

#Asc criminology conference professional
Those members aim to pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency. The ASC started in the United States in 1941 but has expanded around the globe with members coming from Europe, Asia and Australia, as well as North and South America. Lauritsen is the third member of the UMSL’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice to be chosen ASC president, following the late Bob Bursik in 2008 and Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Rosenfeld in 2010. “We have thousands of members, and it’s really humbling to think my colleagues think that I’m a good person for this job.” “It’s quite an honor to have been selected to serve as president,” Lauritsen said. 21 before taking over as president next November. That’s exactly what happened this summer in a vote of the membership this summer, and Lauritsen is now set to begin a year as president-elect on Nov.

Louis, never imagined when she first joined the organization as a graduate student in sociology at the University of Illinois that she’d ever be elected to serve as its president. Janet Lauritsen considers the American Society of Criminology her professional home, and she’s been attending its annual meeting – and frequently presenting her research there – for the better part of 35 years.īut Lauritsen, a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St.

She will first spent a year as president-elect beginning on Nov. Janet Lauritsen is set to become third UMSL faculty member to serve as president of the American Society of Criminology after Bob Bursik in 2008 and Richard Rosenfeld in 2010.
