ASC General Society Awards

Award & Nomination Details

The Herbert Bloch Award (established in 1961) is given to recognize outstanding service contributions to the American Society of Criminology and to the professional interests of criminology. Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Bloch Award Committee Chair in electronic format.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate. All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Elsa Chen, Santa Clara University

The Gene Carte Student Paper Award (established in 1971) (Sponsored by Wiley Publishing Co.) is given to recognize outstanding scholarly work of students. Any student currently enrolled on a full-time basis in an academic program at either the undergraduate or graduate level is invited to participate in the Carte Student Paper competition. Those enrolled in Post-Doc programs are ineligible.

Prior Carte Award first place winners are ineligible for any future Carte student paper competitions. Previous prize-winning papers (any prize from any organization and or institution) are ineligible. Dual submissions of the same paper for the Carte Award and any other ASC award in the same year (including division awards) are disallowed. Papers can be submitted to only one ASC student competition in the same year. Students may submit only one paper a year for consideration. This includes co-authored works. Multiple authored papers are admissible for Carte Award consideration, as long as all authors are students in good standing at the time of the submission. Papers that have been accepted for publication at the time of submission for the Carte Award are ineligible.

Papers may be conceptual and/or empirical but must be directly related to criminology. Papers may be no longer than 8,000 words (excluding tables and references). The Criminology format for the organization of text, citations and references should be used. Authors’ names and departments should appear only on the title page. The next page of the manuscript should include the title and a 100-word abstract. The authors also need to submit a copy of the manuscript, as well as a letter verifying their enrollment status as full-time students, co-signed by the dean, department chair or program director, all in electronic format.

Those who submit papers for the Carte award must sign a statement that verifies that they are the authors of the said piece (ie., the piece is not plagiarized). The students’ academic advisor will also submit a signed statement that to the best of their knowledge, the paper has been authored by the said student and is not plagiarized. If the Carte Committee feels the paper was plagiarized, the Committee Chair may contact the said student’s advisor(s) and indicate that the Carte Committee feels that the paper may have been plagiarized.

The Carte Award Committee will rate entries according to criteria such as the quality of the conceptualization, significance of the topic, clarity and aptness of methods, quality of the writing, command of relevant work in the field, and contribution to criminology. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place papers will be awarded prizes of $1000, $600, and $400, respectively and will be eligible for presentation at the upcoming Annual Meeting. The 1st prize winner will also receive a travel award of up to $1000 to help defray costs for attending the Annual Meeting. The Executive Board may decide not to give the awards, or to give fewer than three awards, in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the quality of the manuscripts and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular manuscript. All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for submission is April 15.

Committee Chair: Daniel Martinez, The University of Arizona

The Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award (established in 1997) is given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by someone who has received a Ph.D., MD, LL.D. or a similar graduate degree no more than five (5) years before the selection for the award (for this year the degree must have been award no earlier than May 2021), unless exceptional circumstances necessitated a hiatus in their scholarly activities. Eligibility extensions for major career interruptions include but are not limited to giving birth (one year per child, up to two years total), adoption, illness as well as having care responsibilities, which cause a hiatus or significant impediment to scholarly activities. Nomination letters should concisely explain the circumstances justifying the extensions. If the candidate has multiple graduate degrees, the last five-year period is from the date when the last degree was received. The award may be for a single work or a series of contributions, and may include co-authored works. Those interested in being considered or in nominating someone for the Cavan Award should send: (a) a letter evaluating a nominee’s contributions to the discipline of criminology; (b) when relevant, include an explanation/justification for “major career interruptions;” (c) applicant’s/nominee’s curriculum vitae; and (d) no more than 3 published works, which may include a combination of articles and one book. Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate. All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format, except for book submissions. A hard copy of any book submission should be mailed to the Committee Chair. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Lyndsay Boggess, University of South Florida

The W.E.B. Du Bois Research Award (established in 2023) is given to recognize transformative scholarship that engages criminology, criminal justice and race/ethnicity. The scholarship may be based on research that investigates in the intellectual tradition of Du Bois, such as an examination of race/ethnicity-related issues through methodology, theory development/critique, historical analysis, and/or ethnographic scholarship. The award, which may be given to an individual or collaborators, may be based on a single book, a single article, a thread of related research, or the body of work of a senior scholar.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate. Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara

The ASC Fellows Committee invites nominations for Fellows in the Society. This designation is given to recognize scholarly contributions to criminology and distinction in the discipline. Longevity alone is not sufficient. Examples of contributions may include innovations in public policy as well as enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion within the Society and the field of criminology. In addition, a Fellow must have made a significant contribution to the field through the career development of other criminologists and/or through organizational activities within the American Society of Criminology. Nominees must be members in good standing of the Society. The Board may designate up to five (5) persons as Fellows annually.

Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Fellows Committee Chair in electronic format. Please limit nominations to a single cover letter and the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Members of the ASC Board may not be designated as Fellows during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to designate any Fellows, or to designate fewer than five (5) Fellows, in any given year. Fellow designation is based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.
All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Nancy Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin

The Graduate Student Poster Award is given to recognize outstanding scholarly work of students. Any student currently enrolled on a full-time basis in an academic program at the graduate level is invited to participate in the Graduate Student Poster competition. Those enrolled in Post-Doc programs are ineligible. Multiple authored posters are admissible for consideration, as long as all authors are full-time graduate students.

The Graduate Student Poster Award Committee will judge submissions primarily on scientific merit and secondarily on visual appeal. Submissions should be as complete as possible, with a question, method, data, and (preliminary) results and implications. Awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be given. The first prize winner shall receive an award of $1000. The second prize winner shall receive an award of $600. The third prize winner shall receive an award of $400. The award recipients may request an Annual Meeting fee waiver from the Society President.

The Executive Board may decide not to give the awards, or to give fewer than three awards, in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the quality of the posters and not on the number of endorsements received for any particular poster.

Graduate students who wish to enter this competition should adhere to the directions and deadline for presenting a poster at the Annual Meeting. In addition, such participants must self-declare their request for award consideration at the time of submission by marking the appropriate box on this poster submission form. Participants must also send a brief (2-3 minute) YouTube video presentation of their poster to the Graduate Student Poster Award Committee Chair by June 24, 2026.

Committee Chair: Heath Grant, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

The Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award (established in 1992) is given for a book, originally published within three (3) calendar years preceding the year in which the award is made, that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in the field of criminology. For this year, the book must have been published in 2023, 2024, or 2025. To be considered, books must be nominated by individuals who are members of the American Society of Criminology. The Committee will not consider anthologies and/or edited volumes. To nominate a book, please submit the title of the book, its authors, the publisher, the year of the publication, and a brief discussion of your reasons for the recommendation to the Hindelang Award Committee Chair in electronic format.

Current members of the Executive Board shall be ineligible to receive any awards of the Society, including selection as a Fellow, during their term in office. However, if a current Board member is nominated for either the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award or Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award, their nomination shall be considered during the first year following their service on the Board. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the quality of the books and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular book.

All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is February 15.

Committee Chair: Karen Parker, University of Delaware

The Mentor Award (established in 2014) is given to recognize excellence in mentorship in the discipline of criminology. Nominations of individuals at all stages of their academic careers are encouraged.

Any nonstudent member of the ASC is an eligible candidate for the ASC Mentor Award, including persons who hold a full or part time position in criminology, practitioners and researchers in nonacademic settings. The award is not limited to those who participate in the ASC mentoring program.

Nonstudent members may be nominated by colleagues, peers, or students but self-nominations are not allowed. A detailed letter of nomination should contain concrete examples and evidence of how the nominee has sustained a record of enriching the professional lives of others, and be submitted to the Mentor Award Committee Chair in electronic format.

The mentorship portfolio should include:

  1. Table of contents,
  2. Curriculum Vita, and
  3. Detailed evidence of mentorship accomplishments, which may include:• academic publications
    • professional development
    • teaching
    • career guidance
    • research and professional networks, and
    • other evidence of mentoring achievements.

The letter should specify the ways the nominee has gone beyond their role as a professor, researcher or collaborator to ensure successful enculturation into the discipline of criminology, providing intellectual professional development outside of the classroom, and otherwise exemplary support for criminology/criminal justice undergraduates, graduates and post-graduates.

Letters of nomination (including statements in support of the nomination), the nominee’s portfolio, and all other supporting materials should be submitted to the Mentor Award Committee Chair in electronic format.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.

All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. Deadline for submission is June 1.

Committee Chair: Bianca Bersani, University of Maryland

The Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award (established in 2006) is given for the peer-reviewed article published in the previous calendar year that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in the field of criminology. The current Committee will consider articles published during the 2024 calendar year. The Committee automatically considers all articles published in Criminology and in Criminology & Public Policy, and will consider articles of interest published in other journals. We are also soliciting nominations for this award. To nominate articles, please send full citation information for the article and a brief discussion of your reasons for the recommendation to the Petersilia Award Committee Chair in electronic format.

Current members of the Executive Board shall be ineligible to receive any awards of the Society, including selection as a Fellow, during their term in office. However, if a current Board member is nominated for either the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award or Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award, their nomination shall be considered during the first year following their service on the Board. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the quality of the manuscripts and not on the number of endorsements received for any particular manuscript.

All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is February 15.

Committee Chair: Jodi Lane, University of Florida

The Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity fellowships are given to encourage students of color, especially those from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the field, to enter the field of criminology/criminal justice, and to facilitate the completion of their degrees.

