DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations for the 2010 Distinguished Book Award. This award is given to a published book on any topic relating to the broad areas of international crime and justice with a formal publishing date in calendar year 2009. 

We encourage nominations from publishers, colleagues and other scholars, with self-nominations particularly encouraged. While we welcome nominations from any country, the book must be also published in English.  Multiple-authored books, including edited collections of previously unpublished articles, are eligible.

To nominate a book, please send a brief biography or vita of the author(s) and three copies of the book by August 1, 2010 to the Chair of the Distinguished Book Award Committee:

Corinne Davis Rodrigues

cdrodrigues@ufmg.br

Past Recipients of the Award

The year indicates the award year; publication date is the previous year.

2009:

Cultural Criminology  by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, and Jock Young, Sage, 2008

2007:

David Bayley for Changing the Guard:  Developing Democratic Police., Oxford University Press, 2006.

2006:

Scott Decker and Frank Weerman for European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups, (edited)., Altamira Press, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2005

2005:

Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas for Cyber Criminals on Trial. Cambridge University Press. 2004

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, University of California Press. 2002

2002: 

David T. Johnson (University of Hawaii )for The Japanese Way of Justice: ProsecutingCrime 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 DutchPrison 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 recipient will be notified by October 2010 and announced at the DIC meeting at the ASC conference in San Francisco.

Please contact Corinne Davis Rodrigues at cdrodrigues@ufmg.br for specific instructions on how to submit the vita and books to the Committee.