Michael J. Hindelang Award

The Michael J. Hindelang Award is an award, established in 1992, that is awarded annually by the American Society of Criminology to books published in the three previous years, that are deemed to make "the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology." A book is only eligible to win the award if a member of the Society nominates it.

Recipients

 * 2015    America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Simon Singer
 * 2014    Great American City by Robert J. Sampson
 * 2013    The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice by Geoff Ward
 * 2012    Peculiar institution by David Garland
 * 2011    American Homicide by Randolph Roth
 * 2010    Governing Through Crime by Jonathan Simon
 * 2009    Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John L. Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
 * 2008    Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western
 * 2007    Judging Juveniles by Aaron Kupchik
 * 2006    Confessions of a Dying Thief by Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery Ulmer
 * 2005    Companions in Crime by Mark Warr
 * 2004    Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives 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 by Barry Feld
 * 2001    Making Good by Shadd Maruna
 * 2000    Crime in Context by Ian Taylor
 * 1999    Political Policing by Martha K. Huggins
 * 1998    Mean Streets by Bill McCarthy and John Hagan
 * 1997    Control Balance 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