Congratulations to lab member Rebecca Tublitz who successfully defended her dissertation on bail reform in Maryland this spring, 2025, and will be graduating in June. Across three studies, Rebecca examines Maryland’s statewide bail reform to evaluate its effects on judicial decision-making and public safety, and to investigate how local court contexts shape pretrial outcomes. In…Continue Reading Congratulations Dr. Tublitz!
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
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
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
We’re all super proud of lab member Justin Sola, who just accepted UNC Chapel Hill’s offer to become an assistant professor in fall 2024, jointly appointed in Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society. Justin will defend his dissertation this Spring. Congrats Justin!…Continue Reading Justin Sola to join University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as Assistant Professor, Fall 2024