Albert J. Reiss Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication

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

[The Short award was not given in 2008 due to a lack of nominees. The 2008 award will be made in 2009.]

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).

Student Paper Award

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.