The Call for 2022 Awards
The Sociology of Law Section offers multiple awards distributed at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August each year.
Distinguished Book Award
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Book Award recognizing an outstanding book published in 2020, 2021, or 2022 in the sociology of law. Self-nominations are welcomed. Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members, but persons nominating books must be section members at the time of nomination. To nominate a book, please submit a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field to the award committee chair, Jennifer Carlson (jennifercarlson@email.arizona.edu), who will provide the names and addresses to which copies of the book should be mailed. In the subject line of your email please write “Nomination for Sociology of Law Book Award.”
Deadline: February 15, 2022
Distinguished Article Award
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Article Award recognizing an outstanding journal article published in 2020, 2021, or 2022 in the sociology of law. Self-nominations are welcomed. Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members. To nominate an article, please submit a PDF of the article, together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Swethaa Ballakrishnen (sballakrishnen@law.uci.edu). In the subject line of your email please write “Nomination for Sociology of Law Article Award.”
Deadline: February 15, 2022
Graduate Student Paper Award
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award recognizing an outstanding paper written in 2020, 2021, or 2022 in the sociology of law. The author (or first author, in the case of multiple authorship) must have been a graduate student when the paper was written. Self-nominations are welcomed, as are nominations by faculty advisors or other section members. Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members. If unpublished, nominated papers must be double-spaced and article length. To nominate a paper, please submit a PDF of the paper (in published or unpublished form), together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Stefan Vogler (vogler-stefan@norc.org). In the subject line of your email please write “Nomination for Sociology of Law Graduate Student Paper Award.”
Deadline: February 15, 2022
Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award
The Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award is awarded jointly every two years by the Crime, Law, Deviance and the Sociology of Law Sections of the ASA. It was established to recognize sustained work and/or innovative approaches in the service of facilitating the success of undergraduate students, graduate students, and/or other scholars, particularly younger scholars. Examples of such activities could include the development of a mentoring website, publication of articles or books on mentoring, or creating programs geared toward mentoring. Members of either section are invited to nominate themselves or others by submitting a letter describing the nominee’s qualifications for the award and any supporting material that would assist the award committee in assessing the nominee’s suitability for the award. Please send a nominating letter and any supporting materials to the award committee chair, Anthony Peguero (Anthony.peguero@asu.edu ).
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Undergraduate Student Paper Award
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizing an outstanding paper written in 2020, 2021, or 2022 in the sociology of law. The author must have been an undergraduate student when the paper was written. Self-nominations are welcomed, as are nominations by faculty advisors or other section members. Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members. If unpublished, nominated papers must be double-spaced and article length. To nominate a paper, please submit a PDF of the paper (in published or unpublished form), together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Mary Nell Trautner (trautner@buffalo.edu). In the subject line of your email please write “Nomination for Sociology of Law Undergraduate Student Paper Award.”
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Past Award Winners
Distinguished Book in the Sociology of Law
| 2022 | Stefan Vogler, Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification. Honorable mention: Matthew Clair, Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. |
| 2021 | Co-Winners: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite and Jennifer Carlson, Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race |
| 2020 | Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and rights in post-apartheid South Africa Honorable Mention: Victoria Reyes, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines |
| 2019 | Amada Armenta, Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement |
| 2018 | Ya-Wen Lie, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China Honorable Mention: Ellen Berrey, Robert Nelson, and Laura Beth Neilson, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality, and Forrest Stuart, Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row |
| 2017 | Lauren B. Edelman, Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights |
| 2016 | Co-Winners: Ellen Berrey, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice Lauren Rivera, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs Honorable Mention: Osagie K. Obasogie, Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind |
| 2015 | Lynette J. Chua, Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State |
| 2014 | Michele Dauber, The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State |
| 2013 | Ruth Horowitz, In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process |
| 2012 | Co-Winners: Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis Katherine C. Kellogg, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery |
| 2010 | Kwai Hang Ng, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Jonathon Simon, Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear |
