Gary LaFree is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland

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 and the director of the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). His main areas of expertise are sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

, criminology

Criminology

Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

, race and crime

Race and crime in the United States

The relationship between race and crime in the United States has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century...

, and terrorism.

Education

LaFree received his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 (1973), his M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 (1975) and his Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 (1979) from Indiana University

Indiana University

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Career

LaFree previously taught at Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

 (1975-1976) and the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

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 (1979-2000). He was also the director of the New Mexico Criminal Justice Statistics Analysis Center from 1988 to 2001.

Memberships

LaFree is a member of the American Society of Criminology

American Society of Criminology

The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency...

 and the National Consortium on Violence Research. He was president of the American Society of Criminology for the year 2005-2006. LaFree is also on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence

International Journal of Conflict and Violence

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On criminology

• Educational spending and imprisonment risk: The role of schools as prison gatekeepers with Richard Arum
  Richard Arum
  Richard Arum is professor of sociology in New York University's Department of Sociology and professor of education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In January 2011 his book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, was...
  
   (2009)
• Developmental victimology and the homicide victimization of infants and young children with Gwen Hunnicut (2008)
• The situational analysis of crime and deviance with Christopher Birkbeck (1993)

On race and crime

• Is the gap between black and white arrest rates narrowing? National trends for personal contact crimes, 1960 to 2002 with Robert O'Brien and Erich Baumer (2006)
• The effect of racially segregated schools on African American and white incarceration rates, 1970 to 1990 with Richard Arum (2006)
• Race and crime with Michelle Hussong (2000)
• African-American collective action and crime with Kriss Drass (1997)
• Race and crime trends in the United States, 1946‑1990 (1994)
• The argument for studying race and crime with Katheryn K. Russell (1993)

On terrorism

• The impact of British counter terrorist strategies on political violence in Northern Ireland: Comparing deterrence and backlash models with Laura Dugan and Raven Korte (2009)
• Build a criminal justice policy for terrorism with James Hendrickson (2007)
• Global terrorism and failed states with Laura Dugan and Susan Fahey (2007)

Sources

• Gary LaFree at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice of the University of Maryland. http://www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=26

External links

• Gary LaFree at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice of the University of Maryland.
• Gary LaFree's Curriculum Vitae hosted at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice of the University of Maryland.