Stefano Bloch
Associate Professor
Graduate Program in Social, Cultural & Critical Theory
Trial Expert: gangs, graffiti, crime
I am a cultural geographer who conducts research on neighborhood change, criminality/criminalization, policing, prisons, and identity with expertise in LA-based gangs, graffiti, and the use of ethnographic and autoethnographic research methods. I regularly teach "Crime and the City" (GEOG 150B2), "Cultural Geography" (GEOG 340), an Honors College Seminar, "Cultural and Urban Geography" at the graduate level, and the Oaxaca Study Abroad Spring Break Course.
My first book, Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture, is published by University of Chicago Press (2019). I am currently working on my second book, An Urban Autopsy of an LA Gang Killing, also with the University of Chicago Press.
Please contact me via email if you are looking for an expert witness in cases involving gangs, gang identity, graffiti, or related issues.