The following are the award winners for the 1996 student paper competition:

STUDENT PAPER RECOGNITION: Recognizing graduate and undergraduate
papers that best exemplify the spirit of the Division.

GRADUATE AWARD:

     First place: GEORGE S. RIGAKOS (Sociology, York University,
     Can):  "New Right, New Left, New Challenges: Understanding and
     Responding to Neoconservativism in Contemporary
     Criminology." Mr. Rigakos examines the rise of
     neoconservative thought and argues that there is little
     "new" about the "new right." He develops New Left Realism as
     an antidote to new-right policies.

     Second place (tie): ROSARIA ARRABITO (Sociology, Northern
     Illinois University): "Assistance to Whom?" Ms. Arrabito
     studies a Victim Witness program and argues that victims of
     domestic violence are not receiving the assistance they
     need.

     SHADD MARUNA (Human Development and Social Policy:
     Northwestern University): "Becoming (non-)Deviant:
     Self-Narratives of Desistance from Crime." Mr. Maruna draws
     from the auto-biographical tradition to show how the
     narratives that ex-offenders construct for themselves to
     describe their past actions may be instrumental in
     identifying ways to facilitate rehabilitation and
     reintegration into society.

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD:

     ALLISON FORKER (Dept of Criminology, Northeastern Illinois
     University): "Chaos and Modeling Crime: Quinney's Class,
     State and Crime." This is an exceptionally ambitious and
     cogent attempt to integrate chaos theory with postmodernism
     and Richard Quinney's theory of Capitalism and the State.