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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

John Hagan is affiliated with the American Bar Foundation in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations. Their work spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, health, and inorganic chemistry.

The researcher's primary topics of interest include crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, policing practices and perceptions, international law and human rights, torture, ethics, and law, homelessness and social issues, and gun ownership and violence research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John Hagan include Bill McCarthy, Daniel Herda, Ron Levi, Ioana Sendroiu, and Ruth D. Peterson.

John Hagan has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to CrimRxiv, Criminology, Law & Society Review, Inorganic Chemistry, and the New Journal of Chemistry.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics (2020), Criminology
  • Whose lives mattered? How White and Black Americans felt about Black Lives Matter in 2016 (2021), Law & Society Review
  • Neighborhood climates of legal cynicism and complaints about abuse of police power (2020), Criminology
  • Vanadium Chloro-Substituted Schiff Base Catecholate Complexes are Reducible, Lipophilic, Water Stable, and Have Anticancer Activities (2022), Inorganic Chemistry
  • What the Study of Legal Cynicism and Crime Can Tell Us About Reliability, Validity, and Versatility in Law and Social Science Research (2020), Annual Review of Law and Social Science

John Hagan's book publications include titles released by Oxford University Press and New York University Press eBooks. Notably, these include Chicago's Reckoning (2022) and The Many Colors of Crime (2022).

The researcher has received several awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2017), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997), the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1997), and fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (1988) under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

    John L Hagan;Bill McCarthy

  • Collateral Consequences of Imprisonment for Children, Communities, and Prisoners

    John Hagan;Ronit Dinovitzer

  • Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide

    Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo;John Hagan

  • New kid in town: Social capital and the life course effects of family migration on children

    John Hagan;John Hagan;Ross MacMillan;Blair Wheaton

  • Extra-Legal Attributes and Criminal Sentencing: An Assessment of a Sociological Viewpoint

    John L. Hagan

  • The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior

    John Hagan;A. R. Gillis;John Simpson

  • Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency.

    John Hagan;John Simpson;A. R. Gillis

  • Race, ethnicity, and youth perceptions of criminal injustice

    John Hagan;Carla Shedd;Monique R. Payne

  • THE SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF CRIME AND UNEMPLOYMENT

    John Hagan

  • Crime and Inequality

    John Hagan;Ruth D. Peterson

  • Race, Class, and the Perception of Criminal Injustice in America'

    John Hagan;Celesta Albonetti

  • Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research

    Ruth D. Peterson;John Hagan

  • Crime and disrepute

    John L Hagan

  • Destiny and Drift: Subcultural, Preferences, Status Attainments, and the Risks and Rewards of Youth

    John L. Hagan

  • Sociological Criminology and the Mythology of Hispanic Immigration and Crime

    John L Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal

    John L Hagan

  • Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion

    Holly I. Foster;John Hagan

  • Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

    John L Hagan;Wenona Rymond-Richmond

  • Gender in Practice: A Study of Lawyers' Lives

    Eve Spangler;John Hagan;Fiona Kay

  • Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality

    Robert J. Sampson;Lydia Bean;Ruth Peterson;Lauren Krivo

  • Ceremonial Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Loosely Coupled System

    John Hagan;John D. Hewitt;Duane F. Alwin

  • Gender and Crime: Offense Patterns and Criminal Court Sanctions

    Ilene H. Nagel;John Hagan

  • Just des(s)erts? The racial polarization of perceptions of criminal injustice

    Scot Wortley;John Hagan;Ross Macmillan

  • Raising the bar : The gender stratification of law-firm capital

    Fiona M. Kay;John Hagan

  • Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend

    Bill McCarthy;John Hagan;Lawrence E. Cohen

  • Private and Public Trouble: Prosecutors and the Allocation of Court Resources

    Martha A. Myers;John Hagan

  • CRIMES AS SOCIAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE COURSE: RECONCEIVING A CRIMINOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY

    John Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • THE POVERTY OF A CLASSLESS OF CRIMINOLOGY—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 1991 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS CRIMINOLOGY

    John Hagan

  • The Social and Legal Construction of Criminal Justice: A Study of the Pre-Sentencing Process

    John Hagan

  • On the Development of Xenophobia in Germany: The Adolescent Years

    Klaus Boehnke;John Hagan;Gerd Hefler

  • The Gender Stratification of Income Inequality Among Lawyers

    John Hagan

  • Criminal Justice in Rural and Urban Communities: A Study of the Bureaucratization of Justice

    John L. Hagan

  • Streetlife and delinquency.

    John Hagan;Bill McCarthy

  • Criminal justice decision making as a stratification process: The role of race and stratification resources in pretrial release

    Celesta A. Albonetti;Robert M. Hauser;John Hagan;Ilene H. Nagel

  • Explaining Official Delinquency: a Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control

    John Hagan;A. R. Gillis;Janet Chan

  • The Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals in Federal Courts: A Socio-Legal Exploration of Disparity

    Ilene H. Nagel;John L. Hagan

  • Defiance and Despair: Subcultural and Structural Linkages between Delinquency and Despair in the Life Course

    John Hagan

  • “CLUB FED” AND THE SENTENCING OF WHITE‐COLLAR OFFENDERS BEFORE AND AFTER WATERGATE

    John L. Hagan;Alberto Palloni

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković Michigan State University
Alberto Palloni
Alberto Palloni University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guillermina Jasso
Guillermina Jasso New York University
Robert L. Nelson
Robert L. Nelson Northwestern University
Karen S. Cook
Karen S. Cook Stanford University
Duane F. Alwin
Duane F. Alwin Pennsylvania State University
Harold G. Grasmick
Harold G. Grasmick University of Oklahoma
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Todd S. Woodward
Todd S. Woodward University of British Columbia

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