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Karen F. Parker

Criminal Justice

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Criminology

#176

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#193

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Karen F. Parker

Sociology

#2359

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#2623

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Karen F. Parker's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Criminology University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Sociology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Karen Faye Parker is an American sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence. She is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Delaware, where she has worked since 2007. She has also been a research associate at the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center since 2007, and was formerly a professor at the University of Florida before joining the faculty of the University of Delaware.

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Karen F. Parker's Published Works

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STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS AND RACIAL HOMICIDE PATTERNS: A LOOK AT THE MULTIPLE DISADVANTAGES IN URBAN AREAS* (1999) (224)
RACIAL THREAT, CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE AND SOCIAL CONTROL: CONSIDERING THE MACRO‐LEVEL SOURCES OF VARIATION IN ARRESTS* (2005) (222)
An Empirical Assessment of What We Know About Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: A Return to a Classic 20 Years Later (2010) (138)
Race, Local Life Circumstances, and Criminal Activity (2002) (123)
Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates (2001) (122)
A Comparative Recidivism Analysis of Releasees from Private and Public Prisons (1999) (104)
The dynamic relationship between homicide rates and social, economic, and political factors from 1970 to 2000*. (2008) (78)
Gender Role Ideology, Homophobia and Hate Crime: Linking Attitudes to Macro-Level Anti-Gay and Lesbian Hate Crimes (2005) (74)
How the West Was One: Explaining the Similarities in Race-Specific Homicide Rates in the West and South (2000) (69)
Adding another Piece to the Inequality-Homicide Puzzle (1997) (67)
Poverty, poverty concentration, and homicide (2000) (64)
Structural Theories and Race-Specific Drug Arrests: What Structural Factors Account for the Rise in Race-Specific Drug Arrests Over Time? (2005) (63)
Heterogeneity in the rise and decline of city-level homicide rates, 1976-2005: A latent trajectory analysis (2011) (62)
A Contextual Study of Racial Profiling (2004) (61)
Understanding the Change in Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Over Time (2012) (59)
The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle (2013) (57)
A Move Toward Specificity: Examining Urban Disadvantage and Race-and Relationship-Specific Homicide Rates (2001) (55)
CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE, TRADITIONAL MALE ROLE MODELS, AND AFRICAN‐AMERICAN JUVENILE VIOLENCE* (2008) (53)
The Influence of Gender Inequality and Marginalization on Types of Female Offending (2008) (49)
Intersections of Race, Gender, Disadvantage, and Violence: Applying Intersectionality to the Macro-Level Study of Female Homicide (2015) (46)
Industrial Shift, Polarized Labor Markets And Urban Violence: Modeling The Dynamics Between The Economic Transformation And Disaggregated Homicide (2004) (44)
Understanding gender-specific intimate partner homicide: A theoretical and domestic service-oriented approach (2010) (44)
The Political Economy of Urban Homicide: Assessing the Relative Impact of Gender Inequality on Sex-Specific Victimization (2003) (42)
Collective teacher efficacy, pupil attainment and socio-economic status in primary school® (2006) (42)
Urban Disadvantage and Types of Race-Specific Homicide: Assessing the Diversity in Family Structures in the Urban Context (2002) (41)
Racial Threat, Urban Conditions and Police Use of Force: Assessing the Direct and Indirect Linkages across Multiple Urban Areas (2005) (39)
Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence (2008) (34)
A Dynamic Model of Racial Competition, Racial Inequality, and Interracial Violence (2005) (32)
Women, Region, and Types of Homicide (2003) (30)
Neighborhood Context and Homicide Clearance: Estimating the Effects of Collective Efficacy (2018) (26)
American crime drops: Investigating the breaks, dips and drops in temporal homicide. (2017) (25)
Race, Structural Predictors, and Police Shootings: Are There Differences Across Official and “Unofficial” Accounts of Lethal Force? (2018) (24)
