Division Awards

The following awards are given by the Division to recognize scholars who have made significant contributions to the discipline.

• The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual's sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.
• The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honors a person for distinguished accomplishments which have symbolized the spirit of the Division in some form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in a recent year or years.
• The Undergraduate Student Paper Awards recognize and honor outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by undergraduate students.
• The Graduate Student Paper Awards recognize and honor outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by graduate students.

2012

Lifetime Achievement Award

Victor Kappeler, Eastern Kentucky University

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Molly Dragiewicz, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Stephen Richards, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Graduate Student Paper

Jennifer Carlson, University of California, Berkeley

2011

Lifetime Achievement Award

Michael Lynch, University of South Florida

Critical Criminologist of the Year

David Brotherton, John Jay College – CUNY

Graduate Student Paper

Victoria E. Collins, Old Dominion University

Undergraduate Paper

Leigh Dickey, University of Tennessee

2010

Lifetime Achievement Award

Hal Pepinsky, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Donna Selden, Eastern Michigan University

Undergraduate Paper

Janet Garcia, Hunter College, City University of New York

Graduate Student Paper

Avi Brisman, Emory University

Jaclyn San Antonio, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

2009

Lifetime Achievement Award

Mike Presdee, University of Kent

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Stephen Muzzatti, Ryerson University

Undergraduate Paper

Lakelen Gould, University Ontario Institute of Technology

Graduate Student Paper

First Place: Kathryn Henne, Univ of California, Irvine

Second Place:  John Brent, Univ of Delaware

2008

Lifetime Achievement Award

Walter DeKeseredy, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Chris Mullins, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Dawn Rothe, Old Dominion University

Graduate Student Paper Award

First place: Travis Linnemann, Kansas State University

Second place: Randy Myers, University of California Irvine

Undergraduate Student Paper Award

Holly Pelvin, University of Toronto

Committee Chairs: Donna Killingbeck and David Kauzlarich

2007

Lifetime Achievement Award

Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Barbara Perry, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Graduate Student Paper Award

Ashley Demyan, University of California, Irvine

Undergraduate Student Paper Award

Carrie George, Northeastern Illinois University

Holly Pelvin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Committee Chairs: Donna Killingbeck and David Kauzlarich

2006

Lifetime Achievement Award

Ray Michalowski, Northern Arizona University

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Mark Israel, Flinders University

Graduate Student Paper Awards

Tracey Hayes, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

Lisa Kruse, Eastern Michigan University

Committee Chairs: Donna Killingbeck and David Kauzlarich

2005

Lifetime Achievement Award

David O. Friedrichs, University of Scranton

Critical Criminologist of the Year

David Kauzlarich, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

Graduate Student Paper Awards

Jennifer Gibbs and Kathryn Vincent, University of Maryland

Committee Chair: Shahid Alvi

2004

Lifetime Achievement Award

            Ron Kramer, Western Michigan University

Critical Criminologist of the Year

Barb Sims, Penn State Harrisburg

Graduate Student Paper Awards

Grad 1st -- Emily Troshynski, London School of Economics

Grad 2nd -- Jennifer Gibbs, University of Maryland

Undergraduate Student Paper Award –

Christina Parlapiano, University of Scranton

Committee Chair: Martin Schwartz

2003

Lifetime Achievement Award

Jock Young, Center for Criminology, Middlesex University, UK

2002

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Critical Criminologist of the Year Award

Shahid Alvi, University of St. Thomas

Graduate Student Paper Award

Christopher Schneider, Northeastern Illinois University

Undergraduate Student Paper Award

Danielle M. Fagen, University of St. Thomas

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

Lifetime Achievement Award

Martin Schwartz

1993

Distinguished Achievement

Brian MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic

1992

Lifetime Achievement Award

Susan Caringella-MacDonald