Garrett Baker, David S. Kirk, Robert J. Sampson (2026). The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality. Sociology Of Education, Vol. 990, No. 1.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2026). Scoring the Behavioral Economics of Crime: Reflections on Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence. Journal of Economic Literature.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2026). Thinking about the Chicago School, 100 years on. Dialogues in Urban Research.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2025). Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice. Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal Of The Social Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 3.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2025). Foreword. Race and Justice.DOI
Frederick P. Rivara, Therese S. Richmond, Stephen W Hargarten, Charles C. Branas, Ali Rowhani‐Rahbar, Daniel W. Webster, Joseph B. Richardson, John Z. Ayanian, DeVone Boggan, Anthony A. Braga, Shani Buggs, Magdalena Cerdá, Frederick Chen, Anil Chitkara, Dimitri Christakis, Cassandra Kercher Crifasi, Lindsay Dawson, Terri A. deRoon‐Cassini, Rochelle Ami Dicker, Sheena Lewis Erete, Sandro Galea, David Hemenway, Nancy G. La Vigne, Adam Seth Levine, Jens Ludwig, Nason Maani, Roger L. McCarthy, Desmond U. Patton, Jonathan D. Quick, Megan L. Ranney, Eszter Rimányi, Joseph S. Ross, Joseph Victor Sakran, Robert J. Sampson, Zirui Song, Jennifer Tucker, Michael R. Ulrich, Laura X. Vargas, Robert B. Wilcox, Nick Wilson, Marc A. Zimmerman, JAMA Summit on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms, Benjamin L. Cavataro, Ana Victoria Diez Roux, Jonathan E. Lowy, Eugenia C. South, Wendy Whitehead (2025). Toward a Safer World by 2040. JAMA.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Roland Neil (2024). The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times. Criminology, Vol. 620, No. 2.DOI
Christopher Wildeman, Robert J. Sampson, Garrett Baker (2024). Adult Children of the Prison Boom: Family Troubles and the Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact. Demography, Vol. 610, No. 1.DOI
Christopher Wildeman, Robert J. Sampson (2024). [Review] Desistance as an Intergenerational Process. Annual Review Of Criminology, Vol. 7.DOI
Charles C. Lanfear, David S. Kirk, Robert J. Sampson (2024). Dual pathways of concealed gun carrying and use from adolescence to adulthood over a 25-year era of change. Science Advances.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Charles C. Lanfear (2024). Disentangling Gun Ownership and Leanings to Political Violence in Unstable Times. JAMA Network Open.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, David S. Kirk, Rebecca Bucci (2022). Cohort Profile: Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and Its Additions (PHDCN+). Journal Of Developmental And Life-Course Criminology, Vol. 80, No. 30.DOI
Rebecca Bucci, David S. Kirk, Robert J. Sampson (2022). Visualizing How Race, Support for Black Lives Matter, and Gun Ownership Shape Views of the US Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021. Socius, Vol. 8.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Brian L. Levy (2022). The Enduring Neighborhood Effect, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Violence in Chicago. University Of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 2.
Jennifer Candipan, Nolan Edward Phillips, Robert J. Sampson, Mario Small (2021). From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility. Urban Studies, Vol. 580, No. 15.DOI
Nolan E. Phillips, Brian L. Levy, Robert J. Sampson, Mario L. Small, Ryan Q. Wang (2021). The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility Across Neighborhoods. Sociological Methods & Research, Vol. 500, No. 3.DOI
Robert Manduca, Robert J. Sampson (2021). Childhood exposure to polluted neighborhood environments and intergenerational income mobility, teenage birth, and incarceration in the USA. Population And Environment, Vol. 420, No. 4.DOI
Roland Neil, Robert J. Sampson (2021). The Birth Lottery of History: Arrest over the Life Course of Multiple Cohorts Coming of Age, 1995-20181. American Journal Of Sociology, Vol. 126, No. 50.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, L. Ash Smith (2021). Rethinking Criminal Propensity and Character: Cohort Inequalities and the Power of Social Change. Crime And Justice-A Review Of Research, Vol. 500.DOI
Brian L. Levy, Nolan E. Phillips, Robert J. Sampson (2020). Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence in US Cities. American Sociological Review, Vol. 850, No. 60.DOI
John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson (2020). Life-Course and Developmental Criminology: Looking Back, Moving Forward-ASC Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Inaugural David P. Farrington Lecture, 2017. Journal Of Developmental And Life-Course Criminology, Vol. 60, No. 20.DOI
Jared N. Schachner, Robert J. Sampson (2020). Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children. Demography, Vol. 570, No. 2.DOI
Niccolò Morelli, Robert J. Sampson (2020). Lessons and current Challenges for Urban Sociologists. A Conversation with Robert J. Sampson. Sociologica.DOI
Yinzhi Shen, Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, Robert J. Sampson (2019). What They Don't Know Says A Lot: Residents' Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China. Journal Of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 350, No. 30.DOI
Brian L. Levy, Ann Owens, Robert J. Sampson (2019). The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation: Moderating and Mediating Mechanisms. Sociology Of Education, Vol. 920, No. 3.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2019). Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis. Urban Studies, Vol. 560, No. 1.DOI
Daniel S. Nagin, Robert J. Sampson (2019). The Real Gold Standard: Measuring Counterfactual Worlds That Matter Most to Social Science and Policy. Annual Review Of Criminology, Vol 2, Vol. 2.DOI
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, David Ellwood, John N. Friedman, Roland G. Fryer, D. Grusky, A. Jack, Lawrence F. Katz, Adam Looney, Alex Mas, A. O’Hara, Amanda Pallais, Johnny Powell, Sean F. Reardon, Jesse Shapiro, Emmanuel Saez, Robert J. Sampson, Isaac Sorkin, A. Jenni, M. Koenen, S. Merchant, Emanuel Schertz, James M. Stratton, Josef Winkelmann (2019). Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective∗.
