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Laurie Krivo
Professor
Research Interests:
Demography, racial and ethnic inequality, urban sociology, racial/ethnic inequality in crime and in housing. Current research investigates neighborhood and city patterns of violent and property crime across diverse community settings, spatial patterns of neighborhood crime, and community perceptions of crime and safety in racially/ethnically distinct local areas.
Recent Publications:
- 2007 Mei-Po Kwan, Ruth D. Peterson, Christopher R. Browning, Lori Burrington, Catherine Calder, and Lauren Krivo. "Reconceptualizing Sociogeographical Context for the Study of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction." In Geography and Drug Addiction, edited by Douglas Richardson and Yonette Thomas. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- 2006 Peterson, Ruth D., Lauren J. Krivo, and John Hagan (editors). The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America. New York: New York University Press.
- 2006 Krivo, Lauren J., Ruth D. Peterson, and Diana Karafin. "Perceptions of Neighborhood Problems in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods." Pp. 237-255 in The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America, edited by Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, and John Hagan. New York: New York University Press.
- 2006 Peterson, Ruth D., Lauren J. Krivo, and Christopher R. Browning. "Segregation and Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Crime: New Directions." Pp. 169-187 in Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory, Volume 15 of Advances in Criminological Theory, edited by Francis Cullen, John Wright, and Kristie Blevins. (Paper previously presented at a Presidential Plenary session of the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, November 2004).
- 2005 Peterson, Ruth D. and Lauren J. Krivo. "Macro-Structural Analyses of Race, Ethnicity and Violent Crime: Recent Lessons and New Directions for Research." Annual Review of Sociology 31:331-356.
- 2004 Krivo, Lauren J. and Ruth D. Peterson. "Labor Market Conditions and Violent Crime Among Youth and Adults." Sociological Perspectives 47:485-505. (Paper previously presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2001.)
