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Robert J. Sampson

Department of Sociology
Harvard University
William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA  02138

Phone: (617) 6-9716
Facsimile: (617) 496-5794
Email:    rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu
Website:   
www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/

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1979/1983    M.A./Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany
1977             B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

• 2006 Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2006 Elected Ernest W. Burgess Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
• 2005 Inducted as Fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2005-2008 Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Program on Health Policy Research
• 2005 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Book Award, Crime, Law and Deviance Section, American Sociological Association; Outstanding Academic Titles: The Best of the Best in Published Scholarship by Choice; and Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences -- for Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 (Harvard 2003)
• 2004 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, American Society of Criminology, for Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70
• 2002-2003 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA
• 2001 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, presented by the American Society of Criminology for outstanding contributions to theory and research by a North American criminologist
• 2000 Robert Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, for "Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces" (see publication list)
• 1997 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA
• 1996 Distinguished Alumni Award, State University of New York at Albany, Alumni Association
• 1995 Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, for Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life (Harvard, 1993)
• 1995 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, for Crime in the Making
• 1994 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, American Society of Criminology, for Crime in the Making
• 1992 Named Fellow of the American Society of Criminology
• 1992 Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association
• 1991 Distinguished Alumni Award, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Graduate College of Public Affairs and Policy, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany
• 1988 Visiting Summer Scholar, National Center for Juvenile Justice, Pittsburgh, PA
• 1979 State University of New York Summer Fellow at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan

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• Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (July 2005-present)
• Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University (2003-present)
• Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago (2001-2002)
• Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology, University of Chicago (1997-2001)
• Professor of Sociology and in the College, University of Chicago (1991-1999)
• Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation (1999-2002)
• Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation (1994-1999)
• Scientific Director, "Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods," 1994-present
• Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois (1988-1991)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois (1984-1988)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University (1983-1984)
• Senior Staff Associate, Columbia University (1981-1983)

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Books, Edited Volumes, and Monographs:

• Wikström, Per-Olof and Robert J. Sampson (eds.). 2006. The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms, and Development. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub (special editors). 2005. Developmental Criminology and Its Discontents: Trajectories of Crime from Childhood to Old Age. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Volume 602, November.
• Laub, John and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback edition, January 2006).
• Sampson, Robert J., Gregory D. Squires, and Min Zhou. 2001. How Neighborhoods Matter: The Value of Investing at the Local Level. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1993. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Translated into Chinese, Peking University Press, 2006.
  • Chapter 1 reprinted in Crime, edited by Robert Crutchfield, George Bridges, and Joseph Weis, Pine Forge Press, 1996.
  • Chapter 10 reprinted in Criminological Theory, edited by Frances Cullen and Robert Agnew, Roxbury Publishing, 1999.
• Farrington, David, Robert J. Sampson, and Per-Olof Wikström (eds.). 1993. Integrating Individual and Ecological Aspects on Crime. Stockholm, Sweden: National Council for Crime Prevention.
• Byrne, James M. and Robert J. Sampson (eds.). 1986. The Social Ecology of Crime. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Sampson, Robert J., Thomas Castellano, and John H. Laub. 1981. Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Its Relation to Neighborhood Characteristics. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Articles (* = journal/peer reviewed):

