Bates College Department of Sociology Annual Sawyer F. Sylvester Award for Outstanding Crime and Law Paper.

Awarded 2022

Alex Togneri-Jones ’22

Biosocial Effects of Pollution on Desistance

Awarded 2021

Mary Corcoran ’21

Variation in School Resource Officer Roles: Does Racial Composition of the Student Body Impact SRO role?

Awarded 2020

Madeline Clark ’20

Power and Privilege: How Marginalization Impacts the Attainment of Prosocial Identities

Awarded 2019

Abigail Nolan ’19

“‘Without Education in a Place That is So Literally Boxes In, It’s Easy to Simply Stagnate:’ Student-Inmate Attitudes Towards College Education in a Maine Prison”

Awarded 2018

Louisa Woodhouse ’19

“Mental Illness and Mass Shootings: The Development of Media Framing and Discussion”

Awarded 2017

Lisa Slivken ’18

“Experiences of Residential Rehabilitation among Female Drug Offenders and Sex Workers: A Qualitative Analysis”

Awarded 2016

Emma Bilodeau ’16	“Brown v. Board of Education Today: Failed Promises in a Re-Segredated America”
Ali Rabideau ’17	“Building Relationships, Building Trust: Crime Patterns and Police Responses in Communities Welcoming Refugees”