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NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 2008
MICHAEL J. HINDELANG AWARD
For the Most Oustanding Contribution to Research in Criminology

(Application Deadline: February 15 )


The Michael J. Hindelang 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.  For this year, the book must have been published in 2005, 2006, or 2007.

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 send 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, noted below.

The Executive Board may decide not to give the Hindelang Award in a given year.

The deadline for receiving nominations is February 15, 2008.  

Jill McCorkel jill.mccorkel@villanova.edu
(610) 519-8899


Michael J. Hindelang Award Recipients
 

2007
AARON KUPCHIK
Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts


2006
DARRELL STEFFENSMEIER and JEFFERY ULMER
Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprises
 
 

2005
MARK WARR
Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct
 
 

2004
JOHN H. LAUB and ROBERT J. SAMPSON
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives:
Delinquent Boys to Age 70
 
 

2003
TERENCE THORNBERRY, MARVIN KROHN, ALAN LIZOTTE,
CAROLYN SMITH and  KIMBERLY TOBIN
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective
 
 

2002
BARRY FELD
Bad Kids:  Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
 
 

2001
SHADD MARUNA
University of Albany-SUNY
Making Good: How Ex-convicts Reform and Rebuild their Lives
 
 
 

2000
IAN TAYLOR
University of Durham, UK
Crime in Context:  A Critical Criminology of Market Society
 
 
 

1999
MARTHA K. HUGGINS
   Union College
Political Policing: The United States and Latin America
 
 
 

1998
BILL MCCARTHY
University of California, Davis
and
JOHN HAGAN
University of Toronto, CANADA
Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
 
 
 

1997
CHARLES R. TITTLE
Washington State University
Control Balance: Toward A General Theory of Deviance
 
 
 

1996
NO AWARD GIVEN
 
 
 

1995
KATHLEEN DALY
Australian National University
Gender, Crime and Punishment
 
 
 

1994
ROBERT J. SAMPSON
University of Chicago
and
JOHN H. LAUB
Northeastern University
Crime in the Making:  Pathways and Turning Points Through Life
 
 
 

1993
GARY KLECK
Florida State University
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
 
 
 

1992
MEDA CHESNEY-LIND
University of Hawaii at Manoa
and
RANDALL G. SHELDEN
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
 

1991
JOHN BRAITHWAITE
Australian National University
Crime, Shame and Reintegration