Professor
LL.B. Harvard University 1963
Ph.D. Harvard University 1966

Phone: 312-996-8778
Fax: 312-996-9484
E-Mail: gracelan@uic.edu

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Fields of Interest:
Policy Implementation, Political Corruption, Regulatory Systems

Selected Publications:
Traffic and the Police: Variations in Law Enforcement Policy (Harvard University Press, 1969).

The Politics of Corruption: Organized Crime in an American City (Russell Sage Foundation, 1970).

Theft of the City: Readings on Corruption in Urban America (Indiana University Press. 1974). (co-edited with David J. Olson)

Crime and Criminal Justice: Issues in Public Policy Analysis (Lexington-Heath, 1975). (co-edited with Michael J. Mulkey)

Public Law and Public Policy, (Praeger, 1977). (editor)

Decisions For Sale: Corruption and Reform in Land-Use and Building Regulation (Praeger, 1987). (with Theodore R. Lyman)

The Fraud Control Game: State Responses to Fraud and Abuse in AFDC and Medicaid Programs (Indiana University Press, 1984). (with Theodore R. Lyman) "Cops, Consultants, and Goldfish: Variations in Nursing Home Regulation," in United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Nursing Home Care: The Unfinished Agenda (1987).

"Measurement Issues in the Study of Official Corruption: A Chicago Example," (with Kathryn L. Malec) Corruption and Reform (Vol.II, 1987), pp. 267-278.

"Varieties of Official Misconduct," (with Kathryn L. Malec) in Dick Simpson, ed., Chicago's Future in Time of Change (Champaign: Stipes, 1988)

"Mobilizing Public Opinion Against Corruption," (with Kathryn L. Malec) Corruption and Reform (Vol. IV, 1989).

"Methods of Preventing and Dealing with Fraud against Government," Proceedings of the Fourth International Anti-Corruption Conference (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990).

"Defining Corruption," in Maurice Punch, et al., eds., Coping with Corruption in a Borderless World (Boston: Kluwer, 1993)

Current Research Areas:
State implementation of federal mandates regarding teen access to tobacco