Robert J. Sampson - Publications

Affiliations: 
Sociology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course

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2023 Candipan J, Sampson RJ. Diverging trajectories of neighborhood disadvantage by race and birth cohort from childhood through young adulthood. Plos One. 18: e0283641. PMID 37074992 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283641  0.326
2020 Schachner JN, Sampson RJ. Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children. Demography. PMID 32219693 DOI: 10.1007/S13524-020-00866-8  0.328
2020 Morelli N, Sampson RJ. Lessons and current Challenges for Urban Sociologists. A Conversation with Robert J. Sampson Sociologia. 14: 249-261. DOI: 10.6092/Issn.1971-8853/10517  0.398
2020 Sampson RJ, Levy BL. Beyond Residential Segregation: Mobility-Based Connectedness and Rates of Violence in Large Cities Race and Social Problems. 12: 77-86. DOI: 10.1007/S12552-019-09273-0  0.397
2019 Manduca R, Sampson RJ. Punishing and toxic neighborhood environments independently predict the intergenerational social mobility of black and white children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116: 7772-7777. PMID 30936309 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1820464116  0.418
2019 Phillips NE, Levy BL, Sampson RJ, Small ML, Wang RQ. The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility Across Neighborhoods: Sociological Methods & Research. 4912411985238. DOI: 10.1177/0049124119852386  0.373
2019 Sampson RJ. Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis: Urban Studies. 56: 3-32. DOI: 10.1177/0042098018795363  0.314
2019 Levy BL, Owens A, Sampson RJ. The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation: Moderating and Mediating Mechanisms: Sociology of Education. 92: 269-292. DOI: 10.1177/0038040719850146  0.701
2018 Wang Q, Phillips NE, Small ML, Sampson RJ. Reply to Vallée: Different questions for different data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115: E11888-E11889. PMID 30530655 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1818606115  0.393
2018 Wang Q, Phillips NE, Small ML, Sampson RJ. Urban mobility and neighborhood isolation in America's 50 largest cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29987019 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1802537115  0.393
2018 Muller C, Sampson RJ, Winter AS. Environmental Inequality: The Social Causes and Consequences of Lead Exposure Review of Sociology. 44: 263-282. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Soc-073117-041222  0.319
2018 Sampson RJ, Winter AS. Poisoned Development: Assessing Childhood Lead Exposure As A Cause Of Crime In A Birth Cohort Followed Through Adolescence Criminology. 56: 269-301. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12171  0.355
2018 Sampson RJ, Wilson WJ, Katz H. REASSESSING “TOWARD A THEORY OF RACE, CRIME, AND URBAN INEQUALITY”: Enduring and New Challenges in 21 st Century America Du Bois Review. 15: 13-34. DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X18000140  0.61
2018 Shen Y, Messner SF, Liu J, Sampson RJ. What They Don’t Know Says A Lot: Residents’ Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 35: 607-629. DOI: 10.1007/S10940-018-9401-1  0.308
2017 Sampson RJ. Urban sustainability in an age of enduring inequalities: Advancing theory and ecometrics for the 21st-century city. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28062692 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1614433114  0.397
2017 Sampson RJ, Schachner JN, Mare RD. Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form: Disentangling Individual and Neighborhood-Level Change in Los Angeles Rsf: the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 3: 102-128. DOI: 10.7758/Rsf.2017.3.2.05  0.409
2016 Sampson RJ. The Characterological Imperative: On Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz's The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life Journal of Economic Literature. 54: 493-513. DOI: 10.1257/Jel.54.2.493  0.396
2016 Sampson RJ, Winter AS. THE RACIAL ECOLOGY OF LEAD POISONING: Toxic Inequality in Chicago Neighborhoods, 1995-2013 Du Bois Review. 13: 261-283. DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X16000151  0.401
2015 Sampson RJ, Mare RD, Perkins KL. Achieving the Middle Ground in an Age of Concentrated Extremes: Mixed Middle-Income Neighborhoods and Emerging Adulthood. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 660: 156-174. PMID 26722129 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215576117  0.387
