Andrew Papachristos
(Ph.D. University of Chicago 2007)
Sociology
728 Thompson Hall
(413) 545-0443
andrewp@soc.umass.edu

Andrew Papachristos is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. His research uses social network analysis to examine the social structures and group processes at the heart of interpersonal violence and delinquency, issues of group dominance and reciprocity and the use of violence and honor as measures of social control. His current research combines ethnographic and quantitative techniques to explain the network dynamics responsible for the social contagion of gang murder in Chicago over nearly two decades. Andrew is also currently involved in the evaluation of the Project Safe Neighborhoods program in Chicago and has just completed data collection on a four-neighborhood study of how illegal and pro social networks of probationers and parolees influence offending patterns, interpersonal violence, gun markets and perceptions of neighborhood social order. His research has appeared in Foreign Policy, Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and several edited books.

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Current Grants:
2008-10. Andrew Mellon Foundation.  Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant.  With David Cort, Emily Erikson, Dani Lainer-Vos, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Amy Schalet and Melissa Wooten.

2008-09.  NIJ. The Structural and Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood Violence.  Co-PI. PI: David Kirk, UMaryland, Prime.

2008-09.  FRG. Network Dynamics and the Evolution of Organized Crime in Chicago, 1918-1998: A Pilot Study.

Pending Grants:
The Diffusion of Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence in Gang Networks. Guggenheim Foundation.

Recent Publications:
"Attention Felons: Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4(2). With Tracey Meares and Jeffrey Fagan.