excellence Award
There was one student winner of the James B. Merritt Student Excellence Award.
Jacqueline Thigpen, from Wayne Community College, was the recipient of this award. Ms. Thigpen was nominated by Dwayne D. Everhart, Department Chair for Public & Human Services, for her academic excellence and her outstanding campus leadership as President of WCC’s Criminal Justice Club and head of several community service projects.
Awards for the Fall Meeting
All members are urged to actively participate in the NCCJA awards process by submitting names of nominees to the NCCJA Awards Committee Chair, Lynne Snowden, UNCW.
Our association desires to keep the awards process a vibrant one. Please consider making a nomination for one of the following awards. These awards are generally given at our Fall conference.
A nominee does not have to be a current (paid-up) member of NCCJA, but the person making the nomination MUST BE.
· The Founders Award for outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice (research) as an academic endeavor in North Carolina.
· The Margaret Lang Willis Outstanding Criminal Justice Educator Award for outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice (teaching) as an academic endeavor in North Carolina.
· The Carolyn and Richter Moore Citizen Award for outstanding personal contributions to Criminal Justice in North Carolina by someone outside the criminal justice system.
· The Perry Powell Outstanding Criminal Justice Professional Award for contributions to Criminal Justice as a professional endeavor in North Carolina.
How to make a nomination:
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 awards program of the NCCJA is led by Dr. Lynne Snowden of UNC-Wilmington, Chair, NCCJA Awards Committee. You can inquire about making nominations by calling Dr. Snowden at 910-962-3433, or writing .
NCCJA Call for Book Reviews
The Informer invites a review from one of our members.
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).
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 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, but only the first complete review received will be published. The first of these short reviews is now published for your interest and use.
Searching for books with a North Carolina connection
The Informer previously listed 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
The NCCJA is in sound fiscal condition. The NCCJA has $1185 in checking as of September 8, 2005, holds three CDs with a combined value of $7,000, and the shares in our saving account are now valued at $ 7,319. Dues have not been raised in a full decade, and remain as set in January 1994: one year at $15, three years for $35, and five years for $50! That can’t last much longer. Individual student members pay $10 per year, and all the members of a student chapter or justice club become affiliated when the club pays $25 per year. Life memberships ($150, which can be paid in two installments) and institutional memberships ($40 annually) are offered. For more information contact the NCCJA Secretary-Treasurer at .
Dues renewal notices are enclosed. If you receive a dues notice, please make your payment as soon as possible. People who enter into lapsed membership status by not paying for 2005-06 will remain on The Informer mailing list for two years. To confirm your membership expiration date, email the NCCJA Treasurer, Mario Paparozzi at: . Those who have gone two years without renewing are dropped form the mailing list. Complimentary copies of The Informer that are addressed to “Criminal Justice faculty” do not indicate the membership of an individual, club, institution, or organization. Dues checks should be made payable made payable to NCCJA. Dues checks should be made out 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. We want to have your current, preferred mailing address, phone number or numbers, and your e-mail address so we can keep you informed. 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.
SOUTHERN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION: The SCJA will hold its 2005 Annual Conference on September 28th - October 1st, 2005 at Sea Turtle Inn in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The theme of the conference is: "On Crimes and Punishment at the Seashore." For more information, visit the SCJA home page: http://www.scja.net/
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY: The ASC will hold its annual meeting in November 16-19, 2005 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada. Conference registration may be done on line at: http://www.asc41.com/
NORTH CAROLINA CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION: The North Carolina Correctional Association will hold its annual training conference in Fayetteville, NC from November 17-18, 2005. For more information about the conference, visit: http://ncca1979.com/index1.html, or telephone Cordelia Clark @ (910) 944-1512.
Public Notice
If you are receiving this newsletter, but have not been receiving any NCCJA e-mail notices about recent events, like our upcoming Fall 2004 meeting, then the NCCJA does not have a current e-mail 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 e-mail address for one of them, please send it to The Informer. If you are not getting our e-mails, please send your request to be added to the e-list to: .
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 with current address information.
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 occurred. Duane Everhart became Immediate Past-president and passed the gavel of leadership to Tim Thomas. Michael Drew moved up to President-Elect. Elizabeth Gail Sharpe’s first term on the Executive Board expired, and Jim Pleszewski began his second year of a two year term. Outgoing Past-President Dick Hayes presented the new slate of candidates for vice president and for members of the Executive Board.
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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,
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,
David Streater, Vice-President
and Membership Committee Chair
Criminal Justice Program
Catawba Valley Community College
2550 Hwy. 70 S.E., Hickory, NC 28602
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,
Fran Fuller, Executive Board, 2006
Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, N.C. 28372
910-521-6473,
Duane Everhart, NCCJA Past-President
Criminal Justice Program,
Wayne Community College
P.O. Box 8002, Goldsboro, NC 27530