Gene Carte Student Paper Award Recipients

1972:

• Lawrence Rawlings, Self Control and Interpersonal Violence: A Study of Scottish Adolescent Male Severe Offenders

1973:

• C Ronald Huff, Unionization behind the Walls

1976:

• Gary S. Green, Measuring the Incapacitative Effectiveness of Fixed Punishment

1980:

• Thomas Gabor

1981: award not given

1982:

• First Place – S. Bernard Raskin
• Second Place – Marilynn C. Mathews
• Third Place – Mark S. Davis

1983:

• First Place – Richard J. Dehais
• Second Place – Deborah Denno
• Third Place – John K. Cochran

1984:

• First Place – Quint C. Thurman
• Second Place – Steven M. Gorelick
• Third Place – David Brownfield

1985:

• First Place – Quint C. Thurman
• Second Place – Janet Lauritsen
• Third Place – Dorann E. Banks

1986:

• First Place – Lila Rucker
• Second Place – Yoko Baba & D. Mark Austin
• Third Place – Candace McCoy

1987:

• First Place – Tamasak Witayapanyanon

1988:

• First Place – Paul Knepper

1989:

• First Place – Yutaka Harada
• Second Place – Lynn Newhart Smith
• Third Place – Lisa Maher

1990:

• First Place – Scot B. Boeringer
• Second Place – Andrew Golub
• Third Place – Sung Joon Jang

1991:

• First Place – Christopher Uggen
• Second Place – Sung Joon Jang
• Third Place – A. Leigh Ingram

1992:

• First Place – Brenda Sims Blackwell
• Second Place – Thomas R. O’Connor
• Third Place – Michelle A. Harmon

1993:

• First Place – Edem F. Avakame
• Second Place – Vickie Jensen
• Third Place – Elizabeth D. Scheel

1994:

• First Place – Rodney L. Engen, Social Structure and Social Context: A Hierarchial Anslysis of Race, Class, and School Effects on Delinquency and Its Correlates
• Second Place – Jody Miller, An Examination of Disposition Decision Making for Delinquent Girls
  Third Place – Denise C. Herz, The Differential Effects of Informal and Formal Social Controls on the Processing of Status Offenders
• Third Place – Kelly R. Damphousse, Relationships Between Adolescent Drug Use and Psychological Distress: An Examination of the Self-Medication Hypothesis

1995:

• First Place – Timothy Brezina, Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping Responses
• Second Place – Calvin Johnson, What Role Does Economic Deprivation Play? A Community Area Analysis of Homicide, 1970 and 1980
• Third Place – Karen Gelb, Social Control and Social Learning Theories: An Application of Two Theories to the Prediction of Drug Use
• Third Place – David May, Fear and Loathing and Social Control: A Critical Test of Explanations for Delinquency

1996:

• First Place – Garth Davies, The Structural Covariates of Homicide
• Second Place – Nia Celestin, The Impact of Community Context on Predictors of Adolescent Drug Use
• Third Place – Theodore R. Curry, Conservative Protestantism and the Perceived Moral Wrongfulness of Crimes
• Third Place – Shawn D. Bushway, Labor-Market Effects of Permitting Employer Access to Criminal History Records

1997:

• First Place – Pauline Brennan, Estimating the Likelihood of Receiving a Jail Sentence Among Women: An Analysis of Direct, Indirect, and Interaction Effects of Race/Ethnicity
• Second Place – Stelios Stylianou, A Specific Test of a General Theory of Crime: Exploring Relationships Between Elements and Manifestations of Low Self Control
• Third Place – George Tita, Where Violent Gangs Hang Out: An Examination of “Set Space”
• Third Place – Ross MacMillan, Violence in the Life Course: Assessing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Adolescent Victimization

1998:

• First Place – Charis Kubrin, Racial Heterogeneity and Crime
• Second Place – Laurie Schaffner, Female Juvenile Delinquency: Sexual Solutions, Gender Wars and Juvenile Justice
• Third Place – Carey Herbert, The Implications of Self-Control Theory for Workplace Offending

1999:

• First Place – Dan Cork, Examining Space-Time Interaction in City-Level Homicide Data: Crack Markets and the Diffusion of Guns Among Youth
• Second Place – Chris Schreck, Criminal Victimization and Low Self-Control: An Extension and Test of a General Theory of Crime
• Third Place – Douglas Wiebe, Toward a New Framework for Assessing the Distance Between Actual Crime and Tertiary Crime Data

2000:

