Category: Awards

Graduate Student Chris Contreras wins ASC Gene Carte Award for best student paper

ILSSC graduate student Chris Contreras and co-author Narae Lee (Ph.D. student in Urban Planning and Public Policy) were awarded first prize in the the 2020 Gene Carte Award for best student paper in the American Society of Criminology. This is a prestigious award given to the paper judged to be the best student paper of…Continue Reading Graduate Student Chris Contreras wins ASC Gene Carte Award for best student paper

Kubrin, Hipp and Owens awarded $700,000 U.S. Dept. of Justice grant to study immigration, immigration-related policies, crime

Kubrin, Hipp and Owens

Kubrin, Hipp and Owens, who have been studying immigation for years, point out that most of the existing research lumps immigrants together and neglects differences across groups, failing to account for significant differences among immigrants. Using more than a decade of data, they will conduct a series of analyses that examine how immigration and crime…Continue Reading Kubrin, Hipp and Owens awarded $700,000 U.S. Dept. of Justice grant to study immigration, immigration-related policies, crime

Graduate Student Seth Williams wins 2019 Gil Geis Award

ILSSC graduate student Seth Williams was awarded the 2019 Gil Geis Award for excellence in research. This award is given to a graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in research. The committee noted that “Williams’ work, which has been published in prominent national journals, involves measures of neighborhood cohesion and integration. In a short period…Continue Reading Graduate Student Seth Williams wins 2019 Gil Geis Award