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ILSSC Welcomes New Students from 2017-2018 Cohort

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The Irvine Laboratory for the Study of Space and Crime welcomes two new students, Navjyot Gill and Hwawon Seo, from the 2017-2018 Cohort in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Read more about Navjyot and Hwawon below or read about all our lab members on The Who We Are page.

If you are interested in joining ILSSC, please see our Contact page to obtain more information.  If you are interested in attending the Doctoral Program in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at UCI, please see the Department’s admission page.

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New lab publication on crime concentration and spatial scales (Online first)

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You can now access an online first article by Dr. John R. Hipp, Dr. James C. Wo, & Young-An Kim in the Social Science Research entitled, “Studying neighborhood crime across different macro spatial scales: The case of robbery in 4 cities”. The article examines crime variation across macro-environments & micro-geographic units four cities.

Get it here:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X16307931

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New publication by graduate student Rylan Simpson

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On July, 17 2017, ILSSC graduate student Rylan Simpson had a journal article published in Journal of Experimental Criminology entitled, “The Police Officer Perception Project (POPP): An experimental evaluation of factors that impact perceptions of the police.” The article featured experimental research Rylan Simpson conducted for his 2nd-year project in the department of Criminology, Law and Society.

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Recent meta-analysis by Dr. Kubrin reveals immigration does not raise crime.

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Read more about Dr. Kubrin’s pioneering research and views on current immigration policy here:

Immigration does not raise crime, UCI-led study finds, refuting common assumption

Read the meta-analysis article published in the Inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Criminology here:

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-092026