Faculty Bio & Interests
Finn-Aage Esbensen, Professor
Finn-Aage Esbensen is the E. Desmond
Lee Professor of Youth Crime and Violence in the Department of Criminology
and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He
received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tufts University. His Ph.D.
(Sociology, 1982) was awarded by the University of Colorado, Boulder.
His research has covered a broad spectrum of methodologies and topics from participant observation in a county jail to conducting longitudinal national surveys of adolescents. Throughout his career, he has been interested in the nexus between research and policy, working on both evaluation and basic research projects. He is currently the Principal Investigator on two multi-site evaluations of school-based prevention programs.