# Media #### Selected Media ***Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans*** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle ["Marked by Time: In a Nutshell; The Wide Angle; A Close Up"](https://www.rorotoko.com/micro-interviews/20260602-sampson-robert-j-marked-by-time) Rorotoko Jun 2026 Video [Does When We’re Born Make Us Who We Are?](https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/robert-sampson-adam-gopnik-interview-transcript/): A conversation with the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Vital City, NYU Wagner School, and Russell Sage Foundation Apr 2026 Video [What Creates Criminals?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howkofcD74A) A conversation with Glenn Loury & Robert Sampson The Glenn Show Apr 2026 Podcast ["Societal Change and Criminology with Robert J. Sampson"](https://www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/robert-j-sampson) Interview Talk Nerdy Mar 2026 Podcast ["Is ‘when we are’ who we are?"](https://www.wbez.org/say-more-with-mary-dixon-patrick-smith/2026/03/03/is-when-we-are-who-we-are) Interview WBEZ Chicago Mar 2026 Article ["Criminal Risk Assessment and the Character Trap."](https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-birth-cohort-affects-criminal-outcomes-robert-sampson/) Vital City Feb 2026 Article ["A surprising theory for why some people become criminals."](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/16/opinion/robert-sampson-marked-by-time/) Boston Globe, by Abdallah Fayyad Feb 2026 Article [Rethinking Criminal Justice Policy](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/rethinking-criminal-justice-policy-with-leading-sociologist-robert-j-sampson) Harvard University Press Features Feb 2026 Article ["New factor in predicting who becomes criminal: when you were born."](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/02/new-factor-in-predicting-who-becomes-criminal-when-you-were-born/) Interview Harvard Gazette, by Christy DeSmith Feb 2026 Podcast ["When You Were Born Matters More Than You Think."](https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/when-you-were-born-matters-more-than?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true) The Next Big Ideas Club: Book of the Day, by Michael Kovnat Feb 2026 **Birth Lottery of History and Social Change** SortTypeNameOutletDatePodcast Professor Sampson on “[The Birth Lottery of History](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2023/10/09/the-ballpark-podcast-extra-innings-the-birth-lottery-of-history-with-professor-robert-sampson/)” London School of Economics Podcast Oct 2023 Article [How birth year predicts exposure to gun violence](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/05/how-birth-year-predicts-exposure-to-gun-violence/). Harvard Gazette, by Christy DeSmith May 2023 Article [How social change brings bias to predictive models used in criminal justice settings](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/how-social-change-brings-bias-to-predictive-models-used-in-criminal-justice-settings/). Harvard Gazette, by Christy DeSmith Jun 2023 **Gun Violence and Carrying** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle [How Boston became the safest big city in America](https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/09/08/how-boston-became-the-safest-big-city-in-america?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17210596221&gbraid=0AAAAADBuq3Kg64LqyFL1ajxp8uP4DVnIi&gclid=CjwKCAjw0sfHBhB6EiwAQtv5qWGyPMexqAKyVjWIbuZlxGbQOy6RPaWFmrta2M76980QFRNmx5m8LBoCvH4QAvD_BwE) *The Economist* Sep 2024 Podcast [Study shows impact of gun violence on Chicago residents](https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/study-shows-impact-of-gun-violence-on-chicago-residents/). Interview with John Williams WGN Radio May 2023 Article [Black and Hispanic people in Chicago exposed to gun violence at ‘significantly and persistently higher rate,’ report says](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/09/health/black-hispanic-gun-violence-exposure-reaj/index.html) *CNN*, by Nicole Chavez May 2023 Article [Over half of all native Black and Hispanic Chicagoans witness a shooting by age 40, study suggests](https://abcnews.go.com/US/half-black-hispanic-people-chicago-witness-shooting-age/story?id=99176796). *ABC News*, Nakylah Carter May 2023 Article [How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/07/were-jan-6-attackers-extremists-protesters-patriots/) *Harvard Gazette*, by Juan Siliezar Jul 2022 Article [IDEAS: Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities](https://www.wsj.com/articles/murders-are-rising-the-most-in-a-few-isolated-precincts-of-major-cities-11620446460) *Wall Street Journal* May 2021 Article [Chicago’s Murder Problem](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-problem.html?