Division of International Criminology

Awards

DIC 2005-2006 AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIC Distinguished Book Award, 2005

The committee reported receiving a total of 26 nominations. This year, for the first time in the history of the ASC, books written in English and in French were eligible for the Award. Most of the books were nominated by the publisher of the book; two books were self-nominations; and one book was nominated by someone else. The nominated books included edited collections, monographs and research reports. The submissions testified to a growing and thriving field of comparative and international criminology.

Selected for the award was:

Cyber Criminals on Trial

By Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas
Cambridge University Press

Honorable mention was given to:

The Contours of Police Integrity

Edited by Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, and M.R. Haberfeld

Sage Publications

The 2005 DIC Distinguished Book Award Committee consisted of Mathieu Deflem, Ph.D., (University of South Carolina), Dr. Josine Junger-Tas (Université de Lausanne and University of Utrecht) and was chaired by Jo-Anne Wemmers, Ph.D. (Université de Montréal).

DIC Distinguished International Scholar Award, 2005

Leslie Sebba, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Professor of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Leslie Sebba studied law at Oxford for his first degree, and subsequently received an LLM at the London School of Economics. In the early 1960s he was one of the first graduates of the Institute of Criminology established in the Hebrew University's Law Faculty by Israel Drapkin. He worked as a researcher in this Institute and in Britain's Home Office Research Unit, and later (1975) received a Dr.Juris in Law and Criminology from the Hebrew University. He has spent his entire academic career at this University (Israel's most prestigious school of higher learning), and is now the Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Professor of Criminology. Professor Sebba has served as a visiting fellow at Oxford University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the National Institute of Justice.

Professor Sebba's academic work has centered on sentencing and corrections, and in the 1970s he was actively involved in some of the pioneering studies on seriousness scaling generated by Marvin Wolfgang. During this period he also became involved with the newly-developing study of victimology. Indeed, Professor Sebba is one of the world's leading experts in this area, and has played a pioneering role in bringing international attention to the problem of victims and the relevance of the study of victims to criminology. Professor Sebba is a founding editor of the International Review of Victimology, the main publication for scholars interested in this area of work. His work Third Parties is the most comprehensive book examining victims in the criminal justice system available.

Professor Sebba has had a continuing interest in children's rights and juvenile justice. Further, his concern for human rights issues has recently led to a focus on international human rights abuses – and to consider their implications for criminology (and victimology). The selection committee agreed that the quality of Professor Sebba's work is at the highest level of scholarship and that he tends to break new ground through his conceptualization of problems and issues and in how he interprets outcomes.

Professor Sebba has a record of extensive service to the international community. He has served on a number of international committees including the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology and the Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control of the International Sociological Association. He has been active not only in American Society of Criminology meetings, but also in international forums around the globe. He has been active in publishing on criminological problems in Hebrew and English and has often teamed with scholars from outside Israel. His work on victims in particular has had strong influence on the ways that American criminologists understand crime problems. But importantly, his pioneering work on human rights in the justice system has also influenced European criminologists.

A most thoughtful and informed criminologist, Professor Sebba has been fully committed to a community of criminologists that is invested in improving crime and justice theory and policy, and in advancing human rights around the world. His illustrious career and varied contributions to the international criminological community has led the committee to select him as the 2005 Distinguished International Scholar.

The 2005 DIC Distinguished International Scholar Award Committee was chaired by Bill McDonald, and included Edna Erez, Paul Friday, and Obi Ebbe.

DIC Student Paper Competition, 2006

Graduate Winner: Rebecca Wickes, Griffith University, “Moving Beyond Social Capital? Collective Efficacy and the Relative Role of Social Ties in Urban Communities”

Undergraduate Winner: James Ogg, University of New South Wales, “Convergence of Inquisitorial and Adversarial Traditions and the Impact on the Judicial Role: An Analysis of Italian and Australian Approaches”

The 2006 DIC Student Paper Competition Committee was chaired by Joanne Savage (American University), and included Sharon Chamard (University of Alaska Anchorage), Melissa Schaefer Morabito (American University), and Janet Stamatel (University at Albany, SUNY).

2006 DIC AWARD COMMITTEE INFORMATION

Distinguished Book Award for Comparative Research

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations for the 2006 Distinguished Book Award. This award is offered for a comparative work on crime, deviance or social control, published in 2005. Authors from any country may be nominated. Self-nominations are also encouraged. Multiple-authored books, including edited collections of previously unpublished articles, are eligible. This year, the Division of International Criminology is pleased to announce that the Committee will be able to judge books written in English OR Spanish.