Applicants are to be from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the field, including but not limited to, Asians, Blacks, Indigenous peoples, and Latinas/os. Applicants need not be members of the American Society of Criminology. Individuals studying criminology or criminal justice issues are encouraged to apply. The recipients of the fellowships must be accepted into a program of doctoral studies in the general area of criminology or criminal justice. Individuals may reapply for the award if they have not received it previously.

A complete application must contain (1) proof of admission to a criminal justice, criminology, or related program of doctoral studies; (2) up-to-date curriculum vita; (3) personal statement describing the applicant’s race/ethnicity and its importance in the applicant’s scholarship and/or career plans; (4) copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts; (5) statement of need and prospects for financial assistance for graduate study; (6) a letter clearly articulating career plans, salient experiences, and motivations within criminology and criminal justice that fit in line with the Fellowship’s purpose; and (7) three letters of reference. All application materials should be submitted to the Peterson Fellowship Committee Chair in electronic format as a single pdf attachment.

Up to five (5), $8,000 fellowships can be awarded annually. The Executive Board may decide not to award the fellowships, or to give fewer than five (5) fellowships, in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.

All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is February 1.

Committee Chair: Deena Isom, University of South Carolina

Current Year List of Donors

The Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award (established in 1974) is given to recognize criminological scholarship that considers problems of crime and justice as they are manifested outside the United States, internationally or comparatively. Preference is given to scholarship that analyzes non-U.S. data, is predominantly outside of U.S. criminological journals, and, in receiving the award, brings new perspectives or approaches to the attention of the members of the Society. The recipient need not speak English. However, their work must be available in part, at least, in the English language (either by original publication or through translation).

Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Sellin-Glueck Committee Chair in electronic format. Please limit nominations to a single cover letter and the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.

All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Bitna Kim, Sam Houston State University

The Edwin H. Sutherland Award (established in 1960) is given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law or justice. The distinguished contribution may be based on a single outstanding book or work, on a series of theoretical or research contributions, or on the accumulated contributions by a senior scholar.

Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Sutherland Award Committee Chair in electronic format. Please limit nominations to a single cover letter and the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.
All nomination materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Karen Heimer, University of Iowa

The Teaching Award (established in 2008) is given to recognize excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching over the span of an academic career. This award identifies and rewards teaching excellence that has been demonstrated by individuals either (a) at one educational institution where the nominee is recognized and celebrated as a master teacher of criminology/criminal justice; or, (b) at a regional or national level as a result of that individual’s sustained efforts to advance criminological/criminal justice education.

Any faculty member who holds a full-or part-time position teaching criminology or criminal justice is eligible for the award, inclusive of graduate and undergraduate universities as well as two- and four-year colleges. In addition, faculty members who have retired are eligible within the first two years of retirement.

Faculty may be nominated by colleagues, peers, or students; or they may self-nominate, by writing a letter of nomination to the Teaching Award Committee Chair in electronic format. Letters of nomination should include a statement in support of the nomination of not more than three pages. The nominee and/or the nominator may write the statement.

Nominees will be contacted by the Chair of the Teaching Award Committee and asked to submit a teaching portfolio of supporting materials.

The teaching portfolios should include:

  1. Table of contents,
  2. Curriculum Vita, and
  3. Detailed evidence of teaching accomplishments, which may include:
    • student evaluations, which may be qualitative or quantitative, from recent years or over the course of the nominee’s career;
    • peer reviews of teaching;
    • nominee statements of teaching philosophy and practices;
    • evidence of mentoring;
    • evidence of research on teaching (papers presented on teaching, articles published on teaching, teaching journals edited, etc.);
    • selected syllabi;
    • letters of nomination/reference; and
    • other evidence of teaching achievements.

The materials in the portfolio should include brief, descriptive narratives designed to provide the Teaching Award Committee with the proper context to evaluate the materials. Student evaluations, for example, should be introduced by a very brief description of the methods used to collect the evaluation data and, if appropriate, the scales used and available norms to assist with interpretation. Other materials in the portfolio should include similar brief descriptions to assist the Committee with evaluating the significance of the materials.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.

Letters of nomination should be submitted to the Teaching Award Committee Chair in electronic format and must be received by April 1. The nominee’s portfolio and all other supporting materials should also be submitted to the Teaching Award Committee Chair in electronic format and must be received by June 1.

Committee Chair: Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz, Framingham State University

The August Vollmer Award (established in 1959) is given to recognize an individual whose scholarship and professional activities have made outstanding contributions to justice and/or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior.

Nominators should send a letter evaluating the nominee’s contributions relevant to this award, and a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae to the Vollmer Award Committee Chair in electronic format. Please limit nominations to a single cover letter and the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year. Award decisions will be based on the strength of the nominees’ qualifications and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular candidate.
All materials should be submitted to the Committee Chair in electronic format. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

Committee Chair: Andrea Leverentz, NC State University

Award Recipients

The Herbert Bloch Award recognizes outstanding service contributions to the American Society of Criminology and to the professional interests of criminology.

1961: no award given

1962: Andrew Marinak

1963: no award given

1964: no award given

1965: no award given

1966: Charles Newman

1967: Donal E. J. MacNamara

1968: no award given

1969: no award given

1970: no award given

1971: no award given

1972: Freda Adler

1973: C. Ray Jeffery

1974: no award given

1975: Albert Morris

1976: no award given

1977: Harry E. Allen

1978: Barbara R. Price

1979: William E. Amos & Edward Sagarin

1980: Alvin W. Cohn

1981: no award given

1982: James Inciardi

1983: Joseph E. Scott

1984: no award given

1985: Marc Riedel

1986: J. Robert Lilly

1987: Chris W. Eskridge

1988: Sarah Hall

1989: Phyllis Jo Baunach

1990: Charles F. Wellford

1991: Joan McCord

1992: Julius Debro

1993: Hugh D. Barlow

1994: C. Ronald Huff

1995: Ruth D. Peterson

1996: Meda Chesney-Lind

1997: Marjorie Zatz

1998: James Hackler

1999: Sally Simpson

2000: Kenneth Adams

2001: Lynne Goodstein

2002: Candace S. McCoy

2003: no award given

2004: Doris MacKenzie

2005: Bob Bursik

2006: Rosemary Barberet

2007: Todd Clear

2008: Bonnie Berry

2009: Alfred Blumstein

2010: James F. Short, Jr.

2011: Henry Pontell

2012: Julie Horney

2013: Margaret Zahn

2014: Becky Block

2015: John H. Laub & James Lynch

2016: Francis T. Cullen

2017: Robert Crutchfield & Nancy LaVigne

2018: David P. Farrington

2019: Amanda Burgess-Proctor

2020: Natasha Frost

2021: Laurie Robinson, George Mason University

Laurie Robinson is George Mason University’s Clarence J. Robinson Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society. She joined GMU in 2012 after more than three decades working on national criminal justice policy. In 2014, in the aftermath of Ferguson, President Obama named her to co-chair the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing, charged with developing recommendations on building trust between law enforcement and communities. In 2014-16, she served on the Congressionally created Colson Task Force on federal prison crowding. She currently sits on the NYC Commission on closing Rikers Island, and chairs the Board of the Council on Criminal Justice, a national think tank advancing data-driven criminal justice policy choices.

Robinson twice served as a Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General heading the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, DOJ’s research, statistics and criminal justice assistance agency. Her three years of service in the Obama Administration, coupled with seven years under President Clinton, make her the longest serving head of that agency in its 50 years.

Between her stints in government, Robinson was the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Criminology MS Program. During her first DOJ tenure in the ‘90s, she oversaw a $4 billion dollar budget and the largest increase in federal spending on crime-related research in the nation’s history, as well as spearheading major federal initiatives on violence against women and drug treatment courts. She has served on numerous national boards including the National Academies of Science Committee on Law and Justice.

2022: Jody Miller, Rutgers University

Jody Miller (she, her, hers) is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Her research utilizes qualitative methods to investigate how inequalities of gender, race, sexuality and place shape participation in crime and risks for victimization, with concentrations in the United States and South Asia. Miller is Co-Director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) and Co-Editor of Criminology. She is a Fellow of the ASC, has served as ASC Vice President, and has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 ASC Mentor Award.



2023: Cynthia Lum, George Mason University

Dr. Cynthia Lum is University Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and Director of GMU’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. She was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2021. She is a leading authority on evidence-based policing, an approach that advocates that research, evaluation, and scientific processes should have “a seat at the table” in law enforcement policymaking and practice. She has studied and written extensively about patrol operations and police crime prevention activities, police technology, investigations and detective work, and evidence-based crime policy. Additionally, she has developed numerous tools and strategies to translate and institutionalize research into everyday law enforcement operations. For her efforts, she received the Virginia State Council for Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award, the commonwealth’s highest faculty honor and was the inaugural recipient of GMU’s Presidential Medal for Social Impact. Dr. Lum is an appointed member of the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Law and Justice, an appointed trustee to the Council on Criminal Justice, and a board director for the National Policing Institute. Dr. Lum has served numerous elected and appointed positions within the American Society of Criminology and is Co-Editor in Chief of Criminology & Public Policy, the society’s flagship policy journal. She is the founding editor of Translational Criminology Magazine. Professor Lum is a former police officer and detective.