• First Place – Myrna Dawson & Ronit Dinovitzer, The Decision to Prosecute in Cases of Domestic Violence:  Assessing the Role of Victim Cooperation
• Second Place – Christine E.W. Bond, Does Gener Still Matter?: Quantitative and Narrative Analyses of Gender Differences in Criminal Involvement and Pre-trial Release
• Third Place – Jeremy Wilson, Introducing Legalized Gambling to Indiana Communities:  An Impact Assessment of the Effects on Crime
• Third Place – Ick-Joong Chung, Childhood Predictors of Offense Trajectories

2001:

• First Place – Amy L. Anderson, Individual and Contextual Influences on Delinquency:  The Role of the Single Parent Family
• Second Place – Thomas D. Stucky, City Institutional Politics, Social Disorganization and Crime for 694 U.S. Cities in 1991
• Third Place – Ryan King, Do Peers Matter More When Family Matters Less?:  The Dynamics of Family Attachment, Peer Association and Delinquency

2002:

• First Place – Aaron Kupchik, Legal Rationality and Jurisdictional Transfer: Comparing Sentencing of Adolescents in Juvenile and Criminal Courts
• Second Place – Brent Teasdale, Neighborhood Disadvantage, Self-Control, and Socialization:  A Test of a Multi-Theoretical Model
• Third Place – Lynn Addington, The Columbine Effect:  The Impact of Violent School Crime on Students’ Fear of Victimization

2003:

• First Place – Megan Kurlychek & Brian Johnson, The Juvenile Penalty:  A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sentencing Outcomes in Criminal Court
• Second Place – Elizabeth Griffiths, Communities, Guns and Lethal Violence:  Chicago Homicide Trends Across Space and Time, 1980-1995
• Third Place – Ryan Spohn, The Anomie Tradition and Delinquent Friends:  Under What Conditions Does Strain Produce Deviant Adaptations?

2004:

• First Place – Derek A. Kreager, Strangers in the Halls:  Isolation and Delinquency in School Networks
• Second Place – Michael Massoglia, Desistance or Displacement?  The Changing Patterns of Offending From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
• Third Place – Gary Sweeten, Who Will Graduate?  Disruption of High School Education by Arrest and Court Involvement

2005:

• First Place – David S. Kirk, The Neighborhood Context of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Arrest
• Second Place – Callie Harbin Burt, A Longitudinal Test of Low-Self Control Theory with an African-American Sample
• Third Place – Benjamin Steiner, Assessing Static and Dynamic Influences on Inmate Misconduct Levels Over Time

2006:

• First Place – Katherine A. Johnson, Predicting the Acquisition of Self-Control Over Time: Stability and Change
• Second Place – Sonja Siennick, The Timing and Mechanisms of the Offending-Depression Link
• Third Place – Stacey J. Bosick, Investigating Unorthodox Declines in Self-Reported Criminality

2007:

• First Place – Jonathan R. Brauer, Testing Social Learning Theory Using Reinforcements Residue: A Multi-level Longitudinal Analysis of Self-Reported Theft in the NYS
• Second Place – George Kikuchi, A Longitudinal Analysis of Crime in Neighborhoods: A Social Disorganization Perspective
• Third Place – Mike Vuolo, Extracting the Underlying Signal of the UCR and NCVS: Estimating the Violent Crime Trend Using State-Space Models

2008:

• First Place – Jacob T.N. Young, Impulsivity and Peer Friendships:  A Social Network Analysis of Self-Control Theory
• Second Place – Meredith G.F. Worthen, Too Thin or Too Fat?  The Effects of Body Dissatisfaction on Involvement in Delinquency
• Third Place – Kristin Williams, Social Disorganization Theory:  The Definition of Neighborhoods, (in)Determnancy, and External Crime

2009:

• First Place – Mark Bodkin, Beyond Human and Social Capital Punishment: The Stigma of Incarceration, Race, and Their Effects on Earning Through the Life Course
• Second Place – Padraic Burns, Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Anger: Implications for Community-Level Theories of Crime and Delinquency
• Third Place – Emily Tanner-Smith, Puberty Development and Adolescent Girls Substance Use: Race, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Context of Vulnerability

2010:

• First Place – Amy Nivette, Cross-National Predictors of Homicide: A Meta Analysis
• Second Place – Casey T. Harris & Michael T. Light, Race, Space, and Violence: Exploring Spatial Dependence in Structural Covariates of White and Black Violent Crime in U.S. Counties
• Third Place – Matt Vogel & Michael S. Barton, Impulsivity, School Context and Adolescent Behavior: Is the Association between Impulsivity and Misconduct Moderated by School Characteristics?

