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 effects the likelihood of offending among native-born adolescent youth.
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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.
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 language use. The study uses data from neighborhoods across the U.S. with the National Incident Crime Study (NICS), collected by the ILSSC. A particularly notable finding was that higher levels of mixing among immigrants based on country of origin is associated with lower levels of crime in neighborhoods. The paper is now published in the Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency and can be found here: “Immigration and Crime: The Role of Immigrant Heterogeneity”
The graphs below shows the the relationship between different types of immigrant mixing and violent and property crime in neighborhoods across the U.S.
Graduate student Cheyenne Hodgen wins Gil Geis Award
Congrats to lab member Cheyenne Hodgen, who was the recipient of the 2025 Gil Geis Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. This award recognizes excellence in research by a graduate student. Cheyenne received it for her research publications, including one as lead author and one as co-author published in Criminology. Congrats Cheyenne!
Three lab members defend dissertation prospectuses!
Congratulations to lab members Cheyenne Hodgen, Kyle Winnen, and Yuki Wang, all of whom successfully defended their dissertation prospectuses this spring, 2025.
Cheyenne’s dissertation project is titled, “Understanding Criminal Opportunity: Environmental Design, Routine Activities, and Temporal Patterns of Crime.”
Kyle’s dissertation project is titled, “The Subjective Experience of Inequality: Developing Critical Harm Theory to Examine How Social Structure and Culture Impact Violence, Social Reactions to Harm, and Civic Participation.”
Yuki Wang. Yuki’s dissertation project is titled, “Crime mobility and Spatial preferences: A Comparative Analysis through the Lens of Offender-centric Theories to Understand Victimization”.