2024: Charis E. Kubrin, University of California, Irvine

Charis E. Kubrin is Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is a member of the Council on Criminal Justice, the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice- Network, the Diversity Scholars Network, and the Scholars Strategy Network. She is an expert for the Crime and Justice Research Alliance. Dr. Kubrin’s policy-relevant research examines the immigration-crime nexus and considers the impact of immigration-related policy on immigrants, immigrant families and immigrant communities as well as assesses the impact of criminal justice reform on crime rates. Another line of research examines the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials against young men of color. Dr. Kubrin has received several national awards including the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology (for outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology); the Coramae Richey Mann Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime, the American Society of Criminology (for outstanding contributions of scholarship on race/ethnicity, crime and justice); the W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Western Society of Criminology (for significant contributions to racial and ethnic issues in the field of criminology); and, the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology (for outstanding contributions to the field of criminology). In 2019, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Kubrin has served numerous elected and appointed positions within the American Society of Criminology, including as former Co-Editor of Criminology, as member of the Executive Board, and as Program Co-Chair for the 2024 annual meeting.

2025: No award given

2026: William Alex Pridemore, University of Georgia

William Pridemore is Marienthal Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Georgia. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Pridemore played a central role in the creation and was a founding Editorial Board member of Annual Review of Criminology. For 16 years he was ASC’s liaison to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is currently Secretary of AAAS’s Section for Social, Economic, and Political Sciences. With Dr. Karen Parker he revived US News & World Report’s ranking of Criminology PhD programs. He created and was the Founding Director of Indiana University’s Workshop in Methods. Dr. Pridemore served as Dean of the UAlbany School of Criminal Justice School (2015-2020) and as Department Head of the UGA Department of Sociology (2023-2026).

Dr. Pridemore’s main research interests include the impact of social structure and culture on homicide and suicide rates, the role of alcohol in violence and mortality rates, and the influence of long-term societal development on the evolution of violence morphology. Other research interests include measurement and method, population health, policy effects on population-level violence and health, and rural criminology and sociology. His award-winning interdisciplinary research has been published in leading journals in criminology, sociology, substance use, and public health and epidemiology. He has a forthcoming book, The Criminologic Transition Model: On the Evolution of the Nature of Crime and Violence, with Cambridge University Press.

The Gene Carte Student Paper Award is given to recognize outstanding scholarly work of students.

The Gene Carte Student Paper Award was formally created in 1981, but student paper awards were given on a sporadic basis prior to that time. This list has been compiled using documents in the ASC archive. Unfortunately our archives are not complete and consequently this list cannot be considered definitive. Please report any errors or omissions to the ASC offices (kvance@asc41.org).

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

2021:

  • First Place – Sadé Lindsay, The Prison Credential Dilemma: How Racial Discrimination and Contradictory Signals Shape Post-Prison Employment
  • Second Place – Christopher Seto, Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian, and Non-religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom
  • Third Place – Brad O’Guinn, Organizational Training and Accountability: A Remedy or an Impediment for Reducing Unarmed Police Shootings?

2022:

  • First Place – David Mitre-Becerril, Do Place-based Capital Investment Policies Influence Public Safety?
  • Second Place – Said A. J. Hassan, Intergenerational Consequences of Incarceration
  • Third Place – Stephen N. Oliphant, Estimating the General Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty Statutes Using the Synthetic Control Method

2023:

  • First Place – Garrett Baker, Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage
  • Second Place – Abby Ballou, Degrees of Difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?
  • Third Place – Chiara Clio Packard, Prosecution for Services: How Access to Services through the Criminal Legal System Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions

2024:

  • First Place – Taylor Domingos, Toronto’s Drug Policy Paradox: Harm Reduction Sites versus Drug Arrests in Toronto Neighborhoods (1992-2020)
  • Second Place – Avery Warner, Noncitizen Punishment: Regional and National Origin as Stratification Mechanisms
  • Third Place – Abby Ballou, Competitive To a Degree: Does Employer Educational Attainment Impact Assessments of College Credentials Earned in Prison?

2025:

  • First Place – Iolanthe Brooks, Shuffling within the System: The Pervasive Uncertainty of Prison Transfers
  • Second Place – Torri R. Sperry & Frank A. Donohue, Black Empowerment, Policy Comprehensiveness, and Civilians Killed by Police
  • Third Place – Guyu Sun, Contextualizing Stigma: How Cultural and Structural Contexts Influence Interpersonal Exclusion Following Criminal Justice Contact

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2026:

First Place – Sino Esthappan, Pretrial Risk Assessments and Unequal Flexibility in Criminal Court Advocacy

Sino Esthappan earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Hofstra University. His mixed-methods research uses a range of empirical cases, including criminal court risk assessment tools and college campus sexual violence policies, to examine how organizational reforms aimed at reducing unequal punishment outcomes can instead reproduce and entrench them. His scholarship is funded by the American Bar Foundation and National Science Foundation and published in sociology and criminology journals such as Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, and Criminal Justice Policy Review.

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Second Place – Maya Mortiz, A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: The Effect of Murals on Crime

Maya Moritz is a doctoral candidate in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Criminology. Her work focuses on place-based interventions including street lighting and murals. By utilizing novel data sources and technologies, she is exploring opportunities for mechanism testing to better understand and implement these environmental changes. She also leads grant- and award-funded projects to implement and evaluate a court-mandated community service marketplace and to experimentally assess juror and expert perceptions of forensic evidence. Her work has been published in Criminology and Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, and Cities. She is a DAAD-funded Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute, an embedded researcher at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, a Junior Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, a Doctoral Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, a recipient of the Kimchi Graduate Travel Award, and has won the Penn Grad Talks competition in the Social Sciences category. She completed her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of St. Andrews, where she wrote her thesis on the German dual vocational training system and studied abroad at the University of Toronto. For her M.Sc. in Economics at Universität Mannheim, she contributed to projects related to the impact of family size on educational attainment and the legacy of legal reform in Prussia. She has also served in research assistance and science communications roles at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, the St. Andrews School of Economics, and the Rotman School of Management.

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Third Place – Daniel Fredes García, Cascades of State Violence in Chile (1973-2020)

Daniel Fredes García is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, where he earned his M.A. He completed his B.A. in Sociology at the Universidad de Chile and later earned an M.A. in Social Survey Design and Analysis from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research interests include the causes and consequences of state violence, as well as crime, justice, and safety in the Global South. His doctoral research examines the Venezuelan diaspora across South America, focusing on state responses to this unprecedented immigration shock, public reactions to the diaspora, and whether and how it has shaped crime and safety.

The Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award is given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by someone who has received the Ph.D., MD, LL.D. or a similar graduate degree no more than five years before the year of the award.

1997: David A. Klinger

1998: Lisa A. Maher

1999: Richard A. Leo

2000: Christopher Uggen

2001: Jody Miller

2002: Alex R. Piquero & Eric Silver

2003: Eric Baumer

2004: Jeffrey D. Morenoff

2005: Charis Kubrin

2006: Travis Pratt

2007: Aaron Kupchik

2008: Brian D. Johnson

2009: Kevin Beaver

2010: John Hipp

2011: Derek Kreager

2012: Andrew Papachristos & Min Xie

2013: Christopher Wildeman

2014: Callie Burt

2015: Justin Pickett

2016: David C. Pyrooz

2017: Keramet Reiter

2018: Hollie Nyseth Brehm

2019: Jillian Turanovic

2020: Holly Nguyen

2021: Megan Denver, Northeastern University

2022: Matthew Clair, Stanford University

2023: Scott Duxbury, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2024: Emma E. Fridel, Florida State University

2025: Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Arizona State University

2026: Tony Cheng, Duke University

Tony Cheng is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University. His research examines how the legitimation of state power shapes inequality within communities. His work combines ethnographic, historical, experimental, and administrative data to connect the organizational logic of the state with the grounded experiences of community members to illuminate how state power, institutional trust, and social inequality intersect in practice. His book, The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, & the Illusion of Public Input (University of Chicago Press, 2024), analyzes how America’s largest police department, the NYPD, resists institutional reforms by cultivating political capital through the community constituencies they empower.

His work has been published in leading journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Science Advances, Sociological Science, Social Problems, and Law & Society Review, and has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and the National Science Foundation (CAREER Award). He is a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network and has received the American Society of Criminology’s Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award (2022) and the ASC Division of Communities & Place Bursik Junior Scholar Award (2023). He received his PhD in Sociology from Yale University in 2021 and his JD from New York University in 2018. He will be a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2026-2027.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Research Award (established in 2023) is given to recognize transformative scholarship that engages criminology, criminal justice and race/ethnicity.

2025: Ruth D. Peterson, Ohio State University

2026: Robert D. Crutchfield, University of Washington

Robert D. Crutchfield is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He’s studied inequality and crime and racial inequality in criminal justice. His research on inequality and crime, pulled together in Get A Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity and Crime, describes the relationship between the stratification of labor and individual crime and delinquency, and variations in urban crime rates. His criminal justice research addresses racial disparities in police contacts and disparities in criminal processing and incarceration. Before graduate school Bob was a juvenile probation officer, and an adult parole agent in Pennsylvania. These experiences motivated his study of the consequences of inequality and influenced both his research and teaching.

Bob was Vice President of the ASC, elected to the council of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and chair of the ASA Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance. He is a Fellow of the ASC, recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award, The ASC’s Division on People of Color and Crime’s Coramae Richey Mann and Lifetime Achievement Awards. He received the W.E.B. Du Bois and Fellows Awards from the Western Society of Criminology. Bob is a founding member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network. He chaired the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bob chaired his department and received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He served on the Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency Board, The Washington State Juvenile Sentencing Commission, and the Board of the Sentencing Project.

