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New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory
- C. Kubrin, Ronald Weitzer
- Law
- 1 November 2003
Social disorganization theory focuses on the relationship between neighborhood structure, social control, and crime. Recent theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between community…
Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighborhood Context in Recidivism Studies
- C. Kubrin, Eric A. Stewart
- Law
- 1 February 2006
Prior studies of recidivism have focused almost exclusively on individual-level characteristics of offenders and their offenses to explore the correlates of reoffending. Notably absent from these…
Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music
- C. Kubrin
- Sociology
- 1 August 2005
Recent research on identity, culture, and violence in inner-city communities describes a black youth culture, or street code, that influences adolescent behavior, particularly violent behavior. I…
Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980–2000
- Graham C. Ousey, C. Kubrin
- Law, Psychology
- 1 August 2009
A popular perception is that immigration causes higher crime rates. Yet, historical and contemporary research finds that at the individual level, immigrants are not more inclined to commit crime than…
Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture
- C. Kubrin, Ronald Weitzer
- Law, Psychology
- 1 May 2003
Much of the research on violent crime is situated within an exclusively structural or subcultural framework. Some recent work, however, argues that these unidimensional approaches are inherently…
Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue
- Graham C. Ousey, C. Kubrin
- Psychology
- 15 January 2018
Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent generation (1994 to…
Breaking news: How local TV news and real-world conditions affect fear of crime
- Ronald Weitzer, C. Kubrin
- Law
- 1 September 2004
Many Americans report that they are fearful of crime. One frequently cited source of this fear is the mass media. The media, and local television news in particular, often report on incidents of…
Structural Covariates Of Homicide Rates: Does Type Of Homicide Matter?
- C. Kubrin
- Psychology
- 1 May 2003
This research extends a 1990 study by Land, McCall, and Cohen on the structural covariates of homicide rates. Examining neighborhoods in St. Louis, this study assesses whether socioeconomic and…
Misogyny in Rap Music
- Ronald Weitzer, C. Kubrin
- Psychology
- 19 February 2009
Rap music has a reputation for being misogynistic, but surprisingly little research has systematically investigated this dimension of the music. This study assesses the portrayal of women in a…
The Power of Place: Immigrant Communities and Adolescent Violence
- Scott A. Desmond, C. Kubrin
- Psychology, Law
- 1 September 2009
Despite popular assumptions, criminologists have long recognized that crime rates are lower for various immigrant groups than for similarly disadvantaged African Americans. What accounts for this…
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