Please send nominations (together with three copies of the book) by April 30, 2006 to the Chair of the Distinguished Book Award Committee:

Christopher Birkbeck
School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History
University of Salford, Crescent House, Salford, Greater Manchester
M5 4WT, United Kingdom
+44 (161) 295-6551
E-mail: C.H.Birkbeck@salford.ac.uk

Past recipients of the Award:

2004: James Q. Whitman (Yale University) for Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe, 2003, Oxford University Press.

2003: Martha Huggins (Union College), Mika Haritos-Fatouros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and Philip Zimbardo (Stanford University) for Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, 2003, University of California Press.

2002: David T. Johnson (University of Hawaii) for The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan, 2002, Oxford University Press.

2001: Stanley Cohen (London School of Economics) for States of Denial, 2000, Polity Press.

1997: Clayton A. Hartjen (Rutgers) and Sesha Rajani Kethinen (Illinois State University) for Comparative Delinquency: India and the United States, 1996, Garland.

1996: Herman Franke (Netherlands University) for The Emancipation of Prisoners: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Dutch Prison Experience, 1995, Edinburgh University Press.

1995: Joachim J. Savelsberg (University of Minnesota) for Constructing White Collar Crime: Rationalities, Communications, Power, 1994, University of Pennsylvania Press.

1992: Setsuo Miyazawa (Osgood Hall Law/Kobe University, Japan) for Policing in Japan: A Study on Making Crime. Translated by Frank G. Gennett with John O. Haley. 1992, State University of New York Press.

The 2006 Distinguished International Scholar Award

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is soliciting nominations for the DIC 2006 Distinguished International Scholar Award. The DIC offers the award to a non-United States scholar who has made a significant contribution to fostering research and exchange of information concerning criminology in an international perspective or a scholar whose work has been of particular interest to criminologists in the United States.

Before sending in a nomination, please do the following: (1) ascertain whether the scholar would be willing and able to come to attend the ASC Meetings and (2) obtain a curriculum vitae from her or him. Please send nominations by May 1, 2006 to the Chair of the Distinguished International Scholar Award Committee:

Paul Friday
Department of Criminal Justice
Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
9201 University Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223
704/687-4776 (B)
704/687-3349 FAX
pfriday@email.uncc.edu

Past winners of the award:

2003:    James Vadackumchery, Professor of Criminology, Police Training College, Kerala, India and Wang Mu, Professor of Criminal Justice and Law at Institute of Criminal Justice, China University of Politics and law, Beijing, China.

2002:   Maria Lós, Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Rosa del Olmo, Venezuela Central University, Venezuela.

2001:   Michael Levi, the University of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain.

2000:   Heinz Steinert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt on Main, Germany

1999:   Tamar Pitch, University of Camerino, Italy

1997:   Emil W. Plywaczewski, University of Bialystok, Poland

1995:   Guo Qiang, China University of Political Science and Law, China

The 2007 Student Paper Competition

Any student currently enrolled in an academic university or college program is invited to participate in the ASC Division of International Criminology Student Paper Competition. Paper topics must be related to international or comparative criminology or criminal justice. Submissions must be authored by the submitting student (only) and submissions will be evaluated in three categories: undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. Papers must be previously unpublished and cannot be submitted to any other competition or made public in any other way until the committee reaches its decision. Manuscripts should include a 100 word abstract, be double-spaced (12-point Times New Roman or Courier font), written in English, and should be no more than 7500 words in length. Submissions should conform to APA format for the organization of text, citations and references. Students from all over the world are strongly encouraged to submit papers.

Submissions should be accompanied by a cover sheet which includes the author’s name, department, university and location, contact information (including e-mail address whenever possible) and whether the author is an undergraduate, master’s level, or doctoral student. Winning submissions in each category will receive a monetary award and be recognized at the 2007 ASC meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Winning papers will also be considered for publication in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (although winning the competition is not a guarantee of publication as the manuscript will have to go through the journal’s regular peer-review process).

We prefer that manuscripts are submitted as an e-mail attachment in any of the following formats: WordPerfect, Word, .pdf file or .rtf file. For those who are unable to submit via e-mail, a hard copy may be submitted, as long as it arrives by the deadline. An e-mail confirmation will be sent when the manuscript is received and logged as a submission.

The new deadline this year is June 15, 2007.

Please send all submissions to:

Joanne Savage jsavage@american.edu

Department of Justice, Law and Society

American University

4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington D.C., 20016-8043

U.S.A.

Last Updated: 2007 March 26 by Sharon Chamard