Robert J. Sampson, Alix S. Winter (2018). Poisoned development: Assessing childhood lead exposure as a cause of crime in a birth cohort followed through adolescence. Criminology, Vol. 560, No. 2.DOI
Christopher Muller, Robert J. Sampson, Alix S. Winter (2018). Environmental Inequality: The Social Causes and Consequences of Lead Exposure. Annual Review Of Sociology, Vol 44, Vol. 44.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Hanna Katz (2018). REASSESSING TOWARD A THEORY OF RACE, CRIME, AND URBAN INEQUALITY: Enduring and New Challenges in 21st Century America. Du Bois Review-Social Science Research On Race, Vol. 150, No. 10.DOI
John H. Laub, Zachary Rowan, Robert J. Sampson (2018). The Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2018). After the experimental turn: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright. Social Science & Medicine.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Jared N. Schachner, Robert D. Mare (2017). Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form: Disentangling Individual and Neighborhood-Level Change in Los Angeles. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Alix S. Winter (2016). THE RACIAL ECOLOGY OF LEAD POISONING: Toxic Inequality in Chicago Neighborhoods, 1995-2013. Du Bois Review-Social Science Research On Race, Vol. 130, No. 20.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2016). The Characterological Imperative: On Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz's The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life. Journal Of Economic Literature, Vol. 54, No. 2.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub (2016). Turning Points and the Future of Life-Course Criminology: Reflections on the 1986 Criminal Careers Report. Journal Of Research In Crime And Delinquency, Vol. 530, No. 30.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2015). Crime and the Life Course in a Changing World: Insights from Chicago and Implications for Global Criminology. Asian Journal Of Criminology, Vol. 10, No. 4.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Robert D. Mare, Kristin L. Perkins (2015). Achieving the Middle Ground in an Age of Concentrated Extremes: Mixed Middle-Income Neighborhoods and Emerging Adulthood. Annals Of The American Academy Of Political And Social Science, Vol. 6600, No. 1.DOI
["Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien", 'Robert J. Sampson', 'Christopher Winship'] (2015). Ecometrics in the age of big data: Measuring and assessing broken windows using large-scale administrative records. Sociological Methodology, Vol 45, Vol. 450.DOI
Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien, Robert J. Sampson (2015). Public and Private Spheres of Neighborhood Disorder: Assessing Pathways to Violence Using Large-scale Digital Records. Journal Of Research In Crime And Delinquency.DOI
Kristin L. Perkins, Robert J. Sampson (2015). Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood: The Intersection of Racial and Economic Inequality Among Chicagoans, 1995–2013. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.DOI
Jackelyn Hwang, Robert J. Sampson (2014). Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods. American Sociological Review, Vol. 79, No. 4.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2014). Inequality from the top down and bottom up: towards a revised Wacquant. Ethnic And Racial Studies, Vol. 370, No. 100.DOI
Jackelyn Hwang, Robert J. Sampson (2014). Google street view shows that gentrification in Chicago has largely bypassed poor minority neighborhoods, reinforcing urban inequality. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Robert J. Sampson, Christopher Winship, Carly Knight (2013). Translating Causal Claims Principles and Strategies for Policy-Relevant Criminology. Criminology & Public Policy, Vol. 120, No. 40.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2013). The place of context: A theory and strategy for criminology's hard problems. Criminology, Vol. 510, No. 1.DOI
David S. Kirk, Robert J. Sampson (2013). Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood. Sociology Of Education, Vol. 860, No. 1.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2013). Why Don't American Cities Burn? By Michael Katz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 210 pp. $29.95). Journal of Social History.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Christopher Winship, Carly R Knight (2013). Overview of: “Translating Causal Claims: Principles and Strategies for Policy‐Relevant Criminology”. Criminology & Public Policy.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2013). Thinking about Context. City and Community.DOI
Candice L. Odgers, Avshalom Caspi, Christopher J. Bates, Robert J. Sampson, Terrie E. Moffitt (2012). Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, Vol. 530, No. 10.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2012). Great American City. The University of Chicago Press.
