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

Sharkey, Patrick, and Robert J Sampson. 2010. Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis. Criminology 48: 639-682.

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. 2010. Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turn in Quantitative Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 25: 489-500.

Sampson, Robert J. 2011. Neighborhood Effects, Causal Mechanisms, and the Social Structure of the City. In Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms, Pierre Demeulenaere, 227-250. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.