Hi there fellow Open Educators,

This is a great opportunity to collaborate with KPU on the development of an Open Educational Resource. Please share widely across your networks.

Cheers

Rosario

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Dear all,
I’m writing on behalf of faculty member Shereen Hassan at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. Dr. Hassan is looking for contributors to author two chapters in a much-anticipated, Canada-focused, Introduction to Criminology openly-licensed textbook. The two outstanding chapters that require authors are:

1. Methods/Measuring Crime
2. Environmental Criminology

Please see Dr. Hassan’s letter below and circulate this Call for Authors widely. This is a paid opportunity and would come with a $500 honorarium.

If interested, or you would like more information, please reach out to Dr. Shereen Hassan at shereen.hassan@kpu.ca by Friday, May 21, 2021.

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I hope that this email finds you well.  My name is Dr. Shereen Hassan and I am an SFU criminology alumni.  I completed my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Simon Verdun-Jones in 2010.  I am now a faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Criminology department and have been here for almost 17 years. 

I am reaching out about an opportunity to contribute to an Open Education Resource for the Introduction to Criminology course.  This text will be the first of its kind in Canadian Criminology and is unique as it seeks to incorporate Indigenous knowledge, history and content in a way that Criminology texts to date have failed to do. Dr. Gail Anderson has contributed in the area of biological explanations of crime, and Dr. Zachary Rowan and Michaela McGuire have co-authored a chapter on learning theories. There are authors from several other universities in B.C. and elsewhere, so it's quite a collaborative effort!

I am still looking for authors in the area of (1) Environmental Criminology and (2) Measuring Crime and Methods. For environmental Criminology, we were hoping this chapter could begin with a discussion of the classical school and from that, stem into rational choice/choice theories to include also routine activities and other theories falling under this umbrella.  The methods chapter should cover UCR, GSS and self-report surveys. It will also be necessary to introduce the idea of statistics, surveys, etc., as one method of measuring crime, but also talk about how qualitative inquiry is important for measuring things like perceptions of crime, severity, etc. A basic introduction to the various methods that criminologists use could be weaved into this chapter. Key methods concepts briefly defined here would include: empirical, qualitative and quantitative, sampling, reliability, validity,  deductive and inductive, correlation,  case studies and experiments.  A detailed discussion of Indigenous methodologies, including but not limited to oral history, would be instrumental, as well as a contextual background for students to better understand the statistics which demonstrate the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in crime statistics.

We are flexible on deadlines, and we are hoping to have a draft by the end of summer.  This text is an introductory text, so the idea here is to provide a brief overview, but to also address this theoretical framework's application to Indigenous principles, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous issues in some way, wherever possible.  We have asked authors to keep the chapters short (approximately 4000 words) or as close to that as possible.

It would be a wonderful honour to have you contribute to this important project.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
All the best,

Shereen Hassan, PhD

Criminology Faculty

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Best,

	Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University e urooj.nizami@kpu.ca w www.kpu.ca/open Subscribe to the KPU Open listserv here
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