_r=0) *New York Times* May 2016 **Neighborhood Inequality and Neighborhood Effects** SortTypeNameOutletDateVideo [How Neighborhood and Life-Course Research Informs Criminal Justice Reform](/file_url/217) Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb 2022 Video [Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being](https://youtu.be/oiZil9gNkg0) Bradford Hill Seminar, University of Cambridge Feb 2022 Article A neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but on those of the neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by: [New study measures neighborhood inequality and violence based on everyday mobility](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/harvard-researchers-use-everyday-mobility-to-predict-homicides/). *Harvard Gazette* Mar 2021 Article [Why some low-income neighborhoods are better than others](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/why-some-low-income-neighborhoods-are-better-others) *Science News* Article [Unpacking the power of poverty](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/harvard-study-shows-exactly-how-poverty-impacts-childrens-success/) *Harvard Gazette* Article [Toxic Inequality](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/toxic-inequality/) *Harvard Gazette* 2017 Article [To Advance Sustainability, Fight Inequality](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/to-advance-sustainability-fight-inequality-researcher-says/) *Harvard Gazette* 2017 Article [The Persistent Inequality of Neighborhoods](https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/12/the-persistent-inequality-of-neighborhoods/509408/) *The Atlantic CITYLAB*, Richard Florida Dec 2016 Article [Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/business/economy/electing-to-ignore-the-poorest-of-the-poor.html?_r=0) *New York Times*, Eduardo Porter Nov 2015 Article Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses compounded deprivation and criminal justice in *The Atlantic*. See [The Black Family and Mass Incarceration.](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/) Oct 2015 Video ["Neighborhood Effects and the Contemporary City](http://vimeo.com/54627221)" *Chicago Ideas Week* lecture Oct 2012 Article ["Can this Chicago community be saved? Hope rises in Englewood."](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0922/Can-this-Chicago-community-be-saved-Hope-rises-in-Englewood) Christian Science Monitor Sep 2013 Article ["Can $86 Million Save a Neighborhood?" ](http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2013/Can-86-Million-Save-a-Neighborhood/) Chicago Magazine Feb 2013 Article ["A moving lift for poor families: Housing vouchers gave impoverished single mothers emotional but not economic benefits."](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moving-lift-poor-families) Science News Sep 2012 Article ["Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback."](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/us/18poverty.html) New York Times Oct 2010 Article "[Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhood Equivalent to Missing a Year in School](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/12/living-in-disadvantaged-neighborhood-equivalent-to-missing-a-year-of-school/)." Havard Science Dec 2007 **Housing, Segregation, and Urban Mobility** SortTypeNameOutletDateVideo [Implications of Everyday Urban Mobility for Structural Connectedness, Inequality, and Well-being in Contemporary Cities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnSAU5hSW8). Presentation at the Mobile Tartu 2022 Conference Jun 2022 Video [Data Shows Racial Split in How People Move Around Boston. What's the Impact?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECryuql2zMo) WGBH News, November 2, 2021, and PBS radio, [Greater Boston](https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2021/11/02/boston-public-radio-full-show-11-2-21) (starting at 1:15:45). Nov 2021 Article [Where white people go, where Black people go: Cellphone data reveals how segregated Bostonians are in their movements](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/29/opinion/where-white-people-go-where-black-people-go-cellphone-data-reveals-how-segregated-bostonians-are-their-movements/) *Boston Globe* Oct 2021 Article ["Chicago's Awful Divide."](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/chicago-segregation-poverty/556649/) *The Atlantic*, Alana Semuels Mar 2018 Article [Who Will Pay the Political Price for Affordable Housing?](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/opinion/edsall-who-will-pay-the-political-price-for-affordable-housing.html) *New York Times* Jul 2015 Podcast HUD Stepping up Efforts to Integrate Neighborhoods. Chicago Public Radio Jul 2015 Article [Obama Administration to Unveil Major New Rules Targeting Segregation across U.S.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/08/obama-administration-to-unveil-major-new-rules-targeting-segregation-across-u-s/) *Washington Post* Jul 2015 ***Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect*** SortTypeNameOutletDateVideo [Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEXSOUqwztA): Book lecture University of Southern California Mar 2014 Article [Division Street, USA](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/division-street-u-s-a/) *New York Times* Oct 2013 Podcast Interview on "[Thinking Allowed](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ktz0p)" *BBC Radio* Dec 2013 Podcast "[All in the Neighborhood"](http://www.remappingdebate.org/audio/all-neighborhood) Remapping Debate Dec 2013 Article [Q&A: Robert Sampson, social scientist, on how neighborhoods shape our lives](https://www.zdnet.com/article/qa-robert-sampson-social-scientist-on-how-neighborhoods-shape-our-lives/%20) SmartPlanet, by Christina Hernandez Nov 2013 Article [Social Infrastucture](https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/collective-action-can-make-a-difference-a-conversation-with-robert-sampson%20) The City Resilient conference, Brooklyn, NY Jun 2013 Article ["The Enduring Importance of Neighborhoods: A Sense of Trust is Key to Making Urban Neighborhoods Thrive"](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-enduring-importance-of-neighborhoods-17165) Discover Magazine, by Dan Hurley Apr 2013 Article ["Kind Neighbors Are Scarce, but Important"](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/kind-neighbors-are-scarce-but-important/273375/) The Atlantic, by Lindsay Abrams Mar 2013 Video / Podcast *Great American City* featured in a story about a neighborhood in Chicago under challenge: [“Diagnosis: Battered but Vibrant.”](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/science/lessons-in-community-from-chicagos-south-side.html?