#  Articles 

 



**SELECTED ARTICLES BY TOPIC**

  
**Neighborhood Effects and Social Processes**

## Sampson, Robert J. 1988. "File

[Local Friendship Ties and Community Attachment in Mass Society: A Multi-Level Systemic Model](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1988_asr_0.pdf) (2.05 MB)

 



[.](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/1988_ASR.pdf)" *American Sociological Review*. 53:766-779.  
  
Sampson, Robert J. and W. Byron Groves. 1989. "File

[Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social- Disorganization Theory](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1989_ajs_groves.pdf) (2.75 MB)

 



[.](http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3226955)" *American Journal of Sociology* 94: 774-802.  
  
Sampson, Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. "File

[Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1997_science_0.pdf) (363.75 KB)

 



." *Science* 277:918-24.  
  
Sampson, Robert J. and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. 1998. "File

[Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1998_lsr_bartusch_0.pdf) (3.21 MB)

 



." *Law and Society Review* 32:777-804.  
  
Sampson, Robert J. 2002. "File

[Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2002_crim.pdf) (1.09 MB)

 



." *Criminology* 40: 213-230.  
  
Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "File

[Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Processes and New Directions in Research](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2002_ars_0.pdf) (252.16 KB)

 



." *Annual Review of Sociology* 28:443-478.  
  
Sampson, Robert J. 2003. "File

[The Neighborhood Context of Well Being](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2003_perspectives_0.pdf) (875.14 KB)

 



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

## **Race and Urban Inequality**

##  Sampson, Robert J. 1984. "File

[Group Size, Heterogeneity, and Intergroup Conflict: A Test of Blau's Inequality and Heterogeneity](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1984_sf_0.pdf) (2.28 MB)

 



[.](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/1984_SF.pdf)" Social Forces* 62:618-639.  
  
Sampson, Robert J. 1987. "[Urban Black Violence: The Effect of Male Joblessness and Family Disruptio](http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3226953)n." *American Journal of Sociology* 93: 348-382.

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

[Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1993_lsr_laub.pdf) (2.66 MB)

 



." *Law and Society Review. 27:285-311*

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

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[Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1995_theoryofrace_wilson.pdf) (524.55 KB)

 



." In *Crime and Inequality*, edited by John Hagan and Ruth Peterson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University PressSampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2005. "

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[Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2005_ajph_0.pdf) (182.79 KB)

 



." *American Journal of Public Health* 95: 224-232.Sampson, Robert J. and Lydia Bean. 2006. "

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[Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2006_cultmech_bean.pdf) (1.63 MB)

 



." *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. "

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[Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2008_ajs_moving_to_inequality_0.pdf) (704.61 KB)

 



." *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. "

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[Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2008_pnas_durableeffects_0.pdf) (436.65 KB)

 



." *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](http://www.prb.org/Articles/2005/SurprisingSocialFactorsLinkedtoRacialandEthnicDisparitiesinYouthViolenceintheUS.aspx), 

Sampson, Robert J. 2006. [Open Doors Don’t Invite Criminals: Is Increased Immigration Behind the Drop in Crime?](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/opinion/11sampson.html?pagewanted=print) *New York Times* (Op-Ed, March 11, 2006).

Sampson, Robert J. 2008. [Rethinking Crime and Immigration. ](http://contexts.org/articles/files/2008/01/contexts_winter08_sampson.pdf)*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](http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2911240). *Homicide Studies* 13: 242–260.


## **(Dis)order & Systematic Social Observation**  
  
Sampson, Robert J. and Steve Raudenbush. 1999. "File

[Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1999.6_ajs.pdf) (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. "File

[Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods: Does It Lead to Crime?](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2001_nij_raudenbush.pdf) (175.91 KB)

 



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

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

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[Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of "Broken Windows](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2004.6_spq.pdf) (164.57 KB)

 



." *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 "

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[Neighborhood Stigma and the Perception of Disorder](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2005_focus_raudenbush.pdf) (391.48 KB)

 



." in *Focus 24: 7-11*Sampson, Robert J. 2009. [Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: Social (Dis)Order Revisited](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjos.2009.60.issue-1/issuetoc). 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](http://www.yada-yada.co.uk/Blackwell/BJS_NY/BJS_01_3.html) and [Getting to Grips with Disorder.](http://www.yada-yada.co.uk/Blackwell/BJS_NY/BJS_02_0.html)

**Incarceration**

Sampson, Robert J. 2011. [The Incarceration Ledger: Toward a New Era in Assessing Societal Consequences.](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00756.x/abstract) *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. ](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043762/)*Daedalus* Summer: 20-31.

## **Spatial Dynamics**  
  
Sampson Robert J. Jeffrey Morenoff, and Felton Earls. 1999. "File

[Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1999_asr_beyondsc_0.pdf) (4.44 MB)

 



." *American Sociological Review* 64: 633-660.  


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

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[Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2001.3_crim.pdf) (2.74 MB)

 



." *Criminology* 39:517-560.Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. 2004. "

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[Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago Neighborhoods](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2004.1_siss.pdf) (6.46 MB)

 



." In *Spatially Integrated Social Science*, edited by Michael Goodchild and Donald Janelle. New York: Oxford University Press.Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "

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[Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2006_ptraps_morenoff_0.pdf) (1.81 MB)

 



." 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. "

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[Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1997_sf_morenoff.pdf) (3.89 MB)

 



." *Social Forces*. 76: 31-64## **Ecometrics**  
  
 Raudenbush, Stephen and Robert J. Sampson. 1999. "File

['Ecometrics': Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/1999_socmeth_ecometrics_0.pdf) (3.23 MB)

 



." *Sociological Methodology* 29:1-41.

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

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[ A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2003_socmeth_multivariate.pdf) (319.62 KB)

 



." *Sociological Methodology* 33: 169-211.**Residential Mobility and Selection**  
  
Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. "

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[Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality](/sites/g/files/omnuum1841/files/sampson/files/2008_sharkey_demographypdf.pdf) (643.07 KB)

 



." *Demography* 45: 1-29.Sharkey, Patrick and Robert J. Sampson. 2010. "[Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041943/)." *Criminology* 48:639-682.

   
**Life Course:**

 **See publication links in [Crime and the Life Course](/content/crime-and-life-course)**

**Civic Engagement:**

 **See publication links in [Collective Civic Engagement Study  
  
  
  
  ](/content/collective-civic-engagement-study)****For full publication list, see [Vita](/files/sampson/files/sampson_vita_2011_0.pdf)**