Lifetime achievement award for promoting interdisciplinary research on social justice.
His widely cited 1990 book on Why People Obey the Law was republished in 2006 with a new afterword discussing more recent research and changes in his thinking since its initial publication.
Tyler and Huo (2002) is based on surveys of people in different ethnic groups to understand their concepts of justice.
They found that minority African-Americans and Hispanics have essentially the same concept of justice as majority whites but different experiences.
Tyler and Huo's analyses suggests that biased, unprofessional behavior of police, prosecutors and judges not only produces concerns of injustice, it cripples law enforcement efforts by making it more difficult for police and prosecutors to obtain the evidence needed to convict guilty parties.