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John Hagedorn |
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Associate Professor, Department of
Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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huk@uic.edu |
| Phone |
(312) 996-8361 |
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| John Hagedorn has been studying gangs
and violence for more than 15 years. He has begun a project to write
a history of gangs in Chicago and documenting the history of the
1960s Conservative Vice Lords. His most recent work comparisons
of institutionalized gangs in Chicago to outher groups of armed
young men around the world. Among Dr. Hagedorn's publications edited
volumes Gangs in the Global City : Alternatives to Traditonal Criminology
from the University of Illinois Press and Female Gangs in America
; Essays on girls, gangs, and gender from Lake View Press. His first
book, people and Folks: Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rustbelt
City, is in a second edition. Among his publications are “The
Global Effect of Gangs” in the Journal of Contemporary Criminology
and “Children in Organised Armed Violence — Chicago
” in Luke Dowdney, edited, neither Peace nor War 7Letras.
Dr. Hagedorn received his Ph.D. in urban studies from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
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