The Michael J. Hindelang Award is an award, established in 1992, that is awarded annually by the American Society of Criminology to books published in the three previous years, that are deemed to make "the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology." A book is only eligible to win the award if a member of the Society nominates it.
Recipients
Year Book Title Author(s) 2025 Fester: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster Hadar Aviram and Chad Goerzen 2024 In This Place Called Prison: Women's Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment Rachel Ellis 2023 Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration Reuben Jonathan Miller 2022 Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing Sarah Brayne 2021 Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice Sarah E. Lageson 2020 The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption Nikki Jones 2019 Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row Forrest Stuart 2018 Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics Marie Gottschalk 2017 Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Courts Mona Lynch 2016 Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth Jamie Fader 2015 America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia Simon Singer 2014 Great American City Robert J. Sampson 2013 The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice Geoff Ward 2012 Peculiar institution David Garland 2011 American Homicide Randolph Roth 2010 Governing Through Crime Jonathan Simon 2009 Darfur and the Crime of Genocide John L. Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond 2008 Punishment and Inequality in America Bruce Western 2007 Judging Juveniles Aaron Kupchik 2006 Confessions of a Dying Thief Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery Ulmer 2005 Companions in Crime Mark Warr 2004 Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives John Laub & Robert Sampson 2003 Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective Terence Thornberry, Marvin Krohn, Alan Lizotte, Carolyn Smith, and Kimberly Tobin 2002 Bad Kids Barry Feld 2001 Making Good Shadd Maruna 2000 Crime in Context Ian Taylor 1999 Political Policing Martha K. Huggins 1998 Mean Streets Bill McCarthy and John Hagan 1997 Control Balance 1996 No award given 1995 Gender, Crime, and Punishment Kathleen Daly 1994 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub 1993 Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America Gary Kleck 1992 Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden 1991 Crime, Shame, and Reintegration John Braithwaite
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