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September 14, 2015: White House Launches New MetroLab Network that Includes Collaboration Between BARI and Boston October, 2015: Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses compounded deprivation and criminal justice in The Atlantic. See The Black Family and Mass...
SOCIOL 1271: Crime and Justice in a Changing Society
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Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 This course examines the changing landscape of crime and justice in America over the last half-century, a time of profound transformation. Among other social changes, the U.S. saw a dramatic rise in violence in the 1960s...
Sociology 1171: Crime and Order in the American City
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Semester: Fall Offered: 2019, 2020 Ideas about crime and social order have animated debates about cities for over a century. After reviewing classic approaches to the study of the American city, we will evaluate contemporary arguments on central themes...
Sociology 242: Crime and Criminal Justice in Life-Course Perspective
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Semester: Spring Offered: 2018 This seminar examines crime and criminalization across the life course. Social processes and context are emphasized. Key themes include the long-term study of continuity and change; trajectories, transitions, and turning...
FYSEMR 73S: Crime and Justice in a Changing America
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Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 This seminar examines key changes in crime and the criminal justice system over the last half-century, including the dramatic rise in violence starting in the 1960s, mass incarceration starting in the mid-1970s, the unexpected...
The Characterological Imperative: On Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz’s The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life
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James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz make a powerful case for noncognitive skills--or what they conceptualize as character--as an explanation of educational achievement and other important outcomes in life. They do so while exposing the...
Translating Causal Claims: Principles and Strategies for Policy-Relevant Criminology
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This article reviews the causal turn in the social sciences and accompanying efforts by criminologists to make policy claims more credible. Although there has been much progress in techniques for the estimation of causal effects, we find that the link...
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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...