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  Lab publication on immigrant mixing and crime
  A recent publication by lab directors Kubrin and Hipp tests whether there is a relationship between different types of immigrant mixing and crime. Rather than simply asking about the relationship between the presence of immigrants in neighborhoods and crime, this study looks at mixing among immigrants based on three dimensions: race/ethnicity, country of origin, or… Read more: Lab publication on immigrant mixing and crime
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  Lab publication on nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime
  A recent publication by lab directors Kubrin and Hipp, and alum Iris Luo explores the nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime. Consistent with much existing research generally finding that the presence of more immigrants in neighborhoods is associated with lower crime rates, this study using data from neighborhoods across the U.S. in the new… Read more: Lab publication on nonlinear relationship between immigrant concentration and crime
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  Lab publication on Third Places and social cohesion
  Third places like bodegas and barbershops promote community well-being. “Respondents in neighborhoods with more third places report higher levels of interaction with their neighbors and greater cohesion, an effect that is most prominent in low-income neighborhoods.” That was a key result in a paper led by ILSSC alum Seth Williams. He summarizes the results of… Read more: Lab publication on Third Places and social cohesion
• Lab publication on criminal justice reform
  How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations, by Charis E. Kubrin and Rebecca Tublitz How can we improve the effectiveness of criminal justice reform efforts? Effective reform hinges on shared understandings of what the problem is and shared visions of what success looks like. But consensus is hard to come by,… Read more: Lab publication on criminal justice reform
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  Lab publication: Book on The Spatial Scale of Crime
  Lab co-director Dr. John R. Hipp has released a new book. In it he notes that a characteristic of many crime incidents is that they happen at a particular spatial location and a point in time. These two simple insights suggest the need for both a spatial and a longitudinal perspective in studying crime events.… Read more: Lab publication: Book on The Spatial Scale of Crime
• Lab publication on who leaves and who enters: consequences for neighborhood crime
  While the net change in demographics of a neighborhood likely impacts how levels of crime change, this study explores whether it matters who leaves a neighborhood, and who is entering the neighborhood–that is, the flows of people in or out of a neighborhood. Using a novel demographic accounting technique that allows computing who is leaving… Read more: Lab publication on who leaves and who enters: consequences for neighborhood crime
• Lab publication on improving or declining neighborhoods and crime
  Criminologists often compare neighborhoods at a point in time to determine which ones have more crime. It is also the case that criminological theories are then tested based on these differences across neighborhoods. However, it is possible that how a neighborhood is changing may matter for how levels of crime change. In some cases, crime… Read more: Lab publication on improving or declining neighborhoods and crime
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  Lab publication on immigrant organizations and neighborhood crime
  Criminologists have consistently found that neighborhoods with more immigrants do not have more crime, but in fact often have less crime. Criminologists have proposed that voluntary organizations can help neighborhoods deal with problems that can result in more crime. One possibility for why some immigrant neighborhoods have lower crime rates is that they have voluntary… Read more: Lab publication on immigrant organizations and neighborhood crime
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  Lab publication on the 3 D’s and crime
  Urban Scholars define the 3 D’s of ecological environments as density, diversity and design. This study constructs measures of these features and assesses how they are related to levels of crime across street segments in Southern California. You can access the article by lab alumnus Young-An Kim and Dr. John R. Hipp in the Journal… Read more: Lab publication on the 3 D’s and crime
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  Lab publication on neighborhoods and gentrification
  This study proposes a new strategy for measuring gentrification in neighborhoods. It uses a latent class analysis strategy to determine different types of gentrifying neighborhoods based on various characteristics. The study demonstrates that gentrification is not a “one size fits all” type of process, and it can look different across various neighborhoods. You can access… Read more: Lab publication on neighborhoods and gentrification
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  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… Read more: Lab publication on (Re)conceptualizing neighborhood ecology in social disorganization theory
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  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… Read more: Lab publication on local and non-local businesses and crime
