Congratulations to graduate student Seth Williams who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus titled, “Towards a Political Economy Perspective of Urban Crime.”
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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.”
Graduate Students Navjyot Gill and Hwawon Seo Pass Comps
Congratulations to Navi and Hwawon for passing their comprehensive exams in Criminology, Law & Society!
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 are linked in neighborhoods across a diverse sample of U.S. cities.
Lab publication on Advances in Spatial Criminology
This new review article surveys the field of spatial criminology, and considers recent theoretical and methodological contributions. It discusses challenges confronting the field, and needed next directions for research.
You can access the article by Dr. John R. Hipp and Seth A. Williams in the Annual Review of Criminology entitled, “Advances in Spatial Criminology: The Spatial Scale of Crime.”
Get it here.
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