Dr. Maher Receives ASC Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime Award

November 25, 2025

Dr. Cooper Maher, an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, has received the 2025 American Society of Criminology’s Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime Student Paper Award for his article, Knowing is Half the Battle: Examining the Association Between Acknowledgement of Victimization and Reporting of Fraud, published in the Journal of Economic Criminology.

The Student Paper Award is reserved for students (or recent graduates) who are authors of an article in a scholarly journal that has directly impacted the field of white-collar and corporate crime within the past year. The article in the Journal of Economic Criminology was written as Dr. Maher was completing his Doctoral Degree at the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

On receiving the award, Dr. Maher says “I am deeply honored to be selected as the co-recipient of the 2025 Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime Student Paper Award, alongside my friend and colleague Timothy A. Engle from the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. I owe tremendous thanks to Tim and to the many others who have supported our scholarship. I am also sincerely grateful to the members of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime for this honor. I look forward to continuing research that helps inform policies to better serve victims of fraud and to continued opportunities to advance our collective understandings of fraud trends and outcomes.”

Congratulations Dr. Maher!