Mark W. Lipsey and Charis E. Kubrin. Photo by: Joe Howell, Kevork Abazajian.
Charis E. Kubrin and Mark W. Lipsey are the 2026 winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. The awards will be presented by H.M. Queen Silvia on 9 June 2026 at Stockholm City Hall.
The 2026 prize recognize two scientific myth-busters for comprehensively demonstrating that immigration does not generally transform communities towards higher crime rates, and that rehabilitation programs can function and reduce convicted offenders’ crime rates.
By using both original research and systematic reviews of all relevant research to disprove politically volatile claims, the laureates have improved our awareness of potentially beneficial transformations in crime rates for both communities and individual offenders.
Charis E. Kubrin is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California-Irvine, where she has worked since 2011. She is also co-director of the Irvine Laboratory for Space and Crime, studying all levels of analysis including street segments, blocks, neighbourhoods, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas. A graduate of Smith College, she earned a PhD at the University of Washington.
Mark W. Lipsey is Research Professor and Director of the Peabody Research Institute of Vanderbilt University, where he has worked since 1992. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, he earned a PhD at the Johns Hopkins University.