Karen F. Parker

Karen F. Parker publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Karen F. Parker D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• RACIAL THREAT, CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE AND SOCIAL CONTROL: CONSIDERING THE MACRO‐LEVEL SOURCES OF VARIATION IN ARRESTS*

  Karen F. Parker;Brian J. Stults;Stephen K. Rice

  320
  Citations

• STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS AND RACIAL HOMICIDE PATTERNS: A LOOK AT THE MULTIPLE DISADVANTAGES IN URBAN AREAS*

  Karen F. Parker;Patricia L. McCALL

  267
  Citations

• An Empirical Assessment of What We Know About Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: A Return to a Classic 20 Years Later

  Patricia L. McCall;Kenneth C. Land;Karen F. Parker

  195
  Citations

• Race, Local Life Circumstances, and Criminal Activity

  Alex R. Piquero;John M. MacDonald;Karen F. Parker

  174
  Citations

• Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates

  Marian J. Borg;Karen F. Parker

  165
  Citations

• Gender Role Ideology, Homophobia and Hate Crime: Linking Attitudes to Macro-Level Anti-Gay and Lesbian Hate Crimes

  Helena L. Alden;Karen F. Parker

  154
  Citations

• A Comparative Recidivism Analysis of Releasees from Private and Public Prisons

  Lonn Lanza-Kaduce;Karen F. Parker;Charles W. Thomas

  146
  Citations

• Unequal Crime Decline

  Karen Parker

  131
  Citations

• The dynamic relationship between homicide rates and social, economic, and political factors from 1970 to 2000*.

  Patricia L. McCall;Karen F. Parker;John M. MacDonald

  111
  Citations

• Poverty, poverty concentration, and homicide

  K. F. Parker;M. V. Pruitt

  104
  Citations

• The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle

  Patricia L. McCall;Kenneth C. Land;Cindy Brooks Dollar;Karen F. Parker

  95
  Citations

• A Contextual Study of Racial Profiling: Assessing the Theoretical Rationale for the Study of Racial Profiling at the Local Level

  Karen F. Parker;John M. MacDonald;Geoffrey P. Alpert;Michael R. Smith

  95
  Citations

• Understanding the change in male and female intimate partner homicide over time: a policy- and theory-relevant investigation

  Amy Reckdenwald;Karen F. Parker

  94
  Citations

• Structural Theories and Race-Specific Drug Arrests: What Structural Factors Account for the Rise in Race-Specific Drug Arrests Over Time?

  Karen F. Parker;Scott R. Maggard

  93
  Citations

• CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE, TRADITIONAL MALE ROLE MODELS, AND AFRICAN‐AMERICAN JUVENILE VIOLENCE*

  Karen F. Parker;Amy Reckdenwald

  81
  Citations

• How the West Was One: Explaining the Similarities in Race-Specific Homicide Rates in the West and South

  Karen F. Parker;Matthew V. Pruitt

  80
  Citations

• The Influence of Gender Inequality and Marginalization on Types of Female Offending

  Amy Reckdenwald;Karen F. Parker

  80
  Citations

• Heterogeneity in the rise and decline of city-level homicide rates, 1976-2005: A latent trajectory analysis

  Patricia L. McCall;Kenneth C. Land;Karen F. Parker

  75
  Citations

• A Move Toward Specificity: Examining Urban Disadvantage and Race-and Relationship-Specific Homicide Rates

  Karen F. Parker

  74
  Citations

• Adding another Piece to the Inequality-Homicide Puzzle The Impact of Structural Inequality on Racially Disaggregated Homicide Rates

  Karen F. Parker;Patricia L. McCALL

  68
  Citations