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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Criminal Behaviour
• Musical Influence on Criminal Behaviour
• Researching Youth

Teaching Interests & Grants

• Sociology of Education
• Sociology of Work and Industry I
• Criminal Behaviour

Affiliations

• Centre for Industrial Relations – University of Toronto
• Centre for Criminology – University of Toronto

Awards & Grants

• 2009-2012. National Crime Prevention Centre (Public Safety Canada) through the city of Toronto. Evaluation of the Toronto Youth Gang Prevention Pilot Project. Research contract. $929,012. Co-investigator.
• 2004. Criminal Organizations or Social Groupings: An exploration of the Myths and Realities of Youth Gangs in Toronto. $35, 000.
• 1996 -2002. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Centre for Excellence Grant. National Association of Life-Long Learning. $1,125,000 Group Co-ordinator.

Publications

• Julian Tanner, Mark Asbridge, Scot Wortley, "Listening to Rap: Cultures of Crime, Cultures of Resistance." Social Forces (forthcoming 2010)
• Teenage Troubles: Youth and Deviance in Canada (Nelson), 2010. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press.
• "Money, Respect and Defiance: justification for gang activity in Canada" (with Scot Wortley) Chapter 12 in Street Gangs, Migration & Ethnicity (eds.) Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson & Inger-Lise Lien, 2008, William Publishing
• "Data, denials and confusion: The Racial Profiling Debate in Toronto". Reprinted in Controversies in Canadian Society, M. Reza Nakhaie, Nelson Publishing, 2007. (with Scot Wortley)