2011:

• First Place – Lauren Porter & Matt Vogel, Residential Mobility and Delinquent Peers Revisited: Causation or Selection
• Second Place – Kelly M. Thames, Examination of the Effects of Social Support on Homicide Across European Regions Over Time
• Third Place – Syndee Knight, Trading Spaces: Drug Markets, Homicide, and Economic Context across U.S. Counties
• Third Place – Dena C. Carson, Examining the Effect of Peers on Changes in Delinquent Attitudes: A Longitudinal Study

2012:

• First Place – Man-Kit Lei, The Effect of Concentrated Disadvantage, Social Ties and Genetic Variation on the Anti-Social Behavior of African American Women
• Second Place – Naomi F. Sugie, Chilling Effects:  Diminished Political Participation Among Partners of Ex-Felons
• Third Place – Noah Painter-Davis, Structural Disadvantage and American Indian Homicide and Robbery Offending
• Third Place – Sarah Brayne, Surveillance and System Avoidance: Criminal Justice Contact and Institutional Attachment

2013:

• First Place – Daniel Ragan, Revisiting ‘What They Think’: Adolescent Drinking and the Importance of Peer Beliefs
• Second Place – Chris Smith, Multiplexity and Organized Crime in Early 1900s Chicago:  Criminal, Legitimate, and Personal Relations
• Third Place – James Wo, Community Context of Crime: A Longitudinal Examination of the Effects of Local Institutions on Neighborhood

2014:

• First Place – Marin Wenger, Clarifying the Relationship between Racial Diversity and Crime: Neighborhoods versus Cities
• Second Place – Adam Boessen, The Spatial Footprint and Daily Crime Patterns: Situating Guardianship in 23 Cities
• Third Place – Anthony Roberts & Erin Wolbeck, Revisiting Deprivation and Homicide: A Cross-National Analysis of Age- and Gender-Specific Victimization

2015:

• First Place – Shi Yan, An Alternative Approach to Studying Alternative Sanctions
• Second Place – Megan Collins, Does Context Matter?  Assessing the Relative Efficacy of Two Methods of Geographically Forecasting Burglary
• Third Place – Nathan W. Link & Leah K. Hamilton, The Reciprocal Lagged Effects of Substance Use and Crime after Prison

2016:

• First Place – Eric Fowler, Drawing the Line: Empirical Recidivism Results from a Natural Experiment Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
• Second Place – Dean Weld & Sean Patrick Roche, A Matter of Time: A Partial Test of Institutional Anomie Theory using Cross-National Time Use Data
• Third Place – Megan Denver, Evaluating the Impact of “Old” Criminal Conviction Decision Guidelines on Subsequent Employment and Arrest Outcomes

2017:

• First Place – Wade Jacobsen, Suspected Networks:  School Punishment and the Mechanisms of Interpersonal Exclusion
• Second Place – Paul Taylor, Dispatch Priming and the Police Decision to Use Deadly Force
• Third Place – Rachel Ellis, “You’re Not Serving Time, You’re Serving Christ”: Neoliberal Religious Culture in Service of Mass Incarceration

2018:

• First Place – Kristina Thompson Garrity, Rural Islands or Not? Exploring Rural-Urban Interdependency, Labor Markets, and Violence
• Second Place – Jihoon Kim & Yeungjeom Lee, Revisiting the Overlap between Delinquency and Peer Delinquency through a Life-Course Perspective
• Third Place – Eileen M. Kirk, Punitive Disadvantage: Prison Cycling as a Dimension of Concentrated Disadvantage

2019:

• First Place – Kevin Dahaghi, Raising the Stakes on Punishment: Institutional Entanglement, Statutory Ambiguity, and the Development of Monetary Sanctions in Texas
• Second Place – Takuma Kamada, The Emergence of Crack Cocaine, the Nature of Violence, and Enduring Effects on Suburbanization
• Third Place – Claire Greene, Neighborhood Violence & Disadvantage: The Role of the Black Middleclass Revisited

2020:

• First Place – Narae Lee & Christopher Contreras, Neighborhood Walkability and Crime: Does the Relationship Vary by Crime Type?
• Second Place – Juwan Bennett, A Multiple Group Cross-Lagged Analysis of Perceived Legitimacy, Perceived Opportunities, and Compliance with the Law
• Third Place – Samantha Simon, The Police Force: Gender, Race, and Use-of-Force Training