{"id":1583,"date":"2016-01-11T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/cas\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:12:44","slug":"meet-amanda-kahl-smith-of-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/case\/2016\/01\/11\/meet-amanda-kahl-smith-of-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Amanda Kahl Smith of Criminal Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name<\/strong>: Amanda Smith
\nTitle<\/strong>: Instructor cum Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
\nDepartment<\/strong>: Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice<\/p>\n

Classes I teach:
\n<\/strong>CRJ 185: Intro to Criminal Justice
\nCRJ 385: Elite Deviance<\/p>\n

Professional Interests, Activities, or Publications:
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.<\/p>\n

Kramer, Ronald C. and Amanda Smith. 2013. \u201cDeath Flies Down: The Bombing of Civilians and the Paradox of International Law.\u201d Book chapter in Towards a Victimology of State Crime<\/em>, D. Rothe and D. Kauzlarich (eds.). Routledge.<\/p>\n

Research or Specific Areas of Interest:
\n<\/strong>My research focuses broadly on the intersections of class inequality, power, and crime. Currently, I have two active research projects. In the first, I investigate the role of the economy in the major social institutions and how institutional pathways to high crime rates vary in the United States. In my second project, I research the United States\u2019 use of drone warfare as state crime.<\/p>\n

Awards:
\n<\/strong>All-University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness, WMU, 2013<\/p>\n

Degree(s)\/Education:
\n<\/strong>Sociology PhD Western Michigan University, currently ABD, expected fall 2015
\nApplied Criminology MS Northern Arizona University 2011
\nCriminology & Criminal Justice BS Northern Arizona University 2009<\/p>\n

Memberships:
\n<\/strong>American Society of Criminology
\nSociety for the Study of Social Problems<\/p>\n

How I fell in love with my field:
\n<\/strong>In the years leading up to the Great Recession, I worked for a major bank as a mortgage processor. At the time, the mortgage fraud I was seeing concerned me, but I did not understand the larger forces behind it. I chose to focus my studies on criminology as a way to come to terms with these issues. I still have questions.<\/p>\n

What I hope for my time at UM-Flint:
\n<\/strong>I hope to encourage my students to critically think about and engage the world around them.<\/p>\n

What I hope for students in my field:
\n<\/strong>I hope to inspire my students to think about crime as a complex social problem in need of creative solutions that potentially go beyond the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

Three things you should know about me:
\n<\/strong>I am the oldest of five children.<\/p>\n

I am a reformed cat person. My Chihuahua, Commander Sisko, is my world.<\/p>\n

I crochet in my free time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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