| 2006 | Shai J. Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States |
| 2004 | Co-Winners: Susan Shapiro, Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of Interest in the Legal Profession David T. Johnson, The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan |
| 2002 | John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos, Global Business Regulation |
| 2000 | Robert Nelson and William Bridges, Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in the United States |
| 1998 | Bryant Garth and Yves Dezalay, International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order |
| 1996 | Ronen Shamir, Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal |
| 1994 | Co-winners: Donald Black, The Social Structure of Right and Wrong Jonathan Simon, Poor Discipline: Parole & the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 |
Distinguished Article in the Sociology of Law
| 2022 | Poulami Roychowdhury, “Incorporation: Governing Gendered Violence in a State of Disempowerment” (American Journal of Sociology, 2021). Honorable mentions: Robin Bartman, “Cracks in Broken Windows: How Objects Shape Professional Evaluation” (American Journal of Sociology, 2021) and Talia Shiff, “A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations” (American Journal of Sociology, 2021). |
| 2021 | Monica C. Bell, “Located Institutions: Neighborhood Frames, Residential Preferences, and the Case of Policing” (American Journal of Sociology, 2020) Honorable Mention: Joshua Page, Victoria Piehowski, and Joe Soss, “A debt of care: Commercial bail and the gendered logic of criminal justice predation” (RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019). |
| 2020 | Not awarded |
| 2019 | Spencer Headworth, “Getting to Know You: Welfare Fraud Investigation and the Appropriation of Social Ties” (American Sociological Review, 2019) Honorable Mention: Valerie Jenness and Kitty Calavita, “`It Depends on the Outcome’: Prisoners, Grievances, and Perceptions of Justice” (Law and Society Review, 2018) |
| 2018 | Winner: Sarah Brayne, “Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing” (American Sociological Review, 2017) Honorable Mention: Joscha Legewie, “Racial Profiling and Use of Force in Police Stops” (American Journal of Sociology, 2016) |
| 2017 | Armando Lara-Millan and Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, “Interorganizational utility of welfare stigma in the criminal justice system” (Criminology, 2017) |
| 2016 | Elizabeth Chiarello, “The War on Drugs Comes to the Pharmacy Counter: Frontline Work in the Shadow of Discrepant Institutional Logics” (Law & Social Inquiry, 2015). |
| 2015 | Kathryne M. Young, “Everyone Knows the Game: Legitimacy and Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight” (Law and Society Review, 2014) |
| 2014 | Michael C. Campbell and Heather Schoenfeld, “The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment” (American Journal of Sociology, 2013) |
| 2013 | Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness, “Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons” (Social Problems, 2013) |
| 2011 | Calvin Morrill, Lauren Edelman, Karolyn Tyson, and Richard Arum, “Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth” (Law & Society Review, 2010) |
| 2009 | Ryan King, “Conservatism, Institutionalism, and the Social Control of Intergroup Conflict” (American Journal of Sociology, 2008) |
| 2007 | Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness, “The Reconstitution of Law in Social Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime” (Law and Society Review, 2005) |
| 2005 | Co-Winners: Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey, “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority” (American Journal of Sociology, 2003) Nicholas Pedriana and Robin Stryker, “The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971” (American Journal of Sociology, 2004) Honorable Mention: Becky Petit and Bruce Western, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course”Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration” (American Sociological Review, 2004) |
| 2003 | Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry K. Adams, “Michigan’s Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School” (Law & Social Inquiry, 2000). |
| 2001 | Mary Vogel, “The Social Origins of Plea Bargaining: Conflict and the Law in the Process of State Formation, 1830-1860” (Law & Society Review, 1999) |
| 1999 | Kitty Calavita, “Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain” (Law & Society Review, 1998) |
| 1997 | Co-Winners: Donald Black, “The Epistemology of Pure Sociology” (Law & Social Inquiry, 1995) Arthur Stinchcombe, “Lustration as a Problem of the Social Basis of Constitutionalism” (Law & Social Inquiry, 1995) |
Distinguished Graduate Student Paper in the Sociology of Law
| 2022 | Blanca A. Ramirez, “Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement.” Social Problems, 2021. Honorable mention: Isaac Dalke, “I Come Before You a Changed Man: ‘Insight,’ Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California.” |
| 2021 | Laura Adler, “From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: The Evolution of Pay-setting Practices in the US since the 1950s” Honorable Mention: Tony Cheng, “The Cumulative Discretion of Police over Community Complaints: Evidence from the NYPD” |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Martin, “Regulating the Risk of Debt: Exemption Laws and Economic Insecurity Across US States, 1986-2012” Honorable mention: Kevin Dahaghi, “Uneven Access to Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Eligibility for the Right to Counsel,” and Mary Ellen Stitt, “Adjudication Under Cover: Diversion and Inequality in the Criminal Courts” |
| 2019 | Celene Reynolds, “The Diffusion of Title IX Sexual Harassment Complaints throughout U.S. Colleges and Universities” |
