Contact

Conference Chair
Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
fwilson2@indstate.edu

Conference Administrative Assistant
Lindsay Measel
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
ISU-ICMPCS-CONF@mail.indstate.edu
cmpc@indstate.edu

Featured Speakers

"Freight Train Graffiti: A Subculture within a Subculture"

Robert D. Weide, M.A.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
New York University

Robert D. Weide recently earned his Master's Degree from the Department of Sociology at New York University and is currently doing research for his PhD dissertation for NYU on Black and Chicano gang relations in Los Angeles and California State prisons. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at NYU, Hunter College CUNY, and Pierce College in Los Angeles. Professor Weide has a strong personal attachment to the Hip Hop subculture, having been a hardcore gang member as a youth growing up in Los Angeles, and one of the most prolific graffiti writers in North America.