News and Updates
UNDER CONTRACT FOR 2021:
Striking from the Shadows: Covert Violence and the Hidden Influence of Power
Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest | Common Ground Research Networks
Striking from the Shadows: Covert Violence and the Hidden Influence of Power
Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest | Common Ground Research Networks
NEW SERIES: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Forthcoming (2021- ) from Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this exciting new 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. The first three volumes are slated for 2021, and three more will follow in 2022! Find out more on the series website.
Forthcoming (2021- ) from Bristol University Press and co-edited with Thomas DeGloma, this exciting new 12-volume series features scholarship on cultural, interactionist, psychosocial, and other approaches to the interpretation of meaning. The first three volumes are slated for 2021, and three more will follow in 2022! Find out more on the series website.
TWO FORTHCOMING EDITED VOLUMES ON CRIME & MEDIA
Forthcoming (2021) from Emerald Publishing as part of its Studies in Media and Communications series, edited by Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, and Jeremy Schulz, these two volumes include scientific studies that advance knowledge about the complex intersections of crime and media. Both feature cutting-edge and international scholarship divided into two themes:
Forthcoming (2021) from Emerald Publishing as part of its Studies in Media and Communications series, edited by Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, and Jeremy Schulz, these two volumes include scientific studies that advance knowledge about the complex intersections of crime and media. Both feature cutting-edge and international scholarship divided into two themes:
- Vol. 20: Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age (in press)
- Vol. 21: Mass Mediated Representations of Crime and Criminality (forthcoming)
OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- November 2019: 2019 George Herbert Mead Lecture: “Making a Multiple Murderer – Crime Coverage, Cultural Meaning, and Violent Role Taking.” Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Baltimore
- November 2019: Author (for The Allure of Premeditated Murder: Why Some People Plan to Kill) on “Author-Meets-Critics” panel session at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, San Francisco
- August 2019: “Meaning Making on Twitter amid #FanCon Fallout.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York City
- May 2019: “Passing on our Interactionist Inheritance: Teaching Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduates.” Invited panel presentation at the Couch-Stone Symposium (semi-annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), Des Moines, Iowa
- April 2019: "When Planning is the Payoff: An Understudied Motive for Mass Murder," invited presentation at Delaware State University, Dover
