The International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Science serves its members in four distinct ways:
Provides a means for international scholar exchanges, to create opportunities for cross-cultural research, and international/comparative criminal justice curriculum development.
Provides a free subscription to all paid members of the International Criminal Justice Review (ICJR), a peer-reviewed quarterly journal, is dedicated to presenting system-wide trends and problems on crime and justice worldwide. (ACJS International Section membership is available to any existing member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Science at www.acjs.org.
Holds an annual meeting at the site of the ACJS meeting each March. At the meeting and reception, outstanding scholars, students, and papers are recognized, and those with international and comparative interests have a forum to meet and connect.
Communicates via a listserv and webpage to link those interested in, and working on, international and comparative crime and justice issues.
Section News:
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.
Membership and Member Benefits:
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
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Dues:$35 per year; $15 per year for Student members.
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.eduno 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
Past International Section Chairs
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
ACJS IS Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony 2021 (held virtually)
2015-2017 International Section Executive Committee: (left to right) Jay Albanese, Immediate Past Chair (Virginia Commonwealth University); Nadine Connell, Executive Counselor (University of Texas-Dallas); John Cencich, Chair (California University of Pennsylvania); Harry Rhea, Vice Chair (Rutgers-Camden); Marlyn Jones, Executive Counselor (California State University-Sacramento); Stefan Schumann, Secretary (Johannes Kepler University-Linz); Vesna Markovic, Executive Counselor (University of New Haven). Yuliya Zabelina, Executive Counselor (John Jay, CUNY) is not in the picture.
Past ACJS International Section Chairs: (From left to right) Jay S. Albanese (Virginia Commonwealth University) 2013-15; Harry Dammer (University of Scranton) 2003-05; Hedi Nasheri (Kent State University) 2009-11; John Cencich (California University of Pennsylvania) 2015-17; John Winterdyk (University of Calgary) 2007-09; Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich (Michigan State University) 2011-13; Philip Reichel (University of Northern Colorado) 2005-07.
Dr. Vesna Markovic awarding Dr. Jianhong Liu the 2018 G.O.W. Mueller Award.
Harry Rhea (right) awarding Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich (left) the 2017 Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Criminal Justice.
Dr. Stefan Schumann awarding Dr. Amy Adamczyk the Outstanding Book Award 2018 for Cross-National Public Opinion About Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe.
Dr. Patricia Dahl Awarding Yeungjeom Lee and Jihoon Kim the 2018 Outstanding Paper Award by Graduate Students.
Yuliya Zabelina (right) awarding the 2017 Outstanding Book Award to Thomas J. Holt and Adam M. Bossier for Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enable Offenses (Routledge, 2017). Mary A. Finn (left) from Michigan State accepts the award on their behalf.
Vesna Markovic (right) awarding Vladimir Božović (left) the 2017 International Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. Vladimir received the award on behalf of himself and his co-author Valentina Asančaić.
At the 2010 International Section meeting in San Diego: Dorothy Bracey (2005 Mueller Award Winner), Pete Benekos, Jim Finckenauer (2009 Mueller Award Winner), Freda Adler, and Alida Merlo.
Dick Bennett receives the 2007 Mueller Award from Alida Merlo; Jay Albanese receiving the Mueller Award in 2011 in Toronto; and Bill Pridemore being presented the 2015 Mueller Award in Orlando by John Cencich.
Ming Li, the 2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award recipient, with Jay Albanese.
Rosemary Barberet being presented the 2015 International Section Book Award by Marlyn Jones.
Janice Joseph providing the 2015 update on ACJS activities with the United Nations during the Annual Awards Luncheon.
ACJS International Section group photo at the 2015 Awards Luncheon.
Dave Whelan, Pete Benekos, Harry Dammer, Alido Merlo, and Jay Albanese in Orlando 2015.
Jay Albanese being recognized for his exceptional service as the outgoing International Section Chair.
Finn Esbensen, 2012 Mueller Distinguished Scholar Award Winner with Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, ACJS International Section Chair.
ACJS representatives to the UN Crime Congress in Salvador, Brazil (2010). The panel presentation included Rosemary Barberet, Jay Albanese, Janice Joseph, Denise Gosselin, Phil Reichel, Dave Tushaus and Joanne Katz.
Louise Shelley, 2013 Mueller Award recipient, flanked by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and Freda Adler.
Margaret Shaw (right) receiving the 2014 Mueller Award from Freda Adler.