U.S. Department of State, Speaker and Specialist Grant, Human trafficking, smuggling and border issues, Tajikistan, September 2006

U.S. Department of State, (ECA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Honduras, April 2001

U.S. Department of State, (USIA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Argentina, September 2000

USIA Academic Specialist Grants to work with Mahidol University, Thailand on Ph.D. in Criminology, 1992 and 1995, Established curriculum for PHD and served on advisory board of doctoral program

Fulbright Lecturing Fellowship to Mexico, 1993-1994

IREX U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1988-89

IREX Development Fellowship, 1987-88

IREX Short-Term USSR Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1987-88

Kennan Institute Research Grant, Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1986

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1984

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to Poland and Bulgaria, Grant for Summer 1982 (withdrew because of Polish political situation)

American Sociological Association grant to present paper at World Congress of Sociology, 1978

Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, 1974-75, for Study at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, in France and at the Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University, USSR

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to the USSR, 1974-75

Slavic Honor Society

American Criminology Society Student Writing Competition Award, 1975
International Fellows Program, Columbia University, 1973-74

IREX Preparatory Fellowship, 1973-74

Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-73

UNIVERSITY AWARDS

American University School of Public Affairs: Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Other Professional Contributions, 1999

The American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, 1991-92

American University Scholar of the Year Award, 1985

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

School of Justice Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

University Summer Research Grant, 1984

School of Justice Outstanding Service Award, 1984

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1982