John Hagan

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Research Professor Emeritus

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

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

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Alberta

Curriculum vitae

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Bio

John Hagan is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. His recent research is on international criminal law, crime and justice in Chicago, and mass parental incarceration in America. He has received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the Edwin Sutherland and Harry J. Kalven Awards, and is an elected…

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Research focus

The intersection of international criminal law, war crimes, war resistance, mass incarceration, lawyers, and domestic criminality.

Projects

Parental Incarceration: 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

"Racist Torture and the Code of Silence: A Situational Analysis of Sidebar Secrecy and Legal Cynicism in the Trial of Jon Burge"
“International Law and American Criminology: Lessons of Racist Torture and Reparations from Geneva to Chicago”: International Criminology
"America First populism, social volatility, and self-reported arrests": Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Presentations

2nd AALS Empirical Methods Training Workshop (Organizer and Workshop Faculty): Jan 2014 Elizabeth Mertz, Lynn Mather & Leslie Lavin
How We Remember to Forget: Iraq and the Crimes of a War of Aggression: Jun 2013
Iraq and the Crimes of Pre-Emptive War: May 2013

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Professional Service & Recognition

Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2017

Cesar Beccaria Gold Metal, German Society of Criminology, 2015

Chair, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2013-1014

Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Science, International Section, 2013

Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize,Law & Society Association, 2012

Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award, American Sociological Association, Crime, Law & Deviance Section, 2012

Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology, 2009

Albert J. Reiss Book Award, American Sociological Association (with W. Rymond-Richmond)

Michael J. Hindelang Book Award, American Society of Criminology (with W. Rymond-Richmond)

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, Social Forces, European Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, and Canadian Journal of Law & Society