The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize

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Previous articleNext article FreeThe Frank R. Breul Memorial PrizeThe Frank R. Breul Memorial PrizeEditor: Jennifer MosleyEditor: Jennifer Mosley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am pleased to announce that the 2022 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Aaron Gottlieb and Kalen Flynn for their article “The Legacy of Slavery and Mass Incarceration: Evidence from Felony Case Outcomes,” which appears in the March 2021 issue. The prize pays tribute to Professor Breul’s career as an educator, administrator, and editor of Social Service Review (SSR) while on the faculty of the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. The Breul Prize is awarded annually for what is judged by the editor, after seeking input from the editorial board, to be the best article published in SSR in the preceding year.Gottlieb and Flynn’s groundbreaking article uses rigorous quantitative methods to test a common explanation for mass incarceration in the United States: namely, that it is tied to the legacy of slavery and stems from a long line of efforts to enforce the US racial hierarchy. The authors examine for the first time the likelihood that individuals charged with crimes in counties with higher rates of slavery in 1860 experience worse felony case outcomes. Their sophisticated data collection and analysis shows that such individuals are at significantly higher risk for pretrial detention, a sentence of incarceration, and long prison sentences than their counterparts in counties with lower levels of slavery in 1860. The authors’ novel findings have timely and powerful implications for researchers and policy makers seeking to understand and remedy the impact of slavery on contemporary incarceration patterns across the country.Aaron Gottlieb is an assistant professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines the determinants of criminal-legal involvement as well as the impact of criminal-legal reform efforts.Kalen Flynn is an assistant professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research highlights the impacts of interpersonal and structural violence on marginalized populations.Recent Recipients of the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize2021Sandra M. Leotti, “The Discursive Construction of Risk: Social Work Knowledge Production and Criminalized Women,” 94, no. 3 (September 2020)2020Sanders Korenman, Dahlia K. Remler, and Rosemary T. Hyson, “Medicaid Expansions and Poverty: Comparing Supplemental and Health-Inclusive Poverty Measures,” 93, no. 3 (September 2019)2019Sarah K. Bruch, Marcia K. Meyers, and Janet C. Gornick, “The Consequences of Decentralization: Inequality in Safety Net Provision in the Post-Welfare Reform Era,” 92, no. 1 (March 2018)2018Dimitris Pipinis, “Punitive White Welfare Bureaucracies: Examining the Link between White Presence within Welfare Bureaucracies and Sanction Exits in the United States,” 91, no. 1 (March 2017)2017Eve E. Garrow and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, “When Professional Power Fails: A Power Relations Perspective,” 90, no. 3 (September 2016)2016Melissa Hardesty, “Epistemological Binds and Ethical Dilemmas in Frontline Child Welfare Practice,” 89, no. 3 (September 2015)2015Nathanael J. Okpych and James L-H Yu, “A Historical Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: The Unfinished Journey toward an Empirically Grounded Profession,” 88, no. 1 (March 2014)2014Laura S. Abrams, “Juvenile Justice at a Crossroads: Science, Evidence, and Twenty-First Century Reform,” 87, no. 4 (December 2013)2013Daniel P. Miller and Ronald B. Mincy, “Falling Further Behind? Child Support Arrears and Fathers’ Labor Force Participation,” 86, no. 4 (December 2012) Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 96, Number 1March 2022 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/718987 Views: 541Total views on this site © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.