Robert J. Sampson

Harvard University Press — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

110h-index78.2kcitations673works1.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies(370), Crime Patterns and Interventions(146), Homelessness and Social Issues(127), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis(54), Urban Transport and Accessibility(39)

Publications670 total

Replication Code for: The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality
Harvard Dataverse·2026Open Access
CHAPTER 7 Guns, Violence, and Poisoned Development
Harvard University Press eBooks·2026
CHAPTER 3 Measuring What Matters and When
Harvard University Press eBooks·2026
CHAPTER 5 Race, Class, and Grit Meet the Mark of Time
Harvard University Press eBooks·2026
CHAPTER 2 Becoming Criminal
Harvard University Press eBooks·2026
Foreword
Race and Justice·2025
Toward a Safer World by 2040
JAMA·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality
Sociology of Education·2025· 1 cited
Dual pathways of concealed gun carrying and use from adolescence to adulthood over a 25-year era of change
Science Advances·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times
CrimRxiv·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times
Criminology·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Disentangling Gun Ownership and Leanings to Political Violence in Unstable Times
JAMA Network Open·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Desistance as an Intergenerational Process
CrimRxiv·2024Open Access
Adult Children of the Prison Boom: Family Troubles and the Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact
Demography·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Great American City
2023· 3 cited
Desistance as an Intergenerational Process
Annual Review of Criminology·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility
2023· 3 cited
Cohort bias in predictive risk assessments of future criminal justice system involvement
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort From Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021
JAMA Network Open·2023· 30 citedOpen Access
Reproduction Files for: Cohort bias in predictive risk assessments of future criminal justice system involvement
Harvard Dataverse·2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

John H. Laub(16), Stephen W. Raudenbush(7), Jeffrey D. Morenoff(6), William Julius Wilson(4), Felton J. Earls(3), Janet L. Lauritsen(3), Patrick Sharkey(2), W. Byron Groves(1), Thomas Gannon-Rowley(1), Roland Chilton(1), Dawn Jeglum Bartusch(1), Robert A. Silverman(1), Daniel S. Nagin(1), Delbert S. Elliott(1), David Huizinga(1), Amanda Elliott(1), Bruce Rankin(1), Christopher Wimer(1), Jackelyn Hwang(1), Doug McAdam(1)