Past Award Recipients – ASC White-Collar and Corporate Crime

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2024 Award Winners

David O. Friedrichs Teaching Award (co-winners) – Henry Pontell and Kristy Holtfreter
Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award – Wim Huisman
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award – Fiona Chan and Carole Gibbs, “When Guardians Become Offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime.” Criminology.
Outstanding Book Award – Gregg Barak, “Indicting the 45^th President: Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy”
Student Paper Award – Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius, “Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field.”
Young Career Award – Katelyn Golladay

David O. Friedrichs Teaching Award: Matthew Yeager
Young Career Award: Jon Davies
Outstanding Book Award: Adam Ghazi-Tehrani and Henry Pontell, Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China
Outstanding Article Award: Henry Pontell, Robert Tillman, and Adam Ghazi-Tehrani, “In-Your-Face Watergate”: Neutralizing Government Lawbreaking and the War Against White-Collar Crime. Crime, Law, and Social Change (2021)
Outstanding Book Chapter Award: Wim Huisman, Susanne Karstedt, Annika van Baar, “The Involvement of Corporations in Atrocity Crimes” in the Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes, edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzita’ra, and Maartje Weerdesteijn (2022)

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award:Russell Smith
Outstanding Book Award: Katie Benson, Lawyers and the Proceeds of Crime: The Facilitation of Money Laundering and its Control (Routledge, 2020)
Outstanding Book Award: Jeremy Wilson, Brand Protection and the Global Risk of Product Counterfeits: A Total Business Solution Approach (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Outstanding Student Paper Award: Eduardo Alencar, Bryant Jackson-Green, “The Impact of Lava Jato on Worldwide Governance Indicators: A Synthetic Control Method Approach.” Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime (2021)
Outstanding Article Award: Michael J. Lynch, Averi Fegadel, Michael A. Long, “Green Criminology and State-Corporate Crime: The Ecocide-Genocide Nexus with Examples from Nigeria.” Journal of Genocide Research (2020)

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: David Friedrichs
Young Career Award: Kenneth Sebastian León
Outstanding Book Award: Marie Springer, The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory, and Policy
Student Paper Award: Averi Fegadel, “Toxic Colonialism and Green Victimization of Native Americans: An Examination of the Gen-ocidal Impacts of Uranium Mining”
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: Maya Barak, “Family Separation as State-Corporate Crime.” Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, 2021, Vol. 2(2), 109-121.
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article or Book Chapter: Mike Benson, Ben Feldmeyer, Shaun Gabbidon, and Hei Lam Chio, “Race, Ethnicity, and Social Change: The Democratization of Middle-Class Crime.” Criminology, 2021, Vol 59(1), 10-41.

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: Gregg Barak
Young Career Award: Miranda A. Galvin
Outstanding Book Award: Stephen Farrall and Susanne Karstedt, Respectable Citizens – Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes.
Student Paper Winner: Kate Tudor, “Symbolic Survival and Harm: Serious Fraud and Consumer Capitalism’s Perversion of the Causa Sui Project”
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: Maria Laura Böhm, “Criminal Business Relationships Between Commodity Regions and Industrialized Countries: The Hard Road from Raw Material to New Technology.” Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, 2020, Vol. 1 (1): 34-49.
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article or Book Chapter: Tracy Sohoni and Melissa Rorie, “The Whiteness of White-Collar Crime in the United States: Examining the Role of Race in a Culture of Elite White-Collar Offending.” Theoretical Criminology, 2021, Vol. 25(1), 66-87.

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Levi
Young Career Award: not awarded
Outstanding Book Award: Vincenzo Ruggiero, Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency
Student Paper Award: Matthew West and Shon Reed, “Thinking Fast or Thinking Slow: Thinking Styles and Deterrence”
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: Lieselot Bisschop, Staci Stobl, and Julie Viollaz, “Getting into Deep Water: Coastal Land Loss and State-Corporate Crime in the Louisiana Bayou.” The British Journal of Criminology, 2018, Vol. 58(4), 886–905.
Best Article Honorable Mention: Fred Pampel, Giulia Andrighetto, and Sven Steinmo, “How Institutions and Attitudes Shape Tax Compliance: A Cross-National Experiment and Survey.” Social Forces, 2019, Vol. 97(3), 1337–1364.

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: John Braithwaite
Young Career Award: Melissa Rorie
Outstanding Book Award: not awarded
Student Paper Award: Norah Ylang, “Capable Guardianship Against Identity Theft: Demographic Insights Based on a National Sample of U.S. Adults”
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen, “Subterranean Values, Self-Deception, and White-Collar Crime.” In Blomberg, T., Cullen, F., Carlsson, C., Jonson, C. (Eds.). (2018). Delinquency and Drift Revisited: The Criminology of David Matza and Beyond, Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 21. New York: Routledge. Pp. 99-124
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article or Book Chapter: Rebecca Nash, Martin Bouchard, and Aili Malm, “Social Networks as Predictors of Harm Suffered by Victims of a Large-Scale Ponzi Scheme.” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2017, Vol. 59(1): 26-62.

Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Benson
Young Career Award: Kimberly Barrett
Outstanding Book Award: Gregg Barak, Unchecked Corporate Power
Student Paper Award: not awarded
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: Natalie Schell-Busey, Sally S. Simpson, Melissa Rorie, and Mariel Alper. “What works? A systematic review of corporate crime deterrence.” Criminology & Public Policy, 2016, Vol. 15 (2): 387-416.