Laura Hansen
Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 19
Telephone: 617-287-6261
Email: laura.hansen@umb.edu
Research
Synthesis of criminological theory and social network theory, social network analysis of insider traders during the 1980s, social network analysis of gang affiliations, deviance and crime in organizations, white-collar crime, corporate governance and policy/decision processes.
Teaching
Introduction to Sociology, Corrections, White-collar Crime, Social Network Analysis
Representative Publications
“Wall Street Scandals: The Myth of Individual Greed,” Sociological Forum. Siamak Movahedi, second author. Essay. (Forthcoming)
"Corporate Crime: Social Diagnosis and Treatment.” 2009. Journal of Financial Crime. Vol 16, No 1: 28-40.
“Tearing at the Social Fabric: Social Costs of Insider Trading as Informal Economy,” in Shadow Economies and Their Paradoxes. 2009. Noel Barbe and Florence Weber, Editors. Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, publisher. Translated into French. In Review.
“Walt Disney World.” 2007. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, editor. Blackwell Publishing.
“Women Disadvantaged in the Workplace: The Second Shift, Emotional Labor, and The ‘Good Old Boy’ Network.” 2006. The Women in Ophthalmology: Observations on Gender Issues in Eyecare, edited by John Pinto & Elizabeth Davis, MD. The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Ch. 5, pp 23-43.
“Girl ‘Crew’ Members Doing Gender, Boy ‘Crew’ Members Doing Violence: An Ethnographic and Network Analysis of Maria Hinojosa’s New York Gangs.” 2005. Western Criminology Review. Vol 6, No 1:134-44.
“Gangs of New York.” 2005. Forrester Magazine. Forrester Research Inc. 2:72.