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  Lab publication on Both Sides of the Street
  Streets may operate as boundaries across the spatial landscape, and in this study we view streets as potential boundaries within the built environment. We use a study of Southern California neighborhoods to show that features on the opposite side of the street–including social features such as race/ethnicity and income, as well as physical features such… Read more: Lab publication on Both Sides of the Street
• Lab publication on imputing data for city-level crime studies
  Criminology researchers study the explanations of crime at different geographic scales, from counties down to street blocks.  Whereas many studies have asked why certain cities or counties have more crime than others, a limitation of this research is that it ignores what is going on in neighborhoods or micro locations within these cities.  We propose… Read more: Lab publication on imputing data for city-level crime studies
• Lab publication on simulating spatial crime patterns
  This simulation study was initially presented as part of the “People, Places, and Context: Advances in Criminological Theory” Symposium co-hosted by ILSSC in April 2019.  The study presents a simulation of typical spatial movement of offenders and targets to assess what standard ecological studies of crime are telling us.  Studies typically do not account for… Read more: Lab publication on simulating spatial crime patterns
• Lab publication on schools and crime
  This study explores how much crime occurs near schools, and whether this differs based on the type of school.  Whereas prior research often just focuses on the presence of schools to assess their impact on neighborhood crime. we measure two key school characteristics that might affect local juvenile crime. We assess whether schools with more… Read more: Lab publication on schools and crime
• Lab publication on pathways and crime
  Crime can occur in micro locations based on the usual patterns of where people travel.  This study used measures of the street network to capture potential pathways of travel by persons, and whether this is related to crime.  We created a social network measure of betweenness to capture the busiest streets, and tested how they… Read more: Lab publication on pathways and crime
• 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… Read more: Lab publication on Advances in Spatial Criminology
• Lab publication for new way to measure neighborhoods: Street egohoods
  Defining “neighborhoods” is challenging for researchers. In prior research lab members Dr. Hipp and Dr. Adam Boessen proposed a novel measure, termed “egohoods”, that captures the area surrounding a particular block (based on straight-line distance). This new study extends this idea by explicitly incorporating the street network into the measure. This approach measures street egohoods based on the… Read more: Lab publication for new way to measure neighborhoods: Street egohoods
• Lab publication on new measure of immigrant neighborhoods
  Studies typically measure immigrant neighborhoods based on the composition of the residential population. However, although ethnic businesses are an important component of immigrant neighborhoods, scholars often do not consider them when constructing measures of these neighborhoods. This study proposes a novel way to mesaure immigrant neighborhoods that combines information about the residential population, the presence… Read more: Lab publication on new measure of immigrant neighborhoods
• Lab publication on business survival and relocation
  Although neighborhood crime levels can be impacted by the presence of businesses nearby, it is also the case that crime in the neighborhood can impact businesses. High levels of crime can reduce patronage of businesses, which can result in them going out of business, or choosing to relocate. This study uses rich annual data on… Read more: Lab publication on business survival and relocation
• Lab publication on temporal crime patterns
  Given that crime events exhibit both a spatial and a temporal pattern, this study explores whether certain social and physical environment characteristics have varying relationships with crime at different times of day. The study uses a flexible nonlinear parametric approach on a large sample of street segments (and surrounding spatial area) in Southern California. The… Read more: Lab publication on temporal crime patterns
• Lab publication on third places and cohesion
  Though Ray Oldenburg’s (1989) notion of “third places”, or places conducive to sociality outside of the realms of home and work, has received both scholarly and popular attention over the past several decades, many of the author’s central claims remain empirically untested. The present study considers the association between neighborhood third places, cohesion and neighbor… Read more: Lab publication on third places and cohesion
• Lab publication on parks and crime
  Although neighborhood studies often focus on the presence of some particular entity and its consequences for a variety of local processes, a frequent limitation is the failure to account more broadly for the local context. This paper therefore examines the role of parks for community crime, but contributes to the literature by testing whether the… Read more: Lab publication on parks and crime
