Prize winners 2009
The 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology was awarded to Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni of the Supreme Court of Argentina, and John Hagan of Northwestern University in Illinois, USA.
They received the prize for their pioneering research regarding the causes of and prevention of genocide.
The international jury selecting the winners took certain notice of of their groundbreaking theories and models explaining the causes and motivations of genocide. Hagan's field research has produced evidence that the number of murders in Darfur has been substantially underestimated, and Zaffaroni has shown how criminological theories on juvenile delinquents can be applied on governments committing crimes against their own population.
The prize was presented to the winners by the Swedish Minister for Justice, Beatrice Ask, in a ceremony at Stockholm City Hall on June 23, 2009 (photography by Pernille Tofte).
