DCC Praxis Award

The DCC Praxis Award recognizes an individual whose professional accomplishments have increased the quality of justice for groups that have experienced class, ethnic, gender, racial and sexual disparities in policing and punishment. The DCC Praxis Award honors unique achievements in activism, commitment, persuasion, scholarship, service and teaching in areas that have made a significant impact on the quality of justice for underserved, underrepresented, and otherwise marginalized populations.

2021

Shelly Clevenger, Sam Houston State University

2020

Brittany Battle, Wake Forrest University

2019

Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University

2018

Not awarded

2017

Melissa L. Jarrell, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

2016

Peter Kraska, Eastern Kentucky University
Rita Shah, Elizabethtown College

2015

David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

2014

Nancy K.D. Lemon, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley