Author: Charlotte Gill

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