Award Information

Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Awarded every two years for the most distinguished book pertaining to Crime, Law, or Deviance

James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award

Awarded every two years for the most distinguished article pertaining to Crime, Law, or Deviance

Distinguished Student Paper Award

Authors submit an article-length paper (about 30 double spaced pages) following American Sociological Review guidelines. The paper may address any topic in Crime, Law, Deviance, or Criminal Justice. Submissions may be sole- or multiple-authored, but all authors must be students. Papers accepted for publication at the time of submission are ineligible. The winner receives $500 to offset the cost of attending the next ASA meeting.

Peterson- Krivo Mentoring Award

Awarded bi-annually in conjunction with the Sociology of Law Section for exceptional mentoring support for junior faculty and/or graduate students. The Nomination committee will be appointed by the respective section chairs.

The Albert J. Reiss Award and the James F. Short Award are given in opposite years.

Self nominations are welcome for all awards. For more information, or to submit a nomination contact the committee chairs.

Upcoming Award Committee Chairs and Nomination Deadlines

James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award
The CLD section invites submissions for the 2012 James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award. Articles must have been published after the spring of 2010 (i.e., the deadline for previous nominations). Please submit nominations to: Janet Stamatel, University of Kentucky, jstamatel@uky.edu. Papers must be received by March 1, 2012 to receive consideration.

Peterson- Krivo Mentoring Award
Awarded bi-annually in conjunction with the Sociology of Law Section for exceptional mentoring support for junior faculty and/or graduate students. The Nomination committee will be appointed by the respective section chairs. Please submit a nomination letter and a copy of the nominee’s CV to Hillary Potter, University of Colorado at Bolder, Hillary.Potter@colorado.edu. Nominations must be received by March1, 2012 to receive consideration.

Distinguished Student Paper Award
The CLD section invites submissions for the 2012 Distinguished Student Paper Award competition. Please submit papers to: Val Callanan, University of Akron, callana@uakron.edu. Papers must be received by March 1, 2012 to receive consideration.

Award Recipients

Albert J. Reiss Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication

2011 - Lynne A. Haney: Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

2009 - John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond: Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

2007 - Bruce Western: Punishment and Inequality in America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).

2005 - John Laub and Robert Sampson: Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 (Harvard University Press).

2003 - John Hagan: Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (Harvard University Press, 2001).

2001 - Kitty Calavita, Henry Calavita, and Robert Tillman: Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (University of California Press, 1997).

1999 - Simon I. Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

James F. Short Award for Distinguished Article

2010 - David S. Kirk: "A Natural Experiment on Residential Change and Recidivism: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina." ( American Sociological Review , 2009).

2009 - Peggy C. Giordano, Ryan D. Schroeder, and Stephen A. Cernkovich: "Emotions and Crime over the Life Course," American Journal of Sociology 112: 1603-1661.

2006 - Bruce Western and Becky Pettit: "Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration," American Journal of Sociology 111: 553-78.

2004 - Peggy Giordano, Stephen Cernkovich and Jennifer Rudolph: "Gender, Crime and Desistence: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation."(American Journal of Sociology, 2002).

2002 - Dana L. Haynie: "Delinquent Peers Revisited: Does Network Structure Matter?" (American Journal of Sociology, 2001).

[The Short award was not given in some years due to a lack of nominees.]

Student Paper Award

2011 - Christopher Muller: "The First Great Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1890-1950"

2010 - Michael Light and Casey T. Harris : "Race, Space, and Violence: Exploring Spatial Dependence in Structural Covariates of White and Black Violent Crime in U.S. Counties."

2009 - John Easton: "Mapping Prison Proliferation: Region, Rurality, Race and Disadvantage in Prison Placement."

2008 - Christopher Wildeman: "Paternal Incarceration and Children's Aggressive Behaviors: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study."

2007 - Philip Goodman: "'It's Just Black, White or Hispanic:' An Ethnographic Examination of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prison Reception Areas."

2006 - Katherine A. Johnson: "Predicting the Acquisition of Self-Control Over Time: Stability and Change."

2005 - Callie H. Burt: "A Longitudinal Test of A General Theory of Crime's Predictions Regarding the Effects of Parenting and the Stability of Self Control."

2004 - Kraig Beyerlein and John Hipp: "Bridging or Bonding Social Capital as an Antidote to Crime: The Case of American Religious Traditions."

2003 - Megan C. Kurlychek and Brian D. Johnson: "The Juvenile Penalty: A Comparison of Juvenile and Young Adult Sentencing Outcomes in Criminal Court."

2002 - Devah Pager: "The Mark of a Criminal."

2001 - Brian D. Johnson: "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Departures Across Modes of Conviction."

2000 - Christine W. Bond: "Does Gender Still Matter?: Quantitative and Narrative Analyses of Gender Differences in Criminal Involvement and Pre-Trial Release."

1999 - Catherine Kaukinen: "The Help-Seeking of Crime Victims: An Examination of the Victim-Offender Relationship."

2001 PASS Award

William Chambliss received the 2001 PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for his book Power, Politics and Crime. The Award is given to a work that communicates research findings in criminology to a non-academic as well as an academic audience.