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!
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Graduate students pass comps!
Congratulations to Iris, Justin, and Rebecca for passing their comprehensive exams in Criminology, Law & Society!…Continue Reading Graduate students pass comps!
Graduate student Iris Luo wins awards!
ILSSC graduate student Xiaoshuang(Iris) Luob was awarded first prize in the 2021 Jiang Outstanding Student Paper Award, Association of ChineseCriminology and Criminal Justice in the United States (ACCCJ). She received the award for her paper “An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public Cooperation with the Police in China”. Congrats Iris! Furthermore, Iris also…Continue Reading Graduate student Iris Luo wins awards!
Lab publication on (Re)conceptualizing neighborhood ecology in social disorganization theory
This study encourages researchers to turn away from the common variable-centered approach– adopting instead a “neighborhood-centered” approach– to consider how neighborhood structural forces of interest in social disorganization theory combine into unique constellations or patterns that vary across communities, with consequences for crime. Examining neighborhoods in Southern California we: (1) identify neighborhood typologies based on…Continue Reading Lab publication on (Re)conceptualizing neighborhood ecology in social disorganization theory
Lab publication on local and non-local businesses and crime
While prior criminological scholarship has explored how crime often tends to occur near businesses, a theory of Jane Jacobs is that certain types of businesses can create more cohesion in a neighborhood. This increased cohesion would presumably reduce the incidence of crime on a street. In particular, we used data in Southern California to explore…Continue Reading Lab publication on local and non-local businesses and crime