Nominations

Nominations are submitted to the nominations committee chair, who is one of the elected board members. A solicitation email is sent to members each year with instructions for how to apply for an award.

The Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology has established four awards.​

  • Lifetime Achievement Award: This award recognizes an individual who has a record of sustained and outstanding contributions to scholarly knowledge on biopsychosocial criminology.
  • Early Career Award: This award recognizes an individual (within 6 years after receiving the Ph.D. degree or similar graduate degree) who has made a significant contribution to scholarly knowledge on biopsychosocial criminology in their early career.
  • Outstanding Contribution Award: This award recognizes an outstanding contribution (journal article or book) in the field of biopsychosocial criminology by a scholar who has completed their Ph.D.
  • Student Innovation Award: This award recognizes an exceptional paper by a current graduate student in the field of biopsychosocial criminology. The student must be lead or solo author on the paper, and the paper must be either under review, accepted for publication, or published to be considered. This award comes with a cash prize.
    • Special thanks to our donors (Alphabetized by last name):
      • Dustin Pardini

Congratulations to our division award winners!

Lifetime Achievement Award:

  • 2025: Adrian Raine (University of Pennsylvania)
  • 2024: No award given
  • 2023: Dr. Friedrich Lösel (University of Cambridge)
  • 2019: Dr. Anthony Walsh (Boise State University)

Early Career Award:

  • 2025: Olivia Choy
  • 2024: Yu (Dorothy) Du (North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University)
  • 2023: Dr. Peter Tanksley (University of Texas at Austin) & Dr. Shichun Ling (California State University, Los Angeles)
  • 2022: Dr. Frances Chen (Georgia State University)
  • 2021: Colleen Berryessa (Rutgers University)
  • 2020: Dr. Joe Schwartz (Florida State University)
  • 2019: Arielle Baskin-Sommers (Yale University)

Outstanding Contribution Award:

  • 2025: No award given
  • 2024: “Vitamin D sufficiency attenuates the effect of early social adversity on child antisocial behavior” by Olivia Choy (Nanyang Technological University) and Adrian Raine (University of Pennsylvania)
  • 2023: Dr. Joe Schwartz (Florida State University)
  • 2019: Dr. Jasmin Wertz (Duke University)

Rolf Loeber Student Innovation Award:

  • 2025: Sandy Xie (Rutgers University)
  • 2024: Christopher Jodis (Florida State University)
  • 2023: Kristina Block (Sam Houston State University)
  • 2022: Jessica Mongilio (Penn State University)
  • 2019: Alexis Yohros (Northeastern University)