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Robert J. Sampson
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 216
Citations - 68059
Robert J. Sampson is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Life course approach. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 207 publications receiving 64011 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Sampson include University of Chicago & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
TL;DR: Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.
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Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a community-level theory that builds on Shaw and McKay's original model is formulated and tested, and the model is first tested by analyzing data for 238 localities in Great Britain constructed from a 1982 national survey of 10,905 residents.
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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.
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ASSESSING "NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS": Social Processes and New Directions in Research
TL;DR: In this article, the cumulative results of a new "neighborhood-effects" literature that examines social processes related to problem behaviors and health-related outcomes are assessed and synthesized.
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Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods
TL;DR: In this article, the sources and consequences of public disorder are assessed based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, and highly reliable scales of social and physical disorder for 196 neighborhoods are constructed.