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Abigail A. Fagan

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About

Abigail A. Fagan received her Ph.D. in Sociology University of Colorado in 2001. Her research focuses on the etiology and prevention of juvenile delinquency and drug use, with an emphasis on using scientific advances to inform crime policy and practice. Dr. Fagan has been a Principal Investigator on research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice to study the role of victimization and community influences on juvenile offending. She has worked on the Community Youth Development Study, a randomized trial examining the effectiveness of Communities That Care, which assists community agencies and practitioners to identify and replicate with fidelity effective delinquency prevention programs. Her etiological and applied work has been published in leading journals in criminology, psychology, and public health and shared with scientists, policy makers, and practitioners at conferences and invited presentations. A 2012 study published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education ranked Dr. Fagan as one of the most productive scholars among Assistant Professors (her rank at the time of the study) in the U.S., measured by the number of published peer-reviewed journal article and citations, H-Index, and m-quotient. She has served on the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Board of Directors, as SPR President, and on the Advisory Board for the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development.

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Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

  • CCJ410: Juvenile Justice
  • CCJ4014: Criminological Theory
  • CCJ4934: Crime Prevention

Graduate Courses

  • CCJ6920: Seminar on Criminological Theory
  • CCJ5934: Developmental Prevention of Antisocial Behavior
  • CCJ5934: Gender and Crime

Research

Areas of Specialization

  • Communities and Crime
  • Family Influences on Juvenile Delinquency
  • Gender and Offending
  • Victimization and Offending
  • Crime Prevention and Public Policy

 

Select Publications

 

  • Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, and David P. Farrington. 2019. Communities That Care: Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hughes, Nathan, Michael Ungar, Abigail A. Fagan, Joseph Murray, Olayinka Atilola, Kitty Nichols, Joana Garcia, and Stuart Kinner. 2020. “Health Determinants of Adolescent Criminalisation.” The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 4(2): 151-162.
  • Abigail A. Fagan and Abigail Novak*. 2018. “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Delinquency in a High-Risk Sample: A Comparison of White and Black Youth.” Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 16(4): 395-417.
  • Elliott, Delbert and Abigail A. Fagan. 2017. The Prevention of Crime. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ.
  • Fagan, Abigail A. and Molly Buchanan. 2016. “What Works in Crime Prevention? A Comparison and Critical Review of Three Crime Prevention Registries.” Criminology and Public Policy 15(3): 617-649.
  • Oesterle, Sabrina, J. David Hawkins, Margaret R. Kuklinski, Abigail A. Fagan, Christopher Fleming, Isaac Rhew, Eric C. Brown, Robert D. Abbott, and Richard F. Catalano. 2015. “Effects of Communities That Care on Males’ and Females’ Drug Use and Delinquency Nine Years After Baseline in a Community-Randomized Trial.” American Journal of Community Psychology 56: 217-228.
  • Kuklinski, Margaret R., Fagan, Abigail A., J. David Hawkins, John S. Briney, and Richard F. Catalano. “Benefit-Cost Analysis of A Randomized Evaluation of Communities That Care: Monetizing Intervention Effects on the Initiation of Delinquency and Substance Use Through Grade 12.” Journal of Experimental Criminology 11(2): 165-192.
  • Gibson, Chris L., Abigail A. Fagan, and Kelsey Antle*. 2014. “Avoiding Violent Victimization Among Youth in Urban Neighborhoods: The Importance of Street Efficacy.” American Journal of Public Health 104(2): e154-e161.
  • Fagan, Abigail A., Wright, Emily M., and Gillian M. Pinchevsky. 2014. “The Protective Effects of Neighborhood Collective Efficacy on Adolescent Substance Use and Violence Following Exposure to Violence.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43(9): 1498-1512.
  • Catalano, Richard F., Abigail A. Fagan, Mark T. Greenberg, Charles Irwin, David A. Ross, Vikram Patel, Daniel T.L. Shek. 2012. “Worldwide Application of Prevention Science in Adolescent Health.” The Lancet 379: 1653-1664.
  • Wright, Emily M. and Abigail A. Fagan. 2013. “The Cycle of Violence in Context: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cultural Norms.” Criminology 51(2): 217-249.

*Denotes graduate student coauthor

Contact

Abigail A. Fagan, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
Office: Turlington Hall, Room 3362
Email: afagan@ufl.edu
PO Box 117330
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611