• *Sampson, Robert J., John H. Laub, and Christopher Wimer. 2006. Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects. Criminology 44: 465-508.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods. Pp. 176-203 in Samuel Bowles, Steve Durlauf, and Karla Hoff (editors), Poverty Traps. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J., Doug McAdam, Heather MacIndoe, and Simón Weffer. 2005. Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action. American Journal of Sociology 111(3) .
• Sampson, Robert J. 2006. "How Does Community Context Matter? Social Mechanisms and the Explanation of Crime." In Wikström, Per-Olof and Robert J. Sampson (editors). 2005. The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms, and Development. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sampson, Robert J., John H. Laub, and Gary A. Sweeten. 2006. Assessing Sampson and Laub's Life-Course Theory of Crime. Pp. 313-333 in Francis T. Cullen, John Paul Wright, and Kristie R. Blevins (editors), Advances in Criminological Theory, (Volume 15) Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2006. Collective Efficacy Theory: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Inquiry. Pp. 149-167 in Francis T. Cullen, John Paul Wright, and Kristie R. Blevins (editors), Advances in Criminological Theory, (Volume 15) Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
• Sampson, Robert J. and Lydia Bean. 2006. Cultural Mechanisms and Killings Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality. In Ruth Peterson, Laurie Krivo, and John Hagan (editors), The Many Colors of Crime. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming.
• Morenoff, Jeffrey D. and Robert J. Sampson. 2006. "Constructing Community Indicators of Child Well-Being." In Brett Brown and Kristin Anderson Moore (editors), Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-being: Completing the Picture. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, forthcoming.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2005. A Life Course View of the Development of Crime and "When Prediction Fails: From Crime-Prone Boys to Heterogeneity in Adulthood." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 602: 12-45; 73-79.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2005. A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology. Pp. 161-185 in David Farrington (editor), Advances in Criminological Theory (Volume 13): Testing Integrated Developmental/Life Course Theories of Offending.
• *McAdam, Doug, Robert J. Sampson, Simón Weffer-Elizondo, and Heather MacIndoe. 2005. 'There Will Be Fighting in the Streets:' The Distorting Lens of Social Movement Theory. Mobilization. 10:1-18.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2005. "Social Ecology and Collective Efficacy Theory." Pp. 132-140 in Stuart Henry and Mark Lanier (editors), The Essential Criminology Reader. Boulder, CO: Westview.
• *Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2005. Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence. American Journal of Public Health. 95:224-232.
  • See also 2005, Suprising Social Factors Linked to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Violence, Population Reference Bureau;
  • Good Waves (please note: this link requires Internet Explorer) in The Boston Globe, January 1, 2006 ("Ideas" Section, p. 1);
  • Open Doors Don't Invite Criminals in The New York Times, March 11, 2006, p. A27 (OP-ED).
  • Do Illegal Immigrants Burden the Justice System? NPR's Morning Edition, April 27, 2006.
  • Do Immigrants Make us Safer? by Eyal Press in the New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2006.
• Sampson, Robert J. and Stephen Raudenbush. 2004. Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows. Social Psychology Quarterly. 67:319-342.
  • Edited version reprinted as Neighborhood Stigma and Perceptions of Disorder in Focus. 24:7-11.
    