Candice L. Odgers, Avshalom Caspi, Michael A. Russell, Robert J. Sampson, Louise Arseneault, Terrie E. Moffitt (2012). Supportive parenting mediates neighborhood socioeconomic disparities in children's antisocial behavior from ages 5 to 12. Development and Psychopathology.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2011). The incarceration ledger. Criminology & Public Policy.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2011). Legacies of Crime: A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys. By Peggy C. Giordano. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+251. $85.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). American Journal of Sociology.DOI
Patrick Sharkey, Robert J. Sampson (2010). Destination effects: Residential mobility and trajectories of adolescent violence in a stratified metropolis*. Criminology, Vol. 480, No. 3.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2010). Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turn in Quantitative Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Charles E. Loeffler (2010). Punishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration. Daedalus.DOI
Corina Graif, Robert J. Sampson (2009). Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Immigration and Diversity on Neighborhood Homicide Rates. Homicide Studies, Vol. 130, No. 30.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Corina Graif (2009). Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization Resident and Leadership Dimensions. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 520, No. 11.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2009). Racial Stratification and the Durable Tangle of Neighborhood Inequality. Annals Of The American Academy Of Political And Social Science, Vol. 6210.DOI
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Edin, Mark L. Joseph, Robert D. Mare, John Hull Mollenkopf, Mary E. Pattillo, Lincoln Quillian, Robert J. Sampson, Claudia D. Solari, Laura Tach, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (2009). Research Design for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing. eScholarship (California Digital Library).
Robert J. Sampson (2008). Moving to inequality: Neighborhood effects and experiments meet social structure. American Journal Of Sociology, Vol. 114, No. 1.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2008). After-school Chicago: Space and the city. Urban Geography, Vol. 290, No. 20.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Patrick Sharkey (2008). Neighborhood selection and the social reproduction of concentrated racial inequality. Demography, Vol. 450, No. 1.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush (2008). Vecindario y comunidad: eficacia colectiva y seguridad ciudadana.
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush (2008). El desorden en los barrios: ¿conduce al delito?*.
Douglas S. Massey, Robert J. Sampson (2008). Moynihan Redux: Legacies and Lessons. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.DOI
John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson (2008). Glen Elder's Influence on Life-Course Criminology: Serendipity and Cross-Disciplinary Fertilization. Research in Human Development.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2008). Rethinking Crime and Immigration. Contexts.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub, Christopher Wimer (2006). Does marriage reduce crime? A counterfactual approach to within-individual causal effects. Criminology, Vol. 440, No. 3.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Doug McAdam, Heather MacIndoe, Simon Weffer-Elizondo (2005). Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action. American Journal of Sociology.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub (2005). SEDUCTIONS OF METHOD: REJOINDER TO NAGIN AND TREMBLAY'S “DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORY GROUPS: FACT OR FICTION?”*. Criminology.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub (2005). Preface. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.DOI
Doug McAdam, Robert J. Sampson, Simón E. Weffer, Heather MacIndoe (2005). "There Will be Fighting in The Streets": The Distorting Lens of Social Movement Theory. Mobilization An International Quarterly.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush (2004). Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of “Broken Windows”. Social Psychology Quarterly.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2004). Neighbourhood and Community. New Economy.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub (2003). LIFE‐COURSE DESISTERS? TRAJECTORIES OF CRIME AMONG DELINQUENT BOYS FOLLOWED TO AGE 70*. Criminology.DOI
Stephen W. Raudenbush, Christopher Johnson, Robert J. Sampson (2003). 6. A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior. Sociological Methodology.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Felton J. Earls (1997). Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy. Science.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen L. Elkin (1988). City and regime in the American republic.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (1985). Structural sources of variation in race-age-specific rates of offending across major us cities. Criminology, Vol. 230, No. 4.DOI
Christophe Muller, A. Gourevitch, O. Patterson, Nathan Nunn, Robert J. Sampson, Daniel Schrage, Vesla M. Weaver, Bruce Western, Christopher Wildeman, C. Winship. Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South.
Preprints
Jennifer Candipan, Robert J. Sampson (2021). The Consistency of White Advantage and the Heterogeneity of Nonwhite Disadvantage: Neighborhood Trajectories over Two Decades in the Lives of Multiple Birth Cohorts.DOI
Book Chapters
Robert J. Sampson (2015). The Making of the Chicago Project. Springer eBooks.DOI
Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub (2012). Les sorties de délinquance. La Découverte eBooks.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2011). Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms and the social structure of the city. Cambridge University Press eBooks.DOI
Robert J. Sampson (2006). How does community context matter? Social mechanisms and the explanation of crime rates. Cambridge University Press eBooks.DOI
Per‐Olof H. Wikström, Robert J. Sampson (2006). Introduction: Toward a unified approach to crime and its explanation. Cambridge University Press eBooks.DOI
Books
John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson (2006). Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Harvard University Press eBooks.DOI