John Hagan
One of the world's leading criminologists, John Hagan, 1971 MA, 1974 PhD, is known for his penetrating intellect, creativity, and enthusiasm. His pioneering contributions to scholarship in his field include a unique theoretical model used to help explain gender differences in delinquency.An award-winning teacher at the University of Toronto, Hagan accepted the W. Grant Dahlstrom Chair in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in late 1994. He is the author of 10 books, including Structural Criminology, which earned a Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociology Association. He has served as a member of the Canadian Bar Association Task Force on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession and the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on High Risk Youth.
Hagan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Society of Criminology. He has also received many awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Killam Senior Fellowship, and the University of Toronto's Oswald Hall Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and numerous awards for his books.
In 1995, he received the University of Alberta Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award.