The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place papers will be awarded prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively, and will be eligible for presentation at the ASC Annual Meeting. The 1st prize winner will also receive a travel award of up to $500 to help defray costs for attending the Annual Meeting.

Paper Specifications:  Papers may be conceptual and/or empirical but must be directly related to criminology.  The paper can be submitted to only one ASC student competition in the same year.  Papers that previously won any prize in any ASC competition are ineligible for submission to another ASC competition.

Papers must be typewritten, double-spaced on 8-1/2 x 11 white paper, and no longer than 7,500 words. The CRIMINOLOGY format for the organization of text, citations and references should be used.  The authors' names, departments and advisors (optional) must appear ONLY on the title page, since papers will be evaluated anonymously. The next page of the manuscript should include the title and a 100-word abstract.

The author must submit EIGHT copies of the manuscript, accompanied by a letter indicating the author's enrollment status and co-signed by the dean, department chair or program director.  Submissions should be sent to:

ANDREW HOCHSTETLER
Department of Sociology
Iowa State University
203D East Hall
Ames, IA 50011
(515) 294-2841
hochstet@iastate.edu

Deadline:  Papers must be postmarked on or before April 15, 2008.

Procedures for Judging Entries:  Papers will be reviewed and rated by members of the Student Awards Committee 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 Committee may decide that no entry is of sufficient quality to declare a winner.  Fewer than three awards may be given.  The Committee's award determination will be final.

First Prize: David S. Kirk (University of Chicago)
“The Neighborhood Context of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Arrest”

Second Place: Callie Harbin Burt (University of Georgia)
“A Longitudinal Test of Low-Self Control Theory with an African-American Sample”

Third Place: Benjamin Steiner (University of Cincinnati)
“Assessing Static and Dynamic Influences on Inmate Misconduct Levels Over Time”

First Prize: Derek A. Kreager (University of Washington)
"Strangers in the Halls:  Isolation and Delinquency in School Networks"

Second Prize: Michael Massoglia (University of Minnesota)
"Desistance or Displacement?  The Changing Patterns of Offending From Adolescence to Young Adulthood"

Third Prize: Gary Sweeten (University of Maryland)
"Who Will Graduate?  Disruption of High School Education by Arrest and Court Involvement"

First Place: Megan Kurlychek and Brian Johnson (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Juvenile Penalty:  A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sentencing Outcomes in Criminal Court"

Second Place: Elizabeth Griffiths (University of Toronto) and Jorge Chavez  (University of Albany)
"Communities, Guns and Lethal Violence:  Chicago Homicide Trends Across Space and Time, 1980-1995"

Third Place:  Ryan Spohn  (University of Iowa)
"The Anomie Tradition and Delinquent Friends:  Under What Conditions Does Strain Produce Deviant Adaptations?"

First Place:  Aaron Kupchik (New York University)
"Legal Rationality and Jurisdictional Transfer: Comparing Sentencing of Adolescents in Juvenile and Criminal Courts"

Second Place: Brent Teasdale (Pennsylvania State University)
"Neighborhood Disadvantage, Self-Control, and Socialization:  A Test of a Multi-Theoretical Model"

Third Place:  Lynn Addington (SUNY-Albany)
"The Columbine Effect:  The Impact of Violent School Crime on Students' Fear of Victimization"

First Place: Amy L. Anderson (Pennsylvania State University)
"Individual and Contextual Influences on Delinquency:  The Role of the Single Parent Family"

Second Place:  Thomas D. Stucky (University of Iowa)
"City Institutional Politics, Social Disorganization and Crime for 694 U.S. Cities in 1991"

Third Place:  Ryan King (University of Minnesota)
"Do Peers Matter More When Family Matters Less?:  The Dynamics of Family Attachment, Peer Association and Delinquency"

Second Place:  Christine E. W. Bond (University of Washington)
"Does Gener Still Matter?: Quantitative and Narrative Analyses of Gender Differences in Criminal Involvement and Pre-trial Release"

Third Place:  Jeremy Wilson (The Ohio State University)
"Introducing Legalized Gambling to Indiana Communities:  An Impact Assessment of the Effects on Crime"

Third Place:  Ick-Joong Chung (University of Washington)
"Childhood Predictors of Offense Trajectories"