Those designated as Fellows are recognized for their scholarly contributions to criminology and distinction in the discipline.

The year these individuals were designated as Fellows is noted.  Unfortunately, our historical records are not complete. Some of the years noted are a “best guess,” based on available archived documents. If you have more accurate information, please contact the ASC Office.

ASC Fellows

The Graduate Student Poster Competition (established 2020) is given to recognize outstanding scientific merit and visual appeal of work by students.

2021:

First Place – Vitor Goncalves, Pre-trial detention as a source of cumulative racial disadvantage in a Brazilian city

Second Place – Qian He, The Geography of Crime and Neighborhood Characteristics: Roles of Built Environment and Social Disadvantage

Third Place – Jennifer Smith, The Impact of Monetary Penalties on Recidivism in PA Juvenile Courts

2022:

First Place – Byunggu Kang, Cohort Effects on Homicide in Korea

Second Place – Dosun Kim, The Effect of Police Legitimacy on Personal Information Disclosure Willingness

Second Place – Veyli Ortiz Solis, Hostile Encounters

Third Place – Alvi Ali, Educator Sexual Misconduct: An Examination of Sanction Disparities Among Texas Female and Male Educators

2023:

First Place – Nicholas Goldrosen, Misconduct Clusters Amongst Correctional Officers

Second Place – Julio Montanez, County Intimate Partner Polyvictimization: Using Biodiversity Measures to Analyze Non-Fatal Victimization in Florida

Third Place – Jessica Raskauskas, Criminalizing Queerness

2024:

First Place – Shujing Shi, Mapping the Structure and Dynamics of Organized Drug Trafficking Routes in China

Second Place – Carisma Jano & Jeffrey Peterson, The “Kia Boys” Trend and Auto Theft: An Empirical Study

Third Place – Dylan O’Donoghue, Precarity by Design: A Study of Tech Sector Lobbying on Issues Related to Migrant Labor

2025:

First Place – Oghenerhuru Daniel & Jill Reeves, Endangered Democracy: A Multi-Level Multinational Analysis of Institutional and Societal Trust on Political Participation

Second Place – Rachel Wallace, Reparations for Eugenics: Sterilization in California’s Jails and Prisons

Third Place – Noy Assaraf, Beyond Gender Lines: The Impact of Pre-Incarceration Parent-Child Attachment on the Delinquency of Prisoners’ Children

2026:

First Place – Haneen Alani, Designing Out Poverty: Architecture as Social Control in the Regulation of Urban Space

Haneen J. Alani is a doctoral candidate in Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven whose interdisciplinary background spans criminology, psychological counseling, clinical practice, and health sciences research. She has extensive experience coordinating multi-site research and evaluating programs and interventions within medical, behavioral health, and federal healthcare settings. Her work involves interdisciplinary collaboration across agencies and stakeholders to inform clinical practice, service delivery, and policy. Her research examines the intersection of environmental criminology, social control, homelessness, and the regulation of public space. Her dissertation investigates hostile seating in Manhattan using a mixed-methods design integrating longitudinal quasi-experimental, spatial, and public discourse analyses. The study evaluates whether design-based interventions intended to promote safety and order correspond with changes in public reporting and low-level enforcement. It also examines how these interventions are framed within broader debates about homelessness, disorder, and exclusion. Her dissertation research received first-place recognition at the University of New Haven Graduate Student Showcase. Alani also teaches criminal justice, criminology, and quantitative methods. Her pedagogical approach combines evidence-based instruction with case-based analysis and applied data exercises. For example, students examine contemporary criminal justice problems through real-world scenarios, interpret empirical findings, and evaluate their implications for policy and practice. She emphasizes methodological literacy and the application of criminological theory to contemporary issues. She was recently recognized with the Phenomenal Women Award through faculty and student nominations.

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Second Place – Paisley Smith and Safyia Hafiz, Carceral Feminism: Interplay between Welfare, Jails, and Gender

Paisley Smith is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University with a focus on social stratification, critical criminology, and spatial context. Paisley holds an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of North Texas where she published research on the association between substance use, stable housing, and mental health on outcomes in a specialty prostitution court in a large, urban Texas county. Continuing this research through her dissertation, Paisley utilizes a mixed-methods approach to researching the impact of spatial displacement through gentrification on outdoor illicit market types and operators. Other projects include the study of macro- and meso-level social correlates of incarceration, associations between the welfare and carceral states, and analyses of carceral jailing facilities within a rural context, furthering Paisley’s contribution to the field of carceral systems in the context of precarity.

Safiya Hafiz is a mixed-methods researcher studying justice by geography in the juvenile court in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. Using a sociological approach to explain the variance in juvenile court outcomes across counties, Safiya’s dissertation analyzes political contextual variables in previously unexplored ways through multilevel modeling. Coupled with semi-structured interviewing of juvenile court decision-makers like judges, prosecutors, and probation officers, Safiya explores how social values, political competition, and governance shape justice system outcomes. Safiya’s other projects include assessing the correlates of jail incarceration and exploring the sociology of housing, allowing Safiya to apply a strong methodological toolkit to the study of inequality with a focus on mass carceral practices.

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Third Place – Havana Mohr-Ramirez and June Postalakis, Legacies of Redlining: Historical HOLC Grades, Concentra

June Postalakis is a doctoral student in Sociology at the Ohio State University and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, holding a B.S. in Public Health from the Ohio State University. Her research explores spatial inequality, neighborhood social processes, and place-based effects on health. Her current work examines these questions in the context of residential segregation and gentrification using quantitative methods. June’s work has been published in PLOS Global Public Health.

Havana Mohr-Ramirez earned her B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and her M.A. in Sociology at the Ohio State University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Her work examines how communities, both online and offline, understand identity and how these understandings shape collective behavior. She has published research on ecologies of community resilience and radicalization to violence.

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

2022: Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

2023: Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

2024: Rachel Ellis, In This Place Called Prison

2025: Hadar Aviram & Chad Goerzen, Fester. Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

2026: Elizabeth Chiarello, Policing Patients: Treatment & Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

The Mentor Award is designed to recognize excellence in mentorship in the discipline of Criminology and Criminal Justice. (Establish in 1995 by the Mentoring Committee; Adopted as a society-wide award in 2014)

1995: Christine Sellers, University of South Florida

1996: no award given

1997: Pamela Irving Jackson, Rhode Island College

1998: Hal Pepinsky, Indiana University

1999: Jim Thomas, University of Northern Illinois

2000: Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina

2001: Jeffrey Walker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

2002: no award given

2003: no award given

2004: no award given

2005: Alex Piquero, University of Florida

2006: no award given

2007: no award given

2008: no award given

2009: no award given

2010: no award given

2011: Jon Shane, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

2012: no award given

2013: no award given

2014: Amy Farrell, Northeastern University

2015: Jody Miller, Rutgers University

2016: David Weisburd, George Mason University

2017: Merry Morash, Michigan State University

2018: Francis T. Cullen, University of Cincinnati

2019: Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine

2020: Bill McCarthy, Rutgers University

2021: Allison D. Redlich

2022: Andrew V. Papachristos

2023: Shawn Bushway

2024: Kristy Holtfreter

2025: Karen Heimer

2026: Alida V. Merlo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Alida V. Merlo is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she joined the faculty in 1995. Previously, she taught at Westfield State University in Massachusetts. Her recent co-authored publications can be found in the Justice Evaluation Journal, Journal of Family Violence, and Trauma, Violence & Abuse. She co-authored (with Peter J. Benekos) The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law, (Pearson), Reaffirming Juvenile Justice: From Gault to Montgomery (Routledge), and Crime Control, Politics & Policy, (LexisNexis/Anderson), co-edited (with Peter J. Benekos) Controversies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, (LexisNexis/Anderson), and co-edited (with Joycelyn M. Pollock) Women, Law, and Social Control, (Allyn & Bacon). Her primary research areas are in juvenile justice and criminal justice policy.  She is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  Prior to her career in academia, she was a Juvenile Probation Officer and Intake Supervisor in Youngstown, Ohio. She is grateful for the opportunity to interact with and learn from her current and former colleagues and students. They graciously share their knowledge and experiences and enrich her life. She applauds their contributions to the field and their kindness and generosity.

The Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award honors exceptional contributions made by scholars in article form. The award is given annually for the peer-reviewed article that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.

2008: Ross L. Matsueda, Derek A. Kreager, & David Huizinga, “Deterring delinquents: A rational choice model of theft and violence,”  American Sociological Review, 71(1): 95-122, 2006.

2009: Ted Chiricos, Kelle Barrick, William Bales & Stephanie Bontrager, “The labeling of convicted felons and its consequences for recidivism,” Criminology, 45 (3): 547-582, 2007.

2010: Bill McCarthy and Teresa Casey, “Love, sex, and crime: Adolescent romantic relationships and offending,” American Sociological Review, 73 (6): 944-969, 2008.

2011: William Spelman, “Crime, cash and limited options:  Explaining the prison boom,” Criminology & Public Policy, 8 (1): 29-77, 2009.

2012:

  • Darrell Steffensmeier, Jeffery Ulmer, Ben Feldmeyer & Casey Harris, “Scope and conceptual issues in testing the race-crime invariance thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic comparisons,” Criminology, 48 (4): 1133- 1169, 2010.
  • Harland Prechel and Theresa Morris, “The effects of organizational and political embeddedness on financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. corporations,” American Sociological Review, 75 (3): 331-354, 2010.

