Kevin Drakulich
Associate Director and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Professor Kevin Drakulich’s recent work addresses three interrelated questions. The first question concerns social processes related to crime and its consequences across space—and in particular across neighborhoods and communities. A second line of research builds on the first by asking how people view crime, disorder, and social control processes within their community. Finally, a third line of research follows this line of thought beyond neighborhoods, examining how people view crime, control, and related policies more broadly, and how these views impact political behavior. Underlying all three of these lines of research are two overarching themes: race and racism, and interpersonal interactions and relationships.
Professor Drakulich is a 2014 recipient of the National Institute of Justice’s W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship as well as the 2014 New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of People of Color and Crime. In 2016, the students of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice awarded him the Robert Sheehan Excellence in Teaching Award.
- Robert Sheehan Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016 Northeastern University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- New Scholar Award, 2014, American Society of Criminology, Division of People of Color and Crime
- W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, 2014, National Institute of Justice
- Drakulich, Kevin, Eric Rodriguez-Whitney*, and Jesenia Robles*. 2022. “A Subtle but Vital Shift in Focus: Why White Americans More Frequently Fail to View the Police Critically.” Du Bois Review.
- Drakulich, Kevin, and Brandon M. Craig*. 2022. “How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution.” Social Problems.
- Drakulich, Kevin, and Megan Denver. 2022. “The Partisans and The Persuadables: Public Views of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Protests.” Perspectives on Politics.
- Drakulich, Kevin, Kevin H. Wozniak, John Hagan, and Devon Johnson. 2021. “Whose Lives Mattered? How White and Black Americans Felt About Black Lives Matter in 2016.” Law & Society Review 55: 227-251.
- Drakulich, Kevin, Kevin H. Wozniak, John Hagan, and Devon Johnson. 2020. “Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black Lives Matter, the police, and dog whistle politics.” Criminology 58(2): 370-402.
- Baranauskas, Andrew J.*, and Kevin M. Drakulich. 2018. “Media Construction of Crime Revisited: Media Types, Consumer Contexts, and Frames of Crime and Justice.” Criminology. 56(4): 679-714.
- Drakulich, Kevin, John Hagan, Devon Johnson, and Kevin H. Wozniak. 2017. “Race, Justice, Policing, and the 2016 American Presidential Election.” Du Bois Review 14(1): 7-33.
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Education
PhD, 2009, Sociology, University of Washington
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Contact
617.373.7427 k.drakulich@northeastern.edu -
Address
433 Churchill Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
