Subject: Re: Vollmer Award
From: Marty Schwartz (schwartz@ohio.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 22:50:24 CST
I will be glad to tell Jim that he is well loved, but the truth is that it
would be VERY poorly received by the Board if we just nominated our own
committee chair. We need to save the nomination for next year, when he
isn't on the committee. Thanks. (I guess this means that I can't be
nominated either. Damn.)
Marty
At 10:15 PM 2/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Marty,
>
>I don't know if it's possible to nominate the man who is chairing the
>committee, but I would suggest Jim Fyfe as a nominee. He has been
>instrumental in passing major legislation throughout the United States on
>police use of deadly force, has developing training procedures that are used
>in police departments, is considered an expert witness on police matters,
>and is one of the foremost experts on the police in the country.
>
>Ellen Leichtman
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Marty Schwartz <schwartz@ohio.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <crit-l@sun.soci.niu.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:05 PM
>Subject: Vollmer Award
>
>
> > Folks --
> >
> > I am a member of the August Vollmer Award Committee of the ASC, which is
> > seeking nominations for the award. At last count, there was only one
> > nomination, and more are welcomed. Please send them to me ASAP,
>preferably
> > with a paragraph or two explaining why your nominee meets the award
> > criteria. I have attached here about as much of a description of the
>award
> > as you are going to get, and perhaps more helpfully a list of previous
> > winners. Committee chair Jim Fyfe has made a few comments on the winners
> > who are perhaps less well known than others (although, anyone know who
> > Patricia Wald is?).. If you note a slight conservative or establishment
> > bias to these previous choices, you win no prizes. You will note some
> > feminist and African-American support in recent years, however.
> >
> > Marty Schwartz
> > Schwartz@ohio.edu
> >
> > AUGUST VOLLMER AWARD, which recognizes outstanding contributions to
>applied
> > criminology (criminological practice or policy). The award may be given
>for a
> > single major effort or work, a series of contributions, or accumulated
> > contributions to practice of policy.
> >
> > AUGUST VOLLMER AWARD
> > (established 1960)
> > 1960 Marvin E. Wolfgang
> > 1961 Sheldon/Eleanor Glueck
> > 1962 James Bennett
> > 1963 Austin MacCormick
> > 1964 Hon. J. Adrien Robert
> > 1965 no award given
> > 1966 Judge George Edwards former Detroit Police Commissioner;
> > heroic (in my view) judge of the 6th Circuit
> > 1967 Howard Leary NYC Police Commissioner who championed civilian review
> > (the Serpico scandals were happening
> > and being concealed on his watch when he got this award)
> > 1968 Myrl Alexander
> > 1969 Hon. Joseph Tydings Maryland Senator
> > 1970 Milton Rector
> > 1971 no award given
> > 1972 Jerome Skolnick
> > 1973 E. Preston Sharp
> > 1974 Patrick Murphy NYPD Commissioner: the reformer who followed
>Leary
> > Sol Rubin
> > 1975 Herbert Sturz Founder of Vera Institute
> > 1976 Patricia Wald
> > 1977 Richard A. McGee
> > 1978 Judge David Bazelon DC Circuit Court
> > 1979 Norval Morris
> > 1980 Gerhard O.W. Mueller
> > 1981 Vincent O'Leary
> > 1982 Don M. Gottfredson
> > 1983 no award given
> > 1984 Benjamin Ward NYPD Commissioner
> > 1985 John Keith Irwin
> > 1986 Anthony G. Amsterdam NYU Law Professor
> > 1987 Jerome G. Miller
> > 1988 Lee Brown Houston Police Chief, now Mayor
> > 1989 Allen Breed
> > 1990 Daniel Glaser
> > 1991 Caleb Foote UC Berkeley: bail scholar
> > 1992 James K. Stewart NIJ Director
> > 1993 Barry Krisberg NCCD Director
> > 1994 Joan Petersilia
> > 1995 Russell and Rebecca Dobash
> > 1996 Elizabeth Stanko
> > 1997 Hugo Adam Bedau
> > 1998 Peter W. Greenwood
> > 1999 J. David Hawkins
> >
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