Announcements

Congratulations to the 2023 award winners!

Nicolo Pinchak, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper  Paws on the street: Neighborhood-level concentration of households with dogs and urban crime (with Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, Catherine A. Calder, and Jake Tarrence) at Social Forces.

Tony Cheng, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper The cumulative discretion of police over community complaints at the American Journal of Sociology.

John R. Hipp, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book The spatial scale of crime: How physical and social distance drive the spatial location of crime. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Congratulations to the 2022 award winners!

Diana Sun, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper  Racial invariance or Asian advantage: Comparing the macro‐level predictors of violence across Asian, White, and Black populations (with Ben Feldmeyer) at Race and Social Problems.

Chelsea Farrell, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper Policing gender, race, and place: A multi-level assessment of stop and frisks at Race and Justice.
John Hagan, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book . 2021. Chicago’s Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City (with Bill McCarthy and Daniel Herda), Oxford University Press.

Congratulations to the 2021 award winners!

Christopher Contreras, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award for the paper Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates (with John R. Hipp) at Justice Quarterly.

Tarah Hodgkinson, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper The Diffusion of Detriment: Tracking Displacement using a City-Wide Mixed Methods Approach (with Gregory Saville and Martin A. Anderson) at British Journal of Criminology.

David S. Kirk, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book  Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina, Oxford University Press.

Awards Committee Chair: Gregory M. Zimmerman

Awards Committee Members: Corina Graif, Jonathan Kremser, Emily Moir, Aubrey Jackson Soller, Matthew Valasik, and Emily Wright

The Division of Communities and Place is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for one elected position beginning in November 2020. 

Vice Chair-Elect

Term of office for the Vice Chair shall be two years, beginning one year after their election to the position of Vice Chair. The Vice Chair, upon election, shall serve one year on the Executive Board in the role of Vice Chair-Elect.

Brief Position Description:
a. Preside over Division meetings in the absence of the Chair and shall be empowered to conduct all necessary business of the Division if the office of Chair is vacant or if the Chair is unable to serve.
b. The Vice-Chair shall chair the By-Laws and Policies Committee.
c. The Vice- Chair or their designee will be responsible for assistance to the Communications Committee.

To apply, please send 3-4 sentences that indicate your interest in a specific position, your goals for the position, and a brief biography by August 25^th, 2020 to Sue-Ming Yang, syang10@gmu.edu.

Congratulations to the 2020 award winners!

Emma Fridel, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award for the paper The contextual correlates of school shootings, at Justice Quarterly.

Marin Wenger, winner of the Robert J. Bursick Junior Scholar Award for Omitted level bias in multilevel research: An empirical test distinguishing block group, tract, and city effects of disadvantage on crime at Justice Quarterly.

John MacDonald, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning, co-authored with Charles Branas and Robert Stokes, Princeton University Press.

The Division of Communities and Place is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for Chair-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, Two Executive Board Members (serving as the Program Committee Chair and the Publication Committee Chair, respectively). We are looking for Executive Committee members who are personally interested in advancing research into Communities and Place. 

Please send the nominations (including a short bio of the nominee) to Sue-Ming Yang (syang10@gmu.edu) before July 1st, 2019. Please note that only members with good standing for the current year can run for the office and vote.  

Congratulations to the 2019 award winners!

Corina Graif, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for her 2017 article (with Alina Lungeanu and Alyssa M. Yetter): “Neighborhood isolation in Chicago: Violent crime effects on structural isolation and homophily in inter-neighborhood commuting networks” in Social Networks

Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, and Ben Feldmeyer, winners of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for their 2017 book: “Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge“

The Publications Committee has been collecting information on publication outlets for crime and place research. Jeff Walker is doing an ongoing search for journals publishing relevant work, and Kelly Frailing surveyed publication outlets of DCP officers over the last 5 years. The list below combines results from both search approaches, and will be updated in response to on-going search efforts:

Criminology
Crime and Delinquency
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Justice Quarterly
Crime Mapping
Journal of Experimental Criminology
Urban Studies
American Sociological Review
City and Community
Journal of Urban Affairs
Social Problems
Social Forces
Ecology and Society
American Journal of Community Psychology
Applied Geography
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Dear colleagues-
 
I am writing you as the Chair of the Program Committee for the Division of Communities and Place.  The Division is looking to put together a series of “Communities and Place” panels for the 2019 American Society of Criminology annual meeting.  We are accepting full panels and individual papers that examine crime and justice issues with a focus on communities and/or place. 

This is a great way to join a (hopefully) more relevant panel than you may end up on by submitting on your own, and all the panels will be advertised to Division members (last year this resulted in increased turnout at the Division-organized panels). 
 
This solicitation is open to anyone, so please feel free to forward this invitation to any scholars working on relevant research. 
 
If you are interested in presenting on a Communities and Place panel at ASC 2019 (in San Francisco), please send us your name, school/organization affiliation, title of presentation, and presentation abstract, as well as the name, emails and affiliations of any co-authors. Additionally, all participants and ALL co-authors need to create an account on the ASC 2019 Annual meeting website (https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asc/asc19/), which is free of charge.
 
With the ASC submission deadline of Friday, March 8, 2019, we are asking for submissions to us one week earlier.  So please send all submissions to Kevin Drakulich (k.drakulich@northeastern.edu) no later than Friday, March 1, 2019. 
 
We do ask that all participants consider becoming members of the Division to help support this work (this can be added as part of your ASC membership or “added on” from the members area if you have already purchased an ASC membership for 2019). 
 
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Otherwise, we look forward to seeing a great group of Communities and Place panels at the 2019 ASC meeting!
 
Best,
Kevin Drakulich, Chair of the Program Committee for the Division of Communities and Place