Fields Criminology Field Criminology | Spouse Yes | |
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Institutions University of California, Irvine Education Smith College (B.A.), University of Washington (M.A., Ph.D.) Thesis Neighborhood structure and criminal homicide: socio-economic and demographic correlates of homicide types and trends (2000) Notable awards 2005 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology, 2014 Dean’s Diversity Research Award from the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology Institution University of California, Irvine | ||
Charis Elizabeth Kubrin is an American criminologist and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
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Education and career
After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2000, Kubrin taught at George Washington University for 11 years; she left George Washington University for UCI in the summer of 2011. In 2016, she and her UCI colleague Carroll Seron served as editors of a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science about prison realignment in California.
Research
Kubrin's research focuses on, among other topics, the relationship between race, violence, and social disorganization theory. She has also researched the perception of rap music as violent and dangerous, as well as whether a rapper's music can be used as evidence against him in a court of law.
