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John Hagan
Professor
John D. MacArthur Professor
1812 Chicago Avenue, Room 207
Phone: (847) 491-5688
ABF: (312) 988-6595
jhagan@abgn.org
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Areas of Interest
Criminology and Delinquency
Law and Society
Theory
Relevant Link
Institute for Policy Research
American Bar Foundation
Center for Legal Studies
Law School
Biography
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 book, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (Cambridge University Press 2009). He developed an early interest in the social organization of subjective justice that is continued in his 2005 American Sociological Review article with Carla Shedd and Monique Payne on race, ethnicity and perceptions of criminal injustice. His articles and book, Structural Criminology, present a power-control theory of crime and delinquency. Power-control theory also plays a role in his work with Holly Foster in their 2001 American Sociological Review paper on The End of Adolescence.
Hagan's Presidential Address to the American Society of Criminology underlined the role of poverty in crime. This theme is central to his research with Bill McCarthy on homeless youth for their book, Mean Streets. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Hagan studied the migration of American Vietnam war resisters to Canada that is described in the book Northern Passage. Hagan's recent work has focused on the international tribunal where Slobodan Milosevic was tried. His book, Justice in the Balkans, is a social history of this tribunal. This project is further developed in Law and Society Review and Law and Social Inquiry articles with Sanja Kutnjak Ivokovic, Ron Levi and Gabrielle Ferrales. A co-authored review essay with Heather Schoenfeld on war crimes in the Balkans and Darfur appeared recently in the Annual Review of Sociology.
He is the recent co-author of “Death in Darfur” in Science, “Racial Targeting of Sexual Violence in Darfur” in the American Journal of Public Health, and of “The Collective Dynamics of Racial Dehumanization and Genocidal Victimization” in the American Sociological Review.
A paper with Gabrielle Ferrales and Guillermina Jasso on “How Law Rules: Torture, Terror and the Normative Judgments of Iraqi Judges” received the 2009 Best Article Prize from the Law and Society Association.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 206-0: Law and Society
SOCIOL 308-0: Sociology of Deviance and Crime Syllabus
SOCIOL 476 Special Topics: Sociology of Crime
Books
Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes at The Hague TribunalÂ
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
Harvard University Press, 2001
Gender in Practice: A Study of Lawyers’ Lives
(with Fiona Kay), Oxford University Press, 1995
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Claire Decoteau, PhD - University of Illinois at Chicago
February 9, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Stacy Lom, Sociology
February 9, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
