Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a member of the DPCC who has a record of sustained and significant accomplishments and contributions in:

  1. Research on people of color and crime in the field of criminology or criminal justice
  2. Teaching and/or mentoring scholars in this field
  3. Service to the discipline and to the community of people of color

To be considered for the Lifetime Achievement Award, the person must be an active member in good standing of the division for at least 2 consecutive years prior to being awarded. Nominations consist of a letter of nomination and the nominee’s CV. Self nominations are welcome.

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2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Dr. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice. He has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and has taught at the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications including more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and 13 books. His most recent books include the co-authored book, Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America (2020; Routledge), Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (5th edition; 2020, Routledge), and the co-authored book, Race, Ethnicity, Crime, & Justice: An International Dilemma (2nd edition; 2020, Routledge). The recipient of numerous awards, in 2019, Dr. Gabbidon was named a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences(ACJS). In 2020, he was identified as the 24th Most Influential Criminologist in the world by AcademicInfuence.com.

Previous Awardees | 2008 - Present 

2022 – Rod K. Brunson

2021 – Nancy Rodriguez

2020 – Avelardo Valdez

2019 – Not Awarded

2018 – Merry Morash

2017 – Darnell Hawkins

2016 – Katheryn Russell-Brown

2015 – Ross Matsueda

2014 – Robert Crutchfield

2013 – Michael Leiber

2012 – Lauren Krivo

2011 – Ramiro Martinez and Barry Krisberg

2010 – Helen Taylor Greene

2009 – Marjorie Zatz

2008 – Ruth Peterson