Donations
Donations to the Stockholm Prize in Criminology are given annually and through out the year. The list of donations are therefore not complete before the award ceremony in June each year. Please contact the prize office if you are interested in making a donation to the prize.
The donors for the 2010 award are the Jerry Lee Foundation, the Söderberg Foundations and the Japanese Correctional Association.
The Jerry Lee Foundation
The Jerry Lee Foundation of Philadelphia is a catalyst for evidence-based improvements in crime prevention, justice and education. Its founder and President is Jerry Lee, the owner of WBEB-FM Radio in Philadelphia, who earned a BA in Economics from Youngstown University (1960). He has a lifelong interest in crime prevention, which led him to read the 1997 Report to the US Congress entitled “Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn´t, What´s Promising" by Professor Lawrence Sherman and his colleagues at the University of Maryland, near Washington, DC. Mr. Lee says that this study “opened his eyes.” It not only showed “how fragmented crime prevention measures have become,” but also the lack of research into the effectiveness of the hundreds of crime prevention programs that eat up billions of dollars every year." Even the substantial research contributions of recent years have been largely ignored by those who need it, Mr. Lee observes, because there have been few ways to disseminate that information in the press, the public, and government.” Mr. Lee sees the Stockholm Prize as the ideal way to put the most important research on reducing crime and injustice into the global spotlight.
Brief History of Jerry Lee
- 1997 named "Person of the Year" by the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia and inducted into the Pioneers "Hall of Fame."
- 1997 asked to serve as Head of the Advisory Board of the University of Maryland´s school of Criminology Preventing Crime Program
- 1998 named to the National Advisory Board of the Greater Philadelphia Salvation Army
- 1999 elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania
- 1999 elected to the Board of the Philadelphia Police Foundation
- 2000 establishes the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 2001 elected member of the Board of the National Association of Broadcasters. Jerry served as a Board member on and off for 17 of the past 31 years.
- 2001 inducted into the Pennsylvania Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Read more about the Jerry Lee Foundation.
The Söderberg Foundations of Sweden
Torsten Söderberg was a law graduate, and manager of the family business Söderberg & Haak in Gothenburg. He died in 1960.
Ragnar Söderberg was a honorary doctor of economics, and the positions he held included chairman of Söderberg & Haak and Ratos. He died in 1974.
The Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations were established in Gothenburg and Stockholm in 1960. The foundations aim to promote scientific research, as well as scientific education and study of benefit to the nation, focusing particularly on the fields of economics, medicine and jurisprudence. The foundations, which work together, have donated around SEK 1 billion since 1960 for research.
Read more about the Söderberg Foundations.
The Japanese Correctional Association
