2009 Grant Writing Seminars: The Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services (OCJS) will be hosting free Grant Writing Seminars in 2009. OCJS’ grants’ training provides an overview of identifying grant sources, analyzing program objectives, creating a budget, seeking letters of support, and proposal writing. Federal and state grants available to criminal justice professionals will be discussed. Attendees will also receive the OCJS publication, Grant Writing: Identifying and Applying for Funding in a Competitive Market. Trainings will take place on the following dates: October 27 and November 24. OCJS will also be hosting a free specialized training on Designing and Effective Evaluation Strategy on December 29. All trainings will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Motorcycle Classroom, located at 1970 W. Broad St., Columbus, on the first floor. To download and print a registration form, visit: http://www.ocjs.ohio.gov/Trainingmain.htm

Ohio State’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies is holding a competition for OSU faculty and graduate students to apply for research support in international security. Grants may be used for a variety of research-related purposes including travel, seminars, conferences, interviews, experiments, surveys, library costs, and other expenses. Applications must be for projects that relate to one or more of the Mershon Center’s three areas of focus: (1) The use of force and diplomacy; (2) The ideas, identities and decisional processes that affect security; (3) The institutions that manage violent conflict. For more information, go to: http://mershoncenter.osu.edu/grants/grants/grants.htm

The Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice iinvites submissions for a special issue, Between Black and White: Theorizing Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice, edited by María Vélez, Rod Brunson and Jody Miller. The editors seek manuscripts on a variety of topics within this broad area, with the goal of showcasing theoretically grounded research that investigates the connections between race, crime and justice that go beyond the black/white divide typical of research in criminology and criminal justice.This includes, for example, research that considers the experiences of racial and ethnic groups typically excluded from criminological research, and research that considers the intersections of race with class and gender. They also welcome theoretical pieces, and seek to include submissions from diverse methodological approaches. The inquiries about the appropriateness of topics can be directed to the special issue editors. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. They should be no more than 30 typed double-spaced pages, including tables, figures, and references. Manuscripts must be received no later than October 1, 2010. Please send two electronic copies of the manuscript (one complete version with a cover page and one blind copy with all identifying information removed) to María B. Vélez at mvelez@unm.edu. Guidelines for authors and additional information are available at: http://ccj.sagepub.com. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2010

Corrections Compendium - Have you recently completed a research study or scholarly essay that you think would be of interest to those in corrections? Corrections Compendium, the bimonthly journal of the American Correctional Association, is seeking submissions for upcoming issues. Its international readership includes individuals involved in various sectors of the corrections and criminal justice fields, including individuals employed in academia, state and local correctional agencies, and community corrections, to those in probation and parole and juvenile services. A leading peer-reviewed publication in the corrections field, Corrections Compendium welcomes you to submit your research-based papers for possible publication. They are open to submissions on all subjects — provided that they relate to corrections and adhere to standards of quality scholarship. A typical article is approximately 3,000 to 6,000 words, excluding references, endnotes, tables, charts, etc. All submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial advisory board. Articles must not have been published elsewhere or be under consideration by another publication. Do you think you may have just what they are looking for? If so, please e-mail your article to Susan Clayton, Managing Editor, Periodicals, ACA, at susanc@aca.org in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format, double spaced, with any tables or charts at the end of the text. Please remember to include your name, title, affiliation, address, daytime telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. Deadline for submissions: Continuous

Ohio Family Violence Prevention Summit: October 27-28, 2009 at the Cherry Valley Lodge in Newark, OH. Anthem Foundation and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network’s two-day Summit and premiere training event aims to advance Ohio’s capacity to deliver quality family violence prevention services. The event will offer nationally recognized experts from the field while also showcasing Ohio-based prevention examples and resources. The event is unique in that it will provide a collective forum for stakeholders in child abuse, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse to join together to address preventing perpetration before it may occur. The event will incorporate technology, interactive teaching, skills-transfer methods and will apply local data sets to engage and empower Ohio communities and social service organizations for greater impact. For more information please visit: http://www.odvn.org/

The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicityis seeking informal partnerships with OSU faculty and staff who are engaged in research, scholarship, instruction, administration, or service that connect to one or more of the Institute’s major research themes related to race, ethnicity, and social justice. The Kirwan Institute Affiliated Faculty and Staff Initiative—an expansion of the current Affiliated Faculty Program—is designed to create opportunities for meaningful collaboration across disciplines at OSU and to mutually enhance the capacity of the Institute and the University to engage in relevant research, instruction, service and policy making. For information about the Kirwan Institute Affiliated Faculty and Staff Initiative, contact Tom Rudd, Senior Researcher, at 247-8458 or rudd.35@osu.edu, or visit the website at: http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/about-us/get-affiliated/affiliated-faculty-staff.php

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity - Calls for papers for the next three issues of the Kirwan Journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, are available at the Race/Ethnicity web site (http://raceethnicity.org/). Topics are "Human Rights, Social Justice, and the Impact of Race," "Intersections of Race and Gender," and "Reworking Race and Labor."