Charis Kubrin

University of California, Irvine

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Department of Criminiology, Law and Society

Social Ecology II, Rm 3379

Irvine, CA 62697-3125

United States

University of California, Irvine

P.O. Box 19556

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Irvine, CA 62697-3125

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1.

Crime in the News: How Crimes, Offenders and Victims are Portrayed in the Media

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Vol. 14, pp. 59-83, 2007
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Jessica Grosholz and Charis Kubrin
Emory University and University of California, Irvine
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media, crime stories, news, crime news reporting

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

Social Problems, Vol. 52, pp. 360-378, 2005
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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rap music, crime, media, communities, social identity, street code, content analysis

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Neighborhoods, Race, and Recidivism: The Community Reoffending Nexus and its Implications for African Americans

Sage Race Relations Abstracts, Vol. 32, pp. 7-37, 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin, Gregory Squires and Eric Stewart
University of California, Irvine, George Washington University - Department of Sociology and Florida State University
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neighborhoods, prisoner reentry, race, recidivism

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Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighborhood Context in Recidivism Studies

Criminology, Vol. 44, pp. 171-204, 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Eric Stewart
University of California, Irvine and Florida State University
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recidivism, neighborhood context, disadvantage, prisoner re-entry

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

Men and Masculinities, Vol. 12, pp. 3-29, 2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Ronald Weitzer and Charis Kubrin
George Washington University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Irvine
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rap music, sexuality, gender, mass media, hegemonic masculinity

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Rap on Trial

Race and Justice 4:185-211
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Charis Kubrin and Erik Nielson
University of California, Irvine and University of Richmond
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Racial Heterogeneity and Crime: Measuring Static and Dynamic Effects

Research in Community Sociology, Vol. 10, pp. 189-219, 2000
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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racial heterogeneity, crime, neighborhoods

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Gated Communities and Crime in the United States

Forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology, edited by Gerben Bruinsma and Shane Johnson, Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Nicholas Branic and Charis Kubrin
Independent and University of California, Irvine
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gated communities, crime, neighborhoods

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

Social Problems, Vol. 56, pp. 447-473, 2009
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Graham Ousey
University of California, Irvine and College of William and Mary
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immigration, violent crime, demographic transitions, family structure, drug markets

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Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime

Justice Quarterly. Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 497-520, 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Jan 2020
Ronald Weitzer and Charis Kubrin
George Washington University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Irvine
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crime, fear of crime, media, news

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New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 40, pp. 374-402, 2003
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer
University of California, Irvine and George Washington University - Department of Sociology
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social disorganization, social control, neighborhood crime

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Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issues

Annu. Rev. Criminol. 2018. 1:1.1–1.22
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 Aug 2017
Graham Ousey and Charis Kubrin
College of William and Mary and University of California, Irvine
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immigration, immigrants, crime, meta-analysis

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

Urban Studies, Vol. 42, 2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Gregory Squires and Charis Kubrin
George Washington University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Irvine
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income / wealth disparities, employment opportunities, housing patterns, health care, crime

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Does Fringe Banking Exacerbate Neighborhood Crime Rates? Investigating the Social Ecology of Payday Lending

Criminology and Public Policy, Vol. 10, pp. 437-466, 2011
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin, Gregory Squires, Steve Graves and Graham Ousey
University of California, Irvine, George Washington University - Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge and College of William and Mary
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neighborhood crime, social ecology, payday lending, social disorganization, local institutions

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Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods are Safer than Others: Divergent Findings from Los Angeles and Chicago

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 641, No. 1, p. 148, May 2012
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Apr 2012
Charis Kubrin and Hiromi Ishizawa
University of California, Irvine and George Washington University
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immigration, crime, neighborhoods, spatial analysis

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'I See Death Around the Corner': Nihilism in Rap Music

Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 48, pp. 433-459, 2005
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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rap music, nihilism, crime, media

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Proactive Policing and Robbery Rates Across U.S. Cities

Criminology, Vol. 48, pp. 57-98, 2010
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin, Steven Messner, glenn deane, Kelly McGeever and Thomas Stucky
University of California, Irvine, State University of New York (SUNY), affiliation not provided to SSRN, State University of New York (SUNY) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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proactive policing, violent crime, deterrence, endogeneity

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Explaining Suicide Among Blacks and Whites: How Socio-Economic Factors and Gun Availability Affect Race-Specific Suicide Rates

Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 90, pp. 1203-1227, 2009
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Tim Wadsworth
University of California, Irvine and University of Colorado at Boulder
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suicide, guns

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In the Supreme Court of the United States: Anthony Douglas Elonis, Petitioner, v. United States, Respondent: On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Oct 2014
Erik Nielson and Charis Kubrin
University of Richmond and University of California, Irvine
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rap music, hip hop, Supreme Court

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Immigration and the Changing Nature of Homicide in U.S. Cities, 1980-2010

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2013, DOI: 10.1007/s10940-013-9210-5
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Mar 2014
Graham Ousey and Charis Kubrin
College of William and Mary and University of California, Irvine
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Homicide, Immigration, Violent crime trends, Fixed-effects models

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Deindustrialization, Disadvantage and Suicide Among Young Black Males

Social Forces, Vol. 84, pp. 1559-1579, 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin, Tim Wadsworth and Stephanie DiPietro
University of California, Irvine, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Missouri at Saint Louis
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deindustrialization, suicide, integration, cities

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7 Reasons to Abandon the Secure Communities Program

Kubrin, Charis E. In Press. 7 Reasons to Abandon the Secure Communities Program. Criminology & Public Policy. DOI:10.1111/1745-9133.12086.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Sep 2014
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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immigration, policing, crime

