Steffensmeier Awarded Faculty Scholar Medal
Press Release - March 29, 2007
University Park, Pa. -- Four Penn State professors have received the 2007 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement: Matthew Restall, professor of Latin American history, the arts and humanities medal; Ottar Bjornstad, associate professor of entomology, the life and health sciences medal; David S. Weiss, professor of physics, the physical sciences medal; and Darrell Steffensmeier, professor of sociology and crime, law and justice, the social and behavioral sciences medal.
Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of faculty peers reviews nominations and selects candidates.
Steffensmeier is honored for his work on criminal careers and organized and professionalized crime. As one of the most influential scholars in criminology, he has made scholarly contributions to the demography of crime; criminal courts and sentencing and influential factors; gender, work and crime; criminal business enterprise; and criminological theory.
He has published three books, including Confessions of a Dying Thief and The Fence, as well as many journal articles and book chapters. His funding support has come from National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Pennsylvania Crime Commission.
Steffensmeier was elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and received the Distinction in the Social Sciences Award from Penn State in 1989. He served as president of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime from 1992 to 1994.
He received a B.A. in philosophy and history from St. Ambrose College and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa.
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