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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

A Peace Corps for Lawyers: From Legal Services to the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Ron Levi
This project is an historical and empirical study of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI) and its life course implications for its voluntary lawyer participants. It represents…
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…
Explaining Death and Atrocity in Darfur
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, 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 the Sudan. It will provide an objective and…

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Publications

“The Mean Streets of the Global Village: Crimes of Exclusion in the United States and Darfur”
Scandinavian Journal of Criminology and Crime Prevention
“Death and Displacement in West Darfur: Does Demography Contribute to our Knowledge of the Crisis?”
INED
“Social Mobility and Hierarchical Structure in Canadian Law Practice”
Hart Publishing

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Presentations

Treating Adolescents as Adults
Oct 2007
Race and the Collective Dynamics of Genocidal Victimization in Darfur
Sep 2007
The Terror and Trauma of Rape in Darfur
Sep 2007

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • 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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