The Division of Communities and Place organizes a number of panels for the ASC Annual Meeting. This includes special interest panels with invited speakers, as well as panels organized by the Division based on papers submitted by Division members. As a service to its members, the DCP also provides a list of all DCP-organized sessions of interest.
Communities and Place Panels for ASC 2026:
Wednesday
Communities and Place Panel: Built Environment and Economic Disadvantage
Wed, Nov 18th, 8:00 to 9:20am, Salon 7 – 3rd Floor
How Does Change in the Built Environment Impact Crime? Tracking Neighborhood Change with Historical Google Street View and Machine Learning
Cheyenne Hodgen and Chloe Ellis
Roads to Nowhere: Long-Term Impacts of Interstate Construction on Neighborhoods
Jedidiah Knode
Neighborhood Context, Security Level, and Recidivism: Implications for Theory and Reentry Programs
Paul E. Bellair, Thomas L. McNulty, and Steven Lopez
Renter Exploitation and Neighborhood Violent Crime
Seth A. Williams
Communities and Place: Businesses, Alcohol, Opioids, and Networks
Wed, Nov 18, 11:00 to 12:20pm, Chicago Room – 5th Floor
The Role of Local Business Environments in Shaping Offender and Victim Crime Mobility
Yuki Wang and John R. Hipp
From Happy Hour to After Hours: Alcohol Outlet Density and Crime Across the Time of Day
Yuna Kim, Alyssa Chamberlain, and Lyndsay Boggess
Connected or Isolated? Urban Mobility Networks and Crime in Immigrant Neighborhoods
Chloe Tran Ellis
Structural Equivalence in Mobility Networks and Neighborhood Crime
Brian Soller and David M. Ramey
Adult Loneliness and the Opioid Epidemic in Chicago: Examining Social and Spatial Spillovers
Leslie Pierce and Megan Evans
Communities and Place: Civil Courts, Concentration, and Crime
Wed, Nov 18, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Hancock Parlor – 6th Floor
There goes the Neighborhood?”: Investigating the relationship between 40 years of civil gang injunctions and urban renewal in Los Angeles
Michael Barton and Matthew Valasik
Advocates for Community Transformation: Using the Civil Legal System to Tackle Drug Houses and Empower Residents
Richard Adeyemi, Clair V. Uding, Evangeline Heppenstall, and Priscilla Kleven
Coincidence Again? Exploring the Randomness in Near Repeat Victimizations
Yichao Gao
At the Convergence of Spatial and Social Concentration of Harm: High-Activity Dwellings
Benjamin Carleton
Communities and Place: Neighborhood Networks, Daily Mobility, and the Spatial Dynamics of Crime
Wed, Nov 18, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Wabash Room – 3rd Floor
The impact of saturation: Simulating the effect of scaling up gun violence interventions
Patrick Sharkey and Chloe Shawah
Social polarization in community networks: Implications for the US violence epidemic
Corina Graif, Megan Evans, Christopher Seto, and Elliott Windrope (presenting)
The Effect of Immigration Enforcement Activities on Local Mobility
Liang Cai, Brian Soller, June Postalkis, and Christopher Browning
How social connectedness and systemic isolation shape the deaths of despair epidemic
Cornia Graif, Leslie Pierce (presenting), Megan Evans, and Joseph Risi
Discussant: Megan Evans
Division of Communities and Place – Social Event
Wed, Nov 18, 5:00 to 7:00pm, Off site: Location TBD
Thursday
Division of Communities and Place – Executive Board Meeting
Thu, Nov 19, 9:30 to 10:50am, Burnham 4 – 7th Floor
Division of Communities and Place – Business Meeting & Grad Student Workshop
Thu, Nov 19, 11:00 to 12:20pm, Burnham 4 – 7th Floor
Communities and Place: Social Cohesion, Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Drugs, and Death
Thu, Nov 19, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Clark 10 – 7th Floor
The “Dark Side” of Social Cohesion in Appalachian Kentucky
Charlotte Gill
Drugs, Death, and Disparity: Assessing the Relationship between County-Level Overdose Deaths and Drug Arrest Patterns across Race/Ethnic Composition
Shaye Eggleston, Calvin Proffit, and Ben Feldmeyer
Origin Matters: Moving Beyond a General Measure of Immigration
Calvin Proffit
The Universal Effects of Immigrant Revitalization on Community Deaths of Despair
Ben Feldmeyer, Calvin Proffit, and Shaye Eggleston
Education Protects, But Not Equally: Education’s Role in Ethno-Racial Homicides
Tianyi Zhang
Communities and Place: Using Novel Methods to Build Evidence on Spatial Inequalities in Criminal Justice Practices
Thu, Nov 19, 3:30 to 4:50pm, Salon 1 – 3rd Floor
A Big Data Approach to Studying the Neighborhood Geography of Police Violence
Riley Tucker, David M. Ramey, and Ali Shodunke
Women’s Incarceration: Analyzing Temporal and Spatial Patterns Across the United States
Ciela C. Capage
Trajectories of Proactive Enforcement at Micro-Places
Savannah Reid
Chair: Savannah Reid
Discussant: Eric L. Piza
Friday & Saturday: No Scheduled Events
For prior year meetings, click the link below:
2025 ASC meeting information HERE.
2024 ASC meeting information HERE.
2023 ASC meeting information HERE.
2022 ASC meeting information HERE.
2021 ASC meeting information HERE.
2020 ASC meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19.
2019 ASC meeting archive HERE.
2018 ASC meeting archive HERE.