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David J. Harding

David J. Harding, a 2005 recipient of a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University, is a post-doctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He will begin a position as an assistant professor of Sociology in 2006. His research interests include the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods on adolescents, rampage school shootings, racial differences in incarceration, consequences of incarceration on former inmates, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. His policy interests include program evaluation, criminal justice policy, school safety, and youth development policy. David is co-author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, published in February 2004 by Basic Books. His work has also appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Methods and Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Deviant Behavior, Corrections Management Quarterly, and in edited volumes. David was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and his dissertation research is funded by grants or fellowships from the William T. Grant Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Network on Inequality and Economic Performance, and the American Educational Research Association.


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