Awards and Honours
The Institute awards various prizes and honours, including:
The Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellowship which was established by Sir Leon
Radzinowicz (founder of the Institute) in his testament. Holders of the Fellowship should
normally be persons who have served with distinction in government, the judiciary, Parliament
or other public office in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
Previous holders have been:
- Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, 2005, and
- Peter Neyroud, then Chief Constable, 2007.
The 2010 Radzinowicz Fellow will be announced soon.
The Nigel Walker Lecture is an annual lecture given by an eminent criminologist. The Lecture series was inaugurated in 1997 and is named in honour of the Institute's second director Nigel Walker, who served as the Wolfson Professor of Criminology from 1973 to 1984.
Previous Lectures:
| 1997 | Professor David Garland |
|---|---|
| 'Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology | |
| 1998 | Professor Stanley Cohen |
| The Sociology of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering | |
| 1999 | Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms |
| Criminology and the Problem of Order | |
| 2000 | Professor Michael Tonry |
| Interactions between Crime Rates and Criminal Policies across Space and Time | |
| 2001 | Professor Anthony Duff |
| Crime, Prohibition, and Punishment | |
| 2002 | Professor Andrew Ashworth |
| Reassessing Robbery | |
| 2003 | Professor Andrew von Hirsch |
| Penalising Offensive Behaviour | |
| 2004 | Professor Franklin Zimring |
| Toward a Comparative Law and Criminology of Corruption | |
| 2005 | Professor Nicola Lacey |
| The Criminal Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart | |
| 2006 | Professor David P Farrington |
| The Development of Offending and Antisocial Behaviour from Childhood to Adulthood | |
| 2007 | Professor Friedrich Lösel |
| Developmental Prevention and Offender Treatment: What Does the Evidence Show? | |
| 2009 | Professor Robert Sampson |
| The Immigration & Diversity Debate: Insight from Criminology |
The 2010 lecture was given by Professor Alison Liebling on 26 May.
The Nigel Walker Prize, awarded for an outstanding written contribution (usually a Ph.D.) to the field of Criminology by a member of the University of Cambridge. The prize may be shared
Previous Winners:
- 2006 - Joel Harvey
- 2007 - Joseph Murray
- 2008 - Sarah van Mastrigt
- 2008 - Kyle Trieber
- 2009 - Justice Tankebe
- 2009 - Maria Ttofi
The Manuel Lopez-Rey Prize is awarded for the best performance on the M.Phil. programme.
Previous Winners:
| Manuel Lopez-Rey Graduate Prize, 1991 - 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Prize-Winner | Proxime accessit/accesserunt |
| 1991-2 | Robert Street | Cindy Chandler |
| 1992-3 | Alec Buchanen | Elaine Brown, Carolyn Newton, Stephen Pete, Leanne Weber |
| 1993-4 | Geoffrey Barnes | Mary Bosworth, Tamar Halevy, Claire Valier, Alison Wakefield |
| 1994-5 | David Craig | Sonia Bishop, Steven Goodman, James Oleson, Elizabeth Stokes, Mark Davies, Grant Muir, Michael Rice |
| 1995-6 | Amanda Matravers | Belinda Brookes-Gordon, Paul Curry, David Price |
| 1996-7 | David Gadd, Brandon Welsh | Debra Dhillon, Paul Quinton |
| 1997-8 | Alexandra Campbell | Heather Linton |
| 1998-9* | Jon Olafsson | Adam Hart / Helen Arnold |
| 1999-2000* | Christopher Mikton | Philip Hadfield |
| 2000-1* | Cressida Dick | Nathania Ma |
| 2001-2 | Joseph Murray, Anna Harle | Florence Vial / Amanda Halpin, Ioannis Pavlakis |
| 2002-3 | Constantine Hotis / Kyle Treiber | ----- |
| 2003-4 | Leonidas Cheliotis | Sarah van Mastrigt, Virginia Tam, Mary Taft-McPhee |
| 2004-5 | Mary Nel | Ezra Tessler |
| 2005-6 | Lynn Kiddoo | Tuba Topcuoglu |
| 2006-7 | Alexandra Cox | Ivana Sekol |
| 2007-8 | Barry Smith | Caroline Akers, Geoff Page |
| 2008-9 | Johann Koehler | ----- |
* There are no records available regarding the award of the López-Rey Graduate rize for the academic years 1998-9, 1999-2000, and 2000-1; the names entered for those years are the students who achieved the highest marks on the MPhil course.
The Victor Lissack Prize is given to the M.St. student who achieves the highest and most consistent marks in the Diploma year. It is awarded in memory of Victor Lissack
Previous Winners:
- 1997-8 - Peter Neyroud (proxime accesserunt: Matthew Baggott & Edward Belligham)
- 1998-9 - Graham Barlow (proxime accesserunt: Nicholoas Tofiluk & James Barker-McCardle)
- 1999-2000 - Philip Hagon
- 2000-1 - Stephen Finnigan (proxime accesserunt: Richard Bryan, Jonathan Kaye, Jonathan McIvor)
- 2001-2 - Martin Baker & Rob Golding
- 2002-3 - Allan Gibson
- 2003-4 - Adrian Lee & Ian Shannon
- 2004-5 - Derek Benson & Gavin Sugden
- 2005-6 - Neil Wain & Paul Clack
- 2006-7 - David Leeney
- 2007-8 - Stephen Ratcliffe
- 2008-9 - Richard Cooper
- 2009-10 - Alastair Jeffrey