The Joan McCord Award

The Joan McCord Award Committee comprising Professors Greenwood (Chair), MacKenzie and Mazerolle have decided to give the 5th Annual Joan McCord Award to Professor David Weisburd.  The committee used the following criteria to nominate and determine the award recipient:

(a) Contributions to research in experimental criminology
(b) Commitment to experimental studies
(c) Contributions to policy and practice
(d) Contributions to the development of younger colleagues and
(e) Work that is done in the "spirit" of Joan McCord's legacy either in terms of her area of work (e.g. characterized by her multi-disciplinary approach to research, her advocacy of true randomized experimental designs, her focus on measurement, her committment to longitudinal followup), or in terms of her "spirited approach" to scientific inquiry (e.g. she descibes herself as a "skeptical thinker," she was doggedly persistent in the way she approached her research, she fought hard to publish controversial findings, she had an interest in the way that history "enlightens" current issues in criminal justice, and she was deeply committed to working on projects that she saw as important, not those that may more obviously lead to praise or prizes).

Past recipients of the Joan McCord Award

2004- Richard Tremblay, University of Montreal
2005- David Farrington, University of Cambridge
2006- Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Pennsylvania, USA and University of Cambridge, UK
2007- Joan Petersilia, University of California, Irvine

see also the Young Experimental Scholar Award

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