2015 Perkins KL, Sampson RJ. Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood: The Intersection of Racial and Economic Inequality Among Chicagoans, 1995–2013 Rsf: the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 1: 35-54. DOI: 10.7758/Rsf.2015.1.1.03  0.342
2015 O’Brien DT, Sampson RJ, Winship C. Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing “Broken Windows” Using Large-scale Administrative Records Sociological Methodology. 45: 101-147. DOI: 10.1177/0081175015576601  0.628
2015 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Turning Points and the Future of Life-Course Criminology: Reflections on the 1986 Criminal Careers Report Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 53: 321-335. DOI: 10.1177/0022427815616992  0.344
2015 O’Brien DT, Sampson RJ. Public and Private Spheres of Neighborhood Disorder: Assessing Pathways to Violence Using Large-scale Digital Records Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 52: 486-510. DOI: 10.1177/0022427815577835  0.322
2015 Sampson RJ. Crime and the Life Course in a Changing World: Insights from Chicago and Implications for Global Criminology Asian Journal of Criminology. 10: 277-286. DOI: 10.1007/S11417-015-9220-3  0.392
2014 Hwang J, Sampson RJ. Divergent pathways of gentrification: Racial inequality and the social order of renewal in Chicago neighborhoods American Sociological Review. 79: 726-751. DOI: 10.1177/0003122414535774  0.451
2014 Sampson RJ. Criminal Justice Processing and the Social Matrix of Adversity Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 651: 296-301. DOI: 10.1177/0002716213502936  0.358
2013 Kirk DS, Sampson RJ. Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood. Sociology of Education. 88: 36-62. PMID 25309003 DOI: 10.1177/0038040712448862  0.313
2013 Sampson RJ, Winship C, Knight C. Overview of: "Translating causal claims: Principles and strategies for policy-relevant criminology" Criminology and Public Policy. 12: 585-586. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.12028  0.631
2013 Sampson RJ, Winship C, Knight C. Translating causal claims: Principles and strategies for policy-relevant criminology sampson, winship, and knight criminology, causality, and public policy Criminology and Public Policy. 12: 587-616. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.12027  0.596
2013 Sampson RJ. The Place Of Context: A Theory And Strategy For Criminology's Hard Problems Criminology. 51: 1-31. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12002  0.392
2013 Sampson R. When disaster strikes, it's survival of the sociable New Scientist. 218: 28-29. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(13)61183-5  0.315
2012 Sampson RJ. Sociology. Moving and the neighborhood glass ceiling. Science (New York, N.Y.). 337: 1464-5. PMID 22997316 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1227881  0.374
2012 Odgers CL, Caspi A, Russell MA, Sampson RJ, Arseneault L, Moffitt TE. Supportive parenting mediates neighborhood socioeconomic disparities in children's antisocial behavior from ages 5 to 12. Development and Psychopathology. 24: 705-21. PMID 22781850 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412000326  0.301
2012 Odgers CL, Caspi A, Bates CJ, Sampson RJ, Moffitt TE. Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. 53: 1009-17. PMID 22676812 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-7610.2012.02565.X  0.354
2012 MacDonald J, Sampson RJ. The World in a City: Immigration and America's Changing Social Fabric Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 641: 6-15. DOI: 10.1177/0002716212438939  0.345
2011 Sampson RJ. Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms and the social structure of the city Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms. 227-249. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921315.012  0.31
2010 Sharkey P, Sampson RJ. DESTINATION EFFECTS: RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY AND TRAJECTORIES OF ADOLESCENT VIOLENCE IN A STRATIFIED METROPOLIS. Criminology; An Interdisciplinary Journal. 48: 639-681. PMID 21339847 DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.2010.00198.X  0.706
2010 Sampson RJ, Loeffler C. Punishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration. Daedalus. 139: 20-31. PMID 21032947 DOI: 10.1162/Daed_A_00020  0.303
2009 Graif C, Sampson RJ. Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Immigration and Diversity on Neighborhood Homicide Rates. Homicide Studies. 13: 242-260. PMID 20671811 DOI: 10.1177/1088767909336728  0.7
