Unpacking immigration and crime stats
Kubrin, Hipp and Owens awarded $700,000 U.S. Dept. of Justice grant to study immigration, immigration-related policies, crime
Welcome to the website for the Irvine Laboratory for the Study of Space and Crime (ILSSC) in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. Our group is dedicated to researching the social ecology of crime at all levels of analysis including street segments, blocks, neighborhoods, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas. [Find out more…]
Recent News
- Three new lab PhDs! Sola, Luo, and Forthun
Congrats to three of our lab members who successfully defended their dissertations this spring, 2024, and are off to bigger and better things at their new jobs. Justin Sola defended his dissertation “Theory with Consequents”, and will now be an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the sociology department. Go…Continue Reading Three new lab PhDs! Sola, Luo, and Forthun - Graduate student Kyle Winnen wins Gil Geis Award
Congrats to lab member Kyle Winnen, who was the recipient of the 2024 Gil Geis Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. This award recognizes excellence in research by a graduate student. Kyle received it for his three publications this year! Congrats Kyle!…Continue Reading Graduate student Kyle Winnen wins Gil Geis Award - Prof John Hipp gives inaugural Crime and place Webinar
Lab co-director Dr. John R. Hipp gave the inaugural Crime and Place in the making lecture . The talk was on “The Spatial Scale of Crime: Consequences for Ecological Studies of Crime“. The series of talks in this webinar series is a joint initiative between Network Safe places at KTH and American Society of Criminology’s…Continue Reading Prof John Hipp gives inaugural Crime and place Webinar
Recent Publications
- 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…Continue Reading 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…Continue Reading Lab publication on Third Places and social cohesion - Lab publication on criminal justice reformHow to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations, by Charis E. Kubrin and Rebecca Tublitz How can we improve the effectiveness of criminal justice reform efforts? Effective reform hinges on shared understandings of what the problem is and shared visions of what success looks like. But consensus is hard to come by,…Continue Reading Lab publication on criminal justice reform
Community Outreach
ILSSC researchers have developed several videos to better translate their research into practical, community based solutions. [Find out more…]
ILSSC publishes a number of studies by the directors and graduate students, the most recent studies are highlighted above. [Read more about our publications.]
ILSSC produces a number of tools over the course of research including academic apps and statistical packages, the most recent tools are highlighted above. [Find more of our tools.]