ILSSC Directors Win Major Awards
Charis E. Kubrin received the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology. Established in 1961, this award is given to recognize outstanding service contributions to the American Society of Criminology and to the professional interests of criminology. John R. Hipp received the 2023 James Short Senior Scholar Award for best book or paper published, from the Division of Communities and Place in the American Society of Criminology.
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Recent News
- Prof Charis Kubrin receives 2026 Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Lab co-director Professor Charis Kubrin was a co-recipient of the 2026 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. This is a prestigious award given annually, and is criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. It is given for “outstanding achievements in criminological research or for the application of research results by practitioners for the reduction of crime and the… Read more: Prof Charis Kubrin receives 2026 Stockholm Prize in Criminology - Graduate student Elliott Alvarado wins Kitty Calavita Award
Congrats to lab member Elliott Alvarado, who was the recipient of the 2024 Kitty Calavita Best Second Year Project Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. His paper “Parental Assimilation and Adolescent Delinquency” provides a unique approach to the immigrant assimilation and offending literature by examining whether parental assimilation level… Read more: Graduate student Elliott Alvarado wins Kitty Calavita Award - ILSSC Welcomes 2 new lab members!
ILSSC is happy to welcome 2 new members to our team. Welcome to Esther Lin, who comes from Georgia, and to Chloe Ellis, who comes from right here in Irvine.
Recent Publications
- Lab publication on immigrant mixing and crime
A recent publication by lab directors Kubrin and Hipp tests whether there is a relationship between different types of immigrant mixing and crime. Rather than simply asking about the relationship between the presence of immigrants in neighborhoods and crime, this study looks at mixing among immigrants based on three dimensions: race/ethnicity, country of origin, or… Read more: Lab publication on immigrant mixing and crime - Lab publication on nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime
A recent publication by lab directors Kubrin and Hipp, and alum Iris Luo explores the nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime. Consistent with much existing research generally finding that the presence of more immigrants in neighborhoods is associated with lower crime rates, this study using data from neighborhoods across the U.S. in the new… Read more: Lab publication on nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime - Lab publication on Third Places and social cohesion
Third places like bodegas and barbershops promote community well-being. “Respondents in neighborhoods with more third places report higher levels of interaction with their neighbors and greater cohesion, an effect that is most prominent in low-income neighborhoods.” That was a key result in a paper led by ILSSC alum Seth Williams. He summarizes the results of… Read more: Lab publication on Third Places and social cohesion