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Overview

Charis E. Kubrin is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science as well as intersecting interests in general health professions, clinical psychology, gender studies, and health.

Their main research topics include crime patterns and interventions, migration, refugees, and integration, migration, health and trauma, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, homelessness and social issues, crime, illicit activities, and governance, and criminal justice and corrections analysis. These thematic areas reflect a comprehensive engagement with societal challenges and criminal justice topics.

Frequent co-authors in Kubrin's work include Graham C. Ousey, John R. Hipp, Bradley J. Bartos, Jack I. Lerner, and Xiaoshuang Iris Luo. Collaborative efforts with these researchers indicate multi-faceted approaches to social disorganization, crime, and migration topics.

Kubrin has contributed research to a variety of scholarly venues. Notable publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • CrimRxiv
  • Crime & Delinquency
  • Justice Evaluation Journal
  • American Journal of Criminal Justice

The following papers represent recent contributions by Kubrin:

  • (Re)conceptualizing Neighborhood Ecology in Social Disorganization Theory: From a Variable-Centered Approach to a Neighborhood-Centered Approach, 2021, Crime & Delinquency
  • Sanctuary Status and Crime in California: What's the Connection?, 2020, Justice Evaluation Journal
  • How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations, 2022, American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Rap on Trial: A Legal Guide for Attorneys, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The debt crisis, austerity measures, and suicide in Greece, 2022, Social Science Quarterly

Kubrin has also authored a book entitled Immigration and Crime, published by Springer Nature in 2023.

Best Publications

  • New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory

    Charis E. Kubrin;Ronald Weitzer

  • PREDICTING WHO REOFFENDS: THE NEGLECTED ROLE OF NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT IN RECIDIVISM STUDIES*

    Charis E. Kubrin;Eric A. Stewart

  • Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture

    Charis E. Kubrin;Ronald Weitzer

  • Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980–2000

    Graham C. Ousey;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music

    Charis E. Kubrin

  • Breaking news: How local TV news and real-world conditions affect fear of crime

    Ronald Weitzer;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Privileged Places: Race, Uneven Development and the Geography of Opportunity in Urban America:

    Gregory D. Squires;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Misogyny in Rap Music: A Content Analysis of Prevalence and Meanings

    Ronald Weitzer;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue

    Graham C. Ousey;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Researching Theories of Crime and Deviance

    Charis Elizabeth Kubrin;Thomas Dain Stucky;Marvin D. Krohn

  • The Power of Place: Immigrant Communities and Adolescent Violence

    Scott A. Desmond;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Structural Covariates Of Homicide Rates: Does Type Of Homicide Matter?:

    Charis E. Kubrin

  • Privileged Places: Race, Residence, And the Structure of Opportunity

    Gregory D. Squires;Charis Elizabeth Kubrin

  • Crime in the News: How Crimes, Offenders and Victims Are Portrayed in the Media*

    Jessica M. Pollak (Grosholz);Charis E. Kubrin

  • Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence:

    Charis E. Kubrin

  • Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980-2000

    Charis E. Kubrin;Graham C. Ousey

  • PROACTIVE POLICING AND ROBBERY RATES ACROSS U.S. CITIES

    Charis E. Kubrin;Steven F. Messner;Glenn Deane;Kelly Mcgeever

  • Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods Are Safer than Others Divergent Findings from Los Angeles and Chicago

    Charis E. Kubrin;Hiromi Ishizawa

  • Neighborhood Context and Neighboring Ties

    Avery M. Guest;Jane K. Cover;Ross L. Matsueda;Charis E. Kubrin

  • Hispanic Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Examining the Effects of Immigration, Assimilation, Affluence, and Disadvantage

    Tim Wadsworth;Charis E. Kubrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham C. Ousey
Graham C. Ousey William & Mary
Ronald Weitzer
Ronald Weitzer George Washington University
John R. Hipp
John R. Hipp University of California, Irvine
Steven F. Messner
Steven F. Messner University at Albany, State University of New York
Eric A. Stewart
Eric A. Stewart Florida State University
Marvin D. Krohn
Marvin D. Krohn University of Florida

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