Announcements

(Call for Papers PDF file)

We welcome articles that examine how neighborhood structure shapes crime and victimization, with a particular focus on housing. Crime is unevenly distributed across space, reflecting long-standing patterns of segregation, disinvestment, and racial and ethnic stratification. Housing — through tenure, quality, affordability, and residential change — plays a key role in shaping neighborhood cohesion, social ties, and exposure to crime. We aim to integrate research on neighborhood structure, including residential turnover, poverty, guardianship, and housing dynamics across multiple spatial scales and methodological approaches, to better understand how place shapes crime and safety.

Contributions are welcome from around the globe. We invite relevant submissions from scholars in the American Society of Criminology (ASC), the European Society of Criminology, and the wider international criminology community. Articles should be 7,000–8,000 words (including references) and formatted in APA style.

Submissions full papers: October 31, 2026
Expected publication: August, 2027

Voting is now open to elect five new members to our Executive Board and will close on October 22, 2025. Only members in good standing may vote. Current members should have received an email link to the ballot – if you are a current member and have not received an email please contact Charlotte Gill, Communications Chair, at cgill9@gmu.edu

Congratulations to the 2025 award winners!

Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers, winners of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, for the book
Murdertown USA: Homicide, structural violence, and activism in Wilmington, Rutgers University Press.

Jonathan Reid, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award, for the paper A culture of White violence: The enduring impact of slavery on contemporary interracial killings at Social Problems.

Runner-up: Tony Cheng for the book The policing machine: Enforcement, endorsement, and the illusion of public input, University of Chicago Press.

Joseph Risi, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award, for the paper Community representation and policing: Effects on Black civilians (with Corina Graif) at Criminology.

Nominations are now being accepted for DCP’s 2025 awards! We give three awards annually: the James Short Senior Scholar Award, the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award, and the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award. Click here for more information. All nominations are due by March 21, 2025.

Congratulations to the 2024 award winners!

Sheena L. Gilbert, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper  Indigenizing social disorganization theory: An exploration of victimization in Native communities (with Emily M. Wright) at Crime & Delinquency.

Asad L. Asad, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the book Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life. Princeton University Press.

Runner-up: Seth Williams for the article Decomposing neighbourhood (in)stability: The structural determinants of turnover and implications for neighbourhood crime at the British Journal of Criminology.

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