Thomas Durkin
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Visiting Lecturer Areas of Interest: Sociology of Law, Crime, and Punishment |
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Tom Durkin (PhD. U Chicago) is interested in crime, law, and the problem of order. His dissertation was on the comparative social constructions of law and legal activism in the US and UK. His earlier research was on prisons, and included jobs as a guard, administrator, and caseworker in the North Carolina and Kentucky prisons, and at a rehab facility in New York. He was also Associate Director of the Prison Privatization Study Project at the University of Florida. Tom also finds sociological import from other careers, including running a bar on Cape Cod and commercial deep sea fishing. Tom has taught policy, theory, and methods courses at Northwestern, South Carolina, and the University of Florida.
Contact 
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515 Clark 2nd FL Room 202
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 491-2697
Fax: (847) 491-9907
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 - 3:30
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| Courses Taught |
Soc 101-6 Freshman Seminar: Crime, Tort, and Justice |
| Soc 202-0: Social Problems |
Soc 206-0: Law and Society |
Soc 302-0: |
| Soc 308-0: Sociology of Deviance and Crime |
Soc 318: Sociology of Law |
| Soc 329-0: Field Research & Methods of Data Collection |
| Soc 376-0: Special Topics Capital Punishment |
| Soc 376-0: Special Topics Social Policy |
