Congratulations to graduate student Seth Williams who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus titled, “Towards a Political Economy Perspective of Urban Crime.”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Seth Williams Defends his Dissertation Prospectus
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Graduate Student Iris Luo Completes her 2nd year project
Congratulations to Iris Luo who recently completed her 2nd year project titled, “Reciprocal Relationship between Returning Parolees and Neighborhood Crime Rates in Texas: A Longitudinal Study of Prisoner Reentry.”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Iris Luo Completes her 2nd year project
Graduate Students Navjyot Gill and Hwawon Seo Pass Comps
Congratulations to Navi and Hwawon for passing their comprehensive exams in Criminology, Law & Society!…Continue Reading Graduate Students Navjyot Gill and Hwawon Seo Pass Comps
Kubrin, Hipp and Owens awarded $700,000 U.S. Dept. of Justice grant to study immigration, immigration-related policies, crime
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
Southern California Crime Report for 2019
ILSSC researchers forecast a general decrease in both violent and property crime in the Southern California region in 2019. Using a forecast model based on 15 years of data, they project an average decrease in violent crime of 12% and property crime of 1% across cities in 2019. Their forecast model projects violent crime will…Continue Reading Southern California Crime Report for 2019