Articles

SELECTED ARTICLES BY TOPIC

Neighborhood Effects and Social Processes

Sampson, Robert J. 1988. "

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Local Friendship Ties and Community Attachment in Mass Society: A Multi-Level Systemic Model (2.05 MB)

." American Sociological Review. 53:766-779.

Sampson, Robert J. and W. Byron Groves. 1989. "

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Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social- Disorganization Theory (2.75 MB)

." American Journal of Sociology 94: 774-802.

Sampson, Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. "

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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy (363.75 KB)

." Science 277:918-24.

Sampson, Robert J. and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. 1998. "

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Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences (3.21 MB)

." Law and Society Review 32:777-804.

Sampson, Robert J. 2002. "

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Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style (1.09 MB)

." Criminology 40: 213-230.

Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "

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Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Processes and New Directions in Research (252.16 KB)

." Annual Review of Sociology 28:443-478.

Sampson, Robert J. 2003. "

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The Neighborhood Context of Well Being (875.14 KB)

." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46 no. 3 supplement: S53-S64.

 

Race and Urban Inequality

Sampson, Robert J. 1984. "

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Group Size, Heterogeneity, and Intergroup Conflict: A Test of Blau's Inequality and Heterogeneity (2.28 MB)

." Social Forces 62:618-639.

Sampson, Robert J.  1987. "Urban Black Violence: The Effect of Male Joblessness and Family Disruption." American Journal of Sociology 93: 348-382.

Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1993. "

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Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control (2.66 MB)

." Law and Society Review. 27:285-311

Sampson, Robert J. and William Julius Wilson. 1995. "

." In Crime and Inequality, edited by John Hagan and Ruth Peterson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2005. "

." American Journal of Public Health 95: 224-232.

Sampson, Robert J. and Lydia Bean. 2006. "

." The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America, edited by Ruth Peterson, Lauren Krivo, and John Hagan. New York: New York University Press.

Sampson, Robert J. 2008. "

." American Journal of Sociology 114: 189-231 -- Winner of the Jane Addams Award for Best Article from the Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association.

Sampson, Robert, J., Patrick Sharkey, and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 2008. "

." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 845-853. 

 

Immigration and Crime

Population Reference Bureau. 2005. Surprising Social Factors Linked to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Violence, 

Sampson, Robert J. 2006. Open Doors Don’t Invite Criminals: Is Increased Immigration Behind the Drop in Crime?   New York Times (Op-Ed, March 11, 2006).

Sampson, Robert J. 2008. Rethinking Crime and Immigration. Contexts 7:28-33.  Claude S. Fischer Award for Best Feature Article, American Sociological Associaiton.

Graif, Corina and Robert J. Sampson. 2009. Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Immigration and Diversity on Neighborhood Homicide Rates. Homicide Studies 13: 242–260.

 

(Dis)order & Systematic Social Observation

Sampson, Robert J. and Steve Raudenbush. 1999. "

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Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods (391 KB)

." American Journal of Sociology 105: 603-651.

Winner of the Robert Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. See also Sampson, Robert J. and Steve Raudenbush. 2001. "

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Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods: Does It Lead to Crime? (175.91 KB)

." Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. 

Sampson, Robert J. and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 2004. "

." Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 319-342. Winner of the 2006 

Robert Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. Revised version reprinted as "

." in Focus 24: 7-11

Sampson, Robert J. 2009.  Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: Social (Dis)Order Revisited. British Journal of Sociology 60:1-31.  See also symposium response—"Analytic Approaches to Disorder” (pp. 83-93) and follow-up BJS podcast debate with Robert Sampson and Richard Sennett on A Brief History of Disorder and Getting to Grips with Disorder.

 

Incarceration

Sampson, Robert J.  2011.   The Incarceration Ledger: Toward a New Era in Assessing Societal Consequences.  Criminology and Public Policy 10: 819-828.  Special Issue on “Mass Incarceration.”

Sampson, Robert J. and Charles Loeffler.  2010.  Punishment’s Place: The Local Concentration of Mass Incarceration.  Daedalus Summer: 20-31.

 

Spatial Dynamics

Sampson Robert J. Jeffrey Morenoff, and Felton Earls. 1999. "

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Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children (4.44 MB)

." American Sociological Review 64: 633-660.
 

Morenoff, Jeffrey, Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2001. "

." Criminology 39:517-560.

Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. 2004. "

." In Spatially Integrated Social Science, edited by Michael Goodchild and Donald Janelle. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "

." Pp. 176-203 In Poverty Traps, edited by Samuel Bowles, Steve Durlauf, and Karla Hoff. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Morenoff, Jeffrey and Robert J. Sampson. 1997. "

." Social Forces. 76: 31-64

 

Ecometrics

Raudenbush, Stephen and Robert J. Sampson. 1999. "

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'Ecometrics': Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods (3.23 MB)

." Sociological Methodology 29:1-41.

Raudenbush, Stephen, Chris Johnson, and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. "

." Sociological Methodology 33: 169-211.

 

Residential Mobility and Selection

Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. "

." Demography 45: 1-29.

Sharkey, Patrick and Robert J. Sampson.  2010. "Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis." Criminology 48:639-682.

 
Life Course:

         See publication links in Crime and the Life Course

Civic Engagement:

         See publication links in Collective Civic Engagement Study




For full publication list, see Vita