OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations or self-nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award. Nominated books must be received by the committee chair, Jared Dmello, University of Adelaide (jared.dmello@adelaide.edu.au), no later than June 1, 2025. Copies must be made available to all other members of the Book Award committee: Lidia Nuño, Texas State University (yws11@txstate.edu), and Nadine Connell, Griffith University (n.connell@griffith.edu.au). Electronic copies are preferred.
Nominations are reviewed by the 2025 Outstanding Book Award committee of the DIC. The award is given to the author(s) of a book published on any topic relating to the broad areas of international or comparative crime or justice with a formal publishing date in calendar years 2023 to 2025. We encourage nominations from colleagues and authors for books that constitute original research. Publisher nominations MUST be accompanied by a self-nomination from the author. Nominations from any country are welcome, but the book must also be published in English. Multiple-authored books are also eligible, but edited books and textbooks are not.
The award will be presented at the DIC annual luncheon in November 2025. This award includes a $500 monetary award.
PAST BOOK AWARD WINNERS
2024: Yuliya Zabyelina, Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime, Cambridge University Press, 2023
2023: Ian O’Donnell, Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose, NYU Press, 2023
2022: Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, 2021
2021: David Skarbek, The Puzzle of Prison Order; Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World, Oxford University Press, 2020
2020: Dirk Van Zyl Smit & Catherine Appleton, Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis, Harvard University Press, 2019
2019: Marcelo Bergman, More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America, 2018.
2018: Daniel Briggs, Dead End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows, Policy Press, 2017
2017: Felia Allum, The Invisible Camorra, Cornell University Press, 2016
2016: Joachim J. Savelsberg, Representing Mass Violence, University of California Press, 2016
2015: Jana Arsovska, Decoding Albanian Organized Crime: Culture, Politics, and Globalization. University of California Press, 2015.
2014: Rosemary Barberet .Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice: A Global Inquiry. Routledge, 2013.
2013: Ko-lin Chin and James Finckenauer. Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Wmen and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking. New York University Press, 2012.
2012: Jacqueline L. Schneider. Sold into Extinction: The Global Trade in Endangered Species. Praeger, 2011.
2011: Nachman Ben-Yehuda. Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism. Oxford University Press, 2010.
2010: Bruce Baker. Security in Post-Conflict Africa: The Role of Non-State Policing. CRC Press, 2009.
2009: Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, and Jock Young. Cultural Criminology. Sage, 2008.
2007: David Bayley. Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police. Oxford University Press, 2006.
2006: Scott Decker and Frank Weerman (eds.) European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups. Altamira Press, 2005.
2005: Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas. Cyber Criminals on Trial. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
2004: James Q. Whitman. Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe. Oxford University Press, 2003.
2003: Martha Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip Zimbardo. Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. University of California Press, 2002.
2002: David T. Johnson. The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan. Oxford University Press, 2002.
2001: Stanley Cohen. States of Denial. Polity Press, 2000.
1997: Clayton A. Hartjen and Sesha Rajani Kethineni. Comparative Delinquency: India and the United States. Garland, 1996.
1996: Herman Franke. The Emancipation of Prisoners: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Dutch Prison Experience. Edinburgh University Press, 1995
1995: Joachim J. Savelsberg. Constructing White Collar Crime: Rationalities, Communications, Power. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
1992: Setsuo Miyazawa.Policing in Japan: A Study on Making Crime. Translated by Frank G. Gennett with John O. Haley. State University of New York Press, 1992.
