Each year, the DFC recognizes contributions of our faculty scholars and professional members.
Awards are given in the following categories:
Distinguished Scholar Award: recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of women and crime by an established scholar. The contributions may consist of a single outstanding book or work, a series of theoretical or research contributions, or the accumulated contributions of an established scholar. Eligibility includes scholars who have held a Ph.D. for eight or more years.
Lifetime Achievement Award: recognizes scholars upon retirement. We inaugurated this award on our 20th Anniversary, 2004. Scholars receiving this award should have an established career advancing the goals and work of the Division on Women and Crime.
New Scholar Award: recognizes the achievements of scholars who show outstanding merit at the beginnings of their careers. Outstanding merit may be based on a single book or work, including dissertation or a series of theoretical or research contributions to the area of women and crime. Eligibility includes scholars who held a Ph.D. for less than eight years.
CoraMae Richey Mann “Inconvenient Woman of the Year” Award: recognizes the scholar/activist who has participated in publicly promoting the ideals of gender equality and women’s rights throughout society, particularly as it relates to gender and crime issues. This award will be granted on an ad hoc basis. Nominations should include specific documentation of public service (news articles, etc) and should describe in detail how this person’s activism has raised awareness and interest in the issues that concern the Division on Women and Crime. This award was inaugurated in honor of our 20th Anniversary in 2004.
Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice: recognizes a criminologist whose professional accomplishments have increased the quality of justice and the level of safety for women. The Saltzman Award need not be given every year. It is available to honor unique achievements combining scholarship, persuasion, activism and commitment, particularly work that has made a deep impact on the quality of justice for women, as well as a wide impact (interdisciplinary, international, or cross-cultural).
Sarah Hall Award for Service Contributions: recognizes outstanding service contributions to the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology and to professional interests regarding feminist criminology. Service may include mentoring, serving as an officer of the Division on Women and Crime, committee work for the ASC, DWC, or other related group, and/or serving as editor or editorial board member of journals and books or book series devoted to research on women and crime. The award is named after Sarah Hall, administrator of the American Society of Criminology for over 30 years, whose tireless service helped countless students and scholars in their careers.
Feminist Criminology’s Dr. Helen Eigenberg Best Article of the Year Award
The Book Award (established in 2017) is given annually for a book, published within three (3) calendar years preceding the year in which the award is made, that makes the most outstanding contribution to feminist criminology. Eligible books must be authored by a member or members in good standing of the DFC. Anthologies and/or edited volumes are not eligible for consideration.
The Teaching and Mentorship Award (established in 2024) recognizes an educator who demonstrates excellence in teaching and mentoring, one who inspires and empowers others through modeling and the development of their leadership skills, and/or who demonstrates dedication to the advancement and growth of others’ educational and/or career endeavors.
Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients
2025:
2024: Nicole Rader
2023: Sheetal Ranjan
2022: Shelly Clevenger
2021:
2020: Valerie Jenness
2019:
2018: Kristy Holtfreter
2017: Vera Lopez
2016: Nancy C. Jurik
2015: Marilyn Corsianos
2014: Jill McCorkel
2013: Kerry Carrington
2012: Karen Heimer
2011: Candace Kruttschnitt
2010: Jody Miller
2008: Sally Simpson
2007: Merry Morash
2006: Lynn Chancer
2005: Natalie Sokoloff
2004: Walter DeKeseredy & Martin Schwartz
2003: Drew Humphries
2002: Marjorie Zatz
2001: Betsy Stanko
2000: Susan Martin
1999: Nicole Hahn Rafter
1998: Susan Caringella-MacDonald
1997: Joanne Belknap
