Sampson, Robert J, Stephen Raudenbush Felton Earls. 1997. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy. Science 277: 918-924 . For article click here

Sampson, Robert J, Per-Olof Wikström, and Robert J Sampson. 2006. How Does Community Context Matter? Social Mechanisms and the Explanation of Crime. In The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms, and Development, 31-60. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morenoff, Jeffrey D, Robert J Sampson, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2001. Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence. Criminology 39: 517-560.

Sampson, Robert J, Jeffrey D Morenoff, and Felton Earls. 1999. Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children. American Sociological Review 64: 633-660.

Sampson, Robert J. 2002. Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style. Criminology 40: 213-230.