Women and Crime in Context (2008) (24)
Unequal Crime Decline (2020) (21)
The African-American Entrepreneur–Crime Drop Relationship (2015) (20)
Building Bridges: Linking Old Heads to Collective Efficacy in Disadvantaged Communities, (2017) (20)
Logistic Versus Hazards Regression Analyses in Evaluation Research (1994) (19)
The Changing Urban Landscape: Interconnections Between Racial/Ethnic Segregation and Exposure in the Study of Race-Specific Violence Over Time. (2015) (19)
Race and police killings: examining the links between racial threat and police shootings of Black Americans (2020) (16)
Teasing out the effects of macro-conditions on race-specific male homicide rates: Do distinct predictors vary by racial group and over time? (2013) (16)
Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates (2010) (15)
Public Ideology, Minority Threat, and Felony Collateral Sanctions (2014) (15)
Minority threat and school security: Assessing the impact of Black and Hispanic student representation on school security measures (2017) (15)
Making a Difference: The Impact of Traditional Male Role Models on Drug Sale Activity and Violence Involving Black Urban Youth (2009) (13)
The Structural Determinants of Justifiable Homicide (2001) (9)
The Devil in the Details: The Case Against the Case Study of Private Prisons, Criminological Research, and Conflict of Interest (2000) (9)
A SPATIAL AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYIS OF POLICING: EXAMINING BLACK, WHITE AND HISPANIC STOP RATES (2010) (7)
Temporal changes in racial violence, 1980 to 2006: A latent trajectory approach (2016) (7)
Joblessness, Poverty, and Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty (2019) (6)
Economic Disadvantage and Homicide (2017) (5)
Breaking the cycle of crime: Promoting the positive social spillover potential of entrepreneurship (2021) (5)
A Sociological Analysis of Social Class (2014) (5)
County Variation in Intimate Partner Homicide: A Comparison of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Victims (2019) (4)
Problems & Prospects Revisited: Bursik’s Mark on Chicago‐Style Criminology (2010) (3)
Exploring the Racial Discrimination and Competition Processes of Race-Specific Violence in the Urban Context (2002) (3)
Homicide clearances during pre- and post-U.S. crime drop eras: the role of structural predictors and demographic shifts, 1976–2015 (2018) (2)
The Rise and Decline in Homicide Rates: A Macro-Level Trajectory Analysis (2007) (1)
Guest Editor's Introduction-Part I (2003) (1)
Book review: Robert D Crutchfield, Get a Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime (2016) (1)
Guest Editor's Introduction-Part 2 (2004) (1)
Understanding Escalation Through Intimate Partner Homicide Narratives (2021) (1)
The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle (2012) (0)
Changes in the Urban Landscape and Racial Violence: Racial Segregation, Immigration on Homicide, 1976-2007 (2011) (0)
Female Offending in the Aggregate: A Withn-Gender Study & Comparison of Female Crime (2006) (0)
Book Review: Weitzer, R., & Tuch, S. A. (2006). Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. xi, 225 (2008) (0)
Drugs and Communities: Assessing the Differential Impact of Drug-Related Arrests on Community Conditions Across White, African American, and Recent Immigrant Communities (2006) (0)
Urban Disadvantage, Male Role Models and Black Juvenile Arrests for Drugs and Violence (2006) (0)
Examining the Linkages between Structural Conditions and Female Offending in Urban and Rural Communities (2005) (0)
The Relationship of the Young Adult Age Structure to a City's Homicide Rate (2010) (0)
COMMUNITY CONTEXT AND HOMICIDE CLEARANCE RATES: ESTIMATING THE EFFECTS OF COLLECTIVE EFFICACY by Ashley Mancik (2015) (0)
A Spatial and Community Level Analysis of Police Stops involving Black, White, and Hispanic Drivers (2007) (0)
Black Small Businesses: Seeking Out the Small Business Owner in the Study of Young Black Arrests (2008) (0)
Examining Intimate Partner Homicide Over Time (2009) (0)
Inequality and Crime (2015) (0)
The Effect of Natural Disasters on Crime: A Case Study of Katrina (2008) (0)
Fostering Community Capital In Disadvantage Neighborhoods: Linking “Old Heads” to “Collective Efficacy” (2010) (0)
Life Course Criminology and Structural Effects: An Application to Homicide by Age (2013) (0)
Space, Place, and Immigration (2010) (0)
TheChangingUrbanLandscape:Interconnections BetweenRacial/EthnicSegregationandExposure intheStudyofRace-SpecificViolenceOverTime (2015) (0)
Minority threat and school security: Assessing the impact of Black and Hispanic student representation on school security measures (2017) (0)

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