1996: Claire Renzetti
1995: CoraMae Richey Mann
1994: Kathleen Daly & Meda Chesney-Lind
2025:
2024:
2023:
2022:
2021:
2020:
2019:
2018:
2017:
2016: Susan F. Sharp
2015:
2014: Jill Rosenbaum
2013:
2012: Roslyn Muraskin
2011: Natalie Sokoloff
2010:
2009:
2008: Chris Rasche
2005: Imogene Moyer
2004: Christine Alder
2025: Danielle Slakoff
2024: Amanda Goodson
2023: Janet Garcia-Hallett
2020: Valerie Anderson
2018: Shelly Clevenger
2017: Eryn Nicole O’Neal
2016: Jane E. Palmer
2015: Carrie Buist and Andrea Nichols
2014: Tara Richards
2013: Rebecca Hayes
2012: Emily Lenning
2011: Kristin Carbone-Lopez
2010: Nicki Jones
2009: Molly Dragiewicz
2008: Kristy Holtfreter
2007: Hillary Potter
2006: Barbara Koons-Witt
2005: Venessa Garcia
2004: Sharon Redhawk Love
2003: Angela Moe
2002: Jeanne Flavin
2001: Jody Miller
2000: Michelle Hughes Miller
1999: Debra Stanley
1998: Kimberly J. Cook
1997: Mona Danner
1996: Nancy Wonders
1995: Helen Eigenberg
1994: Susan Miller
CoraMae Richey Mann “Inconvenient Woman of the Year” Award Recipients
2025:
2024: Deena Isom
2023: Stephanie Bonnes
2020: Shelly Clevenger
2018: Christina DeJong
2016: Bonnie Berry
2014: Hillary Potter
2012: Betsy Stanko
2011: Susan Sharp
2008: Helen Eigenberg
2006: Robin Haarr
2004: Joanne Belknap
Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice Recipients
2023: Jayne Mooney
2017: Rosemary Barberet
2014:Valerie Jenness
2013:Margaret S. Shaw
2012:Robin Haarr
2011:Joan Zorza
2010:Sue Osthoff
2009:Claire Renzetti
2008:Becky Block & Susan Sharp
2006:Barbara Bloom & Barbara Owen
Sarah Hall Award for Service Contributions Recipients
2023: Jane Palmer
2022: Venessa Garcia
2020: Lisa Carter
2017: Rosemary Barberet
2014: Amy D’Unger
2013: Christine Rasche
2012: Helen Eigenberg
Feminist Criminology’s Dr. Helen Eigenberg Best Article of the Year Award
2025: Katie M. Edwards, Emily E. Camp, Tiffani N. Luethke, Ramona Herrington, LaVonne Roach, Maggie Bertsche, Preciouse Trujillo, India Rose Carter-Bolick, Natira Mullet, and Diana Than. “‘We All Have Power’: Using Photovoice to Document Challenges and Strengths of Lakota Women with Histories of Incarceration”
2024: Ariel Roddy, “Barriers and Strategies to Finding Employment for Substance-Involved Women Leaving: A Feminist Analysis”
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2020: Kayla M. Hoskins and Jennifer E. Cobbina, “It Depends on the Situation: Women’s Identity Transformation in Prison, Jail, and Substance Abuse Treatment Settings”
2019: Candice Batton and Emily M. Wright, “Patriarchy and the Structure of Employment in Criminal Justice: Differences in the Experiences of Men and Women Working in the Legal Profession, Corrections, and Law Enforcement”
2019 Honorable Mention: Janet Garcia-Hallett, “Maternal Identities and Narratives of Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Pathways Into and Out of Offending”
2019 Honorable Mention: Glen A. Ishoy and Brenda Sims Blackwell, “Situational Action Theory’s Self-Control/Morality Interaction Effects and the Moderating Influence of Being Female: A Comparison of Property and Violent Offending Using a Sample of Juvenile Delinquents”
2018: Amie M. Schuck, “Women in Policing and the Response to Rape: Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Change”
2017: Andrea Gómez Cervantes, Cecilia Menjívar, William G. Staples, “‘Humane’ Immigration Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex”
2016: Shelly Clevenger, “Mothers of Sexual Assault Victims: How Women ‘Do Mother’ After Their Child Has Been Sexually Assaulted”
2016: Danielle M. Romain and Tina L. Freiburger, “Chivalry Revisited: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Offense Type on Domestic Violence Charge Reduction”
2015: Susan Dewey and Tonia P. St. Germain, “Sex Workers/Sex Offenders: Exclusionary Criminal Justice Practices in New Orleans”
2014: Jennifer Carlson, “The Equalizer? Crime, Vulnerability, and Gender in Pro-Gun Discourse”
2013: Andrea J. Nichols, “Meaning-Making and Domestic Violence Victim Advocacy: An Examination of Feminist Identities, Ideologies, and Practices”
2025: Regina White Benedict (posthumously), Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up
2024: Anna Gjika, When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age
2023: Nicole Fox, After Genocide Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
2025: Staci Merken
2024: Chris Smith