Outstanding contributions in service to professional organizations, academic institutions and the advancement of criminal justice have earned Graduate Dean Marjorie Zatz the Julius Debro Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime.
She will be honored at a luncheon ceremony today in Philadelphia as part of the ASC’s annual conference, where she will also present a session for attendees from around the nation.
“In the past three years, Marjorie has been tireless in her efforts as graduate dean, to build our graduate programs for the benefit of the entire campus. For example, she is the principal investigator on numerous grants and awards given directly in support of those programs,” Provost Tom Peterson said. “Even so, she continues to make major contributions to her own scholarship, and this recognition is a testament to the significance of those contributions. She has an amazing work ethic.”
This isn’t Zatz’s first award from the ASC. She is also the recipient of the Herbert Block Award, the Division on Women and Crime’s Senior Scholar Award, the Division on People of Color and Crime’s Lifetime Achievement Award and its Coramae Richey Mann Award for Outstanding Scholarship — a particular honor for her as she collaborated with Coramae Richey Mann on one of her seven books.
Zatz is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on immigration policy; race, gender, and juvenile and criminal court processing; Chicano gangs; and the Cuban and Nicaraguan legal systems, and she has also received the Western Society of Criminology’s W.E. B. DuBois Award for Research on Race and the Administration of the Administration and its Paul Tappan Award for Outstanding Contributions to Criminology.
“I am incredibly honored,” Zatz said of the Debro Award. “It’s especially thrilling to be honored by this division because so much of my work focuses on racial and gender biases in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.”
