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Principal Investigator Recognized by American Society of Criminology

Thursday May 31, 2007

Franklin Zimring, principal investigator of the Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention, has been declared the 2007 winner of the American Society of Criminology's Edwin H. Sutherland Award. The award is given to recognize outstanding contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law, or justice. Zimring has previously received the American Society of Criminology's August Vollmer Award.

The William G. Simon Professor of Law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at UC Berkeley, Zimring specializes in the empirical study of legal institutions and the assessment of the behavioral impacts of legal regulation. He served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1967 to 1985 and joined the UC Berkeley faculty that year. His recent books include An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending (University of Chicago Press 2004) and American Juvenile Justice (Oxford University Press 2005).