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Professor P-O Wikström was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in the section Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics. The British Academy Fellowship are approximately 900 scholars who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Lawrence W. Sherman was awarded The Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal on 1 November 2011, when he gave the Benjamin Franklin Medal Lecture on Public Order, Policing and Patriaphobia at the Royal Society of Arts, London.
The medal is conferred by the RSA on individuals, groups, and organisations who have made profound efforts to forward Anglo-American understanding in areas closely linked to the RSA's agenda. It is also awarded to recognise those that have made a significant contribution to global affairs, have shifted public debate in an innovative way, contributed to furthering public discourse about human progress, and who are deemed by the RSA to be significant to its core enlightenment values of developing human progress.
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Professor Manuel Eisner was elected as the recipient of the 2011 Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology. The award acknowledges criminological scholarship on problems of crime and justice manifested outside the United States.

Peter Neyroud, retired director of the NPIA and current PhD student of the Institute was the joint 2011 recipient of the CEBCP Distinguished Achievement Award in Evidence-Based Crime Policy. The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, at George Mason University, established the "CEBCP Distinguished Achievement Award in Evidence-Based Crime Policy" in 2010. Consistent with the mission of the Center, this award recognizes outstanding and consistent contributions by individuals in academia, practice, or the policy arena who have committed to a leadership role in advancing the use of scientific research evidence in decisions about crime and justice policies. This role includes notable efforts in connecting criminology, law and society researchers with criminal justice institutions, or advancing scientific research more generally in crime and justice.