DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY

2012 Distinguished Book Award

Nominated books due May 1, 2012

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations for the 2012 Distinguished Book Award. The award is given to the author of a book published on any topic relating to the broad areas of international or comparative crime or justice with a formal publishing date in calendar years 2010 or 2011. 

Nominations are reviewed by a committee of the DIC.  We encourage nominations from publishers, colleagues and authors.  Nominations from any country are welcome, but the book must also be published in English.  Multiple-authored books and edited collections of previously unpublished work are also eligible.

Nominated books for the 2012 award are to the committee chair, Dr. Jennifer C. Gibbs no later than May 1, 2012.  She can be contacted at JGibbs@wcupa.edu.

Past Recipients of the Award

2011:  Nachman Ben-Yehuda. Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism. Oxford University Press, 2010.

2010:  Bruce Baker. Security in Post-Conflict Africa: The Role of Non-State Policing. CRC Press, 2009.

2009:  Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, and Jock Young. Cultural Criminology. Sage, 2008.

2007:  David Bayley. Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police. Oxford University Press, 2006.

2006:  Scott Decker and Frank Weerman (eds.) European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups. Altamira Press, 2005.

2005:  Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas. Cyber Criminals on Trial. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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

2003:  Martha Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip Zimbardo. Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. University of California Press, 2002.

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

2001:  Stanley Cohen.  States of Denial. Polity Press, 2000.

1997:  Clayton A. Hartjen and Sesha Rajani Kethineni. Comparative Delinquency: India and the United States. Garland, 1996.

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

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

1992:  Setsuo Miyazawa. Policing in Japan: A Study on Making Crime.  Translated by Frank G. Gennett with John O. Haley.  State University of New York Press, 1992.

2010 Distinguished Book Award winner.

2009 Distinguished Book Award winner.

2007 Distinguished Book Award winner.