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..”
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Graduate Student Navi Gill 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.”
Graduate Student Ben Forthun Defends his 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.”
Irvine at 50: A Tale of Continuity and Change
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 phenomenon. Although Irvine contains some characteristics that criminologists typically identify in cities with higher crime rates–such as population growth, racial and ethnic diversity, a relatively high concentration of rental housing units, and the presence of a large industrial area–nonetheless, the city has maintained a relatively low level of crime. In fact, for 15 straight years Irvine has been named America’s safest city of its size, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics from 18,000 jurisdictions.
Graduate student Iris Luo wins paper awards!
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 (ACJS) International Section Graduate Student Paper Award. Congratulations, Iris!!!