Columbia University of New York Law School > Jeffrey Fagan

Professor of Law & Public Health
Co-Director, Center for Crime, Community and Law

Office 435 West 116th Street
Room 634, Box D-18
New York NY 10027
Tel 212-854-2624
Fax 212-854-7946
Email jfagan@law.columbia.edu


Books:

J. Fagan and F.E. Zimring (eds). The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2000). (Received Society for Research on Adolescence Award for "Best Book on Adolescence and Social Policy," 2002).

D. Baskin, I. Sommers, and J. Fagan, Workim' Hard for the Money: The Social and Economic Lives of Women Drug Dealers. Huntington NY: Nova Science Press (2000).


Papers:

" Neighborhood Patterns of Violence among Latinos," Presented at Workshop on Beyond Racial Dichotomies of Violence: Immigrants, Race and Ethnicity, UCLA Center for Population Studies, Los Angeles,
November 2003 (with G. Davies).

"Neighborhood Effects on Violence Against Women: A Panel Study," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
Denver, November 2003 (with G. Davies).

"Reciprocal Effects of Crime and Incarceration in New York City Neighborhoods," Presented at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, December 2002 (with V. West and J. Holland).

"The Effects of Drug Enforcement on the Rise and Fall of Homicides in New York City, 1985-1996," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002 (with G. Davies).

"Age-Specific Sanctions for Juvenile Offenders: Crime Control and the Exclusion of Adolescent from the Juvenile Court," Presented at the Symposium for the 10th Anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2002.

"New Measures for Assessing Perceptions of Legitimacy and Deterrence among Juvenile Offenders," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002 (with A. Piquero).

"Community, Courts, and Legitimacy," Fordham University Law School Symposium on Problem-Solving Courts, New York, February 2002 (with V. Malkin).

"Specific Deterrent Effects of Jurisdictional Transfer of Adolescent Felony Offenders," American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 2001 (with A. Kupchik).

"Assessing the Theoretical and Empirical Status of 'Broken Windows' Policing," Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, October 2001.

"Social Contagion of Youth Violence," Grand Rounds Lecture, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD, March 2001.

"Street Stops and Broken Windows: Terry, Race and Disorder in New York City," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA , November 2000.

"Social and Legal Consequences of Judicial Waiver of Adolescents: Human Rights Implications," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, February 2000.

"Crime in Poor Places: Examining the Neighborhood Context of New York City's Public Housing Projects," Presented at the Research Institute on Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families, Joint Center for Poverty Research, The University of Chicago, September 1999 (with Tamara Dumanovsky and J. Philip Thompson).

"Social Contagion of Violence, Presented at the Fortunoff Colloquium, New York University School of Law, April 1999. Previous versions presented at the Winter Roundtable, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 1998, and the International Roundtable on Urban Security, Foundation Jean Jares, Paris, April 1998.

"This is Gonna' Hurt Me More than It'll Hurt You: Consequences of the Criminalization of Youth Crime." Presented at the Workshop on the Juvenile Justice System, National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime, Washington DC, January 1999.

"Use, Misuse and Nonuse of Social Science in Law: Case Studies from Criminal Law." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, New Orleans, January 1999.

"Consequences of Waiver: Recidivism and Adolescent Development." Presented at the Symposium on The Juvenile Justice Counter-Reformation: Children and Adolescents as Adult Criminals, Quinnipiac College School of Law, Hamden CT, September 17-18, 1998.

"Drugs and Youth Violence: The Tripartite Framework Revisited." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November 1997.

"The Criminalization of Delinquency and the Politics of Juvenile Justice." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Philadelphia PA, August 1997.

"Crack in Context: Myths And Realities From America's Latest Drug Epidemic." Presented at the NIJ/NIDA Conference on The Crack Decade: Research Perspectives and Lessons Learned. Baltimore MD: June 1997.

"Alcohol and Violent Events." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 1996 (with D.L. Wilkinson).

"A Crime and Public Housing: Conceptual and Research Issues." Presented at the Joint Conference on Research in Public Housing, National Institute of Justice and Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington DC, July 1997.

"The Functions of Adolescent Violence." Presented at the Bi-National Forum on Youth Violence, The French American Foundation, United Nations, New York, October 1996.

"Mirror Images of Violence: The Historical Socialization of Willie Bosket." Author-Meets-Critic Panel on All God's Children, by Fox Butterfield. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November 1995.

