Prize winning articles from The British Journal of Criminology
Explore a range of prize winning articles from the British Journal of Criminology below:
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American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology Award
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Society for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Article Award for its Theory Division
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The European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist Award
Radzinowicz Prize
The Radzinowicz Prize is awarded annually for the BJC article(s) that, in the opinion of the Editors, most contributes to knowledge of criminal justice issues and the development of criminology. Read all Radzinowicz Prize-winning papers online.
The Editors of BJC have awarded the 2024 Radzinowicz Prize to: Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis for their paper, Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn.
Past winners of the prize are:
2023: Jason Warr for their paper, Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation.
2022: Emma Buxton-Namisnyk for their paper, Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: ‘Settler’ Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination.
2021: Jack Spicer for their paper, The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: An ethnographic study of an amplification spiral.
2020: Ana Aliverti for their paper, Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls.
2019: Mareile Kaufmann, Simon Egbert, and Matthias Leese for their paper, Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns.
2018: David Gadd and Rose Broad for their paper, Troubling recognitions in British responses to modern slavery and
Matteo Tiratelli, Paul Quinton, and Ben Bradford for their paper, Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence From Ten Years of London-wide Data
2017 : Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,
The Occupation of the Senses: The Prosthetic and Aesthetic of State Terror
2016 : David Churchill,
Security and Visions of the Criminal: Technology, Professional Criminality and Social Change in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
2015 : Katja Franko Aas and Helene O. I. Gundhus,
Policing Humanitarian Borderlands: Frontex, Human Rights and the Precariousness of Life
Read the authors' OUPblog piece on the paper, Human rights and the (in)humanity at EU’s borders
2014 : N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian,
Criminality in Spaces of Death: the Palestinian Case Study
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Sharon Pickering and Julie Ham,
Hot Pants at the Border: Sorting Sex Work from Trafficking
2013 : John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak,
Crime and War in Afghanistan: Part I: The Hobbesian Solution
Crime and War in Afghanistan: Part II: A Jeffersonian Alternative?
2012 : Eamonn Carabine,
Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology
2011 : William Pridemore,
Poverty Matters: A Reassessment of the Inequality–Homicide Relationship in Cross-National Studies
2010 : Pat O’Malley,
Simulated Justice: Risk, Money and Telemetric Policing
2009 : Staci Stobl,
Policing Housemaids: The Criminalization of Domestic Workers in Bahrain
2008 : John Pratt,
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part I: The Nature and Roots of Scandinavian Exceptionalism
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?
2007: David Whyte,
The Crimes of Neo-Liberal Rule in Occupied Iraq
American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology Award
2021 Honorable Mention:
Peng Wang, Paul Joosse, and Lok Lee Cho for their article: The Evolution of Protest Policing in a Hybrid Regime
Society for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Article Award for its Theory Division
2019 Winner:
Paul Joosse for his article: Expanding Moral Panic Theory to Include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs
British Society of Criminology Policing Networking Prize
2017 Joint-Author Winner:
Kath Murray and Diarmaid Harkin for their article, 'Policing in Hot and Cool Climates: Legitimacy, Power and the Rise and Fall of Mass Stop and Search in Scotland'
2015 Joint-Author Winner:
Ben Bradford and Paul Quinton for their article: 'Self-legitimacy, Police Culture and Support for Democratic Policing in an English Constabulary'
2014 Winner:
Matthew Millings for his paper, 'Policing British Asian Identities'
British Society of Criminology Brian Williams Prize
2020 Winner:
Louise Brangan for her article, 'Civilizing Imprisonment: The Limits of Scottish Penal Exceptionalism'
2013 Joint Winner :
Ron Dudai for his article, 'Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland’
2011 Winner :
Cheryl Lawther for her paper, 'Securing' the Past - Policing and the Contest over Truth in Northern Ireland
The European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist Award
2012 Winner:
Christoffer Carlsson for his article: 'Using ‘Turning Points’ to Understand Processes of Change in Offending: Notes from a Swedish Study on Life Courses and Crime'
