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Collective Civic Engagement

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In collaboration with Doug McAdam at Stanford, this project aimed to develop a new theoretical approach and novel empirical strategy for tackling fundamental questions about the nature and changing structure of civic life in the contemporary city. By...

Crime and the Life Course

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Beginning in the 1980s, Professor Sampson and his colleague John Laub initiated a program of research on the life course of 1,000 disadvantaged men born in Boston during the Great Depression era. The original data were based on the classic studies that...

Graduate Students

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Professor Sampson has mentored many graduate students and supervised dozens of dissertations over the years at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. His dissertation advisees and their current or last position are listed...

Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods

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Why are some neighborhoods characterized by deep social divisions and violence while others thrive? Why do most cities exhibit sharp neighborhood differences in wealth and poverty, often cheek by jowl as captured in Henry Zorbaugh's classic study from the...