• Lab publication on Drug Activity and Crime Rates
  To take stock of the neighborhood effects of drug activity, we combined theoretical insights from the drugs and crime and communities and place literatures in examining the longitudinal relationship between drug activity and crime rates at more spatially and temporally precise levels of granularity, with blocks as the spatial units and months as the temporal… Read more: Lab publication on Drug Activity and Crime Rates
• Lab publication on Latent Classes of Neighborhood Change, and Consequences for Crime in Southern California Neighborhoods
  This study explored the dynamic nature of neighborhoods using a relatively novel approach and data source. By using a nonparametric holistic approach of neighborhood change based on latent class analysis (LCA), we have explored how changes in the socio-demographic characteristics of residents, as well as home improvement and refinance activity by residents, are related to… Read more: Lab publication on Latent Classes of Neighborhood Change, and Consequences for Crime in Southern California Neighborhoods
• Lab publication studying relationship between housing age or housing types and crime
  This study introduces filtering theory from housing economics to criminology and measures the age of housing as a proxy for deterioration and physical disorder. Using data for Los Angeles County in 2009 to 2011, negative binomial regression models are estimated and find that street segments with older housing have higher levels of all six crime… Read more: Lab publication studying relationship between housing age or housing types and crime
• Lab publication studying neighborhood social distance and disagreement in assessing collective efficacy
  Whereas existing research typically treats the variability in residents’ reports of collective efficacy and neighboring as measurement error, we consider such variability as of substantive interest in itself. This variability may indicate disagreement among residents with implications for the neighborhood collectivity. We propose using a general measure of social distance based on several social dimensions… Read more: Lab publication studying neighborhood social distance and disagreement in assessing collective efficacy
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  New lab publication using Twitter data to measure spatial and temporal crime concentration (Online first)
  You can now access an online first article by Dr. John R. Hipp, Christopher Bates, Moshe Lichman & Dr. Padhraic Smyth in Justice Quarterly entitled, “Using Social Media to Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does it Help Explain Local Crime Rates?” The article examines the use of social media data, geocoded Tweets, as a proxy for the… Read more: New lab publication using Twitter data to measure spatial and temporal crime concentration (Online first)
• New lab publication on crime concentration and spatial scales (Online first)
  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… Read more: New lab publication on crime concentration and spatial scales (Online first)
• New publication by graduate student Rylan Simpson
  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.
• Recent meta-analysis by Dr. Kubrin reveals immigration does not raise crime.
  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  
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  New lab publication on crime concentration
  In December 2016 ILSSC faculty John Hipp and graduate student Young-an Kim had a journal article published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology entitled, “Measuring Crime Concentration across Cities of Varying Sizes: Complications Based on the Spatial and Temporal Scale Employed.” The article raises conceptual and methodological challenges to measuring the concentration of crime in cities.
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  New publication by graduate student Christopher Contreras
  On December 25, 2016, ILSSC graduate student Christopher Contreras had a journal article published in Justice Quarterly entitled, “A Block-Level Analysis of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Crime in the City of Los Angeles.” The article featured research Christopher Contreras conducted for his 2nd-year project in the department of Criminology, Law and Society.

Additional Publications

Here is a list of additional publications from members of the lab:

• Kubrin, Charis E. and Rebecca Tublitz. 2023. “Social Disorganization Theory and Community-Based Interventions.” In Bryanna Fox and Edelyn Verona (Eds.), Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. London: Routledge.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Rebecca Tublitz. 2022. “How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 47:1050–1070.
• Kim, Young-An, John Hipp, and Charis E. Kubrin. 2022. “Immigrant Organizations and Neighborhood Crime.” Crime & Delinquency 68:1948-1976.
• Kubrin, Charis E., Nicholas Branic, and John R. Hipp. 2021. “(Re)conceptualizing Neighborhood Ecology in Social Disorganization Theory: From a Variable-Centered Approach to a Neighborhood-Centered Approach.” Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211041527
• Kim, Young-An and John R. Hipp. 2021. “Small Local versus Non-Local: Examining the Relationship between Locally Owned Small Businesses and Spatial Patterns of Crime.” Justice Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2021.1879899.
