There is no denying that gun violence in Chicago has erupted to a level of war-zone proportion. As the city of Chicago works to stem the tide of shootings that has left more than 40 people dead in April alone, DePaul University faculty are available to share their research and expertise.

The following DePaul faculty have expertise in numerous areas related to societal violence, including gun control laws, the impact of poverty on gun violence, the impact of gun violence on the criminal justice system, poverty and race, economic development policies, urban youth and school violence, stress and urban youth, gangs in schools, the impact of race, class and gender on public education systems, parenting in a cultural context,domestic violence and youth and violence prevention.

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Michael Bennett Executive Director, Egan Urban Center; Associate Professor, Sociology (312) 362 – 6518; mbennett@depaul.edu Areas of expertise are poverty, poverty alleviation and race, community economic development policies and practices, both urban and rural.

Paul Buchheit Instructor, School for New Learning (773) 774-3395; pbuchhei@depaul.edu Founder of fightingpoverty.org, he can discuss issues of economic inequality in Chicago, how it leads to other problems, and what citizens can do about it. In 2006 he founded Global Initiative Chicago (GIChicago.org), which promotes awareness of critical global issues among colleges and high schools in the Chicago area.

Thomas D. Donley Professor and Chair Economics (312) 362-8887; tdonley@depaul.edu Poverty’s impacts on gun violence.

Susan Dvorak McMahon Director, Community Psychology Doctoral Program; Associate Professor, Psychology (773) 325-2039; smcmahon@depaul.edu Areas of expertise are African-American adolescents, urban youth, school-based interventions, violence and aggression and violence prevention.

Kathryn Grant Director, Doctoral Clinical Training; Associate Professor, Psychology (773) 325-4241; kgrant@depaul.edu Spearheads a research project in the clinical psychology area at DePaul known as the Stress and Coping Research Project, which examines the impact of stress on the mental health of urban youth.

Horace Hall Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Research (773) 325-4693; hhall@depaul.edu Areas of expertise include school violence, bullies, urban education, youth development and identity formation, youth advocacy and empowerment. Hall oversees the REAL Youth Program, a safe haven for sixth-grade through high school boys and girls deemed “at-risk” that provides a place to talk about the issues they face.

Stephen Haymes Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research (773) 325-1668; shaymes@depaul.edu Urban politics, race, class, gender and their impact on public education systems; the sociology of education; social and historical issues in education.

Dana McDermott School for New Learning Resident Faculty Developmental Psychologist and Certified Family Life Educator (312) 362-5111; dmcderm2@depaul.edu Author of the book “Developing Caring Relationships Among Parents, Children, Schools and Communities.” Courses taught include The Men They Will Become: Raising Boys to be Men of Character; Family Values: Parenting in Cultural Context; and Parenting and Family Support in Social-Cultural Context.

Cynthia Roseberry Assistant Clinical Professor of Law (312) 362-5136; croseber@depaul.edu The impact of gun violence on the criminal justice system.

Jane Rutherford Professor of Law; Director, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center (312) 362-5269; jrutherf@depaul.edu The impact of domestic violence on children.

Kenneth Saltman Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Research (773) 325-4689; ksaltman@depaul.edu Expert on gangs in schools, multiculturalism, sociology of education, psychology of middle school education, education and the social order.

Jeffrey Shaman Vincent de Paul Professor of Law (312) 362-8143; jshaman@depaul.edu The Second Amendment. “Given the amount of violence caused by guns in our society and the terrible misuse of guns, there is a compelling state interest that justifies properly drawn gun control laws.”