2009 Sampson RJ. Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: social (dis)order revisited. The British Journal of Sociology. 60: 1-31; discussion 33-. PMID 19317670 DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-4446.2009.01211.X  0.361
2009 Sampson RJ, Graif C. Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization: Resident and leadership dimensions American Behavioral Scientist. 52: 1579-1605. DOI: 10.1177/0002764209331527  0.728
2009 Sampson RJ. Racial stratification and the durable tangle of neighborhood inequality Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 621: 260-280. DOI: 10.1177/0002716208324803  0.451
2008 Sampson RJ. MOVING TO INEQUALITY: NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS AND EXPERIMENTS MEET STRUCTURE. Ajs; American Journal of Sociology. 114: 189-231. PMID 25360053 DOI: 10.1086/589843  0.425
2008 Sampson RJ, Sharkey P. Neighborhood selection and the social reproduction of concentrated racial inequality. Demography. 45: 1-29. PMID 18390289 DOI: 10.1353/Dem.2008.0012  0.713
2008 Sampson RJ, Sharkey P, Raudenbush SW. Durable effects of concentrated disadvantage on verbal ability among African-American children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 845-52. PMID 18093915 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0710189104  0.675
2008 Sampson RJ. "After-school" Chicago: Space and the city Urban Geography. 29: 127-137. DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.29.2.127  0.366
2008 Sampson RJ. Rethinking Crime and Immigration Contexts. 7: 28-33. DOI: 10.1525/Ctx.2008.7.1.28  0.328
2008 Sampson RJ, Wikström POH. The social order of violence in Chicago and Stockholm neighborhoods: A comparative inquiry Order, Conflict, and Violence. 97-119. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511755903.006  0.356
2007 Laub JH, Sampson RJ. Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70 Canadian Journal of Sociology-Cahiers Canadiens De Sociologie. 32: 415. DOI: 10.2307/20460654  0.412
2006 Sampson RJ, Laub JH, Wimer C. Does marriage reduce crime? A counterfactual approach to within-individual causal effects Criminology. 44: 465-508. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.2006.00055.X  0.69
2005 Sampson RJ, Morenoff JD, Raudenbush S. Social anatomy of racial and ethnic disparities in violence. American Journal of Public Health. 95: 224-32. PMID 15671454 DOI: 10.2105/Ajph.2004.037705  0.408
2005 McAdam D, Sampson RJ, Weffer S, MacIndoe H. "There will be fighting in the streets": The distorting lens of social movement theory Mobilization. 10: 1-18. DOI: 10.17813/Maiq.10.1.A62814651H028540  0.374
2005 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. When prediction fails: From crime-prone boys to heterogeneity in adulthood Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 602: 73-79. DOI: 10.1177/0002716205280575  0.324
2005 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. A life-course view of the development of crime Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 602: 12-45. DOI: 10.1177/0002716205280075  0.354
2005 Sampson RJ, MacIndoe H, McAdam D, Weffer-Elizondo S. Civil society reconsidered: The durable nature and community structure of collective civic action American Journal of Sociology. 111: 673-714. DOI: 10.1086/497351  0.398
2004 Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW. Seeing disorder: Neighborhood stigma and the social construction of "broken windows" Social Psychology Quarterly. 67: 319-342. DOI: 10.1177/019027250406700401  0.371
2004 Sampson RJ, Laub JH, Eggleston EP. On the robustness and validity of groups Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 20: 37-42. DOI: 10.1023/B:Joqc.0000016698.36239.91  0.327
2004 Eggleston EP, Laub JH, Sampson RJ. Methodological sensitivities to latent class analysis of long-term criminal trajectories Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 20: 1-26. DOI: 10.1023/B:Joqc.0000016696.02763.Ce  0.343
2003 Sampson RJ. The neighborhood context of well-being. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 46: S53-64. PMID 14563074 DOI: 10.1353/Pbm.2003.0073  0.386
2003 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Life-course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70 Criminology. 41: 555-592. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.2003.Tb00997.X  0.342
2003 Raudenbush SW, Johnson C, Sampson RJ. A multivariate, multilevel Rasch model with application to self-reported criminal behavior Sociological Methodology. 33: 169-211+x+xii. DOI: 10.1111/J.0081-1750.2003.T01-1-00130.X  0.321
