Awards

Awards

The ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice (DCCSJ) invites nominations for this year’s awards (2024). This year, the DCCSJ will sponsor eight (8) awards:

  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 Committee Chair David Brotherton dbrotherton@jjay.cuny.edu

  2. The Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honors an early-to-mid-career individual’s distinguished accomplishments that have symbolized the spirit of the DCC 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 Committee Chair  Miltonette Craig moc006@shsu.edu

  3. 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.

    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 Chair Favian Martin martinf@arcadia.edu

  4. 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 key is that the paper must have been written by someone when he/she was a graduate 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. In order to further the careers of critical student scholars, the DCC 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 Randy Myers at rrmyers@uw.edu

  5. 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 Chair Chris Brewer cgbrewe@ilstu.edu

  6. 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 Chair Kevin Revier at revierk@arcadia.edu

  7. The 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 of the book must be a member of the division at the time of the nomination.

    Nomination process: Nominees should initially contact the chair of the committee, Travis Linneman twl@ksu.edu by April 14, 2024.  The chair of 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. The nomination must include a narrative statement that specifies the contribution the book makes to the goals of the DCCSJ.  Nominations from publishers alone will not be considered. All books and narrative statements must be delivered to the committee members no later than MAY 14,  2024

  8. The Journal Article Award will be given annually for the best peer-reviewed article, published in Critical Criminology 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 will be considered.

In prior years, the DCC has also provided other awards.

Nominations and submissions for all awards are due to the respective chairs of the committees on or before the dates listed above.  Please note the book award has two deadlines, April 14 is the initial contact with the chair, all books must be delivered by  MAY 14, 2024.  

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.