📣 We are excited to share the Fall 2026 Critical Criminologist Newsletter! This issue spotlights the upcoming ASC conference in Chicago, as well as recent news from our membership. 🌐 Use the link in our bio or the link attached below to access the new issue!

Critical criminology extends beyond the academy! We want to recognize the organizations putting its principles into action! 
The new DCCSJ Community Organization Award honors nonprofit, grassroots, mutual aid, advocacy, and other community-based organizations.

The organization’s sustained work advances social justice and reflects the values of critical criminology. 
•We encourage nominations from organizations around the world. 
•Nomination Deadline: June 15

Visit our website for eligibility, nomination guidelines, and submission details. We look forward to celebrating organizations creating meaningful change in their communities! divisiononcriticalcriminology.com

We're so delighted to share our newest issue of the Critical Criminologist! This issue includes six articles on the criminalization of identity, as well as lots of other important information. The issue has been sent to our membership, and will be available on website soon!

The latest issue of the Critical Criminologist newsletter is now available! Congratulations to our 2025 DCCSJ award winners and a huge thanks to everyone who contributed!

Use the link below to find Volume 34, Issue 1.

divisiononcriticalcriminology.com/publications/n…

Dear DCCSJ Members,

We hope you enjoyed the 2025 ASC Annual Meeting last week, and if you were unable to attend, we hope to see you next year in Chicago!

On behalf of the Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, we are pleased to announce the results of the

Please feel welcome to reach out to any member of the Executive Committee with DCCSJ-related questions, ideas, or requests.

We are excited for the work ahead and look forward to continuing to strengthen our community together.

Sincerely,
Nicholas Walrath, Communications Team
Jessica Morgan, Communications Team

We are very happy to announce the 2025 DCCSJ Award Winners!

Lifetime Achievement Award: None awarded this year

Book Award: Gratuitous Angst in White America by Deena Isom

Critical Criminologist of the Year Award (David Goyes): Dr. José Atiles and Dr. Bill McClanahan

Best Article: “The Effects of Criminalisation on Activists: The Case of the NoTAP Environmental Movement” by Anna Di Ronco

Teaching: None awarded this year.

Graduate Paper:
“No One Mourns the Wickard: Towards a Hauntological Legal Analysis” by Alyssa N. Shallenberger

“‘Democracy is Alive and Well in Atlanta’: RICO, Magical-Abductive Profiling, and the Politics of Exception in Criminalizing Stop Cop City” by Soleil Smith

Praxis: None awarded this year

Undergraduate: None awarded this year

DCCSJ Member Publication Alert!

“Please see the latest from Dr. Judah Schept (DCCSJ Executive Counselor)! In a six-part series, Judah Schept, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Craig Gilmore, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore “look at how organizers can adapt lessons learned in twenty-five years of...

abolitionist organizing to their own political terrains, with examples from Appalachia, California, and Louisiana. Read it here! inquest.org/abolitionist-l…

Members: if you have recent publications you’d like us to share with the membership, please email us at dccsjcommsteam@gmail.com