Title:  Associate Professor

Criminology, Law, and Justice Office: BSB 4050C

Criminology, Law, and Justice Phone: 312-996-8361

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Research interests: Gangs and Violence in the city; street culture.

Recent Courses:

• CRJ 539 / SOC 509 Chicago Area Study: Qualitative methods, focused on gentrification in North Lawndale

Web Addresses:  http://gangresearch.net

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Bio: John Hagedorn is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Great Cities Institute. He has been studying gangs and violence for the past twenty years. He is the author of People & Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City and co-editor of Female Gangs in America: Essays on girls, gangs, and gender. He is edited the recent Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology. His forthcoming book, A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture, will be released by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008.