The Gene Carte Student Paper Award is given to recognize outstanding scholarly work of students. Any student currently enrolled in an academic program at either the undergraduate or graduate level is invited to participate in the Carte Student Paper competition. Those enrolled in Post-Doc programs are ineligible. Papers may be conceptual and/or empirical but must be directly related to criminology. The Criminology format for the organization of text, citations and references should be used. Authors' names and departments should appear only on the title page. The next page of the manuscript should include the title and an abstract. The authors also need to submit a copy of the manuscript, as well as a letter verifying their enrollment status as full-time students, co-signed by the dean, department chair or program director. Prior Carte Award first place winners are ineligible for any future Carte student paper competitions. Previous prize-winning papers (any prize from any organization and or institution) are ineligible. Dual submissions of the same paper for the Carte Award and any other ASC award in the same year (including division awards) are disallowed. Award decisions will be based on the quality of the manuscripts and not on the number of nomination endorsements received for any particular manuscript. Please visit the award's website for more information.