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Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing ‘Broken Windows’ Using Large-scale Administrative Records

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The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that will require novel methodologies that convert...

Urban Sustainability in an Age of Enduring Inequalities: Advancing Theory and Ecometrics for the 21st-Century

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The environmental fragility of cities under advanced urbanization has motivated extensive efforts to promote the sustainability of urban ecosystems and physical infrastructures. Less attention has been devoted to neighborhood inequalities and fissures in...

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

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

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Robert J. Sampson is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and founding director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. He has also taught at the...

The Place of Context: A Theory and Strategy for Criminology's Hard Problems

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I present a theoretical framework and analytic strategy for the study of place as a fundamental context in criminology, with a focus on neighborhood effects. My approach builds on the past 15 years of research from the Project on Human Development in...

A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior

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Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

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SELECTED ARTICLES BY TOPIC Neighborhood Effects and Social Processes Sampson, Robert J. 1988. " ." American Sociological Review. 53:766-779. Sampson, Robert J. and W. Byron Groves. 1989. " ." American Journal of Sociology 94: 774-802. Sampson, Robert J...

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2025: Sampson, Robert J. 2025. Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.3.01 Baker, Garrett, David S. Kirk, and Robert J. Sampson...

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Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing ‘Broken Windows’ Using Large-scale Administrative Records

Urban Sustainability in an Age of Enduring Inequalities: Advancing Theory and Ecometrics for the 21st-Century

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

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

Biography

The Place of Context: A Theory and Strategy for Criminology's Hard Problems

A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior

Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

Articles

Book and Article News