| 2018 | Deisy Del Real, “Toxic Ties: The Reproduction of Legal Violence within Mixed-Status Intimate Partners, Relatives, and Friends” Honorable Mention: Margo Moinester, “Beyond the Border and into the Heartland: Spatial Pattering of U.S. Immigration Detention,” and Jamie Morse, “Legal Mobilization in Medicine: Nurses, Rape Kits, and the Emergence of Forensic Nursing in the United States since the 1970s” |
| 2017 | Katherine Eva Maich, “Perpetuating the Past, Perpetuating the Present: Labor Rights and Colonial Fantasies of the Peruvian Home” |
| 2016 | Co-winners: Sarah Brayne, “Stratified Surveillance: Policing in the Age of Big Data” Nate Ela, “Litigation Dilemmas: Lessons from Marcos Human Rights Class Action” |
| 2015 | Monica C. Bell, “From Legal Cynicism to Situational Trust” |
| 2014 | Ke Li, “What He Did Was Lawful’: Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in Contemporary China,” Law & Policy 37(3):153-179. 2015. |
| 2013 | Trevor Hoppe, “Controlling Sex in the Name of Public Health: Social Control and the Michigan HIV Law” Social Problems 60(1):27-49. 2013. |
| 2012 | Scott Leon Washington, “Crossing the Line: A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1662-2000” |
| 2011 | Shauhin Talesh, “How Organizations Shape the Meaning of the Law: A Comparative Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws” |
| 2010 | Co-Winners: Nicole Martorano Van Cleve, “Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney” Kathryne M. Young, “Rights Consciousness in Criminal Procedure: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry,” Pp. 67-95 in Access to Justice (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Volume 12). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2009. |
| 2009 | Lauren A. Rivera, “Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Job Interviews” |
| 2008 | Shauhin Talesh, “The Legislature, ‘Lemons,’ Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers to ‘Holster’ Consumer Warranty Protection Law ‘Weapons’” |
| 2007 | Leisy Abrego, “Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California,” Law & Social Inquiry33(3):709-734. 2008. |
| 2006 | Mary Nell Trautner, “Liability v. Likeability: How Personal Injury Lawyers Screen Cases in an Era of Tort Reform” |
| 2005 | Gabrielle Ferrales, “Domestic Violence Crime Control Policy and Practice: Implications for Arguments Concerning Penal Theory” |
| 2004 | Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster, “Law School Rankings and Admissions: The Effects of the Redefinition of a Status Hierarchy” |
| 2002 | Devah Pager, “The Mark of a Criminal Record,” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975. 2003. |
| 2001 | Gary Gray, “A Socio-Legal Ethnography of the Right to Refuse Dangerous Work,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 24:133-169. 2002. |
| 2000 | Co-Winners: Myrna Dawson and Ronit Donovitzer, “The Decision to Prosecute in Cases of Domestic Violence: Assessing the Role of Victim Cooperation” Jonathan Charles Dunten, “Avoiding Star Wars: Struggles Between National Sovereignty and International Cooperation in Outer Space Law” |
| 1999 | Co-Winners: Michelle Manasse, “The Organizational Process Leading to Successful Juvenile Corrections, 1986-1999” Annette Neirobisz, “Wrongful Dismissal Litigation in an Era of Economies on Judicial Decisions” |
| 1998 | Stacy Burns, “Think your Blackest Thoughts and Darken Them: Worst Light Depictions, Predictions and Evaluations in Judicial Mediation of Large Money Damage Disputes” |
| 1997 | Co-Winners: Brian Gran, “A Bugaboo for Social Policy: The Influence of Legal Systems on Public Pension Development” Megan Morgan, “’Battered Woman Syndrome’: Women’s Experiences, Expert Evidence, and Legal Discourse” |
| 1996 | Scott Phillips, “The Institutionalization of Judicial Decision Making: A Temporal and Rhetorical Analysis of the Development of Hate Crime Laws” |
Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper in the Sociology of Law
| 2022 | Daniella L. Efrat, “Immigration-Related Retaliation Facing Undocumented Low-Income Workers in California.” |
| 2021 | Rose Genaris, “I Dissent: A Comparative Analysis of Victim-Blaming in the Thomas and Kavanaugh Proceedings.” Honorable Mention: Gran Soren, “To Serve and Protect? Qualified Immunity and the Use of Legal Force by Police Across the United States.” |
| 2020 | Not awarded |
| 2019 | Joseph Buttino, “Perceptions of Delinquency Among College Students and Non-Students.” |
| 2018 | Rachel Schuster, “Individual Mobilization of Disability Rights” |
| 2017 | Nehartku Goyal Honorable Mention: Jessica M. Zawadzki |
| 2016 | Austin Jenkins, “The False Dichotomy: Therapy and Punishment for Addicts in Minnesota.” |
| 2015 | Laily Sheybani, “‘That’s Him, Officer!’ (Or Is It?): The Effects of Unarticulated Instructions on Eyewitness Accuracy in Culprit Recognition” |
| 2014 | Daniel J. McCarthy, “Understanding the Determinants of U.S. District Court Judges’ Decisions on PATRIOT Act Cases” |
| 2013 | Mary Pheng, “The Bureaucratic Savior: How Human Service Professionals Allocate Rights to Noncitizens” |
| 2012 | Cathy Wang, “The Effect of Work-Family Policy Design and Culture on Women’s Employment Outcomes and Men’s User Rates” |
| 2010 | Kathryn Green, “Legal Pluralism and Sexual Violence in the Democratic Repub lic of the Congo” |
| 2009 | Hope Harvey, “In Pursuit of Integration: Jefferson County, Kentucky” |
| 2008 | Andre Bagoo, “The Law Of Albion: Arendt, Rights-Talk and Critical Race Theory” |
| 2007 | Ashley DeMinck, “The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru” |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Sylvester, “A Study of Judicial Rhetoric on Wrongful Dismissal and Sexual Harassment” |
| 2005 | Roxanne Moreno, “Immutable Identities? Gender in the Asylum and Immigration Process” |
| 2004 | David Kovacs, “Tough Choices: A Sociological Analysis of Prosecutorial Decisions in Antitrust Cases” |
| 2002 | Yen P. Nguyen, “Creating Computer Crime Units” |
Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award
| 2022 | Co-winners: Alexes Harris and Valerie Jenness |
| 2020 | Anthony Peguero |
| 2014 | Christopher Uggen |
| 2012 | John Hagan |
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