Gregory Scott 
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Associate Professor
Crime and Delinquency, Community Studies and Street Gangs

Room #3133
Office Hours: Contact via email or voicemail
Phone: 773.325.4893
E-mail: gscott@depaul.edu

Dr. Greg Scott is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at DePaul University. At present he serves as principal investigator of three extramurally funded projects. The first is a three-year clinical trial assessing the factors that predict injection drug users’ adherence to a non-traditional, compressed hepatitis B vaccination schedule implemented through mobile syringe exchange units. The second study focuses on how outreach workers deliver clean syringes and safe injection information to young injectors in their natural habitats, including shooting galleries, nightclubs and taverns, street corners, alleyways, and private residences. Finally, Dr. Scott and a team of graduate students are documenting the experiences of gang-affiliated ex-prisoners reentering their Chicago neighborhoods upon release from state penal facilities.

On another front, Dr. Scott recently began to engage in social documentary-making (radio and film), a realm separate from but very consistent with his research interests. His first radio project, titled “Iron Weeds,” is headed up by LongHaul Productions (longhaulproductions.org), tells a multi-perspective story of a largely homeless community of drug injectors on Chicago’s west side. Active heroin and crack injectors, sex workers, police officers, merchants, and social workers all play a part in capturing the complexity and nuances of a disproportionately HIV-infected precinct of the city.