2013: Ronald L. Simons, Man Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Gene H. Brody, Robert A. Philibert, & Frederick X. Gibbons, “Social Environment, Genes, and Aggression: Evidence Supporting the Differential Susceptibility Perspective.” American Sociological Review, 76: 883-912, 2011.

2014: Chang Min Na & Raymond Paternoster, “Can Self Control Change Substantially Over Time?  Rethinking the Relationship Between Self- and Social Control.” Criminology, 50 (2): 427-462, 2012.

2015: Issa Kohler-Hausmann, “Misdemeanor Justice: Control without Conviction.” American Journal of Sociology, 119 (2): 351-393, 2013.

2016: Sarah Brayne, “Surveillance and System Avoidance: Criminal Justice Contact and Institutional Attachment.” American Sociological Review, 79(3):367-391, 2014.

2017: Michael Campbell, Matt Vogel, & Joshua Williams, “Historical Contingencies and the Evolving Importance of Race, Violent Crime, and Region in Explaining Mass Incarceration in the United States,” Criminology, 53: 180 – 203, 2015.

2018: Michael Walker, “Race Making in a Penal Institution,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol 121(4), pp. 1051-1078.

2019: Darrell Steffensmeier, Hua (Sara) Zhong & Yunmei Lu, “Age and its Relation to Crime in Taiwan and the United States: Invariant, or Does Cultural Context Matter.” Criminology, Vol 55 (2): 377-404, 2017.

2020: Brenden Beck & Adam Goldstein, “Governing through police? Housing market reliance, welfare retrenchment, and police budgeting in an era of declining crime.” Social Forces, (96)3: 1183-1210.

2021: Chris Herring, “Complaint-Oriented Policing:  Regulating Homelessness in Public Space,” American Sociological Review, 84(5): 769-800, 2019.

2022: Tony Cheng, “Input without Influence: The Silence and Scripts of Police and Community Relations,” Social Problems, 67:171-89

2023: Michelle S. Phelps, Christopher E. Robertson, & Amber Joy Powell, “We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform, American Journal of Sociology, 127(3), 867–903, 2022.

2024: Sadé Lindsay, “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: How Formerly Incarcerated Men Navigate the Labor Market with Prison Credentials.” Policing Reform

2025: Elizabeth Chiarello, Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice

2026: David Jonathan Knight, Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America

David J. Knight is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at Yale University, where he is also part of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. A political sociologist of the carceral state, David is interested in how social change occurs following political repression and dispossession. Specifically, he investigates how communities experience and mobilize in response to mass incarceration and holds an abiding interest in the study of law, social movements, public health, and the penal system. His research, which has been supported by multiple foundations and won discipline-wide awards, has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Criminology, and RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences among other venues. He directs the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab and Archival Project, a social science and human rights documentation project based across the Incite Institute and the Justice Collaboratory that uses archival and survey methods to explore the politically contested nature of the prison state. Currently a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, David received his PhD from the University of Chicago and lives in New York City.

The Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity is designed to encourage students of color, especially those from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the field, to enter the field of criminology and criminal justice, and to facilitate the completion of their degrees. (formerly known as GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES)

1989: Zina McGee, Tulane University

1990: Sandra Lee Browning, University of Cincinnati

1991: Tonya Y. Williams, University of Delaware

1992:

  • Recipient – Jacqueline F. Huey, Florida State University
  • Runner-Up – Clarice Bailey Weisbord, Portland State University
  • Runner-Up – Victor W. Bumphus, Michigan State University

1993: Angela M. Moore, University of Maryland

1994: Lisa Sanchez, University of California, Irvine

1995:

  • Diego Orlando Castro, Arizona State University
  • Lisa M. Poupart, University of Arizona
  • Vidella White, Wayne State University

1996:

  • Steve Cureton, Washington State University
  • Christine Martin, Loyola University of Chicago
  • Bruce Wilson, Sam Houston State University

1997:

  • Douglas E. Thompkins, University of Iowa
  • Kecia Johnson, North Carolina State University
  • Martha Henderson, University of Cincinnati

1998:

  • Julie C. Abril, University of California, Irvine
  • Veronica M. Herrera, University of Arizona
  • Maria B. Velez, Ohio State University

1999:

  • Ingrid K. Bennett, University at Albany
  • Kenneth E. Fernandez, University of California, Riverside
  • Edwardo Portillos, Arizona State University

2000:

  • Cynthia Bejarno, Arizona State University
  • Robert A. Brown, University of Cincinnati
  • Brittawni Olson, University of Nebraska – Omaha

2001:

  • Alexes M. Harris, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Sang H. Kil, Arizona State University
  • Claudia Emilia Lavenant, University of California, Irvine

2002:

  • Alejandro A. Alonso, University of Southern California
  • Helen Ahn Lim Indiana, University, Bloomington
  • Deanna M. Perez, University of Maryland

2003:

  • Donald T. Hutcherson, II, Ohio State University
  • T. “Lorraine” Latimore, North Carolina State University
  • Assata-Nicole Richards, Pennsylvania State University
  • Claudio G. Vera-Sanchez, University of Illinois – Chicago

2004:

  • Denise D. Nation, University of Cincinnati
  • Tomson Nguyen, University of California, Irvine
  • Holly Ventura, University of South Carolina

2005:

  • Leigh K. Nakama, University at Albany
  • Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Auburn University
  • Yaschica Williams, Western Michigan University

2006:

  • Rachel Dioso, University of California, Irvine
  • Flora Myamba, Western Michigan University
  • Evelyn Patterson, University of Pennsylvania
  • Zoua Vang, Harvard University

2007:

  • Ericka Adams, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Jennifer Cobbina, University of Missouri – St. Louis
  • Jocelyn Fontaine, American University

2008

  • LaDonna M. Long, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Eduardo Moncada, Brown University
  • Rita C. Shah, University of California, Irvine

2009:

  • Amanda Gendon, University of Missouri – St. Louis
  • David Glisch-Sanchez, University of Texas at Austin
  • Yvonne Isom, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Xavier Perez, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Latosha Traylor, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Morghan Velez-Young, Stanford University

2010:

  • Amada Armenta, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Vicki Coffey, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, University of Toronto

2011:

  • Aubrey Jackson, Ohio State University
  • Reuben Miller, Loyola University of Chicago
  • Heather Washington, Ohio State University

2012:

  • Chris Dum, State University of New York – University at Albany
  • Alana Gunn, University of Chicago
  • Jay P. Kennedy, University of Cincinnati

2013:

  • Jorge Martinez, University of Washington
  • Shaun Ossei-Owusu, University of California, Berkeley
  • Zahara Shekarkhar, University of Florida

2014:

  • Brittany Friedman, Northwestern University
  • Janet Garcia, Rutgers University
  • Janice Iwama, Northeastern University

2015:

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2020:

2021:

Popy Begum, Rutgers University-Newark

Popy Begum

Popy Begum is a doctoral student at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. She graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a B.A. in International Criminal Justice and Certificate in Dispute Resolution. Popy earned the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) from the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University in England. Among Popy’s broad interests are (1) intersectionality of race/ethnicity, gender, and religion; (2) the comparative role of crime and justice phenomena across multiple societies (e.g., South Asia, West Africa, the Balkans, the United States and the United Kingdom); and (3) qualitative methods. She has explored the experiences of victims and survivors in forced marriages in the United Kingdom and United States, the role of West African and Balkan women in human trafficking networks, and most recently, for her dissertation, she conducted a mixed-methods study of Muslim and Hindu sex workers in New Delhi, India using participant observations and 102 in-depth interviews via Respondent-driven Sampling.

Popy has won dozens of awards for excellence in research, teaching, mentoring and service. Her research has been supported and recognized by organizations locally and internationally, including the Howard League for Penal Reform, the American Society of Criminology, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Religious Research Association, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Popy’s work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Trends in Organized Crime, Social Policy and Society, and edited volumes published by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.

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Alondra Garza, Sam Houston State University

Alondra D. Garza, M.A. is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). Her research focuses on victimology, specifically the criminal legal response to violence against women with attention to how the social stratification of victims (e.g., gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, legal status, etc.) influences responses, treatment, and decision-making. Her recent scholarly work has appeared in a variety of mainstream and specialty journals including Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Policing: An International Journal, and Violence Against Women, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence, among others. Alondra has been recognized University-wide by SHSU and received the Outstanding Master’s Thesis award. Most recently, she was selected as the 2020 recipient of the Graduate Scholar Award from the Division of Women & Crime of the American Society of Criminology and as the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Victimology Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

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Maria Valdovinos, George Mason University

Maria ValdovinosMaria Valdovinos Olson is a doctoral candidate in public sociology at George Mason University and a member of the Movement Engaged Research Hub at the Center for Social Science Research. Her research interests include policing, prisoner reentry, and evidence-based policy. Maria’s dissertation comprises a series of essays on criminal legal reform and prisoner reentry in the era of decarceration and movement toward abolition. She is currently collecting data in support of an essay addressing the question of how existing and envisioned social systems and social policies might organize the provision of care for the formerly incarcerated under a larger paradigmatic shift from punishment-oriented responses to care-oriented ones. Other interests span into issues of safety, health, and wellness associated with the criminal legal system, focusing on both practitioners and individuals who have had direct system involvement. Recent work has been published in Women & Criminal Justice, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management and is forthcoming in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. Maria has been recognized as a Stanford Lyman Scholar (MSSA), Ruth D. Peterson Fellow (ASC), and Dean’s Challenge Scholar (Mason).