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Jun 2019
Bradley Bartos, Charis Kubrin, Carol Newark and Richard McCleary
University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Irvine
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medical marijuana, suicide risk, synthetic control design, firearms

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Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture

Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood Culture, Social Problems 50, 2 (May 2003): 157-180
Posted: 02 May 2012
Charis Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer
University of California, Irvine and George Washington University - Department of Sociology
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Neighborhood Context and Neighboring Ties

City and Community, Vol. 5, pp. 363-385, 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Avery M. Guest, Jane Cover, Charis Kubrin and Ross Matsueda
University of Washington - Sociology, University of Washington, University of California, Irvine and University of Washington
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neighborhoods, social ties, home-ownership

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The Threatening Nature of 'Rap' Music

Psychology, Public Policy and Law 22:280-292, 2016.
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2020
Adam Dunbar, Charis Kubrin and Nicholas Scurich
University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine
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stereotypes, decision making, evidence, criminal law, rap music

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

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 112, pp. 1848-1885, 2007
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Tim Wadsworth and Charis Kubrin
University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California, Irvine
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suicide, immigration, Hispanic, assimilation

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Structural Factors and Black Interracial Homicide: A New Examination of the Causal Process

Criminology, Vol. 42, pp. 647-672, August 2004
Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Tim Wadsworth and Charis Kubrin
University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California, Irvine
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inter-racial homicide, racial inequality

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Neighborhood Correlates of Homicide Trends: An Analysis Using Growth-Curve Modeling

Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 44, pp. 329-350, 2003
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Jerald Herting
University of California, Irvine and University of Washington
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homicide, growth curves, neighborhoods, social disorganization theory

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Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Does Type of Homicide Matter?

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:139-170, May 2, 2003
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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homicide types, neighborhood disadvantage, social disorganization

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The Power of Place: Immigrant Communities and Adolescent Violence

Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 50, pp. 581-607, 2009
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Scott Desmond and Charis Kubrin
Purdue University and University of California, Irvine
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immigration, immigrant communities, delinquency

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Investigating the Rise (and Fall) of Young Black Male Suicide in the United States, 1982-2001

Journal of African American Studies, 2013, DOI: 10.1007/s12111-013-9256-3
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Mar 2014
Tim Wadsworth, Charis Kubrin and Jerald Herting
University of Colorado at Boulder, University of California, Irvine and University of Washington
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suicide, disadvantage, firearms, guns, young black males

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Sanctuary Status and Crime in California: What’s the Connection?

Justice Evaluation Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Apr 2020
Charis Kubrin and Bradley Bartos
University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology
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crime, criminal justice policy, sanctuary laws, immigration

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Institutional Completeness and Crime Rates in Immigrant Neighborhoods

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2018, DOI/10.1177/0022427818799125
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Oct 2018
Charis Kubrin, Young-An Kim and John R. Hipp
University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society and University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society
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Immigration, Immigrants, Crime, Neighborhoods

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Identifying the Structural Correlates of African American Killings: What Can We Learn from Data Disaggregation

Homicide Studies 7:3-35, February 2003
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin and Tim Wadsworth
University of California, Irvine and University of Colorado at Boulder
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homicide, race, neighborhood disadvantage, social disorganization

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Suicide in Happy Places: Is There Really a Paradox?

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, DOI:10.1007/s10902-017-9938-y
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Apr 2020
Philip M. Pendergast, Tim Wadsworth and Charis Kubrin
University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California, Irvine
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suicide, well-being, happiness

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Heterogeneity and Harmony: Neighboring Relationships Among Whites in Ethnically-Diverse Neighborhoods in Seattle

Urban Studies, Vol. 43, 2008
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Avery M. Guest, Charis Kubrin and Jane Cover
University of Washington - Sociology, University of California, Irvine and University of Washington
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ethnic heterogeneity, communities, social ties

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Making Order of Disorder: A Call for Conceptual Clarity

Criminology and Public Policy, Vol. 7, pp. 203-214, 2008
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine
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disorder, communities, broken windows, crime, crime policy

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Not 'Islands, Entire of Themselves': Exploring the Spatial Context of City-Level Robbery Rates

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 24, pp. 363-380, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Mar 2012
glenn deane, Steven Messner, Thomas Stucky, Kelly McGeever and Charis Kubrin
affiliation not provided to SSRN, State University of New York (SUNY), Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), State University of New York (SUNY) and University of California, Irvine
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City-level robbery rates, Spatial dependence, Spatial weights, State-level covariates

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Imagining Violent Criminals: An Experimental Investigation of Music Stereotypes and Character Judgments

Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2018 DOI:10.1007/s11292-018-9342-6
Number of pages: 38
Adam Dunbar and Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine
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rap, hip hop, crime, sentencing, experimental method, courts

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Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue

Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 1, pp. 63-84, 2018
Posted: 10 Feb 2018
Graham Ousey and Charis Kubrin
College of William and Mary and University of California, Irvine

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Theoretical Perspectives on the Immigration-Crime Relationship

Handbook on Immigration and Crime, edited by Anthony Peguero and Holly Miller, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 Dec 2017
Charis Kubrin
University of California, Irvine

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The Prospects and Perils of Ending Mass Incarceration in the United States

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 64:16-24
Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Charis Kubrin and Carroll Seron
University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine School of Law; Department of Criminology, Law & Society

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Do Fringe Banks Create Fringe Neighborhoods?: Examining the Spatial Relationship between Fringe Banking and Neighborhood Crime Rates

Justice Quarterly, 2014
Posted: 19 Nov 2014
Charis Kubrin and John R. Hipp
University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine - Department of Criminology, Law and Society

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crime, neighborhood effects, fringe lenders, payday lenders, pawnshops, check cashers, social disorganization, spatial analysis