• Kim, Young-An and John R. Hipp. 2021. “Both Sides of the Street: Introducing Measures of Physical and Social Boundaries Based on Differences Across Sides of the Street, and Consequences for Crime.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-020-09484-4.
• Kim, Young-An and John R. Hipp. “Street Egohood: An Alternative Perspective of Measuring Neighborhood and Spatial Patterns of Crime.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 36:29-66.
• Gerlinger, Julie and John R. Hipp. 2020. “Schools and Neighborhood Crime: The Effects of Dropouts and High-Performing Schools on Juvenile Crime.” The Social Science Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1744951.
• Hipp, John R. and Seth Williams. 2020. “Accounting for Meso- or Micro-Level Effects When Estimating Models Using City-Level Crime Data: Introducing a Novel Imputation Technique.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-020-09473-7.
• Kim, Young-An and John R. Hipp. 2020. “Pathways: Examining Street Network Configurations, Structural Characteristics and Spatial Crime Patterns in Street Segments.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-019-09428-7.
• Hipp, John R. and Seth Williams. 2020. “Advances in Spatial Criminology: The Spatial Scale of Crime.” Annual Review of Criminology 3:75-95.
• Kim, Young-An, John R. Hipp, and Charis E. Kubrin. 2019. “Where They Live and Go: Immigrant Ethnic Activity Space and Neighborhood Crime in Southern California.” Journal of Criminal Justice 64:1-12.
• Hipp, John R., Young-an Kim, and Kevin Kane. 2019. “The Effect of the Physical Environment on Crime Rates: Capturing Housing Age and Housing Type at Varying Spatial Scales.” Crime & Delinquency 65(11):1570-1595.
• Hipp, John R. 2020. “Simulating Spatial Crime Patterns: What Do We Learn in Standard Ecological Studies of Crime?” Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101727.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Michelle Mioduszewski. 2019. “Social Disorganization Theory: Past, Present and Future.” Pp. 197-211 in Marv Krohn, Gina Penly Hall, Alan J. Lizotte, and Nicole Hendrix (Eds.), Handbook on Crime and Deviance, 2nd Edition. Springer.
• Contreras, Christopher and John R. Hipp. 2019. “Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates.” Justice Quarterly 37:187-209.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Michelle Mioduszewski. 2019. “Social Disorganization Theory: Past, Present and Future.” In Marv Krohn, Gina Penly Hall, Alan J. Lizotte, and Nicole Hendrix (Eds.), Handbook on Crime and Deviance, 2nd Edition. Springer.
• Hipp, John R. and Young-an Kim. 2019. “Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Robbery: Differences Across Measures of the Physical and Social Environment.” Journal of Criminal Justice 60:1-12.
• Branic, Nicholas and John R. Hipp. 2018. “Growing Pains or Appreciable Gains? Latent Classes of Neighborhood Change, and Consequences for Crime in Southern California Neighborhoods.” Social Science Research 76:77-91.
• Kubrin, Charis E., Young-An Kim, and John R. Hipp. 2018. “Institutional Completeness and Crime Rates in Immigrant Neighborhoods.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 56:175-212.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Michelle Mioduszewski. 2018. “Theoretical Perspectives on the Immigration-Crime Relationship.” Pp. 66-78 in Holly Ventura Miller and Anthony Peguero (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Crime. London: Routledge.
• Branic, Nicholas and Charis E. Kubrin. 2018.“Gated Communities and Crime in the United States.” In Gerben Bruinsma and Shane Johnson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kubrin, Charis E., John R. Hipp, and Young-An Kim. 2018. “Different than the Sum of its Parts: Examining the Unique Impacts of Immigrant Groups on Neighborhood Crime Rates.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 34:1-36.
• Williams, Seth and John R. Hipp. 2018. “How Great and How Good? Third Places, Neighbor Interaction, and Cohesion in the Neighborhood Context.” Social Science Research.