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2022:

Faith Deckard, University of Texas at Austin

Faith M. Deckard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines marginalized communities’ collective experiences, felt consequences, and strategies around social ills like criminal-legal contact, debt, and discrimination. In her dissertation specifically, she utilizes ethnographic observation within 3 commercial bail bond agencies and in-depth interviews with bail agents, defendants, and co-signers to explore how the expansion of risk assessment and entanglement of families alter the experience of legal debt and punishment. Some of her previous work appears in Social Problems, Annual Review of Sociology, and Race and Social Problems. In addition to the American Society of Criminology, her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Russell Sage Foundation. Beyond research, Faith derives joy from teaching students behind bars through the Texas Prison Education Initiative (TPEI).

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Jose Sanchez, University of Colorado Boulder

Jose Antonio Sanchez is a doctoral candidate and graduate research/teaching assistant at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Sociology department and a graduate affiliate at the Institute of Behavioral Science in the Prevention Science Program. Jose received his B.S. and M.S. from California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are gangs and criminal networks, program evaluation, and criminological theory. He is currently working as a graduate research assistant for a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded randomized control trial evaluation of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver (GRID). Jose’s dissertation focuses on gang intervention by street outreach workers in Denver. Specifically, he is focusing on how the outreach workers for the GRID program internalize and conceptualize gang intervention, the program model, and the influence it has on service delivery. In addition to his work at the University of Colorado Boulder, he has been a research assistant with the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation, & Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to attending CU Boulder, he worked as a research assistant for the Los Angeles Mayors’ Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD). Jose’s research has been published in Homicide Studies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Justice Evaluation Journal.

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Durrell Washington, University of Chicago

A Native of the Bronx Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is an Abolitionist Social Worker and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago in the school of social work. His scholarship of focus lies at the intersections of Abolition, Juvenile Legal Law and Policy, Families and Networks. His dissertation study focuses on the impact of youth incarceration on Black families across the United States, specifically through the lens of siblings of formerly incarcerated young people. Durrell teaches courses related to Abolition, The Social Meaning of Race, Race Crime and Justice, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Durrell received his Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University in 2018.

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2023:

CJ Appleton, George Mason University

CJ Appleton is a doctoral student in the Criminology, Law, and Society department at George Mason University. He currently works as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence! (ACE!) under the direction of Dr. Faye S. Taxman. CJ’s research is centered around race, gender, identity, criminal justice systems behavior, and organizational theory. CJ’s dissertation work is a replication and expansion of Dr. Maruna’s Liverpool Desistance Study. It aims to develop a synergy between a critical race approach and a general theory of desistance to examine the role of race in the development of desistance narratives. Beyond that, CJ’s work on criminal justice reform has focused on community supervision. Specifically, his work focuses on officer-client relationships, supervision conditions, using a humanistic approach in supervision practice, and improving implementation of evidence-based reforms within organizations.

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Vanessa Centelles, University of South Florida

Vanessa Centelles, MA, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF). Her research uses an interdisciplinary approach and intersectional framework to explore how sociocultural factors influence criminal behaviors, victimization experiences, and perceptions of crime. Her work largely centers around marginalized and minoritized adult persons, with a focus on individuals who identify as Hispanic and Latino/x/e. She has experience with an array of methodologies and analytical strategies such as secondary data analysis, content analysis, quasi-experimental design, regression techniques, and structural equation modeling. Notably, her expertise and passion lie in survey methodology and primary data collection. For example, her dissertation uses primary survey data to examine (1) how processes such as acculturation and discrimination relate to intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization experiences and definitions of IPV, (2) the (in)variance of these processes by race and generational status, and (3) the role of resiliency in moderating these relationships. Her published scholarship has appeared in highly recognized and specialized journals including American Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Social Media + Society, among other outlets. In addition to being recognized as a Ruth D. Peterson Fellow by the American Society of Criminology, Vanessa has been recognized by USF as a Graduate Success Fellow, Latino Graduate Success Fellow, and Scott F. Allen Outstanding Ambassador.

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Sheena Gilbert, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Sheena L. Gilbert (ABD), is a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is also a citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe and identifies as an Indigenous criminologist. Her research focuses on, gender-based violence, Indigenous crime & victimization, including Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP), victimization in underserved populations, campus/university sexual violence, and policy reform and Indigenous persons (e.g., VAWA). In addition, she currently serves as a member of the Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence (NETAV) Coalition.

Her publications include works that examined personal victimization in Native communities using two models of social disorganization theory (traditional and Indigenized) (Crime & Delinquency), the role of victim advocates in missing Native person cases (Journal of Interpersonal Violence), how the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) fails to protect Indigenous Women (Feminist Criminology), assessing the scope of missing Native Americans in Nebraska (Race and Justice), and the victimization of Indigenous LGBTQIA2S persons (book chapter in Queer Victimology: Understanding the Victim Experience).

Her current grant works includes NIJ-funded grants to create a tribal-centered campus climate assessment (CCA) for tribal colleges/universities (TCUs) and replicating the “Nebraska Model” of missing Native persons to examine the scope of MMIP in New Mexico. Other grant work includes evaluating a newly created bystander basics training, the Minnesota sexual assault kit initiative (SAKI), and examining the scope of missing Native American persons in Nebraska.

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2024:

Susana Avalos, Old Dominion University

Susana Avalos, M.A.S., is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University (ODU). Susana researches transgender people’s social, criminal legal, and online experiences and is interested in how they navigate safety, resist victimization, and the role of community support in overcoming trauma. Susana’s dissertation is an extensive and intersectional examination of the relationship between safety, place, and space in the lives of transgender individuals. Their recent scholarly work has appeared in a variety of journals including Crime & Delinquency, Homicide Studies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Policing & Society, Critical Criminology, and Gender Issues. Susana has been recognized University-wide by ODU as the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – Classroom Instructor, received a Certificate of Commendation from ODU’s Academic Success Center for making a positive impact on the educational experiences of a first-year student, and was awarded summer funds to facilitate the completion of the dissertation research from The Graduate School. Most recently, Susana participated in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences as a Doctoral Summit Fellow (2024) and received the 2023 honorable mention to the American Society of Criminology’s Larry J. Seigel Graduate Fellowship for the Study of Gender and Crime.

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Kendall Riley, University of Iowa

Kendall Riley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on how the social environment influences physical health and perpetuates racial disparities in health. Her dissertation explores how the carceral state contributes to health inequalities among women. Specifically, she considers how states vary in their application of carceral logics and how this spatially patterns disease distribution and disparities in aging among Black and White women. Kendall has experience with using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in her research. Most of her work employs blood-based biomarkers as indicators of health and uses large-scale secondary data, regression techniques, multi-level modeling, structural equation modeling, and factor analyses. Some of her research has been published in Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Health and Aging, and the Journal of Crime and Justice. In addition to being recognized as a Ruth D. Peterson fellow, Kendall is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She is also an alum of Indiana University where she received B.S. degrees in Human Biology and Psychology. Beyond her research, Kendall enjoys mentoring students from underrepresented backgrounds in academia through Indiana University’s Center of Excellence for Women & Technology’s Black women & STEM Program and University of Iowa’s Peer-to-Peer mentoring program.

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Kaelyn Sanders, Michigan State University

Kaelyn Sanders is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Using critical and intersectional frameworks, Kaelyn’s research sits at the nexus of community supervision, reintegration, and inequality. Her research has been published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Feminist Criminology, a

nd the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. Kaelyn’s dissertation research will qualitatively explore the intersections of racial, gender, carceral, and digital inequality among Black men and women on parole in Wayne and Genesee County, Michigan.

As a Ph.D. Candidate, Kaelyn has worked on program evaluation projects for community-based reentry and gun violence programs in the state of Michigan and  serves as the graduate assistant for her program’s Prospective Doctoral Student Recruitment and Retention Program Grant. In this role, she works to increase DEI in her graduate program by meeting with students at minority-serving institutions and assessing areas where current graduate students can be better supported. She previously held a summer graduate research associate position at Arnold Ventures working on their pretrial justice team and interned at a local probation and reentry program in Lansing, Michigan.

Kaelyn is also a 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an alumni of The Ohio State University, where she received her B.A. in Sociology and Criminology.

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2025:

Yu-Heng (Steven) Chen, Temple University

Yu-Heng (Steven) Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. His research focuses on corrections, reentry, substance use, life course, human rights, and comparative justice. Methodologically, Steven employs a wide array of approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and systematic reviews. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Crime Prevention and Corrections from Central Police University in Taiwan, a master’s degree in Human Rights and International Politics (with Merit) from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, and a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Temple University.

Steven has received numerous fellowships and awards. In addition to the Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship, he is the recipient of the 2025–2026 Public Policy Lab Research Team Fellowship at Temple University, the 2024 ACJS Doctoral Summit Fellowship, and the 2023 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute Fellowship. He was awarded first place in the 2025 ACJS Student Panel Presentation and received the Research Award for Advanced Doctoral Students from Temple University.

As a first-generation international student from a working-class background, Steven is deeply committed to student-centered teaching and mentorship. His dedication to teaching has been recognized with the Graduate Student Teaching Assistantship Award from the College of Liberal Arts and the M. Kay Harris Teaching Award from the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in 2024.