First Place: Dan Cork (Carnegia Mellon University)
"Examining Space-Time Interaction in City-Level Homicide Data: Crack Markets and the Diffusion of Guns Among Youth"

Second Place: Chris Schreck (Pennsylvania State University)
"Criminal Victimization and Low Self-Control: An Extension and Test of a General Theory of Crime"

Third Place: Douglas Wiebe (University of California-Irvine_)
"Toward a New Framework for Assessing the Distance Between Actual Crime and Tertiary Crime Data"

First Place: Charis Kubrin (University of Washington)
"Racial Heterogeneity and Crime"

Second Place: Laurie Schaffner (University of California, Berkeley)
"Female Juvenile Delinquency: Sexual Solutions, Gender Wars and Juvenile Justice"

Third Place: Carey Herbert (University of Arizona)
"The Implications of Self-Control Theory for Workplace Offending"

First Place: Pauline Brennan (University at Albany)
"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 (University of Washington)
"A Specific Test of a General Theory of Crime: Exploring Relationships Between Elements and Manifestations of Low Self Control"

Third Place: George Tita (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Where Violent Gangs Hang Out: An Examination of "Set Space"

Third Place: Ross MacMillan (University of Toronto)
"Violence in the Life Course: Assessing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Adolescent Victimization"

First Place: Garth Davies (Rutgers University)
"The Structural Covariates of Homicide"

Second Place: Nia Celestin (University of Maryland)
"The Impact of Community Context on Predictors of Adolescent Drug Use"

Third Place: Theodore R. Curry (Washington State University)
"Conservative Protestantism and the Perceived Moral Wrongfulness of Crimes"

Third Place: Shawn D. Bushway (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Labor-Market Effects of Permitting Employer Access to Criminal History Records"

First Place: Timothy Brezina (Emory University)
"Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping Responses"

Second Place: Calvin Johnson (University of Maryland)
"What Role Does Economic Deprivation Play?" A Community Area Analysis of Homicide, 1970 and 1980"

Third Place: Karen Gelb (New York University)
"Social Control and Social Learning Theories: An Application of Two Theories to the Prediction of Drug Use"

Third Place: David May (Mississippi State University)
"Fear and Loathing and Social Control: A Critical Test of Explanations for Delinquency"

First Place: Rodney L. Engen (University of Washington)
"Social Structure and Social Context: A Hierarchial Anslysis of Race, Class, and School Effects on Delinquency and Its Correlates"

Second Place: Jody Miller (University of Southern California)
"An Examination of Disposition Decision Making for Delinquent Girls"

Third Place: Denise C. Herz (University of Maryland)
"The Differential Effects of Informal and Formal Social Controls on the Processing of Status Offenders"

Third Place: Kelly R. Damphousse (Texas A&M University)
"Relationships Between Adolescent Drug Use and Psychological Distress: An Examination of the Self-Medication Hypothesis"

First Place: Edem Frank Avakame (Temple University)

Second Place: Vickie Jensen (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Third Place: Elizabeth D. Scheel (University of California, Irvine)

First Place: Brenda Sims Blackwell

Second Place: Thomas R. O'Connor

Third Place: Michele Alicia Harmon

First Place: Christopher Uggen

Second Place: Sung Joon Jang

Third Place: A. Leigh Ingram

First Place: Scot B. Boeringer

Second Place: Andrew Golub

Third Place: Sung Joon Jang

First Place: Yutaka Harada

Second Place: Lynn Newhart Smith

Third Place: Lisa Maher

First Place:  Paul Knepper

First Place: Tamasak Witayapanyanon

First Place: Lila Rucker

Second Place: Yoko Baba and D. Mark Austin

Third Place: Candace McCoy

First Place: Quint C. Thurman (University of Massasschusetts)

Second Place: Janet Lauritsen

Third Place: Dorann E. Banks

First Place: Quint C. Thurman (University of Massasschusetts)

Second Place: Steven M. Gorelick (Grad. School of CCNY)

Third Place: David Brownfield (University of Arizona)

First Place: Richard J. Dehais

Second Place: Deborah Denno

Third Place: John K. Cochran

First Place: S. Bernard Raskin

Second Place: Marilynn C. Mathews

Third Place: Mark S. Davis

Award Not Given

First Place: Thomas Gabor