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McClintock Prize

For the best performance in any of the following courses:

  • Criminology (Honours)
  • Gender and Justice (Honours)
  • Punishment and Society (Honours)

The prize is named after Professor Derrick McClintock who, in 1977, became the first holder of the Chair of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh (the second such chair established in the UK, the first being at the University of Cambridge).

Up until 2010 the prize was awarded for Criminology Honours.

McClintock Prize
YearPrize winner
2024Tobiasz Watrobski
2023Kirsty Lawrie
2022Christopher Joseph Berry
2021Julia Corcoran and Christopher Iain Muir
2020Juliet Beltrami
2019Holly Bird
2018Samuel Denison
2017Joseph Patrick McAulay
2016Kayleigh Blair (Gender and Justice)
2015Fraser Padmore (Gender and Justice)
2014Shannon Turner
2013Dominic Aitken
2012Ralph Williams (Punishment and Society)
2011Hayley Cohen (Criminology)
Alistair McConnell (Gender and Justice)
Stephanie Phillips (Punishment and Society)
2010Luke Buckley
2009Kate West
2008Suzanne Borrowman
2007Hilary Neil and Anna Ross
2006Lynsey Hutchison