FREDA ADLER DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
The Division of International Criminology (DIC) of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) is soliciting nominations for the 2024 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award. This prize is awarded annually to an international scholar, who has made a significant contribution to the development and growth of international criminology, including international criminal justice, comparative, cross-border and transnational crime or justice research.
Nomination requires a letter of nomination and a complete CV to be sent electronically to the Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award Committee chair, Dr. Jay Albanese (jsalbane@vcu.edu), Virginia Commonwealth University. The letter must explain why the candidate is qualified to be considered for the award. Letter-writing campaigns by multiple nominators are discouraged. Current DIC Executive Board members are excluded from being considered for the Award. The deadline for nominations is July 1, 2024.
Committee members include:
Jay Albanese – Virginia Commonwealth University (Chair)
· Alida Merlo – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
· Nigel South – University of Essex
· William Pridemore – University of Georgia
· Rob White – University of Tasmania
· Sheldon Zhang – University of Massachusetts Lowell
· Jianhong Liu – University of Macau
· Bitna Kim – Sam Houston State University (DIC Vice-Chair & Liaison for Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award Committee)
· Sesha Kethineni, Prairie View A&M University
The award will be presented at the DIC annual luncheon in November, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.
WHO IS FREDA ADLER?
Freda Adler has contributed to international criminology in many ways. She was involved in the development of the DIC and has been an active member since its inception. She has been a proponent for international criminology, advocating an international perspective in all research. Additionally, she has been an indispensable mentor to interested students. While many of her students recognize her mentorship during her tenure at Rutgers, she has touched the hearts and careers of many other students at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Freda’s primary work for the last four decades has focused on internationalizing and globalizing the study of criminology. Her efforts began in 1976 when she wrote the report for the Women’s Year on the role of women in the United Nations. Her efforts continued through more than 130 books and papers, including Nations Not Obsessed with Crime (1983) while working as a consultant to the United Nations and her well-known co-authored Criminology and Criminal Justice System text.
In 1994-95, Freda Adler was the ASC President, delivering her Presidential Speech at the 47th annual meeting titled “Crime and Justice: National and International.” This address was one of ASC’s first movements toward internationalizing the profession (published in Criminology (Volume 34, Number 1, 1996).
ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Freda Adler Distinguished International Scholar Award plaque is awarded to one international scholar each year at the DIC annual meeting.
It is awarded annually to an international scholar, who has made a significant contribution to international criminology, including international criminal justice, comparative, cross-border and transnational crime or justice research. Awardees have made a significant contribution to fostering research and exchange of information concerning criminology in an international perspective or scholars whose work has been of particular interest to criminologists in the United States and have participated in leadership or service activities to advance the field.
In the past, the DIC awardee traveled to ASC without any financial support. Several individuals, including Dick Ward and an anonymous donor, have contributed funds toward supporting this award. Anyone wishing to make a tax deductible donation toward this award is asked to forward the funds made out to ASC, specifying their destination, to the ASC headquarters in Columbus at the following address:
Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology
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PAST AWARD RECIPIENTS
2023: Mahesh Nalla, Michigan State University, USA
2022: Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia
2021: Jay Albanese, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
2020: Cindy J. Smith, Former Director of UNICRI
2018: Martin Killias, St. Gallen University, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Freda Adler and Dick Bennett with the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Martin Killias, St. Gallen University, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
2017: Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia
Vincenzo Ruggiero and Freda Adler with the 2017 Distinguished Scholar Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia
2016: Jianhong Liu, University of Macau, Macau, China
Freda Adler and Ivan Sun with 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipient Jianhong Liu.
2015: William Alex Pridemore, University at Albany (SUNY), United States
2014: Patricia Brantingham, Simon Fraser University, Canada
2013: David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge, UK
Freda Adler and Alida Merlo with 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award recipient David P. Farrington
2012: Joachim J. Savelsberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Freda Adler with the 2012 Adler Distinguished Scholar Award recipient Joachim Savelsberg.
2011: Kauko Aromaa, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, HEUNI
2010: Lorraine Mazerolle,, University of Queensland, Australia
2009: Gerben Bruinsma, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008: Hans J. Kerner, Faculty of Law, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2007: Josine Junger-Tas, Willem Pompe Institute at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands
2005: Leslie Sebba, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Professor of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003: James Vadackumchery, Professor of Criminology, Police Training College, Kerala, India and Wang Mu, Professor of Criminal Justice and Law at Institute of Criminal Justice, China University of Politics and law, Beijing, China
2002: Maria Lós, Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Rosa del Olmo, Venezuela Central University, Venezuela
2001: Michael Levi, the University of Wales, Cardiff
2000: Heinz Steinert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt on Main, Germany
1999: Tamar Pitch, University of Camerino, Italy
1997: Emil W. Plywaczewski, University of Bialystok, Poland
1995: Guo Xiang, China University of Political Science and Law, China
