Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award Recipients
The Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award (established in 1992) is given annually for a book, published within three (3) calendar years preceding the year in which the award is made, that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.
1991:
- John Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration
1992:
- Meda Chesney-Lind & Randall G. Shelden, Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
1993:
- Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
1994:
- Robert J. Sampson & John H. Laub, Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life
1995:
- Kathleen Daly, Gender, Crime and Punishment
1996: no award given
1997:
- Charles R. Tittle, Control Balance: Toward A General Theory of Deviance
1998:
- Bill McCarthy & John Hagan, Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
1999:
- Martha K. Huggins, Political Policing: The United States and Latin America
2000:
- Ian Taylor, Crime in Context: A Critical Criminology of Market Society
2001:
- Shadd Maruna, Making Good: How Ex-convicts Reform and Rebuild their Lives
2002:
- Barry Feld, Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
2003:
- Terence Thornberry, Marvin Krohn, Alan Lizotte, Carolyn Smith, & Kimberly Tobin, Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective
2004:
- John Laub & Robert Sampson, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives:
Delinquent Boys to Age 70
2005:
- Mark Warr, Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct
2006:
- Darrell Steffensmeier & Jeffery Ulmer, Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprises
2007:
- Aaron Kupchik, Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts
2008:
- Bruce Western, Punishment & Inequality in America
2009:
- John Hagan & Wenona Wymond-Richmond, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
2010:
- Jonathan Simon, Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear
2011:
- Randolph Roth, American Homicide
2012:
- David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
2013:
- Geoff Ward, The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and American Juvenile Justice
2014:
- Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
2015:
- Simon Singer, America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia
2016:
- Jamie Fader, Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
2017:
- Mona Lynch, Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Courts
2018:
- Marie Gottschalk, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
2019:
- Forrest Stuart, Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
2020:
- Nikki Jones, The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
2021:
Sarah E. Lageson, Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice
Sarah Lageson is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research examines issues of technology, stigma, privacy, and criminal records, particularly the growth of online criminal records that create new forms of “digital punishment.” Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the LA Times, CNN, and National Public Radio. Sarah is also a 2020-2021 American Bar Foundation/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholar and is a grant recipient of the National Institute of Justice New Investigator/Early Career Award. Her writing and commentary have appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, Vice, The Appeal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Conversation. Sarah’s research has been published in peer reviewed journals including Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Punishment & Society, The British Journal of Criminology and the Annual Review of Criminology. Her book, Digital Punishment, was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
