John Hagan

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Alberta

Bio

John Hagan is the editor of Annual Review of Law and Social Science. He co-author with Alberto Palloni of “Death in Darfur” in Science and is co-author with Wenona Rymond-Richmond of the…

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Research focus

International criminal law, war crimes, lawyers, youth crime, war resistance.

Projects

Explaining Death and Atrocity in Darfur: Latest finding: Feb 9, 2009, with Alberto Palloni; Drawing on a unique set of data - interviews with refugees - this project is examining empirically the claims of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. It will provide an objective and…
Early Post-Law School Careers of Women and Men Lawyers in U.S. and German Cities: Latest finding: Feb 9, 2009, with Gabriele Plickert, Patricia Parker, Hans Merkens; This research is expanding a national U.S. study of lawyers (the American Bar Foundation’s After the JD study) to include two cities in Germany - Frankfurt and Berlin. This will be a…
Parental Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion: “The Long Arm of the Law”: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Holly Foster; This study is designed to better understand the difference that parental incarceration makes in the life of an adolescent. American incarceration is four times larger than in the 1970s, six to ten…

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Publications

“The Symbolic Violence of the Crime-Immigration Nexus: Mobility Mythologies in the Americas”: Crime Prevention and Policy
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
“The Mass Incarceration of American Parents: Issues of Race/Ethnicity, Collateral Consequences, and Prisoner Re-entry”: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Presentations

Criminology Confronts Genocide: Who’s Side Are You On?: Nov 2009
Sexual Violence in Darfur and in Pre-Invasion Iraq: Jun 2009
Prosecuting Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Atrocity in the former Yugoslavia and Darfur: Jun 2009

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Professional Service & Recognition

Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology, 2009
Co-Director, Center for Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law
Appointed Member, National Scientific Advisory Council, National Survey of Adolescent Health
Editor, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Criminology
Criminology Editor, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law
Member, Editorial Boards, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, European Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, and Canadian Journal of Law & Society

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