OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
The Division of International Criminology (DIC) is seeking nominations or self-nominations for the 2023 Outstanding Book Award. Nominated books must be received by the committee chair, Hung-En Sung (hsung@jjay.cuny.edu), John Jay College – CUNY no later than June 1, 2023. Copies must be made available to all other members of the Book Award committee: James Finckenauer (jofmjf61@gmail.com), Rutgers University, Ahmet Kule (ahmet-kule@utc.edu), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Valerio Bacak (vb302@scj.rutgers.edu), Rutgers University.
Nominations are reviewed by the 2023 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 2021 to 2023. 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 2023 in Philadelphia, PA.
PAST BOOK AWARD WINNERS
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
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich presenting David Skarbek with the 2021 Outstanding Book Award
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.
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich presenting Marcelo Bergman with the 2019 Outstanding Book Award
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.
