2022 Awards
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The Division on White-Collar and Corporate Crime (DWCC) is pleased to announce our awards designed to promote and highlight scholarly efforts in the broad areas of white collar crime, economic crime, corporate crime, organizational crime and corruption. Five annual awards are anticipated:
- The Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award: This award recognizes sustained outstanding professional contributions by an individual to the broadly defined areas of white-collar crime and corporate crime. Scholarly contributions may be empirical or theoretical. Professional contributions also include advocating for white-collar crime as an area of scholarship within criminology and related disciplines and mentoring graduate students. Persons who have made substantial practical contributions to white-collar crime control also are eligible to receive this award. The committee may elect not to make this award in any given year.
- The Young Career Award: The award recognizes outstanding contributions to scholarship to the broadly defined areas of white-collar and corporate crime by persons early in their professional careers. To be eligible for this award, an individual must have received his or her terminal degree no more than eight years before the year of the award and have developed a strong research agenda in white-collar or corporate crime since the time of the terminal degree as indicated by regular publications in these areas. The committee may elect not to make this award in any given year.
- The Student Paper Award: The award recognizes scholarly work of students in the broadly defined areas of white-collar and corporate crime. Students working by themselves or as part of a team of co-authors who are currently enrolled in an academic program or a recent graduate of such a program (no more than one year removed from the year of the award) at either the undergraduate or graduate level are eligible for the competition. Paper submissions may be conceptual, theoretical and/or empirical (quantitative or qualitative) and must be a completed project directly related to white-collar or corporate crime. Papers must be the work of one or more students but should not be co-authored with a faculty member, though a review and endorsement by a faculty member of the student’s choice is required for submission. Papers must also be a maximum of 30 pages (including tables and references) and formatted in APA style. The committee may elect not to make this award in any given year.
- The Outstanding Book Award: This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in a monograph or textbook within the broadly defined areas of white-collar crime and corporate crime. Books published within three years of the award are eligible for consideration. The committee may elect not to give this award in any given year.
- The Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award: This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in the form of an article or book chapter in the broadly defined areas of white-collar and corporate crime. Articles or chapters published within three years of the award are eligible for consideration. The committee may elect not to give this award in any given year.
Award winners must be either regular or student members of the Division on White-Collar and Corporate Crime or agree to join the Division prior to receiving the award.
Awards Nomination Submission Procedures
- A letter of nomination that includes a brief discussion of your reasons for the recommendation.
- Where relevant to the award, a copy of the paper(s), chapter, or book to be considered (electronic versions preferred).
- Nominations will be reviewed by the DWCC Awards Committee and Executive Board, and winners must agree to make a short speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, where the awards will be made.