Steven’s research is also informed by his professional background as a corrections officer in Taiwan. He is currently involved in projects examining the complexity of prison visitation and the lived experiences of older incarcerated individuals.

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Candice Crutchfield, The Ohio State University

Candice Crutchfield is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at The Ohio State University. She is a critical scholar studying families and the collateral consequences of incarceration. Guided by Black feminist criminology and qualitative inquiry, her research explores how power and inequality shape the experiences of reentry, survival, and resilience after incarceration. Her dissertation advances two primary aims: first, to examine the reentry process as an extension of carceral control, and second, to explore how Black women navigate and negotiate the rebuilding of social ties after incarceration.



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Brielle K. Savage, Rutgers University

Brielle K. Savage is a PhD candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University – Newark and a doctoral fellow at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. Her research centers on racial disparities in firearm violence and the lived experiences of Black homicide survivors. Her dissertation, Justice Amid Loss: An Exploration of Black Homicide Survivor’s Perspectives of Justice and Healing in the Aftermath of Gun Violence, qualitatively examines how Black homicide survivors define justice, assess system legitimacy, and cope with the loss of loved ones.  Brielle’s research and service are deeply informed by her commitment to bridging research and practice with a focus on healing, racial justice, survivor advocacy, and translating research into meaningful policy change. She is a BRIDGS Scholar with Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Guns in Society, a doctoral student fellow with The Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence.

Before pursuing her PhD, Brielle worked as a criminal investigator for the Office of the Public Defender and mentored at-risk and justice impacted youth through community-based programs. She has published in Justice Quarterly, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Journal of Urban Health, and Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Criminal Justice. She is also a proud mother of two toddlers who inspire her commitment to equitable justice and community every day.

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2026:

Jordan Michael Parker, Michigan State University

Jordan Michael Parker is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). His research focuses on community-based violence interventions (CVI), program evaluation, juvenile justice and delinquency, and police misconduct. Across his research, Jordan strives to be a community-engaged researcher collaborating with practitioners and systems-impacted individuals to improve both individual and community outcomes. His work has appeared in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Applied Youth Studies, and the Justice Evaluation Journal.

Jordan has received numerous fellowships and honors throughout his graduate journey. In addition to the Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship, he is a member of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society and a recipient of the 2026 ACJS Doctoral Summit Fellowship and the King Chavez Parks Future Faculty Fellowship. He also served as a Future Academic Scholars in Teaching (FAST) Fellow, where he designed, implemented, and evaluated a teaching-as-research project at MSU.

As a proud first-generation college student, Jordan is committed to inclusive teaching and meaningful mentorship. Prior to beginning graduate study at MSU, he served as a Program Advisor for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Program at Bowling Green State University and has been actively involved in the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at MSU.

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Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Sukanya Bhattacharya (she/her) is Doctoral Candidate (ABD) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her dissertation titled ‘Voice and Action after Sexual Violence: Exploring Narratives of Survival Among Women Victims in West Bengal, India’, analyzes the narratives of victims of sexual violence to explore their actions (and inactions) in the aftermath of victimization. Her project is situated within the framework of narrative victimology, seeking to understand how victims build or rebuild a sense of self and account for post-victimization experience and action. Guided by feminist, critical, and international criminologies, her research also focuses on critically analyzing the role and functioning of the Indian criminal legal system while holding the sociological concepts of silence and individual resistance up for inspection.

She has published book reviews in the International Review of Victimology and Crime, Media, Culture and has also presented in multiple conferences in the U.S. and South Asia. She is the recipient of the W.K. McClure Scholarship for Study Abroad, the Wanda Rushing Award for Sociological Research, and the Graduate Student Research Award from the University of Tennessee. She has also received the Excellence in Research and Service award from the Department of Sociology. As a Graduate Teaching Associate, Sukanya enjoys teaching undergraduate students a variety of courses including Social Problems, Criminology, Gender and Society, and Sociological Theory.

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Godwin Egbe, University of Mississippi

Godwin Egbe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on terrorism and cybercrime, policing, victimization, and social justice. His broader research examines how transnational organized crime affects marginalized communities, particularly in relation to socio-economic inequality, victimization, and fear of violent attacks. Godwin’s research interests are also shaped by his personal experiences, especially growing up in a minority ethnic community in Nigeria that has experienced historical marginalization and youth violence. He has used both quantitative and qualitative research methods in his work, with publications appearing in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Economic Criminology, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and Social Sciences. In addition to his research, Godwin serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Criminology. He has received several academic recognitions, including the 2025 ASC Division of International Criminology Graduate Fellowship for Global Research, the 2024 Student Paper Award from the same division, and the 2024 Norman White Outstanding Student Paper Award from the ASC Division on People of Color and Crime. He has also received the 2026 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Doctoral Summit Fellowship; the 2026 ACJS Student Panel Presentation Award (First Place); the 2026 ACJS Student Poster Presentation Award (Second Place); the 2025 ACJS International Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award; the 2026 ACJS Victimology Section Mini Travel Grant and Outstanding Graduate Student Honorable Mention; and the 2026 Johnny W. Lott Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award from the University of Mississippi.

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Taylor Gonzales, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Taylor Gonzales is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her research focuses on corrections, reentry, recidivism, and program evaluation, with a particular interest in how correctional and community-based interventions are implemented and experienced by the people they serve. Informed by her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community where criminal justice system involvement was a common reality, her work seeks to better understand the barriers and opportunities individuals face after incarceration.

A core focus of Taylor’s doctoral training has been developing and managing a research-practitioner partnership with the Never Give Up (NGU) Transitional Living Program, a community-based reentry organization in Omaha, Nebraska. Her dissertation stems from this work and examines how organizational processes, staff discretion, and participant experiences shape the implementation of reentry services. By identifying factors that support or hinder effective service delivery, her research aims to strengthen community-based reentry efforts and improve outcomes for justice-involved individuals.

Beyond her dissertation, Taylor serves as Process Evaluation Lead for a multi-year evaluation of correctional programming conducted in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. She also contributes to an Arnold Ventures-funded project focused on the development and evaluation of a parole decision-making tool.

Taylor’s research has appeared in journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior and Criminal Justice Review, among others. Her long-term goal is to produce policy-relevant research that strengthens the connection between scholarship, practice, and community-based efforts to improve outcomes for justice-involved individuals and communities.

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Mindy L. Thai, George Mason University

Mindy is a first-generation doctoral student in George Mason University’s Department of Criminology, Law and Society and a member of Dr. Evan Lowder’s Early Justice Strategies Lab. Mindy’s research interests include corrections, reentry, and strategies to support justice-impacted individuals while reducing future justice-system contact. She is particularly interested in the impact of prison transfers and the interstate prison network.

Her dissertation will explore Hawaiʻi’s interstate prison transfer program, where the State of Hawaiʻi sends about half of their prison population to a correctional facility on the U.S. continent. Despite the decades-long use of interstate prison transfers in Hawaiʻi, little research has examined its impacts on individuals’ institutional experiences, access to external social connections, and post-release outcomes. Through a mixed-methods approach, her work seeks to understand how prison transfers and geographic distance impacts individuals’ incarceration and reentry experiences.

Beyond academics, Mindy volunteers with E Ala E Hawaiian Cultural Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to perpetuating and sharing Native Hawaiian culture throughout the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. Through this work, she remains connected to her home community while helping create opportunities for cultural education and engagement thousands of miles from the islands.

The Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award is given in order to call attention to criminological scholarship that considers problems of crime and justice as they are manifested outside the United States; internationally or comparatively.

1974: Franco Ferracuti

1975: Nigel Walker

1976: Leon Radzinowicz

1977: Sholmo Shoham

1978: Nils Christie

1979: Johannes Andenaes

1980: Hans H. Jescheck

1981: Willem H. Nagel

1982: Frederick McClintock

1983: Inkeri Anttila

1984: David P. Farrington

1985: Stanley Cohen

1986: Roger Hood

1987: Marc Ancel

1988: Maureen Caints

1989: Josine Junger-Tas

1990: Gordon Trasler

1991: Gordon Hawkins

1992: John B. Braithwaite

1993: David Garland

1994: Per-Olof Wikstrom

1995: Ulla Bondeson

1996: Anthony Bottoms

1997: Pat Carlen

1998: Jock Young

1999: Hans-Jurgen Kerner

2000: Pat O’Malley

2001: Martin Killias

2002: Friedrich Loesel

2003: Jonathan Shepherd

2004: Frances Heidensohn

2005: Richard Tremblay

2006: Peter Grabosky

2007: Susanne Karstedt

2008: Jan van Dijk

2009: David Nelken

2010: Ross Homel

2011: Manuel Eisner

2012: Marc Le Blanc

2013: Clifford Shearing

2014: Michael Levi

2015: Tapio Lappi-Seppälä

2016: Letizia Paoli

2017: Gerben Bruinsma

2018: Lorraine Mazerolle

2019: Paul Nieuwbeerta

2020: Rob White

2021: Julian V. Roberts

2022: no award given

2023: Katja Franko

2024: Federico Varese

2025: Jianhong Liu

2026: Stephen Farrall, University of Nottingham

Stephen is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. He was nominated for his research in four areas of criminology:

1: Criminal Careers and Desistance from Crime
Steve ran a longitudinal study of processes of desistance and probation supervision from 1996 until 2012, resulting in three books (one of which was his doctoral thesis and was published as a 2nd edn in 2022 to mark its 20th anniversary).