  • See also Reconsidering the 'Broken Windows' Theory, featured on NPR's Morning Edition;
  • A Crack in the Broken-Windows Theory in the Washington Post;
  • Racial Profiling Writ Large in the Atlantic Monthly;
  • The Cracks in Broken Windows in The Boston Globe, February 19, 2006;
• Sampson, Robert J. 2004. Networks and Neighborhoods: The Implications of Connectivity for Thinking about Crime in the Modern City. Pp. 157-166 in Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, and Paul Skidmore (editors), Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World?. London: Demos.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2004. Neighbourhood and Community: Collective Efficacy and Community Safety. New Economy. 11:106-113.
• *Eggleston, Elaine, John H. Laub, and Robert J. Sampson. 2004. Methodological Sensitivities to Latent Class Analysis of Long-Term Criminal Trajectories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 20:1-26.
  • Sampson, Robert J., John H. Laub, and Elaine Eggleston. 2004. On the Robustness and Validity of Groups. (Response to Daniel Nagin). Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 20:37-42.
• Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. 2004. Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago Neighborhoods. In Michael Goodchild and Donald Janelle (editors), Spatially Integrated Social Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
• *Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 2004. Strategies for Bridging the Quantitative and Qualitative Divide: Studying Crime over the Life Course. Research in Human Development. 1:81-99.
• *Raudenbush, Stephen, Chris Johnson, and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior. Sociological Methodology. 33:169-211.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2003. Life-Course Desisters? Trajectories of Crime among Delinquent Boys Followed to Age 70. Criminology (forthcoming).
  • See also: Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2005. Seductions of Method: Rejoinder to Nagin and Tremblay's 'Developmental Trajectory Groups: Fact or Fiction?' Criminology. 43:905-913.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2003. "Neighborhood-Level Context and Health: Lessons from Sociology." Pp. 132-146 in Neighborhoods and Health, edited by Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa Berkman. New York: Oxford University Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 2003. The Neighborhood Context of Well Being. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 46:S53-S73.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2003. Collective Efficacy (Volume 1: 205) and Neighborhoods (Volume 3: 973-978) in Encyclopedia of Community. Thousand Oaks, CA and London, UK: Sage Publications.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2003. Desistance from Crime over the Life Course. Pp. 295-310 in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael Shanahan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
• Wikström, Per-Olof and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. Social Mechanisms of Community Influences on Crime and Pathways in Criminality. Pp. 118-148 in Causes of Conduct Disorder and Serious Juvenile Delinquency, edited by Ben Lahey, Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi. New York: Guilford Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 2002. Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style. Criminology. 40: 213-230.
• *Sampson, Robert J., J. Morenoff and T. Gannon-Rowley. 2002. Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Processes and New Directions in Research. Annual Review of Sociology. 28:443-478.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2002. Studying Modern Chicago. City and Community. 1:45-48.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2002. "Sociology of Delinquency." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford, England: Elsevier Science Limited.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 2002. "Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency Study: The Lives of 1,000 Boston Men in the Twentieth Century." Pp. 61-86 in Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century, edited by Erin Phelps, Frank Furstenberg Jr., and Anne Colby. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2002. "Crime and Public Safety: Insights from Community-Level Perspectives on Social Capital." Pp. 89-114 in Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson, and Mark Warren, Social Capital in Poor Communities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 2002. Organized for What? Recasting Theories of Social (Dis)Organization. Pp. 95-110 in Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 10, edited by Elin Waring and David Weisburd.
• *Morenoff, Jeffrey, Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2001. Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence. Criminology. 39:517-560.
• *Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 2001. Understanding Desistance from Crime. Crime and Justice. Volume 28:1-69, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Sampson Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2001. "Public Health and Safety in Context: Lessons from Community-level Theory on Social Capital." Pp. 366-389 in Brian Smedley and Leonard Syme (eds.), Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2001. How Do Communities Undergird or Undermine Human Development? Relevant Contexts and Social Mechanisms. Pp. 3-30 in Does It Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families, edited by Alan Booth and Nan Crouter. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 2000. Whither the Sociological Study of Crime? Annual Review of Sociology 26:711-714.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2000. Crime, Criminals, and Cures: Medical Model Revisited. Journal of Personality 68:606-613.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2000. "The Neighborhood Context of Investing in Children: Facilitating Mechanisms and Undermining Risks." Pp. 205-227 in Securing the Future for Children, edited by Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Sampson, Robert J. 2000. "A Neighborhood-level Perspective on Social Change and the Social Control of Adolescent Delinquency." Pp. 178-190 in Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change, edited by Lisa Crockett and Rainer Silbereisen. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Steve Raudenbush. 1999. Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods. American Journal of Sociology. 105: 603-651.
