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Distinguished University Professor
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| Research Interests: | History of Criminology
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile justice
Life-Course Criminology
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Biographical Sketch
John H. Laub is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. In 1996, he was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, in 2002-2003 he served as the President of the American Society of Criminology, and in 2005 he received the Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology. He was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Dr. Laub’s areas of research include crime and deviance over the life course, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, and the history of criminology. He has published widely including Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, co-authored with Robert Sampson, Harvard University Press, 1993. With Robert Sampson, he wrote Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, Harvard University Press, 2003, which analyzes longitudinal data from a long-term follow-up study of juvenile offenders from a classic study by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck. Both books have won three major awards: The Albert J. Reiss, Jr, Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.
Recently, Dr. Laub has initiated three new projects. One focuses on neighborhood change and crime rates in the District of Columbia. The second examines the transition from adolescence to young adulthood among serious juvenile offenders in Philadelphia, PA. The third uses data from the Peterborough Adolescent Development Study (PADS+) directed by Per-Olof Wikstrom to study spirituality, morality, and crime.
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SUNY-Albany |
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Criminal Justice |
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jlaub@crim.umd.edu |
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| download/view | The Life Course of Criminology in the United States: The ASC 2003 Presidential Address | | download/view | Edwin H. Sutherland and the Michael-Adler Report: Searching for the Soul of Criminology Seventy Years Later,
The ASC 2005 Sutherland Address | | download/view | Glueck Project Publications August 2009 |
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