2: Politics and Crime
More recently, Steve has focused on the relationships between politics, public policy, crime, criminal justice processes and popular sentiments. This resulted in a book with Emily Gray (The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right, which won the Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025).

3: Crime in the Marketplace
His work with Susanne Karstedt explored why ‘ordinary’ citizens in England & Wales, the former-East Germany, and the former-West Germany committed ‘petty’ crimes in the marketplace (such as fiddling their expense claims, ‘padding’ insurance claims or resorting to ‘sharp’ practices in second hand sales). Their book (Respectable Citizens – Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes) won Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime’s Outstanding Book Award in 2020.

4: The Fear of Crime
His research on the fear of crime explored the extent to which women’s fears of crime are related to perceptually contemporaneous offenses (with Helmut Hirtenlehner), how crime-related fears may be related to feelings of nostalgia (with Emily Gray, Phil Jones and Helmut), and the ways in which different cohorts may report different crime-fears related to the political discourses which were prevalent when they were children (using age, period, and cohort analyses, with Emily Gray).

1960: Thorsten Sellin

1961: Orlando W. Wilson

1962: Negley Teeters

1963: Herbert Wechsler, Walter Reckless

1964: Hon. James Chalmers McRuer

1965: no award given

1966: George Vold

1967: Donald R. Cressey

1968: Denis Szabo

1969: Lloyd E. Ohlin

1970: Alfred Lindesmith

1971: Marshall Clinard

1972: Leslie Wilkins

1973: Edwin Lemert

1974: Simon Dinitz

1975: C. Ray Jeffery

1976: Daniel Glaser

1977: Solomon Kobrin

1978: Seymour Halleck

1979: James Short, Jr.

1980: Gresham Sykes

1981: Albert J. Reiss, Jr.

1982: Gwynne Nettler

1983: Jack P. Gibbs

1984: Richard Quinney

1985: Gilbert Geis

1986: Travis Hirschi

1987: Alfred Blumstein

1988: Ronald L. Akers

1989: Marvin E. Wolfgang

1990: Malcolm W. Klein

1991: LaMar Empey

1992: Lee Robins

1993: Albert K. Cohen

1994: Joan McCord

1995: Delbert S. Elliott

1996: Robert K. Merton

1997: John Hagan

1998: Charles R. Tittle

1999: Lawrence Sherman

2000: Norval Morris

2001: Robert J. Sampson

2002: David P. Farrington

2003: William Chambliss

2004: John Braithwaite

2005: John H. Laub

2006: Daniel S. Nagin

2007: Franklin Zimring

2008: Terence P. Thornberry

2009: Nicole Rafter

2010: Francis Cullen

2011: Ruth D. Peterson

2012: David Garland

2013: Cathy Spatz Widom

2014: David Weisburd

2015: Robert Agnew

2016: Ross L. Matsueda

2017: Rick Rosenfeld

2018: Sally S. Simpson

2019: Peggy Giordano

2020: Gary LaFree

2021: Steven F. Messner

2022: D. Wayne Osgood

2023: Darrell Steffensmeier

2024: Kathleen Daly

2025: Elijah Anderson

2026: Todd Clear, Rutgers University

The Teaching Award is a lifetime-achievement award designed to recognize excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching over the span of an academic career.

2010: Mark Israel, University of Western Australia

2011: David McDowall, SUNY-Albany

2012: no award given

2013: Jody Clay-Warner, University of Georgia

2014: Laure Weber Brooks, University of Maryland

2015: no award given

2016: Lori Pompa, Temple University

2017: Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State University

2018: Danielle S. Rudes, George Mason University

2019: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine

2020: Kevin Wright, Arizona State University

2021: Christina DeJong

2022: Emily Lenning

2023: Nicole Fox

2024: Bonita M. Vesey

2025: Cheryl Lero Jonson

2026: Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira

Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her scholarship focuses on mass violence and transitional justice. Her recent articles have appeared in Criminology, the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the American Journal of Political Science. She has forthcoming books with Oxford University Press on reintegration after incarceration for genocide and with Cambridge University Press on atrocity prevention. Hollie teaches courses on global crime, genocide, and social research methods. Her courses regularly partner with local and international organizations, including refugee resettlement agencies, genocide prevention organizations, and nonprofits. She also created Ohio State’s first education abroad program in Rwanda, which she has led seven times. Hollie has supervised more than 20 undergraduate honors theses, advised dozens of undergraduate researchers, and served on 60 graduate student committees. She co-created Ohio State’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Certificate and currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Director for Sociology and Criminology. Beyond the university, Hollie is deeply committed to public education. She has trained middle and high school educators across the United States on teaching genocide and atrocity crimes, coauthored a free primer for educators, developed open-access lesson plans on the genocides in Rwanda and Guatemala, and is currently coauthoring a genocide survivor memoir for classroom use. Through her work with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, she also trains policymakers, civil servants, educators, and human rights professionals around the world on atrocity prevention and early warning systems.

The August Vollmer Award recognizes an individual whose scholarship or professional activities have made outstanding contributions to justice and/or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior.

1960: Paul Bohannon, Marvin E. Wolfgang

1961: Sheldon/Eleanor Glueck

1962: James Bennett

1963: Austin MacCormick

1964: Mr. J. Adrien Robert

1965: no award given

1966: Judge George Edwards

1967: Howard Leary

1968: Myrl Alexander

1969: Hon. Joseph Tydings

1970: Milton Rector

1971: no award given

1972: Jerome Skolnick

1973: E. Preston Sharpe

1974: Patrick V. Murphy, Sol Rubin

1975: Herbert Sturz

1976: Patricia Wald

1977: Richard A. McGee

1978: Judge David Bazelon

1979: Norval Morris

1980: Gerhard O.W. Mueller

1981: Vincent O’Leary

1982: Don M. Gottfredson

1983: no award given

1984: Benjamin Ward

1985: John Keith Irwin

1986: Anthony G. Amsterdam

1987: Jerome G. Miller

1988: Lee Brown

1989: Allen Breed

1990: Daniel Glaser

1991: Caleb Foote

1992: James K. Stewart

1993: Barry Krisberg

1994: Joan Petersilia

1995: Russell & Rebecca Dobash

1996: Elizabeth Stanko

1997: Hugo Adam Bedau

1998: Peter W. Greenwood

1999: J. David Hawkins

2000: William J. Bowers

2001: Hans Toch, Jeremy Travis

2002: James J. Fyfe

2003: Delbert S. Elliott

2004: Edward Latessa

2005: Jacquelyn C. Campbell

2006: Franklin Zimring

2007: Richard Catalano

2008: Malcolm W. Klein

2009: Elliott Currie

2010: Howard Snyder

2011: Patricia Van Voorhis

2012: John Goldkamp

2013: Mark Lipsey

2014: David Farrington

2015: C. Ronald Huff

2016: Denise Gottfredson

2017: David Weisburd

2018: Charles F. Wellford

2019: Valerie Jenness

2020: Larry Sherman; Presentation

2021: Anthony A. Braga

2022: Scott Decker

2023: Faye Taxman

2024: Henry Pontell

2025: Daniel S. Nagin

2026: Thomas G. Blomberg, Florida State University

Thomas G. Blomberg is Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice (College), where he has been since completing his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2003, he founded the College’s Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research, which has secured tens of millions of dollars in grants, resulting in numerous high-caliber research and evidence-informed policy studies on crime, education for incarcerated youth, victimization, law enforcement, corrections, fraud and financial exploitation of older adults, and more.

During Dr. Blomberg’s Deanship, the College has and continues to be ranked among the best criminology programs in the country. The College is characterized by a full commitment to a translational criminology research, policy, and education agenda.

Dr. Blomberg was named one of the most influential criminologists for 2010 – 2020 (Academic Influence, 2021) and has earned numerous teaching awards for his commitment to student success. He served as Editor of Criminology & Public Policy from 2007 – 2013. Among his books are American Penology, which was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith et al. V DOE et al., Punishment and Social Control, and Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy. His many research and policy articles have appeared in the Annual Review of Criminology, Scientific American, Criminology & Public Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Journal of Aging & Social Policy, among others. Media accounts of his research have been reported in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, the Economist, the AARP Bulletin, and have been featured in numerous national television news stories. He has frequently provided research and policy consultation and testimony to federal, state, and local governments, including the Czech Republic, France, and Germany.

Additional award details:

OTHER AWARDS

PRESIDENT’S JUSTICE AWARD

The President’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Justice (established in 2001) is given annually to an individual or organization who, through either a single initiative or over a longer period of time, has made significant and distinguished contributions to the cause of justice. In the case of joint efforts, co-recipients may be named. The President submits a nominee for Board approval.

Members of the ASC Board may not receive this award during their term in office. The Executive Board may decide not to give the award in any given year.

PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO JUSTICE RECIPIENTS

HISTORICAL AWARDS

The first award given by the American Society of Criminology was to Robert H. Gault. He received an award of recognition from then ASC President Marcel Frym at the December 1959 ASC Annual Meetings which were held in Chicago. Dr. Gault served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for 50 years

At the ASC Annual Meetings in Puerto Rico in November of 1971, then ASC President Simon Dinitz gave the following individuals, Presidential Citations:

Santos Amadeo
Helen Silver
Pedro Velez

A number of Presidential Citations were given by then ASC President Charles L. Newman at the ASC Annual Meetings in Caracas, Venezuela in November of 1972, but the names of the recipients have been lost to history

ASC DIVISION AWARDS

Please visit the individual Division websites for information about Division awards