_r=0) See also ["Saving Chatham,"](https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000001682492/saving-chatham.html%20) ["Chatham's Community Character,"](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/08/science/0108-chicago.html?ref=science) and the associated podcast ["Hanging On in Chicago"](https://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2013/01/08/science/08-science-podcast-chicago/chicago-sciencetimes-podcast.mp3?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article) The New York Times Jan 2013 Article ["Homicide, Social Efficacy, and Poverty in Chicago"](https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/december-2012/december-2012-1homicide-social-efficacy-and-poverty-in-chicago/%20) and ["Does Segregation Make a City More Vulnerable to Crime?"](http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/January-2013/Does-Segregation-Make-a-City-More-Vulnerable-to-Crime/) Chicago Magazine Jan 2013 Article ["The Neighborhood Effect"](http://chronicle.com/article/The-Neighborhood-Effect/135492/) Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 2012 Article ["Employment Solutions: Can a Town’s Good Deeds Lower Unemployment?"](http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/0603/Employment-solutions-Can-a-town-s-good-deeds-lower-unemployment#disqus_thread) Christian Science Monitor Jun 2012 Article "[Meet Your Neighbors, if Only Online,"](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/on-nextdoorcom-social-networks-for-neighbors.html) New York Times May 2012 Podcast ["Robert Sampson on the Neighborhood Effect"](https://thesocietypages.org/officehours/2012/04/10/robert-sampson-on-the-neighborhood-effect/) The Society Pages Apr 2012 Podcast Milt Rosenberg's "Extension 720", *WGN*, Chicago (April 2012). WGN Chicago Apr 2012 Article ["Chicago as Urban Microcosm"](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/chicago-as-urban-microcosm/) Harvard Gazette Feb 2012 Article ["The Persistence of Place"](http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/the-persistence-of-place) Harvard Magazine Feb 2012 Video [“NORC 70th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Address"](http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia/norc-70th-anniversary-celebration-keynote-address) University of Chicago Apr 2011 **COVID-19** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle ‘[We don't just live in our neighborhoods': How neighborhood inequality might have been linked to your risk of getting COVID](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2022/02/25/how-neighborhood-inequality-shaped-covid-19-pandemic-wisconsin-racial-disparities/6879623001/) *Milwaukee Journal Sentinel*, Ashley Luthern Feb 2022 Article [COVID-19 Targets Communities of Color](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/health-care-disparities-in-the-age-of-coronavirus/) Harvard Gazette Apr 2020 Article [Why African-Americans may be especially vulnerable to COVID-19](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-why-african-americans-vulnerable-covid-19-health-race) Science News Apr 2020 **Immigration and Crime** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle [Donald Trump: Wrong on Immigration and Crime](http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/July-2015/Donald-Trump-Wrong-on-Immigration-and-Crime/). *Chicago Magazine* Jul 2015 Article [Trump and the Myth of Immigrant Crime](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/07/04/trump-and-the-myth-of-immigrant-crime/%20) *Chicago Tribune* Jul 2015 Article [America’s Leading Immigrant Cities](http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/09/americas-leading-immigrant-cities/406438/) *Atlantic CityLab* 2015 Article ["Does Crime Drop When Immigrants Move In?"](http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173642807/does-crime-drop-when-immigrants-move-in) NPR All Things Considered Mar 2013 Article ["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 Jun 2012 Article ["Arrival of the Fittest: Canada’s Crime Rate is Dropping as Immigration Increases. Is There a Connection?"](https://thewalrus.ca/arrival-of-the-fittest/) The Walrus Jun 2011 Article ["Do Immigrants Make Us Safer?"](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03wwln_idealab.html) New York Times Magazine Dec 2006 Article "Good Waves." Boston Glove Jan 2006 Article ["Open Doors Don't Invite Criminals."](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/opinion/11sampson.html) New York Times Mar 2006 Article “[Immigrant Effects: Latinos Nix Violence](http://harvardmagazine.com/2006/09/latinos-nix-violence.html)." Havard Magazine Sep 2006 Podcast ["Do Illegal Immigrants Burden the Justice System?](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5365863)" NPR Morning Edition Apr 2006 Article [Mais Immigrantes, Menos Crimes](/file_url/146) *Época Magazine*, Brazil, Solange Azevedo May 2007 **“Broken Windows” and Disorder** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle [Private Conflict, Not Broken Windows](http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/08/private-conflict-not-broken-windows/402059/) Atlantic CityLab, by Richard Florida 2015 Podcast "A Brief History of Disorder and Getting to Grips with Disorder." Interview Discussion with Richard Sennett British Journal of Sociology podcast 2009 Podcast ["Urban Crime and Disorder."](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20081022.shtml) BBC’s *Thinking Allowed* Oct 2008 Article The Cracks in 'Broken Windows' Boston Globe Feb 2006 Article [A Crack in the Broken-Windows Theory. ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46381-2005Jan29.html) Washington Post Jan 2005 Podcast [Reconsidering the ‘Broken Windows’ Theory](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520866). NPR Morning Edition Mar 2005 **Criminal Careers and Desistance** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle ["Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look."](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/arts/genetics-and-crime-at-institute-of-justice-conference.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all) New York Times Jun 2011 Article ["Fight School Violence, Pinpoint Its Victims."](https://time.com/archive/6597725/fight-school-violence-pinpoint-its-victims/) Time Magazine Oct 2010 Article ["Crooks Take Early Retirement: Twigs Bent, Trees go Straight."](http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/03/twigs-bent-trees-go-stra.html) Harvard Magazine Mar 2004 **Gentrification** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle ["The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods."](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods/548837/) *The Atlantic*, Abdallah Fayya Dec 2017 Article "[A New View of Gentrification: Stark Findings in Google-enabled Study of Chicago Neighborhoods.”](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/a-new-view-of-gentrification/) *Harvard Gazette* Aug 2014 Article ["Gentrification and the Persistence of Poor Minority Neighborhoods."](http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/08/gentrification-and-the-persistence-of-poor-minority-neighborhoods/373062/) *The Atlantic CITYLAB* Aug 2014 Podcast Why aren’t Chicago Neighborhoods Gentrifying? WBEZ in Chicago examines gentrification in a 10-part series, [There Goes the Neighborhood](http://interactive.wbez.org/gentrification/). WBEZ Chicago Dec 2014 Article ["In Chicago, Neighborhoods That Are More Black Don't Gentrify."](http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/08/338831318/chicago-neighborhoods-that-are-too-black-resist-gentrification) *NPR*, Code Switch. Aug 2014 Article ["Is Your Neighborhood Gentrifying? Check Google Street View." ](http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/07/is-your-neighborhood-gentrifying-check-google-street-view/) *Wall Street Journal*, Digits. Aug 2014 Article ["Gentrification: white people following white people."](https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/08/06/gentrification-harvard-study-using-google-street-view-shows-that-white-people-follow-white-people/Pv29PzqMtp8Kc69ctpVc5J/story.html%20) *The Boston Globe* Aug 2014 Article ["Why and How Chicago Neighborhoods Gentrify--and When."](http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2014/Why-Are-So-Many-Chicago-Neighborhoods-So-Slow-to-Gentrify/) *Chicago Magazine* Aug 2014 Article [“Google Street View shows that Gentrification in Chicago has Largely Bypassed Poor Minority Neighborhoods, Reinforcing Urban Inequality.”](http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/07/09/google-street-view-shows-that-gentrification-in-chicago-has-largely-bypassed-poor-minority-neighborhoods-reinforcing-urban-inequality/) *The LSE American Politics and Policy Blog.* Jul 2014 **Collective Efficacy, Social Capital, and Community Organizations** SortTypeNameOutletDateArticle ["Crime and Community."](/file_url/147) [ ](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/bobo/pdf%20documents/SAMPSON%20CRIME%20AND%20COMMUNITY.pdf)Q and A with Robert J. Sampson. *Boston Globe* Aug 2004 Podcast "Collective Efficacy" *Thomson-Reuters Science Watch* Article ["](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/us/study-links-violence-rate-to-cohesion-in-community.html) [Study Links Violence Rate to Cohesion in Community."](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/us/study-links-violence-rate-to-cohesion-in-community.html) *New York Times* Aug 1997 Article [Can Block Clubs Block Despair? Why do some poor communities fall apart while others cohere? Community organization can make a difference—up to a point.](https://prospect.org/2007/04/22/can-block-clubs-block-despair/) *American Prospect* May 2007 Article ["Bowling Alone?: Civil Society May Not be in Such Bad Shape."](http://www.ssireview.org/pdf/2006SU_upfront_BowlingAlone.pdf) *Stanford Social Innovation Review* 2006 **Personal** SortTypeNameOutletDatePodcast [The Storied Career of a Social Structure and Life-Course Scholar with Robert Sampson](https://thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-38-sampson/) *The Crime Academy*, Reflection Series Podcast Feb 2022 Video [Discussing the Stockholm Prize in Criminology](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpIlUxHJ-xbppFwkmYtaCxJ2mbpAJ2jgo) National Institute of Justice Conference Nov 2012 Article John Laub and Robert Sampson awarded [Stockholm Prize ](https://nij.ojp.gov/general-message/john-laub-and-robert-sampson-awarded-stockholm-prize)in Criminology. National Institute of Justice 2011