International

The International Section holds an annual meeting and reception during the ACJS Annual Meeting, so the location changes each year.  These events provide opportunities for members to meet and interact, providing a forum to advance teaching, scholarship, and service in the broad area of international and comparative crime and justice studies.

Free to all paid members of the ACJS International Section, The International Criminal Justice Review (ICJR) is peer-reviewed and published quarterly, dedicated to presenting system-wide trends and problems on crime and justice worldwide. The journal provides a comparative and international overview of law, crime and justice from a cross-cultural perspective.  http://icj.sagepub.com/

Members are also entitled to a free copy of the ACJS International Section’s Comparative and International Criminal Justice Course Guide, edited by Jay Albanese. The guide has been provided to all paid members. You can also email the International Section Chair (Yuliya Zabyelina) at yuliya.zabyelina@gmail.com to obtain a copy. Additionally, a lunch has been provided in recent years to members—at no cost—who have attended the Annual Awards Luncheon.

TO JOIN THE SECTION

Only members of ACJS can join a Section. To join ACJS and add a Section, complete the membership application.  If you are an existing member and would like to ADD a Section to your membership, please select the Section (only) on the membership application and complete the payment process.

Dues:  $35 per year; $15 per year for Student members.

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Stefan Schumann , Chair
Jared Dmello, Vice Chair
Popy Begum, Secretary
Yuliya Zabyelina, Immediate Past Chair
Sesha Kethineni, Executive Counselor
Meghna Bhat, Executive Counselor
Hasan T. Arslan, Executive Counselor
Harvey McMurray, Executive Counselor

Mueller Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Criminal Justice

About Gerhard O.W. Mueller

The Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award is conferred annually on an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of comparative/international criminal justice spanning the areas of scholarship, leadership, and service. To be considered for the award, one needs a letter of nomination and detailed CV to be sent electronically to the Mueller Award Committee chair, Jared Romeo Dmello at jared.dmello@adelaide.edu.au. The letter must explain why the candidate is qualified to be considered for the award. Self-nominations are discouraged. The deadline for nominations is Friday, October 4, 2024 . All nominees must be current International Section members at the time of nomination. The winner will receive $300 and will be acknowledged at the International Section’s Annual Awards Luncheon during the 2025 ACJS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award 2023
Gorazd Mesko, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Past Mueller Award Winners:

Prabha Unnithan, 2022
Mangai Natarajan, 2021
Leonidas Cheliotis, 2020
Mahesh Nalla, 2019
Jianhong Liu, 2018
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, 2017
Gary LaFree, 2016
William Alex Pridemore, 2015
Margaret Shaw, 2014
Louise Shelley, 2013
Finn-Aage Esbensen, 2012
Jay Albanese, 2011
C. Ronald Huff, 2010
James Finckenauer, 2009
Martin Killias, 2008
Richard Bennett, 2007
Elmar Weitekamp, 2006
Dorothy Bracey, 2005
Ian McKenzie, 2004
Jeremy Travis, 2003

Outstanding Book Award

The ACJS International Section is seeking nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award. The award is given to the author of a book published on any topic relating to the broad areas of international or comparative crime or justice with a formal publishing date in calendar years 2023 or 2024. All nominees must be current International Section members at the time of nomination.

Nominations are reviewed by a committee of the ACJS International Section. We encourage nominations from publishers, colleagues, and authors. Nominations from any country are welcome, but the book must also be published in English. Multiple-authored books are also eligible, but edited books are not. Nominations must be received by the committee chair, Hasan T. Aslan at arslanh@wcsu.edu no later than October 4, 2024. Copies of nominated books must be made available to the members of the Book Award committee by the deadline. The winner will receive $500 and will be acknowledged at the International Section’s Annual Awards Luncheon during the 2025 ACJS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

Outstanding Book Award 2023
Between Immunity and Impunity by Yuliya Zabyelina, University of Alabama

Past Outstanding Book Award Winners

2022 - Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Adri Sauerman, Andrew Faull, Michael E. Meyer, and Gareth Newham, Police Integrity in South Africa

2021 - David Skarbek
The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies around the World

2020 - Veronica Michel
Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America

2019 - Valeria Vegh Weis
Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity

2018 - Amy Adamczyk
Cross-National Public Opinion About Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe

2017 - Thomas J. Holt and Adam M. Bossier
Cybercrime in Progress:  Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enable Offenses (Routledge, 2017)

2016 - Jana Arsovska
Decoding Albanian organized crime; culture, politics, and globalization (2015), University of California Press.

2015 – Rosemary Barberet
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: A Global Enquiry

2014 - Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and John Hagan
Reclaiming Justice: The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Local Courts (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

For the ACJS International Section Graduate Student Paper Award, nominated papers need to be authored by a graduate student. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet which includes the author’s name, department, university, and location, contact information (including email address), whether the author is a master- or doctoral-level student, and the name and email of a faculty advisor who can be contacted to verify graduate student status. Paper topics must deal with a comparative or international criminal justice issue. Submissions must be authored by the nominated student (only). Papers co-authored with faculty will not be accepted. All nominees must be current International Section members at the time of nomination. Manuscripts must be submitted as an email attachment in a .doc format to the award committee chair, Yuliya Zabyelina at yuliya.zabyelina@gmail.com by October 4, 2024. The winning paper will receive a monetary award of $200 and be recognized at the meeting of the 2024 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Denver, CO.

Outstanding Graduate Paper Award 2023
Distinguishing between Normative and Non-Normative Motivation to Obey the Police: Furthering the Development of a Police Legitimacy Scale by Yang Vincent Liu, Michigan State University

Past Outstanding Graduate Paper Award Winners

2022 - Iris Xiaoshuang Luo

2021 - Seyvan Nouri

2020 - Christopher J. Marier

2019 - Marko Prpic and Robert Peacock

2018 - Yeungjeom Lee and Jihoon Kim

2017 - Vladimir Božović and Valentina Asančaić

2016 - Barbara Prprovic and Nikolina Nemec

2015 - Ming-Li “Lily” Hsieh

2014 - Michael F. Campagna, Washington State University

Yuliya Zabyelina, 2021- 2023
Vesna Markovic, 2019-2021
Harry Rhea, 2018-2019
John Cencich, 2015-2017
Jay Albanese, 2013-2015
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, 2011-2013
Hedi Nasheri, 2009-2011
John Winterdyk, 2007-2009
Phil Reichel, 2005-2007
Harry Dammer, 2003-2005
Maximilian Edelbacher, 2001-2003
Ian McKenzie, 1994-2001
Robert McCormack, 1988-1994