Carlos Imbrosio Filho is the Summer 2026 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight LC Scholar Spotlight “Ethical AI in law enforcement: Balancing crime prevention and civil liberties in the U.S. and European Union” Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2026) doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scholar) to work on multiple funded projects examining neighborhood influences on youth violence decision-making and effective interventions. Review of applications begins July 6, 2026. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

¡Felicidades! Congratulations! Way to Represent Carla Salazar-Gonzalez on your first published article! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC) Lorena Ávila is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University. Her research focuses on how legal institutions shape mobility and inequality. www.linkedin.com/in/lorena-av...

We’re excited to welcome our new Associate Editors (Bo-Kyung (Elizabeth) Kim, PhD, Theresa Rocha Beardall, Roberto Abreu, and Sophia Rodriguez, Ph.D.) to the journal! Their expertise, insight, and dedication will help shape the next chapter of Youth & Society. #youthandsociety

Awesomeness! Way to Represent Dr. Xavier Perez!

Way to Represent Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve! bookshop.org/p/books/crim...

Way to Represent Janice Iwama! asc41.org/.../uploads/...

¡Felicidades! Congratulations! Arynn Infante for being tenured and promoted to Full Professor! Way to Represent! Well-deserved and earned! www.pdx.edu/profile/aryn...

¡Felicidades! Congratulations! Daniel E. Martínez for being promoted to Full Professor! Way to Represent! Well-deserved and earned! sociology.arizona.edu/person/danie...

Felicidades! Way to Represent Maritza Salazar!

Way to Represent Veronica Valencia Gonzalez! Gonzalez, V. V. (2026). Punishment as class governance: Bureaucratic (un)knowing and the gradient of state harm. Punishment & Society. doi.org/10.1177/1462... Punishment as class governance: Bureaucratic (un)knowing and the gradient of state harm

Way to Represent Brian Cabral! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CFP for the 2027 Ethnography Forum: “Worlds in the Making: Ethnography, Possibility and Finding Hope in the Field.” We will be accepting papers from April 15 to June 15, 2026 for the conference to be held at the UPenn in February 2027. Please go to 2027forum.dryfta.com/paper-submis...

Felicidades and Congratulations to LC Scholar Theresa Rocha Beardall for being selected as one of the Seven Early-Career Researchers for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2031! Way to Represent!

Now Dra. Angelica Lopez successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “Institutional Inequality and Health Among Latines in the United States," today. Congratulations! ¡Felicidades! Way to Represent! You did great Dr. Lopez!

An opportunity Visiting Assistant Professor in Criminology, Law, and Society: illinois.csod.com/ui/internal-...

Registration Link: northwestern.zoom.us/.../cI3KJUjk....

¡Felicidades! Congratulations! Way to Represent LC Scholar Guillermo Escaño!

¡Felicidades! Way to Represent now Dra. Carolina Ribeiro Caliman!

Veronica Valencia Gonzalez is the Spring 2026 LC Spotlight Research Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of South Carolina “The Unascended Pyramid the Limits of State Response to IPV in Rural Michoacán” Feminist Criminology (2026) doi.org/10.1177/1557...

¡Bienvenida/o/x! Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC)  Diego Avalos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Administration at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Welcome a new member to LC Laura Vargas, PhD, MPA, MSW is a bi-cultural Mexican/American, multi-lingual Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

Welcome a new member of the LC Taylor Gonzales is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Nebraska Omaha. Her research centers on program evaluations, recidivism, reentry, and the lived experiences of justice-involved individuals.

This year, we have co-organized five parallel events for the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (attached to this email), all of which feature research related to the CSW70 priority theme of Access to Justice.

Way to Represent now Full Professor Robert J. Durán!!! artsci.tamu.edu/sociology/pe...

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC) Mariah Robles is a third-year doctoral student in Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven. She uses longitudinal models and mixed-methods research designs to analyze data from the ROADS to Desistance study ¡Bienvenida/o/x!

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC) Melvin Vargas Melgar is a second-year post-B.A. doctoral student in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a first-generation Mexican American ¡Bienvenida/o/x!

Welcome Maria Armienta Ojeda is a a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati.

Link: careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista... Assistant Teaching Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice (9 months). This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation.

Just sharing a great opportunities at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

¡Felicidades/Congratulations to soon to be Dr. Vitoria De Francisco Lopes “who is now off the market” because of her new Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice tenure-track position in the University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work. Way to Represent!

Just sharing a great opportunity jobs.ashbyhq.com/global-x-etf...

I write with the news that Angélica Lopez has signed an offer letter to be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Humana Integrated Health Systems Science Institute at the University of Houston. Way to Represent! You will be missed here at ASU soon to be Dra. Lopez! search.asu.edu/profile/3827...

Way to Represent Jorge Chavez! view.com.cu.edu?vawpToken=TH...

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC) Dr. Luis A. Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/luis-... ¡Bienvenida/o/x!

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school!

Welcome Carolina Hernandez (she/her) a Chicana PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She broadly studies Latinx racial construction, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) social justice movements, and intersectional resistance.  www.sociology.pitt.edu/people/carol...

¡Felicidades and Congratulations to LC Scholar Janice Iwama for winning the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) election for Trustee-at-Large! Go Represent! www.american.edu/spa/faculty/...

The app is open for the 2026 Summer Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institutes (IQRMI) for doctoral students at UT Austin. Learn more about IQRMI for doctoral students here: IQRMI-DS at UT Austin Apply for IQRMI here: redcap.austin.utexas.edu/surveys/?s=Y... Deadline: Jan 14, 2026

¡Felicidades! Congratulations to Now Dr. Lucy Acosta! Way to Represent!

Alejandro (Alex) Gimenez Santana is the Winter 2025 Latina/o/x Criminology Scholar Spotlight “Not all convenience stores are equal”: An analysis of the criminogenic role of corner stores in Newark, NJ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Welcome a new member to Latina/o/x Criminology (LC)  Erin L. Cuéllar Wright is a 3rd-year PhD student in Sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Liza Aranda Representing with important work! Her team documents how immigrant parents and their US citizen children have been affected by the widespread enforcement actions in FL: Im/migrant Well-Being Research Center at USF here: usf.to/IWRCReport2025

Little late sharing this but way to Represent Amada Armenta! luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...

LC ASC 2025

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! [https://www.latcrim.org/on-the-market.html]

We are continuing our effort with the “LC Scholars on the Market” - Vitoria De Francisco Lopes and Carolina Caliman have great possibilities to contribute your program/department/school! [https://www.latcrim.org/on-the-market.html]

It is with a heavy heart that our LC Scholar colleague Greg Prieto (www.gregprieto.com) passed away last week after battling with cancer which Greg documented here: gregprieto.substack.com My deepest condolences to all who loved Greg, familia, friends, colleagues, students, mentors, and advisees.