  • Reprinted (excerpt) as Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods: Does It Lead to Crime?. Research Brief Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, February 2001.
  • Reprinted (excerpt) in Criminal Justice (7th edition), by Joel Samaha. Belmont, CA: Thompson 2005.
• *Sampson Robert J. Jeffrey Morenoff, and Felton Earls. 1999. Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children. American Sociological Review. 64: 633-660.
  • Reprinted in Qualitative Social Science; Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, Sage Publications.
• *Raudenbush, Stephen and Robert J. Sampson. 1999. "Ecometrics": Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods.F Sociological Methodology. 29:1-41.
• Sampson, Robert J. Techniques of Research Neutralization. Theoretical Criminology. 4:438-451.
• *Raudenbush, Stephen and Robert J. Sampson. 1999. Assessing Direct and Indirect Effects in Multilevel Designs with Latent Variables. Sociological Methods and Research. 28: 123-153.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1999. What "Community" Supplies. Pp. 241-292 in Urban Problems and Community Development, edited by Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1998. "Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data." Pp. 213-230 in Methods of Life Course Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, edited by Janet Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. 1998. Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences. Law and Society Review. 32:777-804.
  • Reprinted (excerpt) as Attitudes Toward Crime, Police, and the Law: Individual and Neighborhood Differences. Research Preview, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, June 1999, FS 000240.
  • Reprinted in The International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Crime and Criminal Justice, edited by William Lyons, Jr. Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1998. "The Long-term Reach of Adolescent Competence: Socioeconomic Achievement in the Lives of Disadvantaged Men." Pp. 89-1112 in The Development of Competence and Character Through Life, edited by Anne Colby, Jacquelyn James, and Daniel Hart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• *Laub, John, Daniel Nagin, and Robert J. Sampson. 1998. Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending: Good Marriages and the Desistance Process. American Sociological Review. 63: 225-238.
  • Reprinted in Gregg Carter (ed.), Empirical Approaches to Sociology. Allyn and Bacon (2000).
• Sampson, Robert J. 1997. The Embeddedness of Child and Adolescent Development: A Community-level Perspective on Urban Violence. Pp. 31-77 in Childhood and Violence in the Inner City, edited by Joan McCord. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1997. "Unraveling the Social Context of Physique and Delinquency: A New Long-term Look at the Gluecks' Classic Study." Pp. 175-188 in Biosocial Bases of Violence, edited by A. Raine, P. Brennan, D. Farrington, and S. Mednick (Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, May 12-21, 1996, Rhodes, Greece). New York: Plenum.
• *Morenoff, Jeffrey and Robert J. Sampson. 1997. Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990. Social Forces. 76: 31-64.
• *Sampson, Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy. Science. 277: 918-24.
  • Reprinted in Ichiro Kawachi (ed.), Society and Population Health (2000).
  • Reprinted in Tim Hope (ed.) Perspectives on Crime Reduction. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate (2000).
  • Reprinted (revised version) in Currents in Criminology (vol. 1), Edited by Robert Nash Parker. Stanford: Stanford University Press (forthcoming).
  • Reprinted (excerpt) as Neighborhood Collective Efficacy: Does It Help Reduce Violence? Research Preview, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, April 1998, FS 000203.
• Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 1997. Ecological Perspectives on the Neighborhood Context of Urban Poverty: Past and Present. Pp. 1-22 in Neighborhood Poverty: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods, edited by J. Brooks-Gunn, G.J. Duncan, and L. Aber. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1997. Collective Regulation of Adolescent Misbehavior: Validation Results from Eighty Chicago Neighborhoods. Journal of Adolescent Research. 12: 227-244.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Janet L. Lauritsen. 1997. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States. Pp. 311-374 In Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives, edited by Michael Tonry. Volume 21 of Crime and Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1997. A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency. Pp. 133-161 in Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency. (Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 7), edited by Terence P. Thornberry. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
• *Elliott, Delbert, William Julius Wilson, David Huizinga, Robert J. Sampson, Amanda Elliott and Bruce Rankin. 1996. "Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Adolescent Development." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 33: 389-426.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1996. Socioeconomic Achievement in the Life Course of Disadvantaged Men: Military Service as a Turning Point, circa 1940-1965. American Sociological Review. 61: 347-367.
  • Reprinted in Modern Society and Life Experience. Japan: Orion Literary Agency (2000).
• Laub, John, Robert J. Sampson, Ronald P. Corbett, Jr., and Jinney Smith. 1995. "The Public Policy Implications of a Life-Course Perspective on Crime." Pp. 91-106 in Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work, edited by Hugh Barlow. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1995. Understanding Variability in Lives through Time: Contributions of Life-course Criminology. Studies in Crime and Crime Prevention. 4:143-158.
  • Reprinted in Criminal Justice Policy, edited by Jodi Lane and Joan Petersilia. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998.
