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  • Research Professor Emeritus
Joint Appointment
Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Alberta
M.A., Sociology, University of Alberta
B.A., Sociology, University of Illinois
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John Hagan

  • Research Professor Emeritus
ABF Researcher

John Hagan (he/him) is a Research Professor Emeritus at the American Bar Foundation and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.  His recent research is on international criminal law, crime and justice in Chicago, and mass parental incarceration in America.  He has received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the Edwin Sutherland and Harry J. Kalven Awards, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hagan is a former President of the American Society of Criminology and has received the Guggenheim, German Marshall Fund, C. Wright Mills, and a number of other distinguished scholarly awards.

Research Focus

The intersection of international criminal law, war crimes, war resistance, mass incarceration, lawyers, and domestic criminality.

Projects
Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Paternal Imprisonment, Investment in Families and Schools, and Child Educational Inequality
Anti-Corruption and Illiberalism in the Global South
Selected Work
  • Articles
Homelessness, Offending, Victimization, and Criminal Legal System Contact
January 2024
John Hagan and Bill McCarthy
  • Books
Chicago’s Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City
February 2022
John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, Daniel Herda and John Hagan
  • Articles
America First Populism, Social Volatility, and Self-Reported Arrests
October 2020
John Hagan, Ioana Sendroiu, Ron Levi, John Donohue III and John Hagan
  • Articles
A Tale Half Told: State Exclusionary and Inclusionary Regimes, Incarceration of Fathers, and the Educational Attainment of Children
April 2020
John Hagan, Holly Foster, Chantrey J. Murphy and John Hagan
  • Articles
Imprisonment, Opioids, and Health Care Reform: The Failure to Reach a High-Risk Population
November 2019
John Hagan, Holly Foster and John Hagan
  • Articles
Hierarchical Structure and Gender Dissimilarity in American Legal Labor Markets
October 2013
Ronit Dinovitzer, John Hagan and John Hagan
  • Reports
After the JD II: Second Results from a National Study of Legal Careers
2009
Ronit Dinovitzer, Robert L. Nelson, Joyce Sterling, Rebecca L. Sandefur, Bryant Garth, John Hagan, David B. Wilkins, Gabriele Plickert, Terry K. Adams, Gita Z. Wilder and John Hagan