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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

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…Continue Reading Graduate student Xiaoshuang Iris Luo wins Award from ACCCJ

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…Continue Reading Graduate Student Rebecca Tublitz Receives NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship!

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….Continue Reading Graduate Student Xiaoshuang Iris Luo wins Smith-Pontell Award

Congratulations to graduate student Rebecca Tublitz who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus titled, “Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Bail Reform in Maryland.”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Rebecca Tublitz Defends her Dissertation Prospectus

We’re all super proud of lab member Navi Kaur, who successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society. She will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. Navi’s research critically reframes individualized notions of violence and…Continue Reading Lab member Navi Kaur to join San Francisco State University

We’re all super proud of lab member Seth Williams who received his Ph.D. in 2022 from the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and will be taking a Post-doctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Sociology (and in the Center for Health and Biosciences) at Rice University. Seth will work under the direction of…Continue Reading Lab member Seth Williams to join Rice University

Congratulations to graduate student Xiaoshuang Iris Luo who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus titled, “Crime Changes and Spatial Patterns: Examination of Longitudinal Models of Crime across Multiple Cities in the U.S..”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Xiaoshuang Iris Luo Defends her Dissertation Prospectus

Congratulations to graduate student Navi Gill who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus titled, “Toward an Abolitionist Spatial Imaginary: Reframing Violence in an Antiblack World.”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Navi Gill Defends her Dissertation Prospectus

Congratulations to graduate student Ben Forthun who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus titled, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? An Examination of Environmental Context, Resident Neighborhood Spatial Perceptions, and Implications for Aggregate Techniques.”…Continue Reading Graduate Student Ben Forthun Defends his Dissertation Prospectus

The city of Irvine has experienced significant change over its 50-year history, and yet one constant is that crime has remained at a low level, and, if anything, has been declining in the most recent decade. Why is that? In this report, we explore some of the possible factors that may help account for this…Continue Reading Irvine at 50: A Tale of Continuity and Change

Congratulations to Iris Xiaoshuang Luo for her paper, “An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public Cooperation with the Police in China,” which won two student paper awards! The paper received the 2022 Western Society of Criminology (WSC) Miki Vohryzek-Bolden Student Paper Award. And it also received the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences…Continue Reading Graduate student Iris Luo wins paper awards!