"Crime and Work." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November 1995.

"Drugs and Violence: Lessons from Three Epidemics." Presented at a joint session of the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington DC, August 1995.

"Social and Legal Control of Spouse Assault: Ironies in the Effectiveness of Punishment for Wife Beating." Presented at the Conference on Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, Washington DC, July 1995.

"Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy." Testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC, June 29, 1995.

"Gangs, Youth, Drugs, and Violence." Presented to the Drugs-Violence Task Force of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Washington DC, May 1995.

"Community Risk Factors in Workplace Violence." Presented at the Symposium on Violence in the Workplace, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, March 1995.

"Situational Contexts of Gun Use among Young Males." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Atlanta, February 1995, and at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994.

"The Social Control of Violence among Intimates: Neighborhood Influences on the Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Spouse Assault" (with J. Garner & C. Maxwell). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994.

"Crime, Drugs and Neighborhood Change: the Effects of Deindustrialization on Social Control in Inner Cities." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 1994.

"The Social Context of Deterrence." Plenary paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, October 1993.

"Doubling Up: Careers in Legal and Illegal Work." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, October 1993.

"Promises and Lies: The False Criminology of "Islands in the Street." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.

"Deindustrialization and the Emergence of Youth Gangs in American Cities." Colloquium at the Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh, April 1993.

"Women and Drugs Revisited: Female Participation in the Crack Economy." Colloquium at the Research Institute on the Addictions, State of New York, March 1993.

"Neighborhood Effects on Gangs and Ganging: Ethnicity, Political Economy and Urban Change." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November 1992.

"Enterprise and Ethnicity: Cultural and Economic Influence on Social Networks of Chinese Youth Gangs" (with K. Chin). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November 1992.

"The Specific Deterrent Effects of Criminal Sanctions for Drug and Non-Drug Offenders." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Philadelphia, May 1992.

"The Changing Contexts of Drug-Violence Relationships for Adolescents and Adults." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, February 1991.

"Youth Gangs as Social Networks." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Baltimore MD, November 1990.

"Context and Contingency in Drug-Related Violence." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston MA, August 1990.

"The Dragon Breathes Fire: Chinese Organized Crime in New York City" (R. Kelly, K. Chin, and J. Fagan). Presented to the Political Sociology Faculty of the University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, May 1990.

"The Political Economy of Drug Use and Drug Dealing among Urban Gangs" (J. Fagan and A. Hamid). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Reno NV, November 1989.

"The Comparative Impacts of Juvenile and Criminal Court Sanctions for Adolescent Felony Offenders" (J. Fagan and M. Schiff). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Reno NV, November 1989.

"Symbolic and Substantive Effects of Waiver Legislation in New Jersey" (M. Schiff and J. Fagan). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Vail CO, June, 1988.

"The Predictive Validity of Judicial Determinations of Dangerousness: Preventive Detention of Juvenile Offenders in the Schall v. Martin Case" (J. Fagan and M. Guggenheim). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Montreal, Quebec, November, 1987; and, at the Fortunoff Colloquium Series, New York Unversity School of Law, November, 1988.

"The Comparative Effects of Legal and Social Sanctions in the Recurrence of Wife Abuse" (J. Fagan and S. Wexler). Presented at the Third National Conference on Family Violence Research, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, July, 1987

"The Stability of Delinquency Correlates in Eight High Crime Neighborhoods" (J. Deslonde and J. Fagan). Presented at the 1986 Annual Conference of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Washington DC, March 1986.

"Complex Behaviors and Simple Measures: Understanding Violence in Families" (J. Fagan and S. Wexler). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November, 1985.

"Social Ecology of Violent Delinquency" (J. Fagan, P. Kelly and M. Jang). Presented at Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, IL, March, 1984.

"Delinquent Careers of Chronically Violent Juvenile Offenders" (E. Hartstone, J. Fagan and M. Jang). Presented at Pacific Sociological Association, San Jose, CA, April 1983. "Parens Patriae and Juvenile Parole." Presented at the National Conference on Criminal Justice Evaluation, Washington, DC, November 1978.

"Indigenous Justice: The San Francisco Community Board Program" (J. Fagan). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 1977, Atlanta, Georgia.

"An Assessment of the Impact of Treatment and Other Factors on Successful Completion of a Pretrial Intervention Program" (J. Fagan). Presented at the National Conference on Criminal Justice Evaluation, February 1977.


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