STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The Division of International Criminology (DIC) of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) conducts a student paper competition each year. This year we are accepting submissions from students enrolled in Master’s or doctoral programs, studying subjects related to international crime and justice.  The paper topics must be related to international or comparative criminology or criminal justice.

All submissions must be sent via email, no later than July 1, 2024 to the committee chair, Jennifer Gibbs, Penn State Harrisburg (jcf25@psu.edu). Submissions will be reviewed by the committee which also includes Will Moreto, University of Central Florida, Popy Begum, Saint Louis University, Stephanie DiPietro, University of Iowa, Douglas Weiss, California State University.

Winners will be presented at the DIC annual luncheon in November, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.

What Are We Looking For?

Submissions must be authored by the submitting student (only).  Co-authorships with professors are not accepted.

Papers must be previously unpublished and cannot be submitted to any other competition or made public in any other way until the committee reaches its decision. Submissions must be authored by the submitting student (only) and should not be submitted if student will have graduated by the November ASC annual conference.

What Should You Submit?

Manuscripts should include a 100-word abstract, be double-spaced (12-point Times New Roman or Courier font), written in English, and should be no more than 7500 words in length. Submissions should conform to APA format for the organization of text, citations and references. Eligible students worldwide are strongly encouraged to submit papers in English.

Manuscripts must be submitted as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or as a .pdf or .rtf file only.

What Else Do You Need to Submit with Your Manuscript?

Submissions should be accompanied by a cover sheet which includes the author’s name, department, university and  location, contact information (including e-mail address) and whether the author is a Bachelor’s, Master’s or doctoral student, and the precise name of the degree program in which the student is enrolled

What Do the Winning Papers Receive?

Winning submissions in each category will receive a monetary award and be recognized at the meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November. The first place include a $300 and the second place a $200 monetary award.

Papers will also be considered for publication in International Criminology (although winning the competition is not a guarantee of publication as the manuscript will have to go through the journal’s regular peer-review process).

PAST STUDENT PAPER AWARD WINNERS

2023

Graduate Student Winners

First Place Winner:

Mònica Pons-Hernández, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Inside the slippery world of glass eel trafficking: Lessons learned from Spain to prevent the illegal trade of European eels

Second Place Winner:

Sebastián Galleguillos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America

2022

Graduate Student Winners

First Place Winner:

David Anrango Narváez

Why do people legitimize and cooperate with the police? Results from a randomized control trial on the effects of procedural justice in Quito, Ecuador

Second Place Winner:

Guillermo J. Escaño, University of Albany

Region-Specific Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates in Latin America: State Legitimacy and Remittances

2021

Graduate Student Winners

First Place Winner:

Iris Xiaoshuang Luo, University of California, Irvine

An Empirical Test of Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Public Cooperation with the Police in China

Second Place (Co) Winners:

Valentina Pavlović Vinogradac, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Yang (Vincent) Liu, Michigan State University (in picture)

Do I trust the police? Studying Predictors of Croatian Emigrants’ Trust in Police in Three Countries

2020

Graduate Student Winners

First Place Winner:

Jennifer Peirce, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

“It was supposed to be fair here”: Human Rights Recourse Mechanisms and the Dominican Republic’s Prison Reform Process

Second Place Winner:

Alyssa Mendlein, Temple University

Justice System Size and Punishment across Nations: The Relationships between Incarceration and Police, Prosecution, and Judicial Personnel in Forty- Seven Countries

2019
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:

Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill

Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Proposing a Social Identity Theory of Interspecies Dominance

Second Place winner:

Daragh Bradshaw

Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland

Imprisoned Parenting: The Experiences of Prisoners, Prisoner Families and Prison Officers in a Prison Parenting Intervention in an Irish prison system

2018
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:
Andrew P. Davis
University of Arizona

Second Place winner:
Daisy Muibu
American University

2017
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:
James Tuttle
North Carolina State University

Second Place winner:
Lovro Borovec and Marko Prpic
University of Zagreb, Croatia

2016
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:
Erin M. Kearns
American University

Second Place Winner:
Lin Liu
University of Delaware

2015
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:
Sylwia Piatkowska
University at Albany (SUNY)

Second Place winner:
Tameka Samuels-Jones
University of Florida

2014
Graduate Student Winners

First Place winner:
Bo Jiang
University of Maryland

Second Place winner:
Ming-Li Hsieh
Washington State University

2013
Graduate Student Winners:

Jonathan S. Gordon,
New York University

Kasey Carmile Ragan
Northern Arizona University

2012

Graduate Student Winners: 
Francis D. Boateng
Washington State University

Thomas David Akoensi
University of Cambridge

2011

PhD winner:
Amy Nivette
University of Cambridge

Master’s winner:
Jessica Kruger
Eastern Michigan University

Undergraduate winner:
Diana Rodriguez
John Jay College of Criminal Justice