Congratulations to our own research team member Dave Kirk!

The Annual Paternoster Lecture will be on Thurs, 4/27, from 4-8pm. Featuring speaker Robert J. Sampson, Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers Univ. Prof. at Harvard University. To learn more and register, visit: bit.ly/3m5qSTh

NCGVR Gun Research Collaborative is hosting a series of public webinars highlighting the work of grantees over the years. First up -- research on " Firearm Access, Homicide, and Suicide Among People Who Live With Gun Owners" on May 9th. To register visit👇 ncgvr.org/events/gun-vio…

New paper by postdoctoral research fellow of the PHDCN+ Rebecca Bucci! On the role of police presence on perceptions of arrest risk:

Over 25 years, 56% of Black & Hispanic individuals from Chicago had seen someone shot by age 40, compared to 26% of White individuals; 7% of Black & Hispanic individuals had been shot by 40 compared to 3% of White individuals. Project on Human Development Chicago Neighborhoods ja.ma/3HSZwaG

Today in Paris! On the use of cohorts to study crime INEDEng PennPSC

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Hear Rob Sampson on a panel today at the National Institute of Justice National Research Conference! 'Employing Developmental and Life-Course Criminological Research To Advance Policy and Practice' today at 2:30 in the Crystal Ballroom with Elizabeth Cauffman, Linda Teplin , Megan Augustyn, and BJS Director Alex Piquero, PhD

A new paper for PNASNews by Robert J. Sampson with Erika Montana, Daniel S. Nagin, and Roland Neil finds that Risk Assessment Instruments are degraded by social changes and can drastically overpredict arrest by up to 90% news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Risk assessment models trained on older birth cohorts overestimate the risk of a young person getting arrested in Chicago. This “cohort bias” may affect predictive decision-making in the criminal justice system, according to a study. In PNAS: ow.ly/C2vo50OErSt

Next Thursday, in person and online, Professor Sampson will be speaking on 'The Birth Lottery of History' for the London School of Economics festival on People and Change! LSE Events lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

Today! 6:30PM London/1:30PM Eastern, in person and online

If you missed Professor Sampson's presentation on The Birth Lottery of History at the #LSEFestival, you can watch it now! youtube.com/watch?v=4hqEC_… LSE Events LSE Phelan US Centre

You can learn more about this presentation and the research behind it on the LSE Player podcast episode LSE Events LSE Phelan US Centre lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=…

“Adult Children of the Prison Boom”: Wildeman et al. unite “the classic literature on the intergenerational transmission of criminal activity w/ the nascent lit on the collateral consequences of mass incarceration.” DukeSociology Sanford School of Public Policy Harvard Sociology ow.ly/uP2m50Qsa2J

Fantastic new article by PHDCN+ team members looking at the effect of a sibling’s criminal legal contact on an individual’s later well-being.

Check out commentary by Rob Sampson and Charles C. Lanfear about the nature of gun ownership in the US in the context of recent societal changes jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

New research based on a 25-year longitudinal study shows how early-life differences lead to lifelong racial inequalities in arrest. Check out the paper by PHDCN+ team members Robert Sampson and Roland Neil here: doi.org/10.1111/1745-9….