Marisol Valles García the University of Guadalajara, was the only person willing to accept the job. She was sworn in on 18 October 2010. This attracted international attention, and has prompted news media to call her the "bravest woman in Mexico". Within two weeks Valles Garcia began receiving threatening phone calls with offers to work for the cartels. On March 1, 2011, she received a threat of kidnapping from a man who had harassed her for nearly four months. The same day Valles Garcia and her family fled to America to seek asylum. She has since received a work permit in America. She
American Society of Criminology American Society of Criminology The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency. The organization has it roots in a series of informal discussion groups that sprang up in the early 1930s under the loose direction of former Berkeley, California police chief and then University of California-Berkeley professor, August Vollmer. The Society was formally organized as the National Association of College Police Training Officials in August Vollmer's home in Berkeley in late December 1941. The organization was renamed