OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations or self-nominations for the 2024 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, 2024. 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 2024 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 2022 to 2024. 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 2024 in San Francisco, CA. This award includes a $500 monetary award.

PAST BOOK AWARD WINNERS

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.