The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC) honors outstanding contributions to the study of organized crime with two awards:
IASOC Distinguished Scholar Award
This award recognizes an individual who has a record of sustained and significant accomplishments and contributions to the scholarly knowledge of organized crime. Scholarly contributions may be empirical or theoretical and within any discipline so long as the body of work focuses on the broadly defined concept of organized crime.
IASOC Outstanding Publication Award
This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in the broadly defined area of organized crime. Journal articles, books or book chapters published in the last three years including the year of the award can be nominated.
Nominations for the 2012 awards
Nominations, including self-nominations, for the two awards are welcome and should be sent by email to the executive office of IASOC at iasoc_office@yahoo.com no later than 31 July 2012. For the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, work published in 2010, 2011 and 2012 are eligible. Nominations should include a letter of nomination, the publication in print or (preferably) as a PDF file, or publisher's information (contact person authorized to provide PDF versions of the publication).