Awards

The College of Criminology & Criminal Justice at FSU is proud to announce that senior Michael Mitrani has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Humanitarian Award for the College of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Michael’s commitment to service and giving back to the community is evident in everything he does. When he’s on campus, you can find Michael volunteering at events like the Big Event and Relay for Life or working with various organizations he’s involved in, such as Lambda Alpha Epsilon or Hillel.

Doctoral Student Joshua Cochran received the “ACJS Michael C. Braswell/Anderson Publishing Outstanding Student Paper Award” for 2013. This award is for the most outstanding student paper presented at the 2012 Annual ACJS Meeting. The title of Joshua’s paper is “The Ties that Bind or the Ties that Break: Examining the Relationship between Visitation and Prisoner Misconduct”. Joshua will be accepting the award at the annual Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting in Dallas, Texas.

The Eugene and Rosalind Czajkoski Scholarship Fund deadline has been extended to March 15, 2013. Any student – undergraduate or graduate – interested in seeking additional financial assistance is eligible to apply. To be considered, the applicant must submit a 1,500-2,000 word essay demonstrating his or her interest in exploring, within criminology, issues involving the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and a completed scholarship application. The final deadline is March 15, 2013.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University is proud to announce that five of its distinguished faculty have been nominated for University Teaching and Advising Awards. Dr. Kevin Beaver, Dr. Carter Hay, Dr. Gary Kleck and Dr. Brian Stults have been nominated for Teaching Awards and Dr. Billy Close has been nominated for a Distinguished Teacher Award.

Prof. Daniel Mears' book, American Criminal Justice Policy, published by Cambridge University Press, is the 2013 winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented  by  the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  The award is given annually “in recognition of the best book published in the area of criminal justice” and that has made an  “extraordinary contribution to the study of crime and criminal justice.”  The award will be presented at the Academy’s annual meeting, held  March 19-23 in Dallas, Texas.

Professor Carter Hay’s Residential Positive Achievement Change Tool (R-PACT) Validation project with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) focuses on juvenile offenders in residential facilities. The Residential Positive Achievement Change Tool (R-PACT) is used by DJJ to track the criminogenic needs and risks of offenders regarding such things as educational progress, relationships with family members, attitudes about drugs and alcohol, and the development of social skills for controlling emotions and behavior.

One of the College’s doctoral students, Joshua C. Cochran, recently received the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Corrections and Sentencing Dissertation Scholarship Award for his dissertation entitled “Prison Experiences, Social Ties, and Inmate Behavior: Examining Visitation and Its Effects on Incarceration and Reentry Outcome”. The award carries with it official recognition at the annual ASC meeting as the first place recipient in this division and includes a monetary amount.

Joshua and Ryan have both received distinguished university awards.  Joshua Cochran received the 2012 Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award.  This award recognizes the superior contributions of graduate students to research and creative endeavors.  Additional information about the award can be found here.

The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) received a multi-year grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), to develop a system that utilizes data elements from FDOC’s various databases into a unified, real-time data warehouse. The Correctional Operations Trend Analysis System (COTAS) uses historical data to model the probability of incidents of violence occurring in all FDOC facilities in the state (at the facility and inmate levels).

The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) recently announced the 2010 Winners of the Prevention for a Safer Society (PASS) awards. The awards are made annually to honor and recognize professionals who cover issues and highlight solutions to criminal justice, juvenile justice and child welfare problems. Dr. Daniel P.