Robert H. Garot, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

I received my Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. Specializing in the dilemmas of the poor and those who funnel their access to needed good and services, I have conducted fieldwork at a federal housing office and an inner-city alternative school. I have published on gang identity as performance, shown how young people in an inner-city alternative school respond to, defy, and invoke the dress code as a means of molding identity, and how young people in the inner-city maintain honor while avoiding violence. I explored how housing officials' discretionary decisions are influenced by applicants' anger and tears, and how such workers' biases arise from their suspicions of applicants. Currently I am interviewing immigrants to Tuscany in regards to their experiences with, around, and against the law.