# Books ## New in 2026 [ ![Marked by Time cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-10/mbt%20cover_0.jpeg?itok=t52dwK4z) ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987548)**Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans** Published February 10, 2026 from [Harvard University Press.](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987548) **Upcoming Events and Lectures** can be found [here](https://sampson.scholars.harvard.edu/events). **Interviews and Features** can be found [here](https://sampson.scholars.harvard.edu/content/media-0). --- ## Other Books [ ![GAC cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-10/GAC%20cover_0.jpg?itok=ToUM4uUz) ](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo5514383.html)**Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect** 2nd edition out now from [The University of Chicago Press](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo5514383.html) **Awards:** Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (2014), American Sociological Association Hindelang Book Award (2014), American Society of Criminology Robert E. Park Book Award (2013), American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Section The William Alonso Memorial Prize (2013), North American Regional Science Association Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award (2013), American Sociological Association, Crime, Law and Deviance Section **Reviews:** *Contemporary Sociology*, Symposium (Volume 42, 2013): "Inheritance of Poverty or Inheritance of Place? The Emerging Consensus on Neighborhoods and Stratification," by Douglas S. Massey, and "Chicago as Seen by the Chicago School’s Greatest Practitioner," by Lincoln Quillian (pp. 690-699). American Sociological Association, [click here](http://www.asanet.org/journals/CS/Sept13CSFeature.pdf). C*ity & Community*: [“Symposium on Robert J. Sampson's *Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect*”](https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctya/12/1) (March 2013, 12:1-31). Featuring essays by Nancy Denton, Claude Fischer, John Goering, John Hagan and Wenona Richmond-Ryder, and Robert J. Sampson. Bursik, Robert J. Jr. 2013. [Book Review](http://tcr.sagepub.com/content/17/3/428.full.pdf%20html), *Theoretical Criminology* 17: 428-30. Timberlake, Jeff. 2013. [Book Review](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/juaf.12023/pdf), *Journal of Urban Affairs* 35: 385–92. Reifer, Thomas E. 2013. [“Review Essay: The Reassertion of Race, Space, and Punishment’s Place in Urban Sociology and Critical Criminology.”]() *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space* 31: 372-380. Ludwig, Jens. 2013. Book Review, [*Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect* by Robert J. Sampson](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669071). *American Journal of Sociology* Vol. 118, No. 5 (March 2013), pp. 1447-1449. Massey, Douglas S. 2012. ["Location Matters"](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/336/6077/35?ijkey=GtUSn1tlJE7U2&keytype=ref&siteid=sci) in [*Science* ](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/336/6077/35?ijkey=GtUSn1tlJE7U2&keytype=ref&siteid=sci)36: 35-36. [Tom Sugrue and Sudhir Venkatesh on *Great American City.*](http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/great-american-city) *Public Books* (September, 2012) ["Neighborhood as a Social Fact: Lessons from the Case of Chicago."](http://www.booksandideas.net/Neighborhood-as-a-social-fact.html) Review by Roberta Gardner for *Books and Ideas (*September 2012). Review by Laura Vaughan in [*LSE Review of Books* ](http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/12/15/book-review-great-american-city-chicago-and-the-enduring-neighbourhood-effect/#more-8833)(December, 2012) **Interviews and Features** can be found [here](https://sampson.scholars.harvard.edu/content/media-0). --- ## [ ![Crime in the Making cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/crime_in_the_making.jpg?itok=3YODsKT_) ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674176058)**Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life** Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1995. Cambridge, MA: [Harvard University Press](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674176058). [ ![Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/shared_beginnings_0.jpg?itok=Ab7hIbwD) ](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019935)**Shared Beginnings: Delinquent Boys to Age 70** Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 2006. Cambridge, MA: [Harvard University Press](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019935). --- ## Edited Books [ ![The Explanation of Crime cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/explnation_of_crime_cover_0.jpg) ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/explanation-of-crime/EA3339F0D8F97DDECA6E699C80006683)**The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development** Wikström, Per-Olof and Robert J. Sampson (Editors). 2006. Cambridge, UK: [Cambridge University Press](http://www3.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521119054). [ ![The Social Ecology of Crime cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/social_ecology_of_crime_0.jpg?itok=7JlyAlP1) ](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4613-8606-3)**The Social Ecology of Crime** Byrne, J.M. and Robert J. Sampson (Editors). 1986. New York, NY: [Springer-Verlag Press](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4613-8606-3). [ ![Integrating Individual and Ecological Aspects of Crime cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/integrating_individual_and_ecological_aspects_of_crime_0.jpg?itok=5axDMt_C) ](https://books.google.com/books/about/Integrating_Individual_and_Ecological_As.html?id=c3QuAQAAIAAJ)**Integrating Individual and Ecological Aspects of Crime** Farrington, David P., Robert J. Sampson, and Per-Olof H.Wikström (Editors). 1993. [National Council for Crime Prevention Sweden](https://books.google.com/books/about/Integrating_Individual_and_Ecological_As.html?id=c3QuAQAAIAAJ). --- ## Edited Volumes of THE ANNALS [ ![ANNALS cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/annals_641_1_cover_0.jpg?itok=uf6lwg95) ](https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ann/641/1)McDonald, John and Robert J. Sampson (Editors). 2012. [Immigration and the Changing Social Fabric of American Cities](http://ann.sagepub.com/content/641/1.toc). *ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,* Volume 641 (May). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. See also: ["Don't Shut the Golden Door: The Beneficial Impact of Immigration."](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/opinion/the-beneficial-impact-of-immigrants.html?emc=eta1) *New York Times*, June 2012. [ ![ANNALS cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/sampson/files/annals_2009_0.jpg?itok=43GgRQpl) ](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-moynihan-report-revisited/book234053)Massey, Douglas S. and Robert J. Sampson (Editors). 2009. [*The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections afer Four Decades.*](http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book234053) *ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,* Volume 621 (January). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [ ![ANNALS cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/annals_2005.jpg) ](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/developmental-criminology-and-its-discontents/book229206)Sampson, Robert J. and John H Laub (Editors). 2005. [*Developmental Criminology and Its Discontents: Trajectories of Crime from Childhood to Old Age.*](http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book229206) *ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science*. Volume 602, November. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.