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outside the typical curriculum in a given department, usually concern a professor’s unique research interests or offer insight into contemporary issues outside the standard course sequence. Gregson, who worked with criminology as a graduate student, thought the policing course was well suited, since police have been at the center of public discourse. Gregson wanted to create an interesting experience for students who chose to stay on campus rather than study away during J-Term — an experience that

PLU.  “Previously, students at PLU who were interested in careers in policing, law, corrections, and victim services majored in sociology and unofficially specialized in criminal justice by selecting existing courses such as Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, Deviance, and Criminal Justice to complete their sociology major,” explains professor Kate Luther, chair of the newly redesigned Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. “The new major in criminal justice formalizes these aspects of the

University of Denver. Their interests include qualitative methods, deviant behavior, drugs and society, sociology of sport, sociology of children, social theory, work and occupations, and leisure. Together they are the co-authors and co-editors of numerous books and articles, including The Tender Cut, Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, Wheeling and Dealing, and Constructions of Deviance. The Adlers received the 2010 George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic

research interests include modern Jewish identity formation and political self-representations, 1881-1948; art, politics, and culture; the politics of religion in Mandate Palestine; perceptions of social deviance among Jewry from early modern times to the present; Jews and German culture; ties between charity and nationalism; and modes of understanding and misunderstanding the Holocaust. Holocaust Studies Program at PLU This past Spring, at the annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference it was

the band’s drummer for the past four years. Horn says he will always think fondly of his experiences with both the band and his director. “It’s been an exceptional journey,” he said, adding that he’s learned a lot from Deacon-Joyner, “musically and in segways to life.” Horn combined his interest in music with his major through his capstone project — an analysis of the subculture of band kids. He’s focusing his analysis on the interaction of band kids and deviance. “There’s a huge range of deviance

of coal plants. “That’s not by accident, but due to racism in America,” he says. Addressing that racism while cleaning and improving the environment is what centers Andrew’s work—even as horror, tragedy and grief are involved, too. Being rooted in community and sense of purpose helps him see beyond the immediacy of the 30-year-window for change.PLU Department of Sociology & Criminal JusticeWhether we are studying families, policing, gender, or deviance, the Department of Sociology and Criminal