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 Division of Communities and Places (DCP). Dr. Hipp’s talk was based in part on his book that 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.

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!

Congratulations to lab member Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, who received the Hong Lu Outstanding Student Service Award from the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice (ACCCJ) in the United States at the 2023 annual American Society of Criminology meeting. This award is recognizes outstanding contributions and services to ACCCJ and is presented to a member who is a full-time graduate student. Great work by Iris, who is on the job market in Fall 2023. You can read more about this honor here.

Congratulations to graduate student Rebecca Tublitz who was awarded an NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship for her dissertation project titled, “Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Bail Reform in Maryland.” Find out more about her project here:

https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-nij-2023-171521?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=grf2023

Congratulations to lab member Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, who received the Smith-Pontell Award from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine in spring 2023! This award is for overall outstanding accomplishments as a graduate student. Great work by Iris, who will be on the job market in the Fall 2023.