• Boessen, Adam and John R. Hipp. 2018. “Parks as Crime Inhibitors or Generators: Examining Parks and the Role of their Nearby Context”. Social Science Research 186-201.Ousey, Graham C. and
• Charis E. Kubrin. 2018. “Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue.” Annual Review of Criminology 1:63-84.
• Kubrin, Charis E. 2017. “Delinquency and Modernity in Cyberspace?: Comments on America’s Safest City.” Crime, Law and Social Change 67:505-512.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Nicholas Branic. 2017. “The Chicago School.” pg. 96-99 In Avi Brisman, Eamonn Carrabine, and Nigel South (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. London: Routledge.
• Hipp, John R. and Charis E. Kubrin. 2017. “From Bad to Worse: The Relationship between Changing Inequality in Nearby Areas and Local Crime.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3:129-151.
• Kim, Young-An. 2016. “Examining the Relationship Between the Structural Characteristics of Place and Crime by Imputing Census Block Data in Street Segments: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. DOI 10.1007/s10940-016-9323-8.
• Wo, James C., John R. Hipp and Adam Boessen. 2016. “Voluntary Organizations and Neighborhood Crime: A Dynamic Perspective.” Criminology 54:212-241.
• Branic, Nicholas. 2016. “Gated Communities.” In Bruce A. Arrigo & J. Geoffrey Golson (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Wo, James C. 2016. “Community Context of Crime: A Longitudinal Examination of the Effects of Local Institutions on Neighborhood Crime.” Crime and Delinquency 62:1286-1312.
• Hipp, John R. and James Wo. 2015. “Collective Efficacy and Crime.” In James Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Elsevier.
• Boessen, Adam and John R. Hipp. 2015. “Close-ups and the Scale of Ecology: Land Uses and the Geography of Social Context and Crime.” Criminology.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and James Wo. 2015. “Social Disorganization Theory’s Greatest Challenge: Linking Structural Characteristics to Crime in Socially Disorganized Communities.” In Alex Piquero (Ed.), Handbook of Criminological Theory. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Branic, Nicholas. 2015. “Routine Activities Theory.” In W.G. Jennings (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Hipp, John R. and Alyssa W. Chamberlain. 2014. “Foreclosures and crime: A City-level Analysis in Southern California of a Dynamic Process.” Social Science Research 51: 219-232.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and John R. Hipp. 2014. “Do Fringe Banks Create Fringe Neighborhoods? Examining the Spatial Relationship between Fringe Banking and Neighborhood Crime Rates.” Justice Quarterly.
• Gerlinger, Julie, and James C. Wo. 2014. “Preventing School Bullying: Should Schools Prioritize an Authoritative School Discipline Approach Over Security Measures?.” Journal of School Violence.
• Hipp, John R. and Adam Boessen. 2014. “Neighborhoods, Networks, and Crime.” In Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Robert J. Sampson, and Brendan Dooley (Eds.), Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Kornhauser. Transaction Publishers.
• Kubrin, Charis E. 2014. “Cultural Disorganization and Crime.” In Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Robert J. Sampson, and Brendan Dooley (Eds.),  Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Kornhauser. Transaction Publishers.
• Trager, Glenn and Charis E. Kubrin. 2014. “Complicating the Relationship between Immigration and Crime: Theorizing the Impact of Gender on the Immigration-Crime Nexus.” In Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Glenn Trager. 2014. “Immigration and Crime in U.S. Communities: Charting Some Promising New Directions in Research.” Pp. 529-550 in Sandra M. Bucerius and Michael Tonry (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Boessen, Adam and Elizabeth Cauffman. 2013. “Moving from the Neighborhood to the Cellblock: The Impact of Youth’s Neighborhoods on Prison Misconduct.” Crime & Delinquency.
• Hipp, John R. and Adam Boessen. 2013. “Egohoods as Waves Washing Across the City: A New Measure of ‘Neighborhoods.’” Criminology 51:287-327.

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