May 2006
COR Faculty Workshop
Beyond Symbolic v. Instrumental Law: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice
May 19, Noon - 1:30p.m.
Social Ecology I Room 306
Val Jenness
Chair, Department of Criminology, Law and Society
UCI
(with Ryken Grattet)
Discussants:
Helen Ingram
Alladi Venkatesh
Biography
Val Jenness is the Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the links between social control (especially law), social change (especially social movements), and the formation and implementation of public policy. She is the editor of Public Policy, Democracy, and Social Movements (with David Meyer and Helen Ingram, 2005), the author of three books?Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice (with Ryken Grattet, 2001), Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence (with Kendal Broad, 1997), and Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective (1993)?and the author of numerous articles published in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Problems, Law & Society Review, Gender & Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological Perspectives, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Law and Critique, Journal of Hate Studies, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; recognized with awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the University of California; translated and reprinted in Japanese and German; presented at an array of professional conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad (Germany, England, Hungary, France, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Columbia, and Australia) as well as to the U.S. Congress and the National Academy of Sciences; and funded by National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the California Policy Research Center, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Corrections, the University of California, and Washington State University.
Professor Jenness is currently President-Elect of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She has served as an Associate Editor for Social Problems, as well as an Advisory Editor for Criminology, Social Problems, Gender & Society, Research in Political Sociology, Sexuality & Culture, and Race, Sex and Class; Vice President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance section of the American Sociological Association and Chair of the Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association, as well as Chair of the Social Problems Theory division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and Chair of the Sexual Behavior, Communities, and Politics division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Vice-Chair of the Law & Society division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and a Trustee on the Board of Trustees for the Law and Society Association, a Member of the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and a member of the Council for Sociology of Law section, the Crime, Law, & Deviance section, and the Collective Behavior/Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association.