Awards

Awards

The ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice (DCCSJ) invites nominations for this year’s awards (2025). This year, the DCCSJ will sponsor eight (8) awards:

For most awards, nomination materials are typically due by August 1 each year. However, the Teaching and Book awards require a more extensive review process, resulting in earlier deadlines, generally between April and May. Specific deadlines are provided below.

  1. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual’s sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of critical criminology.

 Nomination process: Typically, someone – or a group of people – submit a letter, along with the CV of the nominee. Multiple letters of support are encouraged but not required. Submit Nomination Materials due by August 1 to Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Chair Dr. Onwubiko (Biko) Agozino at agozino@vt.edu

  1. The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honors an early-to-mid-career individual’s distinguished accomplishments that have symbolized the spirit of the DCCSJ in some form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in recent years.

 Nomination process: Typically, someone – or a group of people – submit a letter, along with the CV of the nominee. Multiple letters of support are encouraged but not required. Nomination Materials due by August 1 to Critical Criminologist of the Year Award Committee Chair Dr. David Rodriquez Goyes at d.r.goyes@jus.uio.no

  1. The 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 DCCSJ 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.

Nomination process: Typically, someone – or a group of people – submit a letter, along with the CV of the nominee. Multiple letters of support are encouraged but not required. Nomination Materials due by August 1 to Praxis Award Committee Chair Dr. Jennifer Ortiz at ortizje@tcnj.edu

  1. The Graduate Student Paper Award is intended to recognize the work of early career researchers by honoring papers of outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship. Most importantly, papers must make a scholarly contribution to the broad arena of Critical Criminology.

The requirement is that the paper must have been written/authored by someone when they were a graduate student and that they must not have already published the piece nor should the piece be under consideration with a journal. Papers must have been written within the last two years. Papers can be sole or co-authored, but the graduate student must be listed as the first author.

In order to further the careers of critical student scholars, the DCCSJ Awards Committee may, in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief, invite student paper awards winners to publish their papers in Critical Criminology: An International Journal.

 Nomination process: Nominations for the student paper awards must be submitted electronically and include the student’s unpublished paper.  Nomination materials are due by August 1 to Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair Dr. Justin Turner at jpturn1@ilstu.edu

  1. The Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes and honors outstanding theoretical or empirical critical criminological scholarship by an undergraduate student. The key is that the paper must have been written by someone when he/she was an undergraduate student and that he/she must not have already published the piece nor is the piece under consideration with a journal. Papers also must have been written within the last two years. The papers can be sole or co-authored however the graduate/undergraduate student must be first author.

Nomination process: Nominations for the student paper awards must be submitted electronically and include the student’s unpublished paper. Typically, someone– a faculty member or advisor– submits a letter of support/recommendation, along with the undergraduate paper submitted for the award. Nomination materials are due by August 1 to Undergraduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair Dr. Brian Pitman at bjone22@ilstu.edu.

  1. The Teaching Award recognizes contributions that have made a significant impact on the teaching of critical criminology at the local, state, regional, national, or international level. These contributions may include a) exemplary classroom teaching and/or student engagement activities, b) leadership and innovation in teaching developments such as the preparation of teaching and curriculum-related materials and publications, c) contributions to the scholarship on teaching and learning, d) contributions to the enhancement of teaching within state, regional or national associations.

 Nomination process: Typically, someone – or a group of people – submit a nomination letter, along with the CV of the nominee. Multiple letters of support are encouraged but not required. Nomination Materials due by May 15 to Teaching Award Committee Chair Dr. Sarah Rogers at sr51@mailbox.sc.edu

  1. The Jock Young Criminological Imagination Book Award is intended to recognize and publicize a recent book published within the last 2 years (see below) that best serves to further the goals of the DCCSJ by providing an outstanding example of an effort to highlight relevant research, topics, frameworks, theories, etc. The book can be sole or co-authored, edited or co-edited.

The author(s) of the book must be a member of the division at the time of the nomination.

Nomination process: The nomination must include a narrative statement that specifies the contribution the book makes to the goals of the DCCSJ. To ensure a thoughtful and intentional nomination process, it is required that each nomination includes a nomination letter outlining the reasons for the submission. This ensures that nominations are accompanied by a meaningful endorsement that highlights the book’s merits and why it deserves consideration for the DCCSJ Book Award.

Without a nomination letter, submissions will not be considered eligible for review. Nominations from publishers alone will not be considered.

Nominees should initially contact the Chair of the Book Award Committee, Dr. Sara Salmansara.salman@vuw.ac.nz by April 15, 2025. The chair of the committee will provide the mailing addresses of the committee members. The nominees will then make arrangements with the respective publishers to mail out each book to each committee member. All books and narrative statements must be delivered to the committee members no later than May 15, 2025.

  1. The Journal Article Award will be given annually for the best peer-reviewed article, published in Critical Criminology: An International Journal in the previous year, that, in the opinion of the award committee, makes an outstanding original contribution to knowledge. 

Nomination process: Articles published in Critical Criminology, within the last year, will be considered. 

Other Matters

  1. Articles and books can be sole or multiple-authored.
  2. Membership in the Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice is required to be either a nominee or an award recipient.
  3. In order to be considered for best scholarly article the publication must not be published on-line or in print before 2023.
  4. The DCC Awards Committee reserves the right to give no award in a particular year if it deems this appropriate.