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Andrew V. Papachristos

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Sociology

About

Areas of Focus

  • Social networks
  • Urban neighborhoods
  • Gun violence
  • Street gangs
  • Policing

Work/Research

  • Aims to understand how the connected nature of cities – how their citizens, neighborhoods and institutions are tied to one another – affect what we feel, think and do
  • Uses network science to study gun violence, police misconduct, illegal gun markets, Al Capone, street gangs and urban neighborhoods

Career

  • Director, Northwestern Neighborhood and Network Initiative (N3)