AEC AND DEC AWARDS
AEC Awards
Joan McCord Award
The Joan McCord Award recognizes distinguished experimental contributions to criminology and criminal justice. Award recipients must have conducted significant experimental research that is in the tradition of Joan McCord and has important implications for policy and practice. The award can be given to a specific randomized controlled trial or a group of experiments leading to significant policy outcomes.
Past recipients of the Joan McCord Award:
2004 – Richard Tremblay, University of Montreal
2005 – David Farrington, University of Cambridge
2006 – Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Cambridge
2007 – Joan Petersilia, University of California, Irvine (now at Stanford University Law School)
2008 – David Weisburd, The Hebrew University and George Mason University
2009 – Denise Gottfredson, University of Maryland
2010 – Ted Palmer, California Youth Authority (retired)
2011 – Doris MacKenzie, Pennsylvania State University
2012 – Mark Lipsey, Vanderbilt University
2013 – Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland
2014 – Anthony Braga, Rutgers University and Harvard Kennedy School
2015 – Friedrich Lösel, University of Cambridge and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2016- David Hawkins, University of Washington
2017- Faye Taxman, George Mason University
2018- Pamela K. Lattimore, RTI International
2019- Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University
2020- Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania
Outstanding Young Experimental Criminologist Award
The Annual Young Experimental Scholar Award recognizes exceptional early career scholarship.
Past recipients of the Award:
2007 – Gaylene Styve Armstrong & Todd A. Armstrong, Sam Houston State University
2008 – Elizabeth Groff, Temple University
2009 – Sarah Bennett, Griffith University (now at University of Queensland), Australia & John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
2010 – Yu Gao, University of Pennsylvania
2011 – Barak Ariel, University of Cambridge
2012 – Charlotte Gill, George Mason University
2013 – Justin Ready, Arizona State University
2014 – Joel Caplan, Rutgers University
2015 – Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University
2016- Emma Antrobus, University of Queensland
2017- Cynthia (Cindy) Najdowski, SUNY Albany
2018- Cody Telep, Arizona State University
2019- Megan Denver, Northeastern University
2020- Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania
DEC Awards
Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of experimental criminology. The recipient must be a leader in the advancement of experimental methodology, experimental research, or the use of experimental methods in the advancement of evidence-based policy. The award is not given for any single research project or study, but for a body of research developed over a career of interest in this area. An important component of this award is recognition of advancement of experimental science through the mentoring of other experimental scholars.
Past recipients of the Award:
2010 – David Farrington, University of Cambridge
2011 – Joan Petersilia, Stanford University Law School
2012 – Friedrich Lösel, University of Cambridge
2013 – Lawrence Sherman, University of Cambridge and University of Maryland
2014 – David Weisburd, The Hebrew University and George Mason University
2015 – Denise Gottfredson, University of Maryland
2016- Doris MacKenzie, Pennsylvania State University
2017- Steven Belenko, Temple University
2018- Jeremy Travis, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
2019- Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland
2020- Robert Boruch, University of Pennsylvania
Award for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial
This award recognizes a single research project or program that contributes significantly to criminological research and experimental science. To be eligible a study must have been conducted within the last five years. Additionally, all experiments published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology for the last two years will be considered for this award.
Past recipients of the Award:
2011 – John Roman, Shannon Reid, Jay Reid, Aaron Chalfin, William Adams, and Carly Knight, Urban Institute
2012 – Karen Amendola et al., Police Foundation (see Karen Amendola discussing the Police Foundation shift work experiment here)
2013 – Jerry Ratcliffe, Travis Taniguchi, Elizabeth Groff, and Jennifer Wood for their Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment.
2014 – Lawrence Sherman and Heather Harris for their Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment 23-Year Follow-Up
2015 – Sara Heller, University of Pennsylvania, for the Chicago Summer Jobs Trial
2016- Robert J. Kane, Drexel University, Michael D. White, Arizona State University & Justin Ready, Griffith University for the TASER® Exposure and Cognitive Impairment trials.
2017- Lorraine Mazzerolle, Sarah Bennett, Emma Antrobus & Elizabeth Eggins for the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP) Field Trial
2018- Amanda Agan, Rutgers University-New Brunswick & Sonja Starr, University of Michigan, for Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment
2019- Anthony A. Braga, PhD, Northeastern University, William H. Sousa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, James R. “Chip” Coldren, Jr., CNA, & Denise Rodriguez , CNA for The Effects of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounters: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2020- Branas, C. C., South, E., Kondo, M. C., Hohl, B. C., Bourgois, P., Wiebe, D. J., & MacDonald, J. M. (2018). Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(12), 2946-2951.
Student Paper Award
This award is given for an outstanding paper involving experimental field trials, or theoretical or policy questions in the area of experimental criminology. The paper must be submitted for review while a student is enrolled in a recognized PhD program in criminology or criminal justice, or a related field. The paper can be “under review” or it can be a manuscript published up to one year prior to the year of the award. Students may submit co-authored papers, although the student must be the first author. The student paper award also includes a $500 cash award.
Past recipients of the Award:
2011 – No award given
2012 – Cody Telep et al., George Mason University, for “How much time should the police spend at crime hot spots? Answers from a police agency directed randomized field trial in Sacramento, California.”
2013 – Matthew Nelson, Alese Wooditch and Lisa Dario, George Mason University/Arizona State University, for “Sample size, effect size, and statistical power: A replication study of Weisburd’s paradox.”
2014 – Evan Sorg et al., Temple University, for “Boundary adherence during place-based policing evaluations.”
2015 – Angela M. Jones et al., John Jay College, for “Sensitizing jurors to factors influencing the accuracy of eyewitness identification: Assessing the effectiveness of the Henderson instructions.”
2016- Adam Dunbar, with Charis E. Kubrin and Nicholas Scurich, University of California, Irvine for “The Threatening Nature of ‘Rap’ Music.”
2017- (2 awards) Olivia Choy & Megan Denver
2018- Kyleigh Clark-Moorman (University of Massachusetts) for “Impact evaluation of a parolee-based focused deterrence program on community-level violence”
2019- Rylan Simpson
2020- Gomes, H. S., Farrington, D. P., Maia, Â., & Krohn, M. D. (2019). Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments. Journal of experimental criminology, 15(3), 313-339.