The Michael J. Hindelang Award is an award, established in 1992, that is awarded annually by the American Society of Criminology to books published in the three previous years, that are deemed to make "the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology." A book is only eligible to win the award if a member of the Society nominates it.^[1]

Recipients

• 2015 America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Simon Singer
• 2014 Great American City by Robert J. Sampson
• 2013 The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice by Geoff Ward
• 2012 Peculiar institution by David Garland
• 2011 American Homicide by Randolph Roth
• 2010 Governing Through Crime by Jonathan Simon
• 2009 Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John L. Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
• 2008 Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western
• 2007 Judging Juveniles by Aaron Kupchik
• 2006 Confessions of a Dying Thief by Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery Ulmer
• 2005 Companions in Crime by Mark Warr
• 2004 Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives by John Laub & Robert Sampson
• 2003 Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective by Terence Thornberry, Marvin Krohn, Alan Lizotte, Carolyn Smith, and Kimberly Tobin
• 2002 Bad Kids by Barry Feld
• 2001 Making Good by Shadd Maruna
• 2000 Crime in Context by Ian Taylor
• 1999 Political Policing by Martha K. Huggins
• 1998 Mean Streets by Bill McCarthy and John Hagan
• 1997 Control Balance by Charles R. Tittle [de]
• 1996 No award given
• 1995 Gender, Crime, and Punishment by Kathleen Daly
• 1994 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life by Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub
• 1993 Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck
• 1992 Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice by Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden
• 1991 Crime, Shame, and Reintegration by John Braithwaite