Ruth D. Peterson

Ruth D. Peterson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Ruth D. Peterson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime

  Lauren J. Krivo;Ruth D. Peterson

  1205
  Citations

• Disadvantage and Neighborhood Violent Crime: Do Local Institutions Matter?:

  Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo;Mark A. Harris

  598
  Citations

• Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research

  Ruth D. Peterson;John Hagan

  495
  Citations

• Racial Segregation and Black Urban Homicide

  Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo

  461
  Citations

• Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime

  Unknown

  460
  Citations

• Segregation, racial structure, and neighborhood violent crime.

  Lauren J. Krivo;Ruth D. Peterson;Danielle C. Kuhl

  450
  Citations

• The Structural Context of Homicide: Accounting for Racial Differences in Process

  Lauren J. Krivo;Ruth D. Peterson

  393
  Citations

• Macrostructural Analyses of Race, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime: Recent Lessons and New Directions for Research

  Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo

  360
  Citations

• Commercial Density, Residential Concentration, and Crime: Land Use Patterns and Violence in Neighborhood Context

  Christopher R. Browning;Reginald A. Byron;Catherine A. Calder;Lauren J. Krivo

  292
  Citations

• Race, Segregation, and the Concentration of Disadvantage: 1980–1990

  Lauren J. Krivo;Ruth D. Peterson;Helen Rizzo;John R. Reynolds

  223
  Citations

• Social Isolation of Disadvantage and Advantage: The Reproduction of Inequality in Urban Space

  Lauren J. Krivo;Heather M. Washington;Ruth D. Peterson;Christopher R. Browning

  217
  Citations

• The Impact of Gender-Based Family Roles on Criminal Sentencing

  Gayle S. Bickle;Ruth D. Peterson

  199
  Citations

• RACE AND ETHNIC REPRESENTATIONS OF LAWBREAKERS AND VICTIMS IN CRIME NEWS: A NATIONAL STUDY OF TELEVISION COVERAGE.

  Eileen E. S. Bjornstrom;Robert L. Kaufman;Ruth D. Peterson;Michael D. Slater

  184
  Citations

• Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood Violent Crime

  Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo

  140
  Citations

• Racial Segregation and Black Urban Homicide

  Unknown

  129
  Citations

• The Impact of Gender-Based Family Roles on Criminal Sentencing

  Unknown

  112
  Citations

• STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY AND HOMICIDE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BLACK‐WHITE GAP IN KILLINGS

  María B. Vélez;Lauren J. Krivo;Ruth D. Peterson

  110
  Citations

• FELONY MURDER AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DETERRENCE QUESTION

  Ruth D. Peterson;William C. Bailey

  101
  Citations

• Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Evidence and an Examination of Police Killings

  William C. Bailey;Ruth D. Peterson

  92
  Citations

• Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

  Peter Grabosky;John Hepburn;Martin Killias;Cheryl Maxson

  45
  Citations