Selected Articles

2005
McAdam, Doug, Robert J Sampson, Simón Weffer-Elizondo, and Heather MacIndoe. 2005. 'There Will Be Fighting in the Streets': The Distorting Lens of Social Movement Theory. Mobilization 10: 1-18.
2004
Sampson, Robert J, and Stephen W Raudenbush. 2004. Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows. Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 319-342. pdf
Sampson, Robert J, and Jeffrey D Morenoff. 2004. Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago Neighborhoods. In Spatially Integrated Social Science, Michael Goodchild and Janelle, Donald, 145-170. New York: Oxford University Press.
2003
Sampson, Robert J, and John H Laub. 2003. Life-Course Desisters? Trajectories of Crime Among Delinquent Boys Followed to Age 70. Criminology 41: 301-339. pdf
Raudenbush, Stephen W, Christopher Johnson, and Robert J Sampson. 2003. A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior. Sociological Methodology 33: 169-211.
Sampson, Robert J. 2003. The Neighborhood Context of Well Being. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46: S53-S73. pdf
2002
Sampson, Robert J, Jeffrey D Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects': Social Processes and New Directions in Research. Annual Review of Sociology 28: 443-78. pdf
Sampson, Robert J. 2002. Transcending Tradition: New Directions in Community Research, Chicago Style. Criminology 40: 213-230.
2001
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. pdf
1999
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. pdf
Raudenbush, Stephen W, and Robert J Sampson. 1999. 'Ecometrics': Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods. Sociological Methodology 29: 1-41. pdf
Sampson, Robert J, and Stephen W Raudenbush. 1999. Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods. American Journal of Sociology 105: 603-651. pdf
1998
Sampson, Robert J, and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. 1998. Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences. Law and Society Review 32: 777-804. pdf
1997
Sampson, Robert J, and John H Laub. 1997. A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency. In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency, Terence P Thornberry. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
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
Morenoff, Jeffrey, and Robert J Sampson. 1997. Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990. Social Forces 76: 31-64.
1995
Sampson, Robert J, and William Julius Wilson. 1995. Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality. In Crime and Inequality, John Hagan and Peterson, Ruth D, 37-56. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
1993
Sampson, Robert J, and John H Laub. 1993. Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control. Law and Society Review 27: 285-311.
and Laub, John H., Robert Sampson J. 1993. Turning Points in the Life Course: Why Change Matters to the Study of Crime. Criminology 31: 301-325.
1989
Sampson, Robert J, and WB Groves. 1989. Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory. American Journal of Sociology 94: 774-802. Website
1988
Sampson, Robert J. 1988. Local Friendship Ties and Community Attachment in Mass Society: A Multi-Level Systemic Model. American Sociological Review 53: 766-779. pdf
1987
Sampson, Robert J. 1987. Urban Black Violence: The Effect of Male Joblessness and Family Disruption. American Journal of Sociology 93: 348-382. Website

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