Congratulations to the 2025 award winners!
Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers, winners of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, for the book
Murdertown USA: Homicide, structural violence, and activism in Wilmington, Rutgers University Press.
Jonathan Reid, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award, for the paper A culture of White violence: The enduring impact of slavery on contemporary interracial killings at Social Problems.
Runner-up: Tony Cheng for the book The policing machine: Enforcement, endorsement, and the illusion of public input, University of Chicago Press.
Joseph Risi, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award, for the paper Community representation and policing: Effects on Black civilians (with Corina Graif) at Criminology.