• Sampson, Robert J. and William Julius Wilson. 1995. Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality. Pp. 37-56 in Crime and Inequality, edited by John Hagan and Ruth Peterson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Reprinted in Community Justice, edited by Amitai Etzioni and David Karp. Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Reprinted in Race, Crime, and Justice, edited by Shaun Gabbidon and Helen Taylor Greene. New York and London: Routledge 2005.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1995. "Crime and Context in the Lives of 1,000 Boston Men, circa 1925-1955." Pp. 119-140 in Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle, (Volume 4: Delinquency and Disrepute in the Life Course: Contextual and Dynamic Analyses, edited by Zena Smith Blau and John Hagan. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1995. "The Long Term Effect of Punitive Discipline." In Coercion and Punishment in Long-term Perspective, edited by Joan McCord. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1995. "Unemployment and Imbalanced Sex Ratios: Race-Specific Consequences for Family Structure and Crime." In The Decline in Marriage Among African-Americans, edited by M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1995. "The Community." Pp. 193- 216 in Crime, edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia. San Francisco: ICS Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1994 . Urban Poverty and the Family Context of Delinquency: A New Look at Structure and Process in a Classic Study. Child Development. 65:523-540 (special refereed issue on "Children and Poverty").
  • Reprinted in Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, edited by Margaret Hertzig and Ellen Farber. New York: Brunner/Mazel, Inc., 1995.
  • Reprinted in Adolescent Behavior and Society: A Book of Readings, Fifth Edition, edited by Rolf Muuss. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
• Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1994. "Unemployment, Marital Discord, and Deviant Behavior: The Long-Term Correlates of Childhood Misbehavior." Pp. 235-252 in The Generality of Deviance, edited by Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Janet L. Lauritsen. 1994. "Violent Victimization and Offending: Individual-, Situational-, and Community-level Risk Factors." Pp. 1-114 in Understanding and Preventing Violence: Social Influences (Volume 3), edited by Albert J. Reiss Jr. and Jeffrey Roth. (National Research Council.) Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub.1993. Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control. Law and Society Review. 27:285-311 (refereed symposium on "Crime, Class, and Community: An Emerging Paradigm").
  • Reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration, edited by Barry Feld. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1993. "Family and Community-Level Influences on Delinquency: A Contextual Theory and Strategies for Research Testing." In Farrington, David, Robert J. Sampson, and Per-Olof Wikström (eds.), Integrating Individual and Ecological Aspects on Crime. Stockholm, Sweden: National Council for Crime Prevention.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1993. Linking Time and Place: Dynamic Contextualism and the Future of Criminological Inquiry. Journal of Research in Crime Delinquency. 30:426-444.
• *Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1993. Turning Points in the Life Course: Why Change Matters to the Study of Crime. Criminology. 31:301-325.
  • Reprinted in the Criminology Theory Reader, edited by Stuart Henry and Werner Feinstadtec, 1998. New York: New York University Press.
  • Reprinted in Theories of Deviance, edited by Stuart Traub and Craig Little, Peacock Publishers, 1999.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1993. "The Community Context of Violent Crime." Pp. 259-286 in Sociology and the Public Agenda, edited by William Julius Wilson. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• *Lauritsen, Janet, John H. Laub, and Robert J. Sampson. 1992. "Conventional and Delinquent Activities: Implications for the Prevention of Violent Victimization Among Adolescents." Violence and Victims. 7:91-108.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1992. Crime and Deviance in the Life Course. Annual Review of Sociology. 18:63-84.
  • Reprinted in Alex Piquero and Paul Mazerolle (eds.), Crime and the Life Course: Contemporary Readings. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing (forthcoming).
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1992. "Family Management and Child Development: Insights from Social Disorganization Theory." Pp. 63-93 in Facts, Frameworks, Forecasts: Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 3, edited by Joan McCord. New Brunswick: Transaction Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1991. Linking the Micro and Macrolevel Dimensions of Community Social Organization. Social Forces. 70:43-64.
• *Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson. 1991. The Sutherland-Glueck Debate: On the Sociology of Criminological Knowledge. American Journal of Sociology. 96:1402-1440.
  • Reprinted in Origins and Growth of Criminology, ed. by Piers Beirne. Dartmouth Publishing, 1994.
• *Lauritsen, Janet, Robert J. Sampson, and John H. Laub. 1991. The Link Between Offending and Victimization Among Juveniles. Criminology. 29:265-292.
• *Messner, Steven F. and Robert J. Sampson. 1991.The Sex Ratio, Family Disruption, and Rates of Violent Crime: The Paradox of Demographic Structure. Social Forces. 69:693-714.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1990. Crime and Deviance Over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds. American Sociological Review. 55:609-627.
  • Reprinted in Classics of Criminology, edited by Joseph Jacoby. Waveland Press 2004.
  • Reprinted in Contemporary Criminological Theory, edited by Frances Cullen and Velmer Burton. Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1994.
  • Reprinted in Criminology: A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Readings, edited by Frank Scarpitti and Amie Nielsen. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing, 1998.
  • Reprinted in Alex Piquero and Paul Mazerolle (eds.), Crime and the Life Course: Contemporary Readings. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing (forthcoming).
