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65
Citations
20212
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81
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50

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  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Wesley G. Skogan is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Health, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their research covers a range of topics, with key emphases on:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Education, sociology, and vocational training
  • Healthcare Systems and Practices

Wesley G. Skogan has authored papers published in several academic journals, including:

  • "Why study policing comparatively?", 2022, Policing & Society
  • "Accountability and transparency as levers to promote public trust and police legitimacy: findings from a natural experiment", 2021, Policing An International Journal
  • "The Past as Prologue: Police Stops and Legacies of Complaints About Neighborhood Police Misconduct", 2023, Race and Justice
  • "Block Clubs and Crime in Chicago: The Transplant Hypothesis", 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis", 2024, Cities

In addition to journal articles, their book publication includes:

  • Police et société en France, 2023, published by Presses de Sciences Po

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jacques de Maillard
  • Aleksandra J. Snowden
  • Tammy Rinehart Kochel
  • Bill McCarthy
  • John Hagan

Their work appears regularly in venues such as Policing An International Journal, Policing & Society, Race and Justice, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Cities, reflecting a diverse publication record across topics related to policing and social issues.

Best Publications

  • Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Coping With Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions

    Wesley G. Skogan;Michael G. Maxfield

  • Community Policing, Chicago Style

    Jerome H. Skolnick;Wesley G. Skogan;Susan M. Hartnett

  • Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing : The Evidence

    Practices;Wesley G. Skogan;Kathleen Frydl

  • Fear of Crime and Neighborhood Change

    Wesley G Skogan

  • Asymmetry in the Impact of Encounters with Police

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • The Impact of Victimization on Fear

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Community Policing Chicago Style

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  • Citizen Satisfaction with Police Encounters

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Reporting Crimes to the Police: The Status of World Research

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Disorder and decline

    Wesley Skogan

  • Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Cities

    Wesley G Skogan

  • Evaluating correctional and community settings

    Rudolf H. Moos

  • Why reforms fail

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Winning the Hearts and Minds of Police Officers: An Assessment of Staff Perceptions of Community Policing in Chicago

    Arthur J. Lurigio;Wesley G. Skogan

  • Advocate The promise of community policing

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Evaluation of CeaseFire-Chicago

    Wesley G. Skogan;Susan M. Hartnett;Natalie Bump

  • The Validity of Official Crime Statistics: An Empirical Investigation

    Wesley G Skogan

  • Issues in the measurement of victimization

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Concern About Crime and Confidence in the Police Reassurance or Accountability

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Crime and the Racial Fears of White Americans

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Community Organizations and Crime

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Dimensions of the Dark Figure of Unreported Crime

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Training police for procedural justice.

    Wesley G. Skogan;Maarten Van Craen;Cari Hennessy

  • CITIZEN REPORTING OF CRIME Some National Panel Data

    Wesley G. Skogan

  • Police–Community Relations in a Majority-Black City

    Ronald Weitzer;Steven A. Tuch;Wesley G. Skogan

Frequent Co-Authors

Fay Lomax Cook
Fay Lomax Cook Northwestern University
Robert C. Davis
Robert C. Davis Police Foundation
Thomas D. Cook
Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison
Janet L. Lauritsen
Janet L. Lauritsen University of Missouri–St. Louis
Robert M. Groves
Robert M. Groves University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ronald Weitzer
Ronald Weitzer George Washington University
Michael R. Gottfredson
Michael R. Gottfredson University of California, Irvine
Jerome H. Skolnick
Jerome H. Skolnick New York University

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