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2026

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112
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World Ranking
42
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25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel S. Nagin is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, clinical psychology, epidemiology, statistics and probability, and political science and international relations.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize a range of topics including crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, advanced causal inference techniques, policing practices and perceptions, early childhood education and development, and data-driven disease surveillance.

The following publications are among their recent works:

  • Procedural Justice and Legal Compliance (2020) - Criminology & Public Policy
  • Recent Advances in Group-Based Trajectory Modeling for Clinical Research (2024) - Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Timothy C. Barnum
  • Sylvana M. Côté
  • Richard E. Tremblay
  • Bobby L. Jones
  • Robert J. Sampson

They have published multiple articles in journals and conference platforms such as Criminology, CrimRxiv, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, and Criminology & Public Policy.

Their recognized awards include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Group-based modeling of development

    Daniel S. Nagin

  • Physical Aggression During Early Childhood: Trajectories and Predictors

    Richard E. Tremblay;Daniel S. Nagin;Jean R. Seguin;M. Zoccolillo

  • Analyzing developmental trajectories: A semiparametric, group-based approach

    Daniel S. Nagin

  • A SAS procedure based on mixture models for estimating developmental trajectories

    Bobby L. Jones;Daniel S. Nagin;Kathryn Roeder

  • Group-Based Trajectory Modeling in Clinical Research

    Daniel S. Nagin;Candice L. Odgers

  • Developmental Trajectories of Childhood Disruptive Behaviors and Adolescent Delinquency: A Six-Site, Cross-National Study

    Lisa M. Broidy;Daniel S. Nagin;Richard E. Tremblay;John E. Bates

  • Trajectories of boys' physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity on the path to physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency.

    Daniel Nagin;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Trajectories of change in criminal offending: Good marriages and the desistance process.

    John H. Laub;Daniel S. Nagin;Robert J. Sampson

  • Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century

    Daniel S. Nagin

  • AGE, CRIMINAL CAREERS, AND POPULATION HETEROGENEITY: SPECIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF A NONPARAMETRIC, MIXED POISSON MODEL*

    Daniel S. Nagin;Kenneth C. Land

  • Advances in group-based trajectory modeling and an SAS procedure for estimating them.

    Bobby L. Jones;Daniel S. Nagin

  • Enduring individual differences and rational choice theories of crime

    Daniel S. Nagin;Raymond Paternoster

  • Imprisonment and Reoffending

    Daniel S. Nagin;Francis T. Cullen;Cheryl Lero Jonson

  • Analyzing developmental trajectories of distinct but related behaviors: a group-based method.

    Daniel S. Nagin;Richard E. Tremblay

  • LIFE-COURSE TRAJECTORIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF OFFENDERS*

    Daniel S. Nagin;David P. Farrington;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • A Note on a Stata Plugin for Estimating Group-based Trajectory Models:

    Bobby L. Jones;Daniel S. Nagin

  • Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century

    Daniel S. Nagin

  • Trajectories leading to school-age conduct problems.

    Daniel S. Shaw;Miles Gilliom;Erin M. Ingoldsby;Daniel S. Nagin

  • INTEGRATING CELERITY, IMPULSIVITY, AND EXTRALEGAL SANCTION THREATS INTO A MODEL OF GENERAL DETERRENCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE*

    Daniel S. Nagin;Greg Pogarsky

  • The Development of Physical Aggression from Toddlerhood to Pre-Adolescence: A Nation Wide Longitudinal Study of Canadian Children

    Sylvana M. Côté;Tracy Vaillancourt;John C. LeBlanc;Daniel S. Nagin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Sylvana M. Côté
Sylvana M. Côté University of Montreal
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Mark Zoccolillo
Mark Zoccolillo McGill University
Jean R. Séguin
Jean R. Séguin University of Montreal
Raymond Paternoster
Raymond Paternoster University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Lacourse
Eric Lacourse University of Montreal
Arjan Blokland
Arjan Blokland Maastricht University
Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumstein Carnegie Mellon University

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