John Laub
John Laub is a Professor at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, he earned a Master's Degree from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany in 1976 and the Ph.D. degree in 1980. Recognized as one of the country's leading criminologists, John has written, at last counting, 7 books, over 30 articles, and 18 chapters in books, plus a host of research papers, monographs, and professional presentations. As one would expect, he has received many research grants, among them from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley.
His specialty is the development of criminal behavior over the life course of individuals. His best known book is Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), which he wrote with Robert J. Sampson, who is also a doctoral graduate of the School of Criminal Justice (1983). This book won the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association (1993), the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology (1994) , and the Outstanding Book Award from the American Criminal Justice Society (1995).
A member of several editorial boards, John edited the Journal of Quantitative Criminology from 1991 to 1996. In recognition of his contributions to criminology, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 1996.