Michael J. Hindelang Award

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2018     Caught : the prison state and the lockdown of American politics by Marie Gottschalk
2017     Hard bargains : the coercive power of drug laws in Federal court by Mona Lynch
2016     Falling back : incarceration and transitions to adulthood among urban youth by Jamie Fader
2015     America's safest city : delinquency and modernity in suburbia by Simon Singer
2014     Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect by Robert J. Sampson
2013     The black child-savers : racial democracy and American juvenile justice by Geoff Ward
2012     Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition by David Garland
2011     American homicide by Randolph Roth
2010     Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear by Jonathan Simon
2009     Darfur and the crime of genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Wymond-Richmond
2008     Punishment and inequality in America by Bruce Western
2007     Judging juveniles : prosecuting adolescents in adult and juvenile courts by Aaron Kupchik
2006     Confessions of a dying thief : understanding criminal careers and illegal enterprises by Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery Ulmer
2005     Companions in crime : the social aspects of criminal conduct by Mark Warr
2004     Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70 by John Laub & Robert Sampson
2003     Gangs and delinquency in developmental perspective by Terence Thornberry, Marvin Krohn, Alan Lizotte, Carolyn Smith, and Kimberly Tobin
2002     Bad kids : race and the transformation of the juvenile court by Barry Feld
2001     Making good : how ex-convicts reform and rebuild their lives by Shadd Maruna
2000     Crime in context : a critical criminology of market society by Ian Taylor
1999     Political policing : the United States and Latin America by Martha K. Huggins
1998     Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness by Bill McCarthy and John Hagan
1997     Control balance : toward a general theory of deviance by Charles R. Tittle
1996     No award given
1995     Gender, crime, and punishment by Kathleen Daly
1994     Crime in the making : pathways and turning points through life by Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub
1993     Point blank : guns and violence in America by Gary Kleck
1992     Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice by Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden
1991     Crime, shame, and reintegration by John Braithwaite