2002 Sampson RJ, Morenoff JD, Gannon-Rowley T. Assessing "neighborhood effects": Social processes and new directions in research Annual Review of Sociology. 28: 443-478. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Soc.28.110601.141114  0.408
2001 Morenoff JD, Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW. Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy, and the spatial dynamics of urban violence Criminology. 39: 517-558. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.2001.Tb00932.X  0.411
2001 Sampson RJ. Book Review: On the Social Development of Antisocial Behaviour Social Development. 10: 137-140. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00154  0.308
2001 Sampson RJ. Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town. By Evi Girling, Ian Loader, and Richard Sparks. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xiv+211. $27.99 American Journal of Sociology. 106: 1474-1476. DOI: 10.1086/320841  0.357
2000 Sampson RJ. Whither the sociological study of crime? Annual Review of Sociology. 26: 711-714. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Soc.26.1.711  0.363
1999 Sampson RJ, Morenoff JD, Earls F. Beyond social capital: Spatial dynamics of collective efficacy for children American Sociological Review. 64: 633-660. DOI: 10.2307/2657367  0.394
1999 Raudenbush SW, Sampson R. Assessing direct and indirect effects in multilevel designs with latent variables Sociological Methods and Research. 28: 123-153. DOI: 10.1177/0049124199028002001  0.335
1999 Raudenbush SW, Sampson RJ. Ecometrics: Toward a science of assessing ecological settings, with application to the systematic social observation of neighborhoods Sociological Methodology. 29: 1-41. DOI: 10.1111/0081-1750.00059  0.309
1999 Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW. Systematic social observation of public spaces: A new look at disorder in urban neighborhoods American Journal of Sociology. 105: 603-651. DOI: 10.1086/210356  0.366
1998 Sampson RJ, Bartusch DJ. Legal cynicism and (subcultural?) Tolerance of deviance: The neighborhood context of racial differences Law and Society Review. 32: 777-804. DOI: 10.2307/827739  0.405
1998 Laub JH, Nagin DS, Sampson RJ. Trajectories of change in criminal offending: Good marriages and the desistance process American Sociological Review. 63: 225-238. DOI: 10.2307/2657324  0.381
1997 Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW, Earls F. Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of collective efficacy. Science (New York, N.Y.). 277: 918-24. PMID 9252316 DOI: 10.1126/Science.277.5328.918  0.373
1997 Morenoff JD, Sampson RJ. Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990 Social Forces. 76: 31-64. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/76.1.31  0.339
1997 Sampson RJ, Lauritsen JL. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States Crime and Justice. 21: 311-374. DOI: 10.1086/449253  0.402
1996 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Socioeconomic achievement in the life course of disadvantaged men: Military service as a turning point, circa 1940-1965 American Sociological Review. 61: 347-367. DOI: 10.2307/2096353  0.367
1996 Elliott DS, Wilson WJ, Huizinga D, Sampson RJ, Elliott A, Rankin B. The effects of neighborhood disadvantage on adolescent development Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 33: 389-426. DOI: 10.1177/0022427896033004002  0.566
1994 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Urban poverty and the family context of delinquency: a new look at structure and process in a classic study Child Development. 65: 523-540. PMID 8013238 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.1994.Tb00767.X  0.379
1993 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Structural variations in Juvenile Court processing: Inequality, the underclass, and social control Law & Society Review. 27: 285-311. DOI: 10.2307/3053938  0.386
1993 Sampson RJ. Linking time and place: Dynamic contextualism and the future of criminological inquiry Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 30: 426-444. DOI: 10.1177/0022427893030004005  0.356
1993 Laub JH, Sampson RJ. Turning Points In The Life Course: Why Change Matters To The Study Of Crime* Criminology. 31: 301-325. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.1993.Tb01132.X  0.375
1992 Lauritsen JL, Laub JH, Sampson RJ. Conventional and delinquent activities: implications for the prevention of violent victimization among adolescents. Violence and Victims. 7: 91-108. PMID 1419927 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.7.2.91  0.323
