Division Awards

These Awards are given by the Division and recognize scholars who have made significant contributions to the discipline.

2002

Lifetime Achievement Award

Betsy Stanko, Office of Public Services Reform, U.K.

2001

Lifetime Achievement Award: 

Karlene Faith 

Critical Criminologist of the Year Award: 

Dr. Paul Leighton 

Both scholars have made many outstanding contributions to the Division, critical criminology, and to the struggle for peace.

2000 

Major Achievement - Signifies singular contributions to the development of critical criminology scholarship or pedagogy over time; or, contributions of an exceptional recent accomplishment.

Meda Chesney-Lind

Critical Criminologist of Year- Recognizing a scholar who has symbolized the spirit of the Division in some combination of scholarship, teaching, and/or service within the past year.

Bruce Arrigo

Graduate Student Paper Awards 

1st: Lisa Pasko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Criminal Justice in the Mother Tongue:  A Feminist Critique of Restorative Justice."

2nd:  Marlyce Nuzum, Eastern Michigan University, "The Commercialization of Justice: Public Good or Private Greed?"

Undergraduate Student Paper Awards

1st:  Mariestella Fischer Velez, Fordham University, "Prisoners of Politics: A Case Study of Puerto Rican Nationalists and the Role of Politics in American Justice."

2nd:  Jennifer Burzych, Northeastern Illinois U., "Uncovering the Dangerous Truths of Public Surveillance."

Committee chair: David Freidrichs

1999

Major Achievement Award: Herman and Julia Schwendinger

Critical Criminologist of the Year Award: Gregg Barak

Graduate Paper:

Phillip Chong Ho Shon, UIC Department of Criminal Justice, "Postmodernizing Police Studies: Mastrofski and Parks Revisited"

Undergraduate Paper Competition:

1st place: Jeanette Hussemann, Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, "The Struggle for Power: Women in Policing"

2nd Place: Colby Dolly, Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, "A Sociological Examination of Police Brutality"

3rd Place: Michael Peters, Northern Illinois University, "A Divided Society: Marx and Conflict Theory"

Committee Members: David Kauzlarich (Chair), Claire Renzetti, Rick Matthews, Becky Tatum, Michael Elsner

1998

Major Achievement Award: Richard Quinney

Critical Criminologist of the Year Award:  Jeff Ferrell

Graduate Paper Awards

1st: Eric Silver, SUNY Albany, "Actuarial Risk Assessment and Social Science: A Cautionary Note" 

2d: Christopher Mullins, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, "The Ghost Dance: A Case Study in State Crime"

3d: Kevin Whiteacre, Indiana University, "The Criminalization of LSD: What a Short Strange Trip it Was"

Committee Members: David Kauzlarich (Chair), Claire Renzetti, Rick Matthews, Becky Tatum, Michael Elsner

1997

Major Achievement Award: Claire Renzetti

Critical Criminologist of the Year: Michael Radelet

Student Paper Competition

1st: E. Andreas Tomaszewski, Carleton University, "AlterNative" Approaches to Criminal Justice: John Braithwaite's Theory of Integrative Shaming Revisited"

2d: Chris Atchinson, Simon Fraser University, "Emerging Styles of Social Control in the Internet: Justice Denied" 

3d: Timothy Johnston, University of North Carolina, " The Theoretical Components of Political Crime" 

1996

Major Achievement Award: Cindy Struckman-Johnson

Critical Criminologist of the Year: Mark S. Hamm

Graduate Paper Awards

1st: George S. Rigakos, York University, "New Right, New Left, New Challenges: Understanding and Responding to Neoconservativism in Contemporary Criminology." 

2d: Rosario Arrabito, Northern Illinois University, "Assistance to Whom?" and Shadd Maruna, Northwestern University, "Becoming (non-)Deviant: Self-Narratives of Desistance from Crime."

Undergraduate Paper Award

Allison Forker, Northeastern Illinois University, "Chaos and Modeling Crime: Quinney's Class, State and Crime."

1995

Major Achievement Award: Bill Chambliss (for lifetime achievement) 

Critical Criminologist of the Year: Walter DeKeseredy

Awards committee: Charisse Coston, Mathieu DeFlem, Mariam DeLone, Zoann Snyder-Joy, Jim Thomas

1994

1993

1992

Lifetime Achievement Award: Susan Caringella-MacDonald