• Laub, John, Robert J. Sampson, and Kenna Kiger. 1990. "A New Look at the Gluecks' Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency Data." Pp. 244-257 in Measurement Issues in Criminology, edited by Kimberly Kempf. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1990."The Impact of Housing Policies on Community Social Disorganization and Crime." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 66:526-533.
• *Rich, Robert F. and Robert J. Sampson. 1990. "Public Perceptions of Criminal Justice Policy: Does Victimization Make A Difference?" Violence and Victims. 5:109-118.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Janet Lauritsen. 1990. Deviant Lifestyles, Proximity to Crime, and the Offender-Victim Link in Personal Violence. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 27:110-139.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and W. Byron Groves. 1989. Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social- Disorganization Theory. American Journal of Sociology. 94:774-802.
  • Reprinted in Contemporary Criminological Theory, edited by Frances Cullen and Velmer Burton. Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1994.
  • Reprinted in Street Crime, Dartmouth Publishing, 1996.
  • Reprinted in Criminology, published by Kendall Hunt, 1996.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1989. "The Promises and Pitfalls of Macro-level Research." The Criminologist.
• *Laub, John and Robert J. Sampson. 1988. Unraveling Families and Delinquency: A Reanalysis of the Gluecks' Data. Criminology. 26:355-380.
  • Reprinted in Juvenile Delinquency, edited by George Bridges, Joseph Weis, and Robert Crutchfield, Pine Forge Press, 1996.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1988. Local Friendship Ties and Community Attachment in Mass Society: A Multi-Level Systemic Model. American Sociological Review. 53:766-779.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Jacqueline Cohen. 1988. Deterrent Effects of the Police on Crime: A Replication and Theoretical Extension. Law and Society Review. 22:163-189.
• *Sampson Robert J. and John D. Wooldredge. 1987. "Linking the Micro and Macro-level Dimensions of Lifestyle- Routine Activity and Opportunity Models of Predatory Victimization." Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 3(4):371-393.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1987. Personal Violence by Strangers: An Extension and Test of the Opportunity Model of Predatory Victimization. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 78:327-356.
• *Groves, W. Byron and Robert J. Sampson. 1987. Traditional Contributions to Radical Criminology. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 24:181-214.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1987. Urban Black Violence: The Effect of Male Joblessness and Family Disruption. American Journal of Sociology. 93:348-382.
  • Reprinted in Criminology, published by Kendall Hunt, 1996.
  • Reprinted in Black Communities and Urban Race Relations in American History, Garland Publishing.
  • Reprinted in Street Crime, Dartmouth Publishing, 1996.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1987. Communities and Crime. Pp. 91-114 in Positive Criminology, edited by Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson. Beverly Hills, California: Sage.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1987. Does an Intact Family Reduce Burglary Risk for Its Neighbors? Sociology and Social Research. 71:204-207.
• *Groves, W. Byron and Robert J. Sampson. 1986.Critical Theory and Criminology. Social Problems, special refereed issue on "Social Problems and Sociological Theory." 33(6):58-80.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1986. Effects of Socioeconomic Context on Official Reaction to Juvenile Delinquency. American Sociological Review. 51:876-885.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1986. "Effects of Inequality, Heterogeneity, and Urbanization on Intergroup Victimization." Social Science Quarterly. 67:751-766.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1986. Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control. Communities and Crime, special refereed issue of Crime and Justice (Vol. 8:271- 311), edited by Albert J. Reiss, Jr. and Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1986. "Neighborhood Family Structure and the Risk of Criminal Victimization." Pp. 25-46 in The Social Ecology of Crime, edited by James Byrne and Robert J. Sampson. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Byrne, James and Robert J. Sampson. 1986. "Key Issues in the Social Ecology of Crime." Pp. 1-22 in The Social Ecology of Crime, edited by J. Byrne and R. Sampson. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1986. The Effects of Urbanization and Neighborhood Characteristics on Criminal Victimization. Pp. 3-26 in Metropolitan Crime Patterns, edited by Robert Figlio, Simon Hakim, and George Rengert. Monsey, New York: Criminal Justice Press.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and John Wooldredge. 1986. "Evidence That High Crime Rates Encourage Migration Away From Central Cities." Sociology and Social Research. 70:310-314.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1986. The Contribution of Homicide to the Decline of American Cities. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 62:562-569.
• *Sampson Robert J. 1985. Structural Sources of Variation in Race-Age-Specific Rates of Offending Across Major U.S. Cities. Criminology. 23:401-427.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1985. Sex Differences in Self-Reported and Official Delinquency: A Multiple-Group Structural Modeling Approach. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 1(4):345-367.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1985. Neighborhood and Crime: The Structural Determinants of Personal Victimization. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 22:7-40.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1985. Race and Criminal Violence: A Demographically Disaggregated Analysis of Urban Homicide. Crime and Delinquency. 31:47-82.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1984. Group Size, Heterogeneity, and Intergroup Conflict: A Test of Blau's Inequality and Heterogeneity. Social Forces. 62:618-639.
• *Sampson, Robert J. 1983. Structural Density and Criminal Victimization. Criminology. 21:276-293.
• *Sampson, Robert J. and Thomas Castellano. 1982. Economic Inequality and Personal Victimisation: An Areal Perspective. British Journal of Criminology. 22:363-385.