1992 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Crime and Deviance in the Life Course Review of Sociology. 18: 63-84. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.So.18.080192.000431  0.377
1991 LAURITSEN JL, SAMPSON RJ, LAUB JH. THE LINK BETWEEN OFFENDING AND VICTIMIZATION AMONG ADOLESCENTS Criminology. 29: 265-292. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.1991.Tb01067.X  0.342
1991 Sampson RJ. Linking the micro- and macrolevel dimensions of community social organization Social Forces. 70: 43-64. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/70.1.43  0.385
1991 Messner SF, Sampson RJ. The sex ratio, family disruption, and rates of violent crime:Die paradox of demographic structure Social Forces. 69: 693-693. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/69.3.693  0.35
1991 Laub JH, Sampson RJ. The Sutherland-Glueck Debate: On the Sociology of Criminological Knowledge American Journal of Sociology. 96: 1402-1440. DOI: 10.1086/229691  0.361
1990 Rich RF, Sampson RJ. Public perceptions of criminal justice policy: does victimization make a difference? Violence and Victims. 5: 109-18. PMID 2278951 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.5.2.109  0.373
1990 Sampson RJ, Laub JH. Crime and Deviance Over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds American Sociological Review. 55: 609-627. DOI: 10.2307/2095859  0.366
1990 Sampson RJ, Lauritsen JL. Deviant lifestyles, proximity to crime, and the offender-victim link in personal violence Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 27: 110-139. DOI: 10.1177/0022427890027002002  0.354
1989 Sampson RJ, Groves WB. Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory American Journal of Sociology. 94: 774-802. DOI: 10.1086/229068  0.389
1988 Sampson RJ, Cohen J. Deterrent Effects of the Police on Crime: A Replication and Theoretical Extension Law & Society Review. 22: 163. DOI: 10.2307/3053565  0.375
1988 Sampson RJ. Local Friendship Ties and Community Attachment in Mass Society: A Multi-Level Systemic Model American Sociological Review. 53: 766. DOI: 10.2307/2095822  0.363
1988 Laub JH, Sampson RJ. Unraveling families and delinquency: A reanalysis of the Gluecks' data Criminology. 26: 355-380. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.1988.Tb00846.X  0.31
1987 Sampson RJ. Personal violence by strangers: An extension and test of the opportunity model of predatory victimization Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 78: 327-356. DOI: 10.2307/1143452  0.363
1987 Groves WB, Sampson RJ. Traditional contributions to radical criminology Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 24: 181-214. DOI: 10.1177/0022427887024003002  0.382
1987 Sampson RJ. Urban black violence: The effect of male joblessness and family disruption American Journal of Sociology. 93: 348-382. DOI: 10.1086/228748  0.333
1987 Sampson RJ, Wooldredge JD. Linking the micro- and macro-level dimensions of lifestyle-routine activity and opportunity models of predatory victimization Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 3: 371-393. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01066837  0.361
1986 Groves WB, Sampson RJ. Critical Theory and Criminology Social Problems. 33. DOI: 10.2307/800674  0.36
1986 Sampson RJ. Effects of Socioeconomic Context on Official Reaction to Juvenile Delinquency American Sociological Review. 51: 876. DOI: 10.2307/2095373  0.339
1986 Sampson RJ. Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control Crime and Justice. 8: 271-311. DOI: 10.1086/449125  0.412
1986 Byrne JM, Sampson RJ. The Social Ecology of Crime Contemporary Sociology. 16: 845. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8606-3  0.35
1985 Sampson RJ. Neighborhood and crime: The structural determinants of personal victimization Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 22: 7-40. DOI: 10.1177/0022427885022001002  0.412
1985 Sampson RJ. Structural Sources Of Variation In Race-Age-Specific Rates Of Offending Across Major U.S. Cities* Criminology. 23: 647-673. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.1985.Tb00368.X  0.376
1984 Sampson RJ. Group size, heterogeneity, and intergroup conflict: A test of blau's inequality and heterogeneity Social Forces. 62: 618-639. DOI: 10.1093/Sf/62.3.618  0.36
1983 Sampson RJ. Structural Density and Criminal Victimization Criminology. 21: 276-293. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-9125.1983.Tb00262.X  0.342
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