 Charis E. Kubrin
Associate Professor of Sociology
Charis E. Kubrin, Associate Professor of Sociology, received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington in 2000. Professor Kubrin is working on a variety of projects that reflect her larger research agenda on neighborhoods, race, and violence as central to social disorganization theory. A more recent line of research examines the intersection of music, culture and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and minority youth in disadvantaged communities. In 2005, Professor Kubrin received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology and the Morris Rosenberg Award for Recent Achievement from the District of Columbia Sociological Society. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University. Professor Kubrin served as President of the District of Columbia Sociological Society during the 2007-08 term. Currently, she is heading up the Dean's Scholars in Globalization Program at GW.
Selected Publications
Books:
2008. Kubrin, Charis E., Thomas D. Stucky, and Marvin D. Krohn. Researching Theories of Crime and Deviance.
New York: Oxford University Press. To learn more about this book, click here.
2007. Crutchfield, Robert D., Charis E. Kubrin, Joseph G. Weis, and George S. Bridges. Crime and Society: Crime, 3rd Edition.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. To learn more about this book, click here.
2006. Squires, Gregory D. and Charis E. Kubrin. Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and the Structure of Opportunity.
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. To learn more about this book, click here.
Articles:
Forthcoming 2010. Charis E. Kubrin, Steven F. Messner, Glenn Deane, Kelly McGeever, and Thomas D. Stucky. "Proactive Policing and Robbery Rates across U.S. Cities." Criminology.
2009. Ronald Weitzer and Charis E. Kubrin. "Misogyny in Rap Music: A Content Analysis of Prevalence and Meanings." Men and Masculinities 12:3-29. To read this paper click here.
2009. Kubrin, Charis E. and Tim Wadsworth. "Explaining Suicide among Blacks and Whites: How Socio-Economic Factors and Gun Availability Affect Race-Specific Suicide Rates." Social Science Quarterly 90:1203-1227. To obtain a copy of this paper, please contact me.
2009. Scott Desmond and Charis E. Kubrin. "The Power of Place: Immigrant Communities and Adolescent Violence." Sociological Quarterly 50:581-607. To read this paper click here.
2009. Graham C. Ousey and Charis E. Kubrin. "Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980-2000." Social Problems 56:447-473. To read this paper, click here.
2008. Deane, Glenn, Steven F. Messner, Thomas D. Stucky, Kelly McGeever, and Charis E. Kubrin. "Not 'Islands, Entire of Themselves': Exploring the Spatial Context of City-Level Robbery Rates." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 24:363-380. To read this paper, click here.
2008. Kubrin, Charis E. "Making Order of Disorder: A Call for Conceptual Clarity." Criminology & Public Policy 7:203-214. To read this paper, click here.
2008. Guest, Avery M., Charis E. Kubrin, and Jane K. Cover. "Heterogeneity and Harmony: Neighboring Relationships among Whites in
Ethnically-Diverse Neighborhoods in Seattle." Urban Studies 43:501-526. To read this paper, click here.
2007. Wadworth, Tim and Charis E. Kubrin. "Hispanic Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas:
Examining the Effects of Immigration,
Assimilation, Affluence, and Disadvantage." American Journal of Sociology 112:1848-1885. To read this paper, click here.
2007. Pollak, Jessica M. and Charis E. Kubrin. "Crime in the News: How Crimes, Offenders and Victims are Portrayed in the Media."
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 14:59-83. To read this paper, click here.
2006. Guest, Avery M., Jane K. Cover, Charis E. Kubrin, and Ross L. Matsueda. "Neighborhood Context and Neighboring Ties."
City and Community 5:363-385. To read this paper, click here.
2006. Kubrin, Charis E., Tim Wadsworth, and Stephanie DiPietro. "Deindustrialization, Disadvantage, and Suicide among
Young Black Males." Social Forces 84:1559-1579. To read this paper, click here.
2006. Kubrin, Charis E. and Eric A. Stewart. "Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighborhood Context in
Recidivism Studies." Criminology 44:171-204. To read this paper, click here.
2005. Kubrin, Charis E. "I See Death around the Corner: Nihilism in Rap Music." Sociological Perspectives 48:433-459.
To read this paper, click here.
2005. Kubrin, Charis E. "Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music." Social Problems
52:360-378. To read this paper, click here.
2005. Squires, Gregory D. and Charis E. Kubrin. "Privileged Places: Race, Uneven Development and the Geography of
Opportunity in Urban America" Urban Studies 42:47-68. To read this paper, click here.
2004. Wadsworth, Tim and Charis E. Kubrin. "Structural Factors and Black Interracial Homicide: A New Examination of
the Causal Process." Criminology 42:647-672. To read this paper, click here.
2004. Weitzer, Ronald and Charis E. Kubrin. "Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions
Affect Fear of Crime." Justice Quarterly 21:497-520. To read this paper, click here.
2003. Kubrin, Charis E. and Ronald Weitzer. "New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory."
Journal of Research in Crime and Deliquency 40:374-402. To read this paper, click here.
2003. Kubrin, Charis E. and Jerald Herting. "Neighborhood Correlates of Homicide Trends: An Analysis Using
Growth-Curve Modeling." Sociological Quarterly 44:329-350. To read this paper, click here.
2003. Kubrin, Charis E. and Ronald Weitzer. "Retaliatory Homicide: Concentrated Disadvantage and Neighborhood
Culture." Social Problems 50:157-180. To read this paper, click here.
2003. Kubrin, Charis E. "Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Does Type of Homicide Matter?" Journal of
Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:139-170. To read this paper, click here.
2003. Kubrin, Charis E. and Tim Wadsworth. "Identifying the Structural Correlates of African-American Killings:
What Can We Learn from Data Disaggregation?" Homicide Studies 7:3-35. To read this paper, click here.
2000. Kubrin, Charis E. "Racial Heterogeneity and Crime: Measuring Static and Dynamic Effects."
Research in Community Sociology 10:189-218.
Current Projects
With Marjorie Zatz and Ramiro Martinez, Professor Kubrin received funding from National Science Foundation for their project and workshop, "Social Science Research on Immigration: The Role of Transnational Migration, Communities, and Policy."
Professor Kubrin received a Selective Excellence Fellowship from GW University for her project "Rap Music, Youth Culture, and Violence in the Inner City: What's the Connection?"
With Greg Squires, Professor Kubrin received a GW University Facilitating Fund grant for her project, "Does Fringe Banking Exacerbate Neighborhood Crime Rates? The Ecology of Alternative Financial Institutions and Social Disorganization in America."
With Tim Wadsworth, Professor Kubrin has received funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for their project titled, "What's Behind the Increase?: Explaining Recent Trends in Suicide among African American Males."
Courses Taught
SOC 003: Introduction to Criminal Justice (undergraduate level)
SOC 178: Deviant Behavior and Social Control (undergraduate level)
SOC 801: Justice and the Criminal Courts in Washington, DC (undergraduate level)
SOC 801: Immigration and Crime in the Global Context (undergraduate level)
SOC 230: Research Methods (graduate level)
SOC 263: Race and Crime (graduate level)
Contact Information
charisk@gwu.edu
202-994-6349
Phillips 409 F
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