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(current or past PI or Co-PI on grants from the NIMH, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Details and grant history available upon request).

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2000-present: (excluding colloquia, seminar talks, etc.)

• Public Health and Safety in Context: Lessons from Community-level Theory on Social Capital. Paper presented at the conference, Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health. National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Atlanta, February 2-3, 2000.
• Neighborhood Social Processes and Health-Related Behaviors. Paper presented at the conference, Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, June 27-28, 2000.
• How Neighborhoods Matter: The Value of Investing at the Local Level. Congressional Seminar, sponsored by COSSA and the American Sociological Association. Washington. D.C. September 25, 2000.
• Communities and Crime. 2001 Edwin Lemert Lecture, University of California, Davis. April 18th.
• Neighborhood Context of Health and Social Behavior. Grossman Symposium, Through a Kaleidoscope: Viewing the Contributions of the Behavioral and Social Sciences to Health. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2001.
• Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods. Poverty Traps Conference, Santa Fe Institute, July 20-22, 2001.
• Systematic Social Observation Of City Streets: Theoretical Promise, Pragmatic Roadblocks. Paper presented at the Seeing Cities session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California, August 20th, 2001.
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam: A Critique. Remarks prepared for Author Meets Critics Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California, August 18, 2001.
• On The Study Of Collective Properties: Issues And Directions In Community-Level Research. Paper presented at the Lazarsfeld Centennial Conference, Columbia University, New York City, September 29th, 2001.
• Assessing the Role of Place in Developmental Research: Strategies for Taking Context Seriously. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Ann Arbor, MI, October 20, 2001.
• Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style. 2002 Edwin H. Sutherland Address. Plenary Award Session, American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002.
• Neighborhood Context and Well Being. Invited lecture at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, and the Texas Program for Society and Health. Houston, Texas, April 2, 2002.
• Community Context and Crime in Comparative Perspective. Presented at the launch of the ESRC Cambridge Network for the Study of Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime. Cambridge, England, June, 2002.
• Ecometrics: New Strategies for the Collection and Analysis of Contextual Data. Didactic Seminar, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002.
• Communities and Crime: New Directions in Research. Plenary Address to the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, October 2nd, 2002, Brisbane, Australia.
• The Neighborhood Context of Well Being. Paper presented at the conference, Social Determinants of Health and Disease. University of Chicago, November 15th, 2002.
• Urban Disorder, Crime, and Neighborhood Collective Efficacy. Presented at the International Seminar, Politicas De Prevencion Del Crimen Y La Violencia En Ambitos Urbanos. Bogota, Colombia, May 22-23, 2003.
• Delinquent Boys Grown Up: A 50-Year Perspective on Criminal Careers. Lecture in the Social Sciences, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, November 13, 2003.
• Age, Crime and Human Development: The Future of Life-Course Criminology. Plenary Address, American Society of Criminology annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 20, 2003.
• The Community-Level Context of Violence. Presented to the Symposium, "Fists, Firearms, and Fury: Preventing Violence." Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 2, 2004.
• The Social Order of Violence in Chicago and Stockholm Neighborhoods. Presented at the Conference on "Order, Conflict, and Violence," Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 30-May 2, 2004.
• The Community Context of Well Being: Lessons Learned and Directions for the Future. 7th Annual Sol Levine Memorial Lecture, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, May 12, 2004.
• Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and Durable Racial Inequality. Ross Colloquium Lecture, Department of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 26, 2004.
• How Does Community Context Matter? Social Mechanisms and the Explanation of Crime. Paper presented at the International Conference: "The Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime: Development, Context and Mechanisms." University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, June 2-3, 2004.
• Collective Efficacy in Urban Neighborhoods. Invited presentation to "Resilience and Recovery: Refocusing Research and Services on the Restoration of Health," Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. June 9, 2004.
• Collective Efficacy Theory: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Inquiry. Paper presented at President&39;s Plenary Session, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 11/04.
• Delinquent Boys Grown Up: Trajectories of Crime from Childhood to Age 70. Invited Presentation to the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Germany, January 7, 2005.
• A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime. Presented at the Albany Symposium on Crime and Justice, "Developmental Criminology and Its Discontents: Offender Typologies and Trajectories of Crime." State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, April 28-29th, 2005.
• The Disorder of Cities: Social Meanings and Mechanisms of Durable Inequality. Annual Lewis Mumford Memorial Lecture, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, May 6, 2005.
• Dimensions of Neighborhood Social Capital: From Residential Production to Institutional Networks. Presented to the Conference on "Social Capital and Networks," Ohio State University, June 20-21, 2005.
• Causal Inference and Social Inquiry: Disciplinary Moves in the Study of Crime. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 14, 2005.
• Moving Up? Trajectories of Change in Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Advantage. Presented at the Office of Population Research and Department of Sociology, Princeton University, November 8, 2005.
• Exposure to Neighborhood Advantage in the Lives of Urban Children: Explaining Trajectories of Change. Presented at the Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University, November 11, 2005.
• Meanings and Mechanisms of Disorder. Presented at the Workshop on Crime and Punishment, University of Chicago Law School, January 20, 2006.
• Neighborhood and Community in the Modern City. Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, March 16, 2006.
• Community Processes and the Network Structure of Connectivity. Invited Presentation to the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Fundación Juan March, March 27-28, 2006. Madrid Spain.
• The Salience of Place in a Global Era: Social Implications from Chicago and Beyond. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, Admiralty Arch, London, UK. April 28, 2006.
• Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhood Causal Inference. Plenary address to national conference on Causal Inference in Neighborhood-Based Research. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. December 1, 2006.

