ESC Awards

ESC European Criminology Award

The ESC European Criminology Award is given every year to a European criminologist with a significant lifetime contribution to European criminology every year.

Nominations shall include (1) a letter of nomination explaining why the nominee’s work warrants recognition, and (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

The nominees must not be current members of the ESC Board or have been members of such Board during the 3 years preceding the year of the award.

ESC Early Career Award

The ESC Early Career Award recognises the outstanding scientific achievement of an early career European criminologist. The award is given biannually (every odd year).

The term ‘early career’ means less than ten years since the successful PhD’s defence, plus any eligible career breaks (such as maternity or paternity leave, or the long-term illness of the candidate or a close family member). To demonstrate eligibility, the specific circumstances of a career break need to be properly documented.

The main criterion for recognizing ‘outstanding scientific achievement’ consists of a series of high-quality publications (such as articles in a peer-reviewed journals or monographs published by an academic publisher), some but not all of which can be co-authored. In addition, the jury can take into consideration the candidate’s proven impact on public debates, laws, policy documents or practices.

The nominees must be members of the ESC. They must not be current members of the ESC Board or have been members of such board during the 3 years preceding the year of an award.

Nominations shall include (1) a letter of nomination explaining why the nominee’s work warrants recognition, and (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

ESC Young Criminologist Award

The ESC Young Criminologist Award is given every year for an outstanding article to a European criminologist who was 35-years-old or younger when the article was published. The nominee must be the sole author of an article on a criminological topic published in a peer-reviewed journal in a European language within the three calendar years preceding the year of the proposed award. If the article was published Early Access (for example, as online first), the three-year period begins the year of the online publication.

Nominations shall include (1) a letter of nomination explaining why the nominee’s work warrants recognition, (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae, (3) a copy of the original article,(4) if the article is published in a language other than English, a translation of the article into English (unless all jury members speak or read another European language and the article is in that language), and (5) a description of the journal in which the article was published, including a description of its peer-review process.

ESC Book Award

This Award, which is given every year, recognises the author(s) of a book that represents an outstanding contribution to the further development of European criminology.

To be eligible for the Award, the monograph or book must have been published by an academic publisher within the three calendar years preceding the year of the proposed award. Anthologies and/or edited volumes will not be considered for this Award. Sole or multi-authored monographs or books may be nominated but only one Award will be given to be shared amongst all authors.

The nominees must not be current members of the ESC Board or have been members of such Board during the 3 years preceding the year of the award.

The nominees must not be current members of the ESC Board or have been members of such Board during the 3 years preceding the year of the award.

Nominations shall include (1) A letter of nomination explaining why the nominee’s work warrants recognition, and (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Distinguished Services to the ESC Award

The Distinguished Services Award, given biannually in even years, recognizes outstanding service contributions to the effective functioning of the European Society of Criminology.

The nominees must not be current members of the ESC Board or have been members of such Board during the 3 years preceding the year of the award.

Nominations shall include (1) A letter of nomination explaining why the nominee’s work warrants recognition, and (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

The Distinguished Service Award is given in even years.

For all of the above, the terms ‘criminologist’ (‘persons actually engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of criminology’) and ‘criminological’ relate to criminology as defined in Section 1 of the ESC Constitution (‘The term criminology, as used in this Constitution, refers to all scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the explanation, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency, offenders and victims, including the measurement and detection of crime, legislation and the practice of criminal law, and law enforcement, judicial, and correctional systems’).

All nominations shall be sent to the Executive Secretary by no later than the 31 March 2022.

For details, please visit the website of the ESC