ASC Annual Meeting Workshops

ASC Sponsored Pre-Meeting Workshops

Location: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL

Equipment: No laptops provided. Power strips will be available for all ASC Sponsored workshops.

Enrollment: Limited to 50 participants for all ASC Sponsored workshops.

Fee: $75.00 ($30.00 for students); Payment must be made/processed to be officially registered.

Registration:

Refund Policy: Advance registration fees will be refunded for cancellations received up to October 31st. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after this date.

*** Please note registration for a workshop is NOT registration for the ASC Annual Meeting ***

Title: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Bringing Criminology to the Public

Instructor: Abigail Henson, Arizona State University (Contact: abigail.henson@asu.edu)

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17th, Time 1-5 P.M.

Place: Spire Parlor, 6th Floor

When research circulates in public spaces it has the potential to shape popular discourse, elevate critical thinking about crime and justice, and challenge dominant narratives that often guide policy and practice, yet many researchers lack practical guidance on how to translate their work for broader audiences. This interactive workshop focuses on practical strategies for disseminating research through accessible, public-facing platforms. Participants will learn how to transform scholarship into engaging short-form social media content, develop and produce podcasts that center research-based conversations, and organize community-embedded lecture series and public dialogues that facilitate conversations with audiences beyond the university. By making complex research accessible and participatory, scholars can contribute to broader cultural shifts in how people understand harm, accountability, and justice and, in turn, create the conditions for more thoughtful and sustainable changes in policy and institutional practice. With examples, practical guidance, and discussion, participants of this workshop will leave with specific tools, frameworks, and strategies to communicate their research effectively, build meaningful public engagement, and expand the impact of criminological scholarship beyond the ivory tower.

Title: Wellbeing in the Field: Navigating Emotional, Ethical, and Practical Challenges in Criminological Fieldwork

Instructors: Ellen Van Damme, Field Research Consulting and Michelle Lyttle Storrod (Contact: ellen@fieldresearchcoaching.com, mjlyttlestorrod@widener.edu)

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17th, Time 1-5 P.M.

Place: Water Tower Parlor, 6th Floor

Criminological fieldwork often involves sustained engagement with sensitive topics such as violence, incarceration, victimization, and institutional harm. While these research contexts generate critical knowledge, they can also place a significant emotional and psychological burden on researchers and research teams. Prolonged exposure to trauma, moral distress, and institutional constraints can take a serious toll on those conducting the research itself. Yet, despite the concept of ‘do no harm’ extending to the researcher, researcher’s wellbeing remains overlooked in formal methodological training. This interactive workshop is designed for researchers at all career stages who conduct qualitative, mixed-methods, or ethnographic fieldwork in challenging contexts. Rather than offering a prescriptive methodology, the workshop creates a structured space to reflect on the human dimensions of field research. Participants will explore how positionality, prior experiences, and emotional responses shape research encounters, ethical decision-making, and data interpretation. Through guided reflection, small-group discussions, and practical exercises, the workshop addresses common but rarely discussed challenges such as emotional overload, boundary-setting, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and navigating uncertainty in the field. Grounded in criminological research and empirical fieldwork experiences, this workshop equips participants with practical tools to prepare for, cope with, and reflect on emotionally demanding research environments. By centering researcher wellbeing as an ethical and methodological concern, the workshop aims to support more sustainable, reflexive, and resilient fieldwork practices, recognizing that caring for researchers is integral to producing rigorous and responsible criminological knowledge.

Title: Introduction to Multilevel Theorizing and Analysis

Instructor: Gregory M. Zimmerman, Northeastern University (Contact: g.zimmerman@northeastern.edu)

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17th, Time 1-5 P.M.

Place: Grant Park Parlor, 6th Floor

This workshop offers participants the opportunity to engage in multilevel theorizing, to be introduced to multilevel analysis, and to practice the modeling of multilevel data in Stata and/or HLM. We will: (1) discuss the theoretical and empirical rationale for using multilevel analysis; develop the multilevel model, from unconditional through cross-level interaction model; and (3) use hypothetical datasets to practice multilevel modeling in Stata and/or HLM.

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