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• Committee on Law and Justice, National Academy of Sciences (2006-present)
• Board of Overseers, General Social Survey (NSF) (2006-present)
• 2005-present. Steering Committee, Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University.
• 2000-2003. Scientific Advisory Board, NSF Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science.
• 2000-2001. Chair: Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, American Sociological Association.
• 2000-2003. Council Member, Community and Urban Section, American Sociological Association.
• 1999-2000. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. Panel Member, Future Research Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health. Contributing author to New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Report (Burt H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, editors.). Washington, D.C: National Academy Press.
• 1999-2002. Advisory Board, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Urban Seminar Series," Harvard University (William Julius Wilson, Director).
• 1996-1998. Steering Committee, National Consortium on Violence Research. Funded by NSF and headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University (Alfred Blumstein, Director).
• 1995-1998. Executive Council, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, American Sociological Association.
• 1991-1994. Executive Counselor (elected board member), American Society of Criminology.
• 1988-1989. Panel Member, Communities and Crime, National Academy of Sciences.

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• Editorial Board, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Theoretical Criminology (2000-present)
• Editorial Board, Contexts (2000-2004)
• Associate Editor, Law and Society Review (2000-2003)
• Editorial Board, Social Forces, Law and Society Review (1997-2000)
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology (1993-1996)
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology (1991-2003)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1988-1990)
• Editorial Advisory Board, American Sociological Review (1990-1992)
• Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology (1989-1991)
• Assistant Editor, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (1981-1984)

Ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals and foundations.

References and reprints available upon request.

rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu

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On leave spring 2007

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