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Wesley G. Skogan has been a faculty member at Northwestern University since 1971, and holds
joint appointments in the Political Science Department and the University's Institute for Policy
Research.  His research focuses on the interface between the public and the legal system, in
crime prevention, victim services, and community-oriented policing.

His most recent books on policing are:  Police and Community in Chicago (2006), Community
Policing: Can It Work? (2003), On the Beat: Police and Community Problem Solving (1999) and
Community Policing, Chicago Style (1997). These are all empirical studies of community policing
initiatives in Chicago and elsewhere.  His 1990 book Disorder and Decline examined public
involvement in these programs, their efficacy, and the issues involved in police-citizen cooperation
in order maintenance; this book won a prize from the American Sociological Association. Prof.
Skogan is also the author of two lengthy reports in the Home Office Research Series examining
citizen contact and satisfaction with policing in Britain; reprints of both are available here. He is co-
editor of a policy-oriented report from the National Research Council in Washington, DC: Fairness
and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence.

His second line of research concerns neighborhood and community responses to crime.  This
includes work on fear of crime, the impact of crime on neighborhood life, and crime prevention
efforts by community organizations. His book Coping with Crime dealt  with all of these issues; a
reprint is available here. An article on fear that is available on this web site is "Crime and the Racial
Fears of White Americans." Some of his research on participation in neighborhood crime
prevention programs is reported in two reprints available here: "Community Organizations and
Crime," and "Communities, Crime, and Neighborhood Organization."

Prof. Skogan has also been involved in research on criminal victimization and the evaluation of
service programs for victims. His first book (Sample Surveys of Victims of Crime) and a more
recent one (Crime Victims, out in a second edition) reflect this interest.  He edited a series of
technical monographs on victimization research that were published by the US Government
Printing Office.  He is the author of a major technical review of the National Crime Survey that  was
published in Public Opinion Quarterly.

Prof. Skogan has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut (Freiburg), the Dutch Ministry of
Justice (WODC), the University of Alberta, and Johns Hopkins University. He spent two years as a
Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice. He served as a consultant to the British Home
Office, developing and analyzing the British Crime Survey. He has twice testified before committees
of the US Congress. He has served on the editorial boards of many academic journals, ranging
from the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology to Evaluation Review and the British Journal of
Criminology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, a member of the Scientific
Committee of the International Society of Criminology, and a Senior Fellow of the Open Society
Institute. From 1999-2004 he chaired the National Research Council’s Committee on Research on
Police Policies and Practices, and was a member of the NRC’s Committee on Law and Justice. In
January 2007, a journal of the American Political Science Association ranked him (at 14th) one of
the “Top 25" members of his age cohort in terms of academic citations, and across all political
scientists he ranked as the 16th most cited member of the profession’s American Politics subfield.
Wesley G.Skogan
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