The Michael J. Hindelang Award is given annually to a book that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology. Click American Society of Criminology for more information about the sponsor of this award.
2024 In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment by Rachel Ellis
2023 Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Jonathan Miller Reuben
2022 Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne
2021 Digital punishment : privacy, stigma, and the harms of data-driven criminal justice by Sarah E. Lageson
2020 The chosen ones : Black men and the politics of redemption by Nikki Jones
2019 Down, out, and under arrest : policing and everyday life in Skid Row by Forrest Stuart
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