CAC researchers received several prestigious awards at the 2024 European Society of Criminology (ESC) Annual Meeting in Bucharest. You can learn more about their awards here.
CAC Founder and Director Professor Per-Olof Wikström, Emeritus Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the University of Cambridge, received the 2024 ESC European Criminology Award for his lifetime contribution as a European criminologist, in recognition of his major contributions to criminological theory and research on the ecology and etiology of crime. Professor Wikström’s acceptance speech can be found here. The laudation by Beate Völker (NSCR) can be found here.
Former CAC PhD student Laura Kennedy received the ESC 2024 Young Criminologist Award for her article Prioritise Propensity: A multimethod analysis of peer influence and school-based aggression, based on her PhD research, which has been published in the journal Deviant Behaviour. This award recognises an outstanding sole-authored article by a European criminologist under the age of 35.
Former CAC PhD student Evelyn Svingen, Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Birmingham, received the 2024 ESC Book Award for her book Evolutionary Criminology and Cooperation: Retribution, Reciprocity, and Crime based on her PhD research. This award recognises the author of a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the further development of European criminology.
The CAC warmly congratulates